Resizable products

Zakeke Support

Updated September 04, 2024 08:55

Create a Resizable product inside Zakeke, whether you select a product to customize directly from your store or you start from scratch.

On the top right of the Setup Product you can toggle the Resizable product feature and enter in a new dashboard where you can create a product that extend customization beyond design, enabling customers to personalize measurements according to their preferences.

1 - Sides

Enable the resizable feature for just 1 side of your product, 2 synced sides like Front and Back or more multiple sides.

Depending on the number of sides you will need to enter the sides names and the sides width and height measures.

1.1 - One side

The simplest option, allowing you to offer customers the ability to change measure for just one side of

your product. Think about a canvas, a sign or a sticker..

1.2 Front and Back

Remember, if you select 2 synced sizes, both sides will be synchronized in terms of size, not design.

This option allows you to create a resizable product which sides will be changes automatically, without any need to modify measures from one side to another. Customers will, of course, decide which customization to add to both sides if you allow this activity. Examples can include a banner or advertising flag, a hang tag, or a business card..

1.3 - Multiple Sides

Select this option if you have a product with more that 2 sides, independent in terms of design and size, and you can let people change measurement for each one of them, like wallpapers for a room where there are multiple sides (e.g., four walls) with different dimensions.

1.4 - Multiple Sides with same size

This option is for creating products with more than two sides that always maintain the same size. The sides can have different designs but will always have the same size.

2 - Product measurements

Define the width and height measurements of your product and choose whether they are resizable or fixed according to your preferences. All sides of the product maintain uniform sizes.

Remember that the measures customers will see on the front end of your product customization page will be the ones you have set inside the Interface Editor > Action > Measure Unit.

Also, if you have included cm measures and you want to pass to inches, Zakeke will automatically convert measures to your latest choice.

Please note

The values should be higher than the minimum width/height and lower than the maximum width/height.

Keep aspect ratio

When enabled, the dimensions of both sides of the product will always change proportionally, maintaining the initial ratio.

3 - Step Adjustment

Set the step value for resizing, allowing customers to choose dimensions in specific increments. For example, if the product can be between 10 and 50 cm with a step of 10 cm, customers can select sizes like 10 cm, 20 cm, 30 cm, 40 cm, and 50 cm.

3D preview and AR

If this option is checked, Zakeke will automatically generate a 3D visualization of your resizable product along with displaying the 2D version.

Furthermore, you can activate the Augmented Reality (AR) option, allowing customers to visualize the product in their real environment using their smartphones.

4 - Product border

Configure the border thickness and decide if it is filled with a color or extends the customer's design.

Border types, thickness and color

There are 2 border types, the Solid Color and the Mirror Wrap.

Solid Color means the border will have a uniform color of your choice, and your customers won't be able to change it. Mirror Wrap means the customer's design will be mirrored and extended onto the border of the canvas.

See examples below:

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Include border in print-files

If you do want to include the border in the print files you can check the specific box during the Resizable product setup. Otherwise, it will only be visible inside the 3D product view.

4.1 - Multi-canvas

You can enable customers to split the resizable product into multiple columns and rows to create a collage, directly inside the product page frame. To do so you need to configure the minimum dimensions for columns and rows.

Attention: In the settings, you are required to define only two values for columns and rows:

Minimum size
Starting number of columns/rows

Zakeke will use the minimum size to automatically calculate the maximum number of columns/rows possible based on the product dimensions.

Example:

If the side width ranges from a minimum of 12 cm to a maximum of 32 cm and the minimum column size is set to 4 cm, the customer can have a minimum of one column (12 cm) and a maximum of 8 columns (4 cm each, with a maximum size of 32 cm).

This is what the Multi-canvas looks like on the product page, when enabled, together with the 3D preview:

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5 - Preset options

With preset options, you can offer your customers a range of predefined starting measurements to choose from.

6 - Preview of resizable product with 1 side

This is a preview of what your clients will see. You can simulate changes in width and height just like your customers will do.

In the image below we've increased the width measure from 23 in to 38 in, and immediately the frame changes its width accordingly.

Same thing will happen with height measure changes from 27 to 30 in, as shown below.

All the elements inside the resizable product frame will adapt accordingly in order to respect the ratio of the positions and the design created.