Zakeke allows you to pick a product from your store and make it customizable.
Here below a quick step-by-step guide on how to create a customizable product.
What is a Customizable Product
Before starting to create a customizable product, it's important to understand that in Zakeke each customizable product is composed as follows: product --> side(s) --> print area(s).
It means that on each product you can have one or multiple side(s) (think about front and back of a T-shirt) and one or multiple print area(s) on each side. If you have product variations, the hierarchy is valid for each product variation that you wish to make customizable. You'll get a print-ready file for each print area customized by your customer (if you need to get a single print-file, you can activate the add-on to get a single print-file including all print areas of your product).
For each product, you can:
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leave your customers free to add texts, images or designs to each print area.
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totally disable or limit one or more customization tools on the entire product or each side (example: allow customers to add text but no images or accept images only in PNG format).
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apply a pre-designed template to the product to offer your customers a pre-designed product with editable texts and images and complex customizable rules for each element (example: a T-shirt where customers can only edit a text).
How to create a Customizable Product
Video
The product used as an example in the video tutorial is t-shirt with two color variants and only one side.
Instructions
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In your Zakeke back-office, go to Customizable Products > Add a Customizable Product.
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Click on Your Store to see the list of products in your store.
If you see other options other than "Your Store", it's because Zakeke integrates third-party Print-on-Demand services to give you access to multiple catalogs of customizable products that are fulfilled and shipped to your customers automatically. Learn more here. -
Pick the product you want to make customizable and a step-by-step wizard to set the product up will open. You can move from one step to the other by clicking on the "next" and "back" buttons in the upper right corner of the window. Steps are:
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Variations (this step is not visible if you've no variations for your product): variations of your product are automatically imported from your store. Choose the variations that you wish to make customizable. If you are not able to see them, please read here.
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Sides: a customizable product can have multiple views such as front and back for a T-shirt. In Zakeke product views are called sides. You need to create/select at least one side.
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Printing method and settings: at this step you can assign a print method to your product and define the output print-file format and quality you need. In this section you can also:
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set customization rules for the product under the tab Settings by turning on/off standard customization tools (text, image upload, image galleries, ...). By default, most of the tools are enabled;
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define the set of Fonts that you wish to enable for the product.
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Product Image: at this step, you upload the image(s) of your product for each variation/side. This is the image of the product that your customers will see in the customizer.
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Print area: define the customizable area(s) on your product for each variation/side. When you define the print area on your product, first of all, you have to use the ruler to define a known measure between one point of the product to another. It can be any measure, Zakeke will use it to define the real size of the printing area. For example: if you sell cover cases, you can indicate the size of the cover width.
After doing this, you can use the rectangle tool to define the print area.
You can also use a PNG mask to create the print area. Read more here.
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Pricing: here you set the mark-up price that you want to charge for the customization on your product. You already have several options with the standard plans, but if you need more flexibility you may take a look at the advanced price feature.
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Save: you finally can save the product configuration and go live. You can also save and duplicate the same configuration on other products in your store.
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Your product is now a customizable product. A CUSTOMIZE button is added on the product page to allow customers to easily open the customizer and make their own personalization on your product!
What's next?
Once you've created a customizable product, you can activate tools and features or populate it with a pre-designed template: