Use stats and take advantage of the Performance Bonus

The new statistic labels help you get the best out of the Performance Bonus so you can increase your revenue. From now on, all sales for which the Performance Bonus was applied will be marked with a corresponding Performance Bonus label in your statistics.

By promoting the Performance Bonus products that sell well, it will be easier for you to reach the next success tier. In doing so, the reduced base price will increase your revenue even more.

Smarter Shop Stats at a Glance

Your stats now give you faster, clearer insights into how your merch is performing. See key metrics like:

• Top-selling designs

• Most popular products

• Conversion rates

• Revenue by day, week, or month

These updates help you make smarter decisions about what to promote, what to tweak, and what your fans actually love. No more guessing—just clear, actionable data to grow your shop.

Statistics: Customized products and multiple print areas

In your statistics, the new “Customized” label and an extended product preview shows how your products have been customized at a glance. For example, see whether text or additional designs have been added with the Customize Tool.

This also applies to products with multiple print areas. You can now see print areas in your statistics too. This hasn’t been possible before as there was only a preview of the standard view. Now you can check quickly and easily, for example, if the print area on the back of a product was used for another design or text.

 Product Wizard works like magic for multiple products

You probably know that you can use the Product Wizard to quickly and easily add a new product to all of your designs. A recent update has equipped the Product Wizard with even more power. Use it to add up to 5 product types at the same time to your designs and save time when keeping your product portfolio up to date.

What Is “Product Magic”?

We’re improving how your designs are automatically displayed on products in your shop. Our system now intelligently selects product types, colors, and placements that make your design look its best—without you needing to micromanage every single item.

Product Magic ensures your Spreadshop feels curated and high-quality, even when you’re managing a large catalog of designs.

Why This Matters for You

Together, better stats and Product Magic give you two things:

• Control where you want it (see what works, and optimize)

• Automation where you need it (let your shop self-improve with smart defaults)

This means less time in the backend, and more time designing, marketing, and selling.

Find out how it works on our blog.

Automatic optimization of pixel graphics when uploading

For optimized printing, your designs should meet certain requirements. A sufficient resolution or transparent backgrounds are necessary. And if transparent backgrounds are too large, the design itself cannot be enlarged when customizing the print area of a product. In this case, you will be notified when uploading the design so you can adjust the file.

We’ll crop the image to the visible area of the design, so you’ll lose all unnecessary background. But, of course, you can keep your original file as is– a preview image gives you an option to take it or leave it.

No more non-active members

A non-active member of a team is of use to no one. The same applies to your designs after a product has been deactivated – they become inactive as well. Our newsletter subscription keeps you up to date whenever we deactivate products. Let’s say you’ve placed some of your designs on a few seasonal products and we deactivate these, your designs won’t be for sale anymore.

You’ll be alerted about these “designs without products” in the message center of your partner area, so you’ll know which designs are affected. Just click on the message to get directed to the designs and place them on other products.

Which of our partner updates do you find most exciting? Let us know in the comments.

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What’s in it for you?

If you offer many products or specialize in certain target groups (e.g. kids), then the template feature can be a real time saver. Recurring work steps are now carried out more quickly: Selecting products and colors, as well as determining the size and position of your design on the product, are easily completed with a single click. A template helps you create a whole kids’ collection with your design, including bodysuits, T-shirts and hoodie. Moreover, certain color combinations can be deactivated – for one or several products. This way, you can prevent dark designs from being ordered on dark product.

How does it work?

This little tutorial demonstrates the feature:

Since the template feature embodies an additional function, your usual workflow won’t change a lot. Templates can be used like this:

1. Upload a design or select an existing one.
2. Click on the “Select template” button.
3. Click on “Apply” to select a template.

In addition to Spreadshirt’s pre-set templates (for particularly dark or light designs), you can create your own templates and save a total of up to 10 templates.

1. Upload a design or select an existing one.
2. Add your desired product types and edit position and size of your designs.
3. Click on “Save as template”.
4. Find a suitable name for your template (max. 35 characters). You can now use it for other designs.

Please note:

When you edit a template and save it using “Replace”, designs with this template will remain unaffected by the changes you make. Also, keep an eye out for new products, because these are not automatically added to the templates – even if you have selected all products from the category (e.g. “Kids & Babies”).

Vector Graphics and Special Formats

If you change the color of your vector graphics when editing products, these changes won’t be saved in your templates. These changes need to be made manually in the affected templates.

Designs that are suitable for poster printing are automatically recognized by our system as posters based on their file properties. But since the template function can unfortunately not be applied to poster printing, you won’t be able to create a template based on poster designs. Of course, you can use your design on other products and apply it to templates that you already created.

The template feature is available to all users of the Partner Area.

Do you like this feature? Try it out and let us know what you think!

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Thanks to the new feature, you can now restrict a specifically-colored product from being sold. Don’t want your design to be included on a black hoodie? When editing the placement of your design on a certain product, a simple click of the “Disable colors” button will make this possible.

Of course, there are important things to remember when restricting a specific product color. Generally, if you drastically limit the number of product colors, you’ll likely see a negative impact on sales. Customers appreciate choices, so allow them to make the decisions for themselves.

Please note that the t-shirt designer in your shop and on the marketplace will still show all available colors.

Furthermore, if you decide to restrict a specific color, make sure you’re staying up to date on the latest product news and color deactivations on our blog. Failure to do so could lead to a broken product.

Go check out the feature for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments below!

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This update includes two major changes. First, we’ve added filters to your Shop’s ‘Credit’ tab. Now, you’ll be able to sort based on payout, design price, affiliate commission, and volume commission. Second, we’ve enhanced the download functionality of the CSV in both the ‘Credit’ and ‘Sales’ tab. Previously, you could only download date for one specific page. Now, you can download all of that data at once!

Previously, you were unable to utilize such specific statistics. For instance, if you wanted to check your earnings with the design price, you’d have to do it manually. Now, you can quickly analyze this data, allowing you to make any necessary changes to your pricing strategy as soon as possible.

It’s important to note that this update is currently only available in the partner area (not the legacy user area).

As always, this only skims the surface of the update. We’re going to be adding even more filters, including the ability to sort by best-sellers. You’ll even be able to see which products and designs tend to sell best by region, color, or any other notable attribute. Stay tuned!

What do you think of these updates? Let us know in the comment section!

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Thanks to this update, you can now save significant time by defining the default product colors in one click. Previously, you would have had to manually set the default display color for each individual product. Now, this can easily be done with one simple click of a button. Once you’ve set a product’s default display color, your customers will see the offering in that chosen color. Of course, they’ll still have the ability to select any available product color. During the next release, we’ll allow you to also restrict specific colors, thus providing you with complete control over your available products.

How to find the new function

Click on a design in the partner area and then select “Add products”. Under “Categories,” you’ll find the new function “Available colors.”

How it works

Under “Available colors,” click on the color you want to set as your product’s default display color. All products that are available in this color will now appear on the right side of the screen. Now, you can choose your desired products. When you are done, click on the button “Set as default”. To save your selection, please do not forget to click on “Done” at the bottom of the page.

What do you think of the changes? Let us know in the comment section below!

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Why the limit?

Our design review team is hard at work examining thousands and thousands of designs each day. A small handful of Partners are responsible for most of the uploads, commanding the attention of the entire review team. As a result, other Partners are waiting days before their new design-uploads can be cleared.

More info regarding the limit can be found in a blog post from October.

Design limit

To speed up the design review process, we will implement a limit on the number of daily design uploads:

• 50 designs max. per day
• Partners reaching the 50 daily design limit will be notified in the upload section and will have to wait until the next day to upload more designs.
• Beginning 01.02.2018

Restricting third-party designs

Spreadshirt will also be rejecting designs that come from third-party platforms, including

• Pixabay
• Freepik
• PngTree
• Openclipart
• Wikimedia
• AdobeStock
• Fotolia
• Shutterstock
• 123rf
• Colourbox

These designs will only be allowed if they’ve been reworked prior to uploading, interpreted differently, and if Partner have valid proof that they can use the design. Spreadshirt will also reject any designs that have purely been downloaded from another source.

What would also be considered as an insufficient design?

• An original, unaltered image
• A minor color change
• A minor transformation (including mirroring or rotation)

What this means for you

If you’re worried about your fellow users utilizing multiple accounts, we’re on it. We’ll be banning these accounts if they’re found to be violating or circumventing the rules. Of course, we will notify and warn these individuals before taking this drastic step.

Thanks to these various restrictions, you should find that designs make it to the Marketplace significantly quicker. This new verification process should ultimately help those Partners who are only uploading a handful of designs each day.

If you have any questions, please let us know in the comments below. We’ll get back to you asap.

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If you manage your SpreadShop and/or Marketplace designs and products through the new Partner Area (you registered after October 19^th, 2016), you’ll find a new and improved statistics page. The addition of a new interface and a handful of new features gives you the ability to manage your business like never before.

What’s New?

Your new statistics page is broken down between Credit Overview (earnings credited to your account approximately 14-days after order payment has been received) and Sales Overview (designs and products you have sold).

The new Credit Overview page gives you the ability to:

• See how your earnings are broken down between Design Price, Affiliate Commission and Volume Commission
• See the next payout date
• *please note: amounts displayed are not inclusive of withholding tax (actual paid amount may differ from the amount displayed)

The new Sales Overview page gives you the ability to:

• Check order status
• See the order ID, date of sale, and from which point of sale the purchase was made
• See the number of items per order
• See a picture of the ordered item and design
• See the country the purchase is shipped to
• See what the customer paid (retail price)
• See your gross earnings from each sale
• *please note: amounts displayed are not inclusive of withholding tax (actual paid amount may differ from the amount displayed)

This new interface and simpler overview will help you keep track of your sales in a much more insightful way. Not only can you see where your sales are coming from, but where your orders are going, how your credit is broken down, and much more!

More to Come

As more information and input is gathered, we will continue to update the new statistics page with helpful information. The new page is available now in the new Partner Area and is soon to come in the old one (for those who registered before October 19^th, 2016).

Should you find any bugs or things that don’t work, kindly let us know so we can fix them!

Like what you see? Can you think of anything you’d like us to add to further assist you? Please let us know in the comments so we can put them on our list!

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This information is only relevant for US and Australian partners who registered with us after October 19th, 2016 as well as for Canadian partners who registered with us after May 30th, 2016.

Publishing your designs to the U.S., Canadian and Australian Marketplaces just got a whole lot faster. With Spreadshirt’s new pre-approval process, your designs can be up and earning in as little as 15 minutes.

What does that mean for me?

With the new pre-approval process, reacting to viral trends (or simply adding your designs to the Marketplace) is a lot faster and a lot more agile. What once was a lengthy approval process, has been cut down significantly, allowing you to get your designs up, selling and earning in no time at all.

Will my designs still be checked?

All uploaded designs must still be checked against printability guidelines, but moving forward, this process will take place after they have been published to the Marketplace—hence the “pre-approval”.

What if my pre-approved design is denied once it has been reviewed?

If your pre-approved design is denied for any reason, it will be removed from the Marketplace. You will receive the standard “your design has been denied” message on your design page in the Partner Area. You, of course, have the option at that point to adjust your design to meet the guidelines and republish it.

How long does the pre-approval process take?

With the new pre-approval process, a preview link for the uploaded design is available immediately, and you are looking at 10-15 minutes before you design is published for sale. PLEASE NOTE: Purchases cannot be made through the preview link. Products may only be purchased once the designs have been published to the Marketplace.

The new pre-approval process gives you the power to act, react, publish and earn faster than ever before! So, what are you waiting for? Get in there and start uploading designs now!

Happy with the new development? How is it working out for you and your Marketplace sales? Give us a shout in the comments. We’d love to hear from you.

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Manage multiple designs

We’ve made some helpful changes in the design overview section. Perhaps you’ve already seen the little check boxes in the top-right corner of the design tiles? Check the box to bulk-select as many designs as you want to edit at once. The menu bar on top changes as soon as you select a design. You will now find the options “Keywords” and “Design Price” there. Choose one of these options to apply it to all the designs you’ve selected. It’ll save you a ton of time when adjusting the pricing or keywords of your designs.

Select product default colors

It gets even better. You can now select a default product color to display for each product group. If your Shop is centered around the color red, you can choose to represent each product group with a red product. If you feel your designs display better on white products, you now have the freedom to make that happen. Think of this function as the mannequin that stands in a store window: there are obviously more colors available inside the store; this is just the lure that gets the customers in and buying.

You will find a color icon in the bottom-right corner of each product group tile. Click on it to select the default color of the displayed product. Customers can still freely choose from the other colors offered for each product; you are merely changing the color of the product being displayed.

More exciting news

We are in the process of working out a way for you to determine the color selection for your products. The solution to one of our more frequent requests is on the horizon. Stay tuned!

These new features are designed to help you save time and effort managing your products that you can use to better your brand and marketing. Give it a go!

Have you gained first-hand experience with the new features? How do you put the time you save to good use?  Please let us know in the comments.

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