Batch products or themes to sell in one fell swoop

[joniwarden]

I can imagine how many people will agree, but posting to sell items, one by one is maddening. Can we find a way to post for sale, same themed, or same products in batches? I have lots of products with identical or similar products or identical/similar themes, that I'd like to post for sale all together, simultaneously. I'd be so thankful if I could post for sale, 10 items of same or identical designs or for instance, all paper plates (by product) with an option to tweak descriptions, keywords and placement for MP (events of occasions, recipient, store category, etc). 

There are several art & design sites that allow for batch placement on products and to post for sale in this manner. I would get so many products in my store in one hour than I do in 5 days.

Please consider?

joniwarden

[PacifierCity]

@joniwarden On the products page in your back end, above show and sort options, is a link to Quick Create products.  This does allow one to create multiple products that have the same design on them.  I have never got the hang of how to use it, but many here have.  Perhaps someone can chime in with links or instructions.  I would like to experiment with it a little more than I have...

Although you should understand that products created through the Quick Create process triggers a manual (human eyes) review before they are released into the marketplace and I believe into the backend as well.  You will not be able to promote them until the review process is completed.  My understanding is that this usually takes a few days, but at times can take weeks, if not longer depending on time of year, other items that need to be reviewed, etc...  So if you need something to show up quickly, it is best to create one at a time.  If you are months ahead of an event or holiday, then this method of creation can bare fruit.

But it is possible...

PC

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[joniwarden]

Creating several products isn't my issue not even grouping, it's when we post to sell. It is painstakingly s.l.o.w. I want to be able to post to sell, up to 10 items at the same time. Just like batch uploading several designs at a time, I want to be able to hit "sell" for 10 products at one time in a batch. I hope I am making sense.... 🙄

[Ms_Contrary]

@joniwardenThere are many issues with the Quick Create modules, but the worst one that I encountered repeatedly was that I would have a group of products set up and ready to go, and I would fill out the title, description, and tags--and then--the sale page would freeze. I was unable to post and in most cases, lost all of my hard work. Sometimes, I was able to refresh the page and use browser history to get it back. But these disasters represented many hours lost of my time.

Another issue: if they're all using the exact same title, tags, and description, and you post them all for sale at one time, Zazzle's algorithms treat them like one product, and--that causes confusion with Search Engine Optimization. It's far better to post products one at a time for sale, even if you're still using the same title, tags, and description, because the algorithms see them as separate products and make them independently searchable of each other. As in "... bag" and "... hat", as opposed to fifty products randomly defined together as "..." and only the hat linked to in search results, so only the hat ever gets seen. (I'm simplifying the explanation here, but hopefully you get the gist)

Also, it takes much longer for Quick Create products to pass review and be posted for sale than if you're publishing them one at a time.

One quick way to post lots of products for sale at the same time but still separately, is to open multiple tabs, select the product in each tab that you want to design for, then add your design to each one, tweak it, move to the sale pages, add title, tags, and description with small tweaks where necessary, and publish them one after the other. Then--add them to the same collection or group them as needed.

[joniwarden]

My biggest concern is about placing them to sell in marketplace. I made a crude, but similar template that we had on Elfwood, where I had an account, which sadly is no more. Their template was far simpler than the image I made and I know all KINDS of stuff is missing on our sell page, on this image, please know.... I know that. I would hope that this template will find its way to the builders here and maybe they can use the concept of batch processing into the market place to make it faster for us to post our products.

[Connie]

That looks like an interesting concept, but it's hard to imagine how it would fit in with Zazzle's setup. Are you suggesting that this is how our "Saved Designs" page would look, so we could post multiple products at once from that page? I can see how that WOULD be a timesaver.

[joniwarden]

However it could work best, but yes!  I think using the checkboxes that are there to select which designs you are ready to publish/place in MP, using a new drop down box with a choice to sell, edit or delete.  Check mark all the desired designs, choose "sell" and then add separate or individual descriptions, keywords, events, recipients, store category and all the rest on down the page. However the site builders wanted to make it. My suggestion is just a rough idea. 

[Connie]

That would definitely be a great feature! As long as we can DESIGN each item separately, this would make doing the tedious stuff so much easier!

[joniwarden]

Yes, exactly. No matter what design on whatever products. *nodnod*

[Barbara]

@joniwarden  Some re-jigged-for-Zazzle version of what you've described would seriously take out the drudgery of posting products for sale. Even using the multiple-tab version as mentioned above can quickly become tedious. With multiple tabs, I always set up a Notepad file from which to copy and paste the basic nutrients such as titles, keywords, and descriptions, but it involves a lot of clicking here and there. If it were all on one post-for-sale page, it would be so much easier.

[joniwarden]

Exactly what I do now. Its still, a long long long road to get multiple products of just ONE product, completed.

[NigelSutherland]

Select all the products you want to work on. Go to "edit", then write the title, description, and keywords. Then post. Your new title, description, and keywords will be applied to all the products.

[joniwarden]

Hi Migel! 

My products are already made, sitting in "products" page but the only options I have at that point are "select all" select none" "delete. There is no edit option from that point. But even in quick create, that same option you describe works up to a point. Then you still have to click single items to post into Marketplace.

Unless I am not reading you right.....

[Deb]

Just an observation  and my 2 cents-

I have been here on zazzle since 2007 with multiple shops/themes and years ago when quick create got really popular for the reasons stated in this thread.. we all started doing it.. what I have noticed is:  hardly Any of the products done with QC got popular and/or sold.. (And yes I made sure one by one that each product made in QC was  centered  and properly placed per product) they ended up Looking Like  mass production (maybe that was in my own head ) but  during that same time..  the products I created one at a time.. (yes time consuming and BORING)  actually  sold  much better..  I'm not sure exactly why...  but  I stopped doing the QC years ago.. and have deleted most of the old ones from my stores.. things here work much better quality vs quantity .. But this is just my observation and opinion.. thought I would share. 

[CrazyMermaid]

It's because you take more care with them - plain and simple. The design placement is better, titles and tags are more likely to get reviewed etc. 

[joniwarden]

I suggest this only happen once all designs are ready. When going into "saved designs", you perfect your items and when you're ready, only then do you choose what you want to "sell", by choosing all the multiple items you've completed. Not like quick create but only similar.

[joniwarden]

Has any moderators seen this?