Here is another post addressing the Marketplace. Its a follow up from the aptly title Marketplace pt.1. I’ll try and answer some of the questions that have been popping up here, in the forums and directly to service@spreadshirt.net
Including:
Im new here, whats the marketplace again?
Commission. Thats bitching, tell me more.
Whats the difference between a product and design?
If I submit a design where can it go?
I found a great design and I want to totally ruin it by adding a tacky pun. What customisation options do I have?
1. Im new here, whats the Marketplace again?
Where have you been? Welcome to the party… The Marketplace unites all our main customer types, Graphic Designers, Buyers and Shop-partners. Here’s how it works:
1. Graphic Designers offer their designs to the marketplace, setting a commission per sale.
2. Shop-partners can pick the best designs from the marketplace and add them to their Spreadshop. They can add an additional commission, so per sale, both them and the artist get compensated.
So you need no graphic design skills to have really attractive products in your shops. This should bring together those with traffic, and those with artistic flair.
3. End Customers can use the Marketplace designs as the start of their customization experience or just buy them as finished products from the Marketplace or a partners Spreadshop. Now its will be really easy to find great designs to turn into even greater apparel. We’ll help by offering a host of features like tagging, rating, blogging, flagging, saving etc.
2. Whats the difference between a product and design?
Products are finished articles combining graphics with an item of the Spreadshirt Assortment. They are purchased as seen and not customizable.
Designs can be altered, adding text or changing the location of the design. Designs in the marketplace can also be turned into products for other shops, which products can’t.
3. I found a great design and I want to totally ruin it by adding a tacky pun. What customisation options do I have?
Plenty. Just click Create and buy a t-shirt with this design on a design you like. From there you can add text, additional designs, alter design position on the shirt.
4. If I submit a design where can it go?
Three places:
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Into the Marketplace for all to see.
- It can be grabbed and used by other shop-partners in their shops.
5. I would like to submit to the marketplace, but don’t want other shop-partners using my designs!
Simple, create products using your designs. Submit them instead. Products can’t be grabbed and added to other Spreadshops.
6. Commission. Thats bitching, tell me more.
Sure. So now we have a two part commission model. Design commission and product commission.
Here is how it works:
I’m just a designer, not a shop-partner:
You only have to worry about one commission the design commission. You set this when you submit the design to the marketplace. Whenever the design is sold, in the marketplace, in the Spreadshirt Designer or in another Spreadshirt shop-partners shop, you’ll make that commission.
I’m a Shop-partner, using someone else’s designs:
Then the design commission is set for you by the designer. You can add your additional commission by adding a “product commission” to the product you create with that design. You both earn the relevant commission per sale.
I’m both Shop-partner & Designer. I can do it all.
a) You can add a commission to your design -> Then you will earn this design commission for every sale, whether its from the marketplace, your shop or another spreadshirt shop-partners shop through the Marketplace.
b) You can add a commission to your product -> Then you will earn you both the product commission and any additional design commission for any design elements that product used.
An example:
In the Old System:
Product with simple design:
Base Price: 12.90
Your set Commission: 1.10
Total for a Customer in your Shop/Marketplace: 14.00
In the new System:
(assuming you added a design commission of 3 when you submitted the design to the Marketplace)
Product with simple design:
Base Price: 12.90
Your set Product Commission: 1.10
Design Commission: 3.00
Total for a Customer in your Shop/Marketplace: 17.00
7. If I submit a design to the marketplace, will it affect products in my shop?
Yep it might. So if you add a design commission of 3, all the products in your shop that rely on that design will have a 3 design commission added to them, as in the example above. You can offset this by reducing the product commission if the new price is too high.
I’ve heard enough, how do I submit?
Go to the designs/products section of the Admin. Select “Add to marketplace” for the design you want to submit, fill in the information. Bob is your uncle.
We’re also working on some video’s to show you the more complicated aspects with the added benefit of motion video.
Anything else you want covered? Let me know and we’ll make a part 3.
Ami
Dave
The problem with this is that if, as in you example I set a design commission of 3 Euros, there is no way I (my shop) can sell the shirt for less than 15.90
I’d want MY shop, using MY design, to ALWAYS be able to sell at the lowest price available. Surely as the designer I shouldn’t have the design commission on my design included in the total cost and should only have the product commission.
Hope I’ve explained what I mean.
Mike R
Hi Mike,
You’ve explained what you mean beautifully. Just to clarify its only for designs submitted to the marketplace, which will automatically have this design commission included.
I can see your point. But from a technical point of view its not possible at the moment with the way our systems work. That doesn’t mean we couldn’t think about it though for future releases if this is causing an inconvenience for you and other partners. At present you can always reduce your product commission to zero, but obviously that doesn’t help you if you want to make less than 3 a shirt. The forum is probably the best place for us to continue this and get more opinions. http://forum.spreadshirt.net
hi, couldn’t you just add the same design twice? one for you and your shop only and no commission, one for the marketplace with commission.
steve
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