Zazzle gives it's shop keepers the option to add templates to products and thereby enable customers to more easily customize their purchases.
Templates are lines of text that show as sample text on a product, like my red poppy sticker on this page. When the customer finds an item to purchase, they can easily replace the sample text with their own information and see it on the product they intend to buy.
Personalization is what makes Zazzle popular. Zazzle wants us to add templates to everything we sell. It's part of their brand, to be the place to go to customize products.
This page has been updated to contain information about using the new design tool.
Are you using templates to increase your sales?
@Tyra, I made that white strip, and thank you.
Where in the world did you get that white label strip that you wrote the text in?? Beautiful design btw! :)
@Cyn, Zazzle changes things so fast that my articles quickly become out of date. It's basically done the same way. I'll have to update the page.
Put sample text where you want it on the item, click on the line of text, then use the cog icon and check off "make this a template". It should show as a customizable template for the customer.
How do sellers create templates where the customer can just fill in field boxes on the item page? I've seen some products like that and can't figure out how to do that. It's different than the example in this tutorial.
I wrote this page before Zazzle did it's updates, so I'm glad it still makes sense to you. The text templates are still pretty much the same.
Wow! Thank you for sharing! You are a great teacher and I have always been afraid of adding a text template b/c I didn't understand how to do it right. This makes it easy!
Good for you Larraine! Glad I could be of help.
Just made my first birthday card after reading your tutorial. Thank you!
I haven't done birthday cards yet, but I hope to create some soon as I now have some nice photos of roses I could use.
Way to go Mira... look for sales soon! ;)