A Lifetime US Sales Counter on Earnings Summary

[Artsiren]

Not really an urgent idea, but as I continue my quest to finally reach the heady heights of the Pro Bronze Seller tier, the thought occurred to me that I make quite a lot of sales outside the USA Zazzle Marketplace.

If I'm remembering correctly, it's only the USA cumulative lifetime sales that count to the tier levels. So it would be nice to have a little counter somewhere on the Earning Summary page that tots up everything earned via USA-only.

As I say, not really an urgent one, as it's for sellers' eyes only behind the scenes - but possibly a motivator for some of us (aka, me) to work harder. Lol.

[CrazyMermaid]

It is very easy to do it yourself. If you look on your payment history, all the national currencies are listed every month. It is just one number to track. I think you are going to be very disappointed, when you get there. Nothing happens. It might have mattered at one time, but even when I hit gold, nothing new happened. It was fun to get the email, telling me that I was a Gold Pro. For like 2 seconds - then I just went back to designing. 

[Roberta]

Hi @Artsiren 

Many thanks for the suggestion. I'll certainly be passing this along to the Team 📝

Roberta 🌷

[Artsiren]

Thanks Roberta. I imagine something like this might possibly reduce the emails to Support, when Creators get past their tier levels and don't receive their promotion - because they haven't quite reached it in US sales yet! I actually don't know if people do this. Lol. I know I thought about it when I got to my Basic Pro tier, and it took a little while for the badge to arrive on my profile.

Thanks CrazyMermaid. Point taken, and I literally thought of this idea as I was about to do as you suggest. I kind of cringed, thinking about having to go back through all the spreadsheets to 2008 and tot everything up. Not sure whether it's more of a male thing, but I *do* like gamification, as it tends to break big goals down into smaller ones. So I kind of like the Tier system for that, even if there's less available in each Tier in a tangible sense for "getting there".

I ended up using a military rank gamification for productivity. Not a perfect solution, as I get a "promotion up the ranks" for every 1000 products published (across multiple stores/accounts). And concentrating on publishing numbers can sometimes (for me) lead to "bashing them out" instead of thinking about what customers would like to customize within those designs. Maybe I need to think more about counting products shared off-platform, or number of Pintererst pins or something. No doubt I'd suddenly become Major General Spam-Monster. I'll have to ponder some of this stuff. Lol. I defo think my product-promotion is a weak link, having published tons of prods over the yrs, most of which disappear due to lack of interest (ie they never get seen by anyone).

[CrazyMermaid]

Even going back to 2008 you have less than 200 numbers to add up and you would have the precise number. I actually do track each month where my sales come from by country. Not for pro-level, but to understand my market and target products. 

[kashmier]

Adding the numbers up is just too much work. It would be so easy for the account system to have a formula that does it automatically. I guess I don't do as much book work as others. Just keeping a running monthly total and charts for the four place I sell is a bit of a time stealer. I guess if I did it from the beginning and knew how it would be easier but I am at a loss at picking out each sale. This might sound dumb but Why do they only count US sales in the programs? 

[CrazyMermaid]

I guess I think there are a lot more important things for staff to be working on than this. Like consistently updated indexing. If pro rank really mattered in any way, I would support this - but it doesn't. You seem to want the bar lowered by including all sales. How would that motivate you? No one except Zazzle knows why it was set up this way and they aren't talking.