Branding setup

Every supplier names its print methods differently, with its own codes. This setup turns all of them into one consistent set of choices for customers. It all applies to the whole catalog, on every site. For the options on one product, see branding on a product.

Screen	Menu	What it is for
Decoration methods	Configuration > Decoration	Your own method names, and house setup prices
Supplier methods	Suppliers > Feeds > a feed > Methods	Each supplier’s codes, mapped to your methods
Supplier positions	Suppliers > Feeds > a feed > Positions	Each supplier’s print positions, named your way
Branding rules	Configuration > Decoration	Hide, rename or limit methods where conditions hold
Decoration sheets	Suppliers > Decoration sheets	Price lists kept here, not read from a feed

Decoration methods

These are your own methods (screen print, embroidery and so on), and their names are what customers see.

Field	What it does
Name	What customers see for every supplier method mapped to it
Prints full colour	Supplier products offering a method mapped to it show under the Full Colour Print filter
Setup price, Setup minimum	Used by feeds whose Setup pricing is Our house setup price per method or at least our house minimum. Empty means none
Charged	Once per position or Per colour

Drag rows to set their order. Deleting a method leaves the supplier methods mapped to it unmapped, so they are hidden until mapped again.

Supplier methods

Open a feed under Suppliers > Feeds and choose Methods. Codes are recorded when products are added or synced, so you can’t add or delete them. Each row has the Code and Supplier’s name, and two things you can edit right in the list:

Column	What it does
Our method	The decoration method it maps to. Not mapped: hidden means it isn’t offered on the website
Shown as (optional)	A different name for customers. Blank uses your method’s name

Methods at the same print position mapped to the same method and name are offered as one option, priced from whichever is cheaper.

Tip

After a new feed’s first products go in, filter Mapped to Not mapped. On the product list, the Branding to be confirmed filter finds products that can be branded but offer nothing yet, usually for this reason.

Supplier positions

Open a feed and choose Positions. These are the places a supplier’s products can be branded, recorded the same way. Type in Shown as (optional) to use your own name on every product, or leave it blank to show the supplier’s. The Our name filter finds what is left.

How many positions a customer can brand on one order is set on the feed, the supplier category or the product.

Branding rules

Configuration > Decoration > Branding rules handles what mapping can’t, such as “no sublimation on umbrellas”. Rules are applied when a product page is built, so a change reaches every product at once.

If is All of these are true or Any of these is true, over these conditions:

Condition	Matches
Method	Your decoration methods
Supplier code	A method’s code, as on a feed’s Methods page, ignoring case
Feed	A feed
Category	Your categories, with their subcategories
Supplier category	The feed’s own categories, with those below them (Bags covers Bags > Cotton Bags)
Position	The supplier’s name for it, ignoring case. contains matches part of a name (Strap)
Product code	The supplier’s product code: for a rule’s exceptions, or one product’s choice before it is in the catalog
Other methods offered	Your methods that the product’s other codes are mapped to at the same position, such as hiding Transfer where Screen print is offered. Tick Anywhere on the product, not only at the same position to widen it. This looks at codes before any rule or product choice

Then is one of:

Action	Effect
Hide	The method isn’t offered
Show as	The method shows under the name you give
Limit logo sizes	Only sizes between From (cm²) and To (cm²) are offered. Nothing larger is offered, not even on request

When several rules apply, any rule that hides a method hides it, the last rule that renames it names it, and every size limit that applies narrows its sizes. Drag to set the order. On switches a rule off. A product’s own branding choices beat every rule except the size limits.

Decoration sheets

Suppliers > Decoration sheets holds branding price lists kept here rather than read from a feed: a decorator’s, for clothing sold blank, or the business’s own. A sheet has:

Section	What it holds
Decorator	A name, and the supplier you pay for the printing: who its purchase orders go to. Also its currency and notes
Places	Where on a product the branding can go
Methods	Each way of decorating, with its Setup. Priced per colour charges its price and setup once for each colour, up to Most colours. Prices per place gives each place’s size and its Price each from each quantity
Product types	What is offered on each type of product, ticked under Offers

Saving a sheet updates the branding prices of the products it prices, in the background.

Which products use a sheet

A product’s branding prices come from the first of these it has:

1. The garment type chosen on the product itself, under Decorated as, priced from that sheet.
2. Its supplier’s print data, from the feed.
3. The type its supplier category is Decorated as, priced from that sheet.

Setting a category’s Decorated as is the usual way. The product’s own choice is for exceptions.