Barbara,
Channels are advertising methods that Zazzle might use for your designs - e.g. Zazzle Marketplace, Your Stores, Email. I believe you can't directly choose them, they are based on criteria Zazzle chooses.
The only place I've seen it so far is when migrating or viewing a collection. If you click the right arrow > next to Enabled, there are some settings.
Hope this helps, I know it is a little vague.
In theory, the thing that determines which section the products get slated into is the marketplace department (the one that you can change under "edit details".) You can find out which department it wants by clicking on the space for that section. It'll open a screen and you'll see something like this:
So editing the department seems to be working for most things that are not going into their proper slots, but just today I found one where I have a return address label that's designed on a regular sticker (because it needed to be square shaped) and that one is in theory in the correct department, but it still shows up under the bonus section.
I dunno. It doesn't seem like any of these changes are live yet as far as the customer is concerned, so maybe they'll get it all sorted out before that happens? I think the goal here was to make it easier for us so that products within the collections could be ordered automatically without us having to drag them around individually - and I appreciate that effort - but it just seems like they threw so many other things into the mix that it's all a big complicated mess now. I'm still not sure which parts aren't working right, and which parts I just don't understand. Sigh.
Exactly. I have several collections with a similar or same design on several different products, as the customer can't just migrate it to another product without lots of adjustments. So showcasing a design on an array of different products. The theme being that particular design. Doesn't seem to fit into any category or "type". Do I need to delete these collections?
I see yet another huge pile of work coming my way and I haven't even recovered yet from the loss of Blooming Elegant font, which requires re-doing all these products. Not to mention all cover images.
Where's my staff ... ?
At least half of my collections are same design/artwork on different products. None of those migrated anywhere so I have to figure out what to do with those- except that I don't quite understand how this all works right now.
Agree, especially on "Gift Theme - Not Recipient/Event Based..... not every design that makes a great gift has to be for someone or someday in particular... some things are great for anyone and any occasion... This is like the thus far unrecognized plea for a unisex category in clothing... not everything has to be for a particular person..."
So many of my items are gift items or home decor (that could be a gift item) for no particular person or event. This is very much needed.
