Blocking "Transfer the design" feature

[giskard]

I would like to have the ability to block the "transfer the design" feature, If I don´t want my design transferred to any other product. Why? Well, I have a canvas artwork that if sold I would gotten some money, but somebody thought it would look much better in a piece of tissue paper for which I got  a royalty of merely 55 cents!!!!.... #*$&#*?¡, in other words what the fudge!!!!. If a designer/artist put a drawing/artwork/design in a specific product I would assume they think is the best product to portrait such design, by transferring it to cheaper products, customers are affecting our earnings.

[Sara_H]

@giskard 

You can already do this in your store settings - advance settings - and uncheck the box 'enable design transfer'

[PenguinPower]

You can do that… but I highly doubt that it’s affecting your earnings negatively. The person who transfers to a piece of tissue paper or a postcard or a button wants that item and isn’t interested in a canvas… consider it ¢55 you otherwise wouldn’t have made rather than $10 or so you have lost. 

[LMGildersleeve]

Plus, check your stats to see if it shows a "Printed Order (Last 7 Days)" for that product. If so, it means the system thinks you sold a canvas and this helps boost your canvas in the MP. Not a bad trade off for 55 cents imo.

[Jadendreamer13]

Also, changing that setting will disable customer transfers for all your products, not just one….

[tiffjamaica]

Another idea, if you don't want to disable transfers for all products, would be to raise your default royalty rate. Your default rate will automatically be assigned to the transferred design (this could also deter a customer if set too high though). 

I agree that this is .55 you wouldn't have otherwise had and isn't a bad thing that they transferred your art to tissue paper.  When customers transfer my designs, I take that as a sign that I need to create the product they bought and put it in my shop for others that may also be interested! 🙂 

[giskard]

Thank you all for your advice... I do not agree with all of you but I really appreciate you taking the time

[Connie]

It's your prerogative, but you are definitely losing out on money by not allowing transfers. That customer that bought the tissue paper wasn't looking for a canvas, so if you didn't have the option available, they would have just shopped for tissue paper from another store. They certainly wouldn't have bought your canvas, so instead of getting $.55, you would have gotten $0, plus you would have missed out on the algorithm boost of the canvas that order gave it. To me, 55 cents is a lot better than 0 cents, and I'll take all the marketplace boosts I can get!

[Jadendreamer13]

I made a lot of money in Q4 on $1.00 royalties (probably purchased as stocking stuffers). The money adds up if enough people buy your product.

You can make $1M by selling 10 $100,000 items, or you can make $1M by selling 1,000,000 $1.00 items. Which path is easier?