Received the following comment from reviewer:
 
"We advise artists to have fill in text ........................ or ____________________ instead of (name), (date), etc because some card customers purchase the cards as-is and fill them in by hand at home. Please make this adjustment to all approved cards. Thank you!"
 
Please advise.... is this the general format you want on all invitations?  If so, please put it in the wiki and let all artist know.
 
Thank you.
Kati

I don't know why leaving fill in area blank is much different than the lines_________________.
 
Customers know that they will be filling in the information, whether they do so at home on the line, as they would a store bought card, or by having the blank to add their own handwritten information instead.
 
However, GCU is in touch with people with their comments, etc, so I assume they have more information than we do.  I would think that the _________________ process encourages the customer to think they need to fill it in at home rather than take out the line and add the text in before purchasing.
 
My 2 cents!

Thanks for sharing this with us Kathleen.  I think it makes perfect sense considering unlike Zazzle, GCU cards do not have templates to be filled in by customers, so creating them like those in a department store where you buy a pack of invitations and fill in the blanks at home seems best to me.  I think that is how I've made mine, but now I will go take a look and make corrections if needed.
 
Thanks for passing the info on  

Hi all... thanks for responding.
 
Yes, it does make sense to make invitations so customer can write in info if they would like.  I guess I have always assumed they would fill out their own invitation on line.  We do need some specific guidelines, as I have done them many different ways and the guidelines would help us be more consistent and save much editing time.  I'm assuming the reason the reviewer brought it up is that they have had some invitations ordered without on line personalization and they had to be returned.
 
Sometimes I have it like this
 
(name) is turning (age)
Let's celebrate
 
or
 
Please join us in celebrating
(name)'s (age) birthday
 
and when I do it that way I put the other information in parentheses to be consistent:
(date)
(time)
(place)
Hosted by (name)
RSVP to (name)
at (phone or email)
by (date)
 
 
Kati

I see your point....
I wish someone from GCU would jump in here and tell us what we should be doing.  I feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants!

Thanks Mindy.
It's going to take me a while to get all of mine edited as I have quite a few that were approved earlier with parentheses. But will keep working on it.
Kati