I absolutely love the Zazzle throw pillows, both designing them and their quality. My family loves them as well, but they have small homes with a single couch, so covering it with a million of my pillows isn't really an option. lol Enter: Throw pillow CASES! With all of the emphasis on holidays and special occasions on Zazzle, I think covers only would make A LOT more sense and possibly skyrocket sales on the product. One can only use and/or store so many pillows at a time, but covers are MUCH easier to store, and it's fun to switch out decor for various seasons and events.  It also doesn't seem like it would be a huge problem in terms of sourcing, as zipper covers are already offered and could move seamlessly into this role. Perhaps in addition to selling the cases on their own, there could also be bundled options: if someone designs a case with spring on one side and then summer on the other, and then a second case with fall/winter, it would make a great 2-pack of cases. The bundles could also have the option to add a pillow insert if desired in case they have not yet ordered a pillow from Zazzle.   ... View more

Below the product on the product page Z has done a great job showing more products from the collection. I'd love to see the words, "Shop this collection" be a link to the actual collection itself. This would reduce the amount of times the customer has to click on the individual products to see what's in the collection itself.  It's a little misleading when the individual products in the "Shop this collection" area only goes to that one product. I would suspect that all that clicking would turn away a customer who just wants to shop everything from that collection to purchase matching products.  ... View more

When I get a cancellation, a million questions go through my mind, that I can never answer. Only Zazzle can provide us with this information. I think it's vital for the designer to know whether something was wrong with the design. But if it was returned for another reason on Zazzle's side, we wouldn't need to know, nor if the person simply decided they didn't want the product for their own reasons. But if there was a problem with the design, us designers need Zazzle to inform us so that we can fix the problem to prevent future reoccurrences. Also, we can learn from this. I feel this is very important, and I wish Zazzle would start implementing it.  ... View more

I'm sorry, but the 'content review' process for accidentally using 'wrong' words as tags needs to be changed.  It harms us as designers by taking away hours or weeks worth of work and promotions, but it also costs Zazzle money too!  I can understand removing for a visual art infringement, but a tag word? I understand why certain words cannot be used, but we should get an opportunity to fix a tag. Here are my two suggestions for things that would solve this... and probably take a lot less man hours on Zazzle's end.  1. Certain words should be in the zazzle system and automatically not allow us to even use them.  I know it's somehow possible because 'onesie' got flagged one time.  It has to be far less time consuming for one person to manage these words on the developement end than to deal with the thousands of issues that eventually come up.  Trademarked brands, pantone colors, etc., anything commonly known (I know they won't catch everything, but the big ones should be). I'd rather it accidentally take away too many word options, than for me to eventually lose dozens of products. and/or 2. The products should not be completely deleted automatically entirely (for title/tag/description options, not artwork maybe).  They could either delete the tag, hide the product and give us a timeline of __ days to remove and fix (I'd be find having to go through content review even), or something else. Or at least let us find them again in our saved designs instead of deleting those too (they 'show' there, but when you click into them, they are gone too). It feels so incredibly unfair that they just wipe products out of existence just because you accidentally used one wrong word. We as designers can't possibly know all of the ones not to use despite how hard we may try. ... View more

Title, Description, and Tags should all support each other for on- and off-site SEO.  It would be easier to ensure we're using supportive Tags, if the input field for them were located up where we can see all three fields together -- in that big empty space next to the Product Merchandising image.  It would make workflow a tad more user friendly and help our creative juices when we can only think of three tags and want more because we can see the Description and Product in the same panel.  It would prevent us scrolling up and down and thinking "wait, is this the blue one or the green one?"  I do understand how complex coding is for the entire Z site, but this one is a simple CSS mod.  I know because I did it in the Inspect panel to grab this screen cap. 😉 Thank you for your consideration. 😊  ... View more

Please allow us to move our products between stores without the need to repost them. Especially considering all these recent changes, such as cover photos and collections (no complaints, I hope you know what you're doing), it has become literally impossible to keep up with the mess my account has turned into. I am aware that we can repost the items in a new store and delete the old ones, but that's not a solution, as it would mean losing statistics, marketplace rankings, and all the effort that has been invested in marketing. I must admit, I made numerous mistakes when I started 10 years ago, but creating all those stores seems like an issue that can't be fixed and continues to pose difficulties time and time again. Pretty please... ... View more

I would love if Zazzle would add the ability to bulk edit product merchandising options for the same product type (ex: changing all fleece blankets to a certain size, etc). It's so tedious editing them individually.  ... View more

Aussie Designer back again, this time with a suggestion for one of Zazzles products.  I've never sold any of my own designs on a puzzle - granted I've never focused much on them before.  I've been thinking about starting to promote the puzzles but in all honesty I wouldn't do so as they are right now.     Reason being based on the reviews I've seen and from my own experience with completing puzzles.  I think most would agree that the image provided on the box for puzzles is THE most important resource for puzzle solvers.  If it's not exactly the same as the finished puzzle and of sufficient size it can really take away from the ease and fun of the solving.  Granted many of us enjoy challenges, I just doubt most would pay to have a challenge that would make them overly frustrated and feeling like the experience could have gone better.   I also notice that Zazzle doesn't show the customer the packaging which could no doubt help with marketing.   I recently had a go at a 1000 piece puzzle and I have to say that if it didn't have a hint/guide printed on the back of the pieces I believe I would have given up and not completed the project.  I would assume that any puzzle above 500 pieces would really do better selling wise with a back printed guide to make the solving more user friendly.  A simple number graph would suffice if that could be easily integrated into the printing system without adding to cost. Otherwise making sure the provided image is a size most would not have to squint to see would no doubt be highly beneficial.   I've noticed one of the customer reviews have said something similar - that the Zazzle's puzzle pieces they received were really small and the photograph provided was not clear enough.     I've added a link to the review I read for the Zazzle puzzle here ---https://www.zazzle.com/abstract_art_challenging_black_white_super_detail_jigsaw_puzzle-116601189440333481    Something to consider.   ... View more

Hello! I don't know if this is already available and I can't find it, but just in case. I think it would be great to have a way to short, in our back end, the products that are not in collections. I am sure that a lot of products that could be in my existing collections are not there because I didn't remember to add them when I made them or the collection was made afterwards and I forgot to add them.  If this is already possible, I wold appreciate if you let me know how to do it.  Thank you! ... View more

I get frequent requests from customers to help make tweaks to designs - sometimes they want me to call them and chat and go over their changes.  With the new ambassador program and our loss of sales, it's not really worth my time to help customers with custom design work -  even the smallest of changes. So . . .  I'd like to suggest that Zazzle bring back the Live Designer option so customers can get the help they deserve. Right now I'm sending them to customer service - not sure customer service is even able to help with designing?   ... View more

I know it's naive to think that my post will change anything, but things have come to a point where I have too much to lose to leave it without a word. (And I've just read that some criticism here won't lead to punishment in the marketplace.) Like many other designers, I'm experiencing a decline in sales. It would be comfortable for me too to blame it on the economy, but all my other POD accounts are acting normally (October = 3x August). Despite spending 100% of my POD time here since the mockup misery and the collections update. Unlike others, I believe the main factor in decreasing sales is the heavy manual intervention in the marketplace placements. Definitely not the collections, maybe not the mockups or any changes announced, but things happening under the hood. It seems that Zazzle's new approach is not showing customers what they want but showing them what they want them to want. But, as results show, it doesn't work like that. Apparently, the crowd can better decide what's popular (with their money) than some Editors (with their picks). A year ago, when I was browsing in some random product category, I was thinking if I had more money, I would buy this and that, and those too. Everything looked so nice and professional. Now I scroll through the first page of literally any category and don't like what I see enough to go to the second page. Yes, some awful mockups definitely don't help (and I say this knowing that I suck at mockups too), but prioritizing pages of designs that one employee liked at some point will drive away customers who are used to seeing beautiful and trendy things here. I like to believe that the intent was good, but the implementation went astray. I understand that Zazzle wants to reward certain designers and influence buyers, but it could be done wiser in my opinion. So just a suggestion: why don't you put one Editor's pick in every other row and let customers see the organically popular items too (bought with real money), as it used to be. If you placed a few EPs on the first pages, they would have the opportunity to catch up, but they would be put back into their normal places a few days later (I mean like some rotation system). This way, the category pages would have the popular and best-selling products but always show something new to keep visitors coming back. Sorry for the length and the poor English. ... View more

Passing along a request I received via chat from a customer who bought some patterned socks, and also thought it would be great if my design was available on sweatpants, all-over print shirts and sneakers.  ... View more

On the product page where it shows the designer at the top of the screen, if you click on the store name it gives you the option to message the designer. If the customer clicks on the message button here, it takes them directly to chat - there's no customer support option. However, if they scroll WAY down to the product description area, there's another option to message the designer. If they click on the message button in this location, it offers them the option of contacting customer support: I'd like to suggest that the top message button should work like the bottom one does - i.e. give the customer the "customer care" option. I think that the vast majority of customers never scroll down far enough to get to the product description area, so most are using the top contact button rather than the bottom one. I think if this message button had the customer support option it might cut down on the bazillions of messages that should go to customer support instead of to us, and that would be a better experience for both us and the customer! Thanks for considering my plea! 😁   ... View more

As someone else has suggested, please add hardcover journals like Cafepress and Redbubble have, as an alternative to spiral bound. People want to journal in something that looks like a book, that will be aesthetically pleasing spine-out on a bookshelf. Thanks. ... View more

Please add a share button for Bluesky, a lot of us are leaving Twitter. TIA ... View more

It would be super helpful to have the side of a mug along with an inset photo of the front.  I usually put the name in the center (front) with designs on the sides. Have to choose whether the customer will see the image or the customizable name part.  Yes, I can download, make my own and reupload but this change would make mug creation both customer and creator friendly. ... View more

Kudos to Zazzle employees for all of their hard work. I have one suggestion regarding wedding collections. In the media manager, wedding collections are shown in various situs - however, the envelope liners are not shown with the coordinating envelopes it is designed for. Please consider making this change. Thank you.         ... View more

Can we please have a sort feature parameter for OOS or temporarily sold out?  Perhaps we would like to organize those in our stores for our customers.  One, for those customers that don't want to see those products and ultimately be left disappointed and never come back.  Two, for those are hopeful customers that keep coming back to the same product notification, and be left disappointed again and again, despite multiple attempts, and so exhausted they're not coming back ever again.  And three, for those creative designers who don't come to the forums because they've reluctantly tried to report or find out about a reported product being OOS.  And lastly, four, a big need for some of us to organize.  ... View more

I was just thinking. I know there are a lot of big sellers on Z so this doesn't affect them but with the marketing fees it takes smaller sellers longer to reach the payment threshold of $50 for Paypal payments. I wish the payment threshold could be lowered so we smaller sellers would get paid sooner.....just sayin'...... ... View more