Some comments and questions about April changes
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07-27-2025 03:37 PM
Two things (imo) would make the new earnings reporting better:
1. Show Zazzle referred sales as Zazzle referred instead of 3rd party.
2. Add a line showing designers actual royalty earned after all the fees are carved out. (For example, looks like I end up with about 9% on a 40% category item that has royalty set at 16.9%)
Regarding secondary content image/elements:
When secondary content is added to a primary product design, are the creators of secondary content image/elements charged a marketing or any other kind of fee ?
I don't quite understand why different categories have different marketing fees - some 35% others 50%. What if a customer transfers a design from one category fee to another? Say a design is transferred from a 35% t-shirt to something in the 50% category, which marketing fee amount applies?
IMO the above makes it less appealing to put a design on a higher fee category product b/c I know I'll lose a bigger chunk of my royalty in fees. (Unless royalty is jacked up to try to cover some of it which may make the product less likely to sell - it's a vicious circle 😞 )
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07-27-2025 03:57 PM - edited 07-27-2025 04:05 PM
In terms of the secondary content, they're taking all the fees off the top, then they calculate the secondary content royalty as a percentage of whatever's left after taking the fees. Hope I explained that well, here's an example:
Long and short of it is that the secondary content royalty goes down along with everything else - and in many cases this new system pushed the secondary content royalty below a penny so the secondary content designer gets nothing.
Cat @ ZB Designs

