Zazzle Search Engine on personal Zazzle website

[SORS]

Is there an imbedded code that Zazzle offers to link to a  Zazzle search bar for a personal Zazzle website that redirects the customer back to searching products in the Zazzle store? 

[LauraLee]

Sure there is!  I think you're asking if you can use your own Zazzle store as a link for things...like on social media, or your website, or a pin, right?  https://www.zazzle.com/store/3cattails/products  This is my example.  You go to your store, click on your products tab, and up in the URL search bar.  Copy and paste that URL for the link.  Now, for a website, you're going to need to paste something like this, which is the html coding:  <a href="https://www.zazzle.com/store/3cattails/products"></a> 
The thing is Zazzle doesn't "offer" it somewhere, it's just sharing a link to it, so that someone can see the products in your store overall.  But, like on Pinterest, or a pin, if it's a product it should link to the product.  And, if you ever want those product links, in the backend of your store, click on a product's share underneath and all the types of shareable links are given there.
Hope that helps answer your question!

[SORS]

Hi Laura, Thank you for your response.  I'm not sure that is exactly what I'm looking for.  Can you please check out Moodthology's page at https://moodthology.com/ and if you scroll down  half way you will see that they have a Zazzle search engine on the page.   Will your instructions do the same thing for a website?  

Thank you! 

[tanyadraws]

Hey Sors! Looking at this it seems like they have added their zazzle products as product listings on their own "shop" on their website - (https://moodthology.com/shop/) so when you are searching their items on Zazzle, you're actually searching through the moodthology shop. The neat thing about what they've done is they've replaced the "add to cart" button with a "buy on Zazzle" button, so instead of the item on their website being added to their cart, it takes you straight to their zazzle shop.

I've done something similar at my day job on Shopify but I think they're using Wordpress. What I had to do on Shopify was hide the add to cart button on my product template, and replace it with a button that links to a different link, but looks like an add to cart button. I also had to hide any links to the cart page, so that customers wouldn't be able to add to cart or do any of the checkout processes. Its a lot of work but it looks great 🙂 You should be able to customize most e-commerce sites to do this either with code or the drag & drop builder! 

Hope this helps 🙂 

[ColsCreations]

They used this bit of coding to make that search box where you enter your search term on their website but it takes you to the results in your Zazzle store.

<div class="wpb_wrapper">
<form align-items:="" center;"="" method="get" action="https://www.zazzle.com/store/colscreations/products?qs=" target="_blank"> <input style=" width: 85%;padding: 0px;" placeholder="Search Cols Creations on Zazzle" type="text" name="qs" value=""> <button style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(158, 159, 151); font-weight: 700;" class="eltdf-btn eltdf-btn-small eltdf-btn-solid eltdf-btn-custom-hover-bg eltdf-btn-custom-hover-color" data-hover-color="#ffffff" data-hover-bg-color="#afafa7" type="submit">SEARCH</button></form>
</div>

You can paste that bit of code here and test the results in the right pane, just change the shop name to your own.

[tracytrends]

Does anyone know how to code this to:
1) Add our Referral Number and a Tracking Code
2) Remove our store, so it can search all Zazzle products when landing on Zazzle

*Thank you for sharing this coding. @ColsCreations 

[SpiralGiftsPlus]

NOTE: trying from the original moodthology site isn't working - I'm getting a 404 page not found on Zazzle, so I'm looking at this some more.

This should do it, I have not tested. In the original code, replace 

action="https://www.zazzle.com/store/colscreations/products?qs="

with action="https://www.zazzle.com?rf=X&tc=Y&qs="

where X is your referral code and

Y is the tracking code 

[SpiralGiftsPlus]

I was wrong about the format. What you need to have all-Z search, with RF and TC is to have the form redirect to this

https://www.zazzle.com/s/SEARCHTERM?rf=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&tc=Y

Well, I hit a snag. Techno mumbo jumbo follows, but the upshot is I think you need javascript. 

The original search is (when green is the search term)

https://www.zazzle.com/s/green

It is easier to do the first because the qs is part of the querystring - after the "?" in the url, and so it can take it from an input field on the form. Whereas for an all-Z search it is not part of the querystring.

It could definitely be done with javascript, but you will have to get help from someone else on that.

[CLC]

Hi...this is a button application on their personal website. If you have your own website or blog, search and see if you can download and install a button app from your website host, then set it up with a link to your zazzle store with your referral code, you can put any text you want on the button. You will have to add the button to each individual product. When a customer clicks on the button it will redirect them to your zazzle store. I have a bigcommerce store and have been pondering about setting up a button app, the only reason I have not is that bigcommerce will keep track of the sales made through this app and the sales will count and tally up on my bigcommerce site. They have sales thresholds, that if you go over the total sales your monthly hosting fee will go up. For now I have just created clickable links, when the customer clicks on these it takes them to my zazzle store.