Okay, finally got time to read the writeup. Thanks for the patience everyone, been frantic at work lately. Unfortunately, I didn't find any solutions to the biggest problem: Spreadshirt automatically makes way too many variations on just a single product.
The only real solution is to come up with one design, which works on all colours, and seek other platforms for selling a variety of designs.
As you can see, just one design on 5 products is made into 25 products, about 20 of which no one with any sense would buy. :)
So I'll work up a black logo with white rim design, load it up, and I'll keep looking for a more sane platform for handling multiple designs.
Can I clear out what's in the shop?
Thanks for the help everyone.
-C
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, 19:05 Bryce Harrington, <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 03:12:17AM -0600, brynn wrote:
Will there be a way, with Spreadshirt, to upload our own unique items,
such
as art work prints, jewelry made using Inkscape, calendars with Inkscape-made images, things like paperweights made via Inkscape and CNC, etc, etc?
I think being limited only to the products which Spreadshirt (or any
similar
kind of shop) offers, no matter how we can hack out a unique display, is
not
doing Inkscape justice (from a shop persepective). I think we should
look
towards selling products what are actually made with Inkscape (and not
just
the logo added to the shop's default products).
It's a good point. Certainly spreadshirt doesn't have to be our only merchandise site. It's main advantages are that we don't need to maintain inventory or or large print runs, and that the money plumbing with SFC is already in place. So, it's worth pressing ahead even if we use it only in a limited capacity; it's a good learning experience for our project if nothing else.
I think we should look toward running our own shop -- at least someday. Yes, I realize it would take a lot of work. But couldn't we look towards doing that someday?? (especially since we have our own webspace now)
Etsy or even ebay might be worth looking at for more DIY products, although I'd guess that running a store would be a project in itself.
Bryce