Who is the genius behind all the great designs on the Spreadshirt Marketplace? Right! The Spreadshirt community. And who makes up the Spreadshirt community, exactly? It’s you! The Marketplace Designer! It’s long past due that we give each of our designers a face – a clear profile that presents the entire range of your work to customers in a personalized Showroom that you can proudly show and share. All of that said, we present to you today: the Designer Showroom. Read more
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Watermarks for Marketplace Designs
Many Marketplace Designers have been asking us to protect their designs with watermarks, and that’s why we’re now introducing watermarks to level up the protection. We’re aware of the fact that it’s a tough call to prevent skillful thieves from stealing, but the introduction of watermarks is bound to make your designs safer. In this article, you’ll find out how this is going to be facilitated.
Exciting News for your Shop
We’ve got as many as three pieces of exciting news for you and your Shop! Customers can now freely choose languages and currencies. It won’t stop there: you can also link up your social media channels and improve your marketing measures with extended tracking options in just a few clicks. Check it out now!
Partners Needed! Shape Your Future.
Interested in contributing to the development of new features and helping shape the future of Spreadshirt features? Then this one’s for you! We’re looking for partners to put our new ideas through the paces, and tell us what they think in an open and honest way as a test user.
Migration of all Designer Shops to SpreadShop
We’ve spent a lot of time and effort over the past few years developing a modern shop system and layout that meets your customers’ needs and expectations. We’ve made the SpreadShop faster, better-looking and mobile-friendly with helpful built-in features like the mini basket. And now that the SpreadShop T-Shirt Designer works as a stand-alone Designer Shop, it’s time to switch everyone to the new technology!
Changes: Displaying your Designs in Spreadshirt’s Create Tool
Until now, all designs in the ‘Marketplace‘ and the ‘Create Tool‘ have been treated the same. Both areas of the website will now be streamlined to target different groups of customers. This will impact the search algorithm of the Create Tool. In future, only designs priced below a certain limit will be shown in the Create Tool. The design price you set will also affect the ranking.
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Icons, Politics and Gangstas: 15 years of T-Shirt Designs
Spreadshirt 15th anniversary is a very big reason to celebrate. As we approach the cusp of our business-youthfulness, we’d like to honor all those who have raised attention with t-shirt designs during the last 15 years. Walk with us down Memory Lane as we review design trends from the last 15 years that reflect not only a growing company, but a changing world. Three cheers for your ideas as we celebrate the t-shirt as a medium for expressing them!
Volume Commission for Shop Owner is Adjusted
A year ago, we introduced a Volume Commission for Shop Owners. We are now increasing the length of the campaign periods and adding more intervals to the volume structure to help your commission grow at a faster rate. The partner terms and conditions are adjusted accordingly.
Goodbye Collections, Hello Freedom of Choice
You spoke, we listened. Spreadshirt developers are in the process of removing collections from the product creation process, replacing them with a tool that will allow you to pick and choose which products you offer.
Technical Information: API Changes on the Horizon
For all of you techies out there: a change is on the horizon for the Spreadshirt API. If you’re not a techie, you probably don’t know what an API is. Well, API stands for “Application Programming Interface” and it’s basically a way that one software communicates with another software. Spreadshirt’s API is chockful of information that allows other systems to “talk” to our systems and access the information they need. If you’re interested in that kind of stuff, the information below is for you. If not… we wish you a very nice day.
What are we changing?
- Right now, if you access a shop article or a list of shop articles via the API (e.g. https://api.spreadshirt.com/api/v1/shops/337269/articles/107196141 or https://api.spreadshirt.com/api/v1/shops/337269/articles), you will find the element “price”
- This element will be GONE by end of February
- The price can now be accessed by at: https://api.spreadshirt.com/api/v1/shops/337269/articles/107196141/price
- Using the /price resource will calculate the price dynamically instead of having a static and cached price
Why are we doing this?
- Whenever we change product type prices, print prices, etc. we need to update all articles in our system. This usually takes days and lowers the performance of the API.
Are we sure we want to do this?
- We have used this resource for our marketplace for quite some time and have experienced no problems with the change
- It means more calls to the API, but the resource is very fast and should not affect the user experience
When will it happen?
- We expect to have this resource active by February 28th, 2017
We are continually updating and improving our services to make Spreadshirt bigger, better and faster for both customers and business partners alike. This change in our API is another step in a positive direction for more efficient system-to-system communication.
If you have any questions regarding technical details of the API change, please comment them below and we will answer them for you.