GCU Forum - Custom Cards Categories

Judy_139270

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Custom Cards Categories
Nov 15^th, 2011, 1:38pm

Please, please could we have a rethink on the categories for custom front cards that are not photo cards?

I've just made a birthday card which could be for any adult at any age, but because we are not allowed to put 'your text here', I had to make it for a specific person and age-specific.

This means that a search will only bring it up for someone looking for that particular person and age - so I might as well not have gone to the trouble of making it customisable! Angry

For the sake of consistency, wouldn't it make much more sense to have a 'custom front' sub-category for all the major card categories, in the same way as we have 'photo card' categories? They're really both the same thing except one includes photo uploads and the other one doesn't.

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SunAtNight_145914

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Re: Custom Cards Categories
Reply #1 - Nov 15^th, 2011, 2:15pm

You got my vote. There is a category (but it is for all custom text front cards) is Collections » Custom Personalized Cards.

My birthday monogram custom card was placed in Birthday » Name Specific » A because I just happened to use the letter A as a placeholder text. The second category that it was placed in was Collections » Custom Personalized Cards » Other Personalization.

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Ramelle_149580 Gold Member artist Posts: 634	Re: Custom Cards Categories Reply #2 - Nov 15^th, 2011, 4:17pm Judy, that's a great idea! How about this idea too: Create all age-specific birthday cards as custom cards. That way the customer can fill in the age and GCU won't have 100 cards of the same design to deal with. We're glutted as it is. Ramelle
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Doreen_137017

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Re: Custom Cards Categories
Reply #3 - Nov 15^th, 2011, 4:21pm

Quote from Ramelle_149580 on Nov 15^th, 2011, 4:17pm:

Judy, that's a great idea!
How about this idea too: Create all age-specific birthday cards as custom cards. That way the customer can fill in the age and GCU won't have 100 cards of the same design to deal with. We're glutted as it is.
Ramelle

YES, YES, YES!!! I'm with you on that one Ramelle!!

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Penny_134243

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Re: Custom Cards Categories
Reply #4 - Nov 15^th, 2011, 5:42pm

Quote from Ramelle_149580 on Nov 15^th, 2011, 4:17pm:

Judy, that's a great idea!
How about this idea too: Create all age-specific birthday cards as custom cards. That way the customer can fill in the age and GCU won't have 100 cards of the same design to deal with. We're glutted as it is.
Ramelle

This is a grand idea, and the perfect way to use the new custom text tool for our greeting cards!

Penny

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Sheryl_133470 Gold Member artist Posts: 705	Re: Custom Cards Categories Reply #5 - Nov 15^th, 2011, 8:34pm I agree. "Custom" categories are definitely needed in each section to alleviate these problems. I hope this can be done.
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Monica_138175 Full Member artist Posts: 118	Re: Custom Cards Categories Reply #6 - Nov 15^th, 2011, 11:02pm Oh yes, please!!! I keep waiting for GCU to finally make that wise decision!
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Judy_139270

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Re: Custom Cards Categories
Reply #7 - Nov 16^th, 2011, 1:55am

If we follow the guideline that tells us to categorise and describe a card 'as it is' and not 'as it could be', we need to be able to categorise it as 'customizable', because that is 'what it is'.

To describe and categorise it as a 'birthday card for a 74 year old grandfather', is describing it 'as it could be', along with other things it could be if the customer so decided - which we are not supposed to do.

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