Publish internationally: Q&As

In October we announced a new account view and changes with regard to international publishing of designs and products. Thank you for your feedback!

The devil’s in the detail, so we’ve brought our ducks in order and scheduled our next steps. Translations of already existing designs as well as a new page for publishing designs will most likely go online this month. Should anything change, we will inform you on the blog this week. And we are going to implement all other changes early in 2014.

Why that, you may ask? We always carry out big platform changes by mid November so the Christmas shopping season can run as smooth as a hot knife through butter afterwards.

We’ve been collecting your input over the past weeks, and we’ve put together the answers to the most frequently asked questions here:

Do the changes have an effect on my shop?

No. All changes only affect how your account can be viewed and how you can publish designs internationally.

Will all products uploaded to my user area be published automatically?

No. Products that you haven’t published on the Marketplace will not be added automatically.

Will designs from the North-American platform (.com) be automatically offered on European platforms and vice versa?

No. International publishing is limited to either region. ’International’ here means that designs published on the .net platform are on offer on all European Marketplaces, and designs on the .com platform are on offer in the United States and Canada.
Transferring designs and products between .com and .net is currently not possible due to technical reasons, and there are also fundamental legal issues making this impossible. Of course you can still offer your designs in both regions if you set up a partner account on both platforms.

Design names and description can be translated automatically. What about the tags?

Right, design names and description can be automatically translated and (if necessary) edited.
You can ascribe up to ten tags from our data bank. These are available in all languages as the translation will automatically choose the correct language. Our data base currently has a total number of 23,000 labels. And you can add 3 tags of your own, these will not be automatically translated though.

The new detail page for designs gives you the chance to choose whether you want to offer your designs on all Marketplaces of your region or just on one alone. What do I need to do if I want to offer my designs in only a few selected countries?

It still works the way it used to: You can start by adding your design to your local region, and then select another country by adding it through the language menu.

What happens to designs for which I have already created translations myself? Will these be translated again?

No. Our system will not translate already existing text We will not overwrite data already provided by the user.

Does translating design names and tags not lead to an overflow of foreign designs in countries that have no real need for these?

The community of bigger countries is very active, and many designs are suitable for the international market. Publishing existing designs for all available languages will bring about a positive effect by increasing available content, particularly for smaller markets (E.g Poland, Italy, Finnland).
Of course this also implies that e.g. designs containing German slogans will be available on the Swedish Marketplace. But it is the customer who decides what designs are interesting, and this has a direct influence on the ranking.

Will all currently available products be published internationally?

No, only products that have proved to be popular will be added to further Marketplaces. This selection comprises about 18,000 designs and related articles.

I want to make suggestions for improving the account view!

Great! Our Partner Team looks forward to receiving suggestions, updates will not be made until 2014 though.

In case you have any further questions, please leave your feedback here on the blog!