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Overview of ShopBase personalization

Overview of ShopBase personalization

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Personalizing your product allows buyers to customize their purchases according to their preferences, which helps you increase customer satisfaction and conversion rate. In this section, we will give you an introduction to ShopBase personalization and all custom options you can create for ShopBase products in your ShopBase admin site.

In this section

A. What is ShopBase personalization?

B. How to create custom options for ShopBase products?

A. What is ShopBase personalization?

You can easily create more personalized products by adding custom options to new or existing products in your store, increasing customer satisfaction and generating more sales. Before placing an order, customers can personalize the product according to their preferences, such as adding their names, photos, and so on.

With ShopBase personalization feature, you can:

Show custom options for your products. These are the custom fields for customers to personalize their products before making a purchase.
Show a preview image of the personalized product so that customers can visualize how their product looks like with the custom options.
Generate a print file for the personalized product, which is convenient for you to fulfill your POD orders.

Each personalized item with successfully generated print file in an order will be charged a $0.3 print file fee. Please refer to this article for more information on print files.

B. How to create custom options with ShopBase?

With ShopBase personalization, customers can personalize their products with custom options you set up when creating or editing the products. You can create custom options that allow your customers to write their own texts, upload images, and/or choose from a list of suggested texts and images. Please see this article for instructions on how to create custom options for your ShopBase products.
For your customers to easily visualize products with personalized elements, you should create preview image for your personalized products. Please see this article for instructions on how to set up preview for your ShopBase products.
To quickly fulfill orders with personalized products, you should create a print file containing the artwork of personalized products and custom option values. Please see this article for instructions on how to create print file for your ShopBase products.

You can create custom options in Create preview and Create print file page without having to create Custom options beforehand.

Create print file for your ShopBase products
Set up preview for ShopBase products
Set up Personalization Preview mode
Create a custom option for a product