Digital invitations (Evites)

[origamiprints]

I know this has been brought up in the past but more and more I am receiving messages from my customers asking for digital invitations. I am a diamond pro seller and specialize in invitations so this is my jam and I am very familiar with what my customers want.

I think it's time to seriously think about this Zazzle! I have a 2 and 4 year old who are both in preschool so we get invited to a lot of kids parties and every single one has been invited via a digital invite from a Zazzle competitor. 

Please pretty please consider it Zazzle! Our culture is quickly switching over to digital invitations and we need to jump on this. Our competition in the digital invite space is quickly adding more and more top quality designs in all sorts of niches and covering most of the trending party themes. Let's join in on this amazing opportunity and offer a platform with thousands of customizable digital designs so that our customers find everything they need for their party HERE at Zazzle. We have the unique opportunity to not only offer invitations but matching party supplies as well. Adding an rsvp service/tool for digital invites would be an added bonus as well. 

Thank you for your time! 

-Shelby Allison (Origami Prints)

[paperiecris]

Every now and then I have such requests. As we have demand for qr codes for wedding websites. I think offering digital invitation is substantial going foward. Though paper will always have its place in the market.

[Roberta]

Hi  @origamiprints 

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

Roberta 🌷

[KayeCee]

Yes! I’d MUCH rather be able to offer a digital option here rather than struggle with setting up something like Corjl on my own website!

Honestly, I’m surprised that Zazzle hasn’t already implemented digital products. Looks like it would be a win for them, a win for us, and a win for our customers. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[JB]

No thank you. This will become a licensing headache for assets that we use (it is prohibited by many clipart sellers, for one), and help increase design theft.

Our culture is not switching to digital. For special occasions, people still want physical invites for keepsakes and presentation.

I am not interested in only receiving 10-15-25% of my digital design fee just in exchange to host it here. What would Zazzle be getting out of digital invites? They are PRINT on demand company.  If they allowed that option, they would have to take a significant cut of the profit to do nothing more than host, simply to make it worth it for them. It would not be a win. I would NOT be okay with getting $1-3 for a design someone pays $15-25 for to have a digital version that could also be exploited.

The way that customers can delete all text and leave a blank space and then download a high res digital version would just then allow them to sell our designs elsewhere. They already often do this and pin our designs with not text to Pinterest, where people right click and save our blank designs. Those aren't at print resolution but the average person doesn't understand that or care. That's bad enough. So... Nope. No thanks. No siree.

If this ever gets implemented I would need an option to OPT out entirely.

[Anne]

Totally agree, JB