What Does Brexit Mean For You?

What Does Brexit Mean For You?

If you’re wondering if Brexit will impact your Spreadshop, you’ve come to the right place.

Is my Shop ready for Brexit?

Brexit has no impact on your Spreadshop and the way you sell your products. Even if you live in and are registered in the UK, only one detail will change, and we’ve already taken care of that. Your tax domicile is now no longer within, but outside of the EU. With this change, your Spreadshop is Brexit compatible and you don’t have to do anything else. You can view the details of your tax assessment at any time in your account under “Tax Status”.

Does Brexit change anything for the customers of my Spreadshop?

Regardless if you’re from the UK or anywhere else in the world, it doesn’t impact where the customers of your Shop place an order from – Brexit or not. We’ve taken all possible precautions to ensure that British private customers of your Shop don’t notice any difference. This means that we will continue to show the British VAT on invoices and that everything stays the same in terms of customs duties until further notice. Currently, you don’t have to do anything. We’re well prepared for Brexit and there are currently no restrictions. To ensure that this remains the case, we are monitoring the situation very closely so that we can make any necessary adjustments in due time.

Do you have further questions about Brexit or about selling and shipping your Spreadshop items to the UK? Leave us a comment below!

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Shop of the Moment: Black Royal Wear

How did Black Royal Wear, a 30-year family business evolve into a line of streetwear that helps to inspire a whole new generation of Kings & Queens? Watch the full interview with Martello, Marty & King Carlin right here to find out in our first “Shop of the Moment”:
 

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Are you ready for your moment?

From the interview: Co-Founder Martello Pollock describes his moment of inspriation that became a family business.
Co-Founder of Black Royal Wear
“It all started with an idea. My friends and I were playing cards, and suddenly something came to me and said “What if these kings and queens were black?” I couldn’t concentrate on cards anymore that night. I came home, put together a goal sheet, and then I actually went out and did it.”
“I didn’t know how to find someone to make black playing cards. I was just going to different art stores and asking around. I finally found someone that could do it. He didn’t know much about cards, but I gave him a deck and told him what I wanted to do.”
“I commissioned the artist to do the artwork. I got the copyright and the rights signed over to me so that I could do what I wanted with the images. “When I would start playing with these cards, you know, people would be like jaw-dropping when they saw them. We couldn’t even play the first hand of cards. I’d deal the cards out, and people just couldn’t stop looking at them. They’re so different. They’d say “WHAT? What is this? That’s what I knew we had something pretty good. We actually developed a whole series of different playing cards…”

Ready to launch your own clothing line?

Spreadshop is always free to use. Like King Carlin said in the full interview, we make it super easy for you to scale your business really fast. Just upload your designs, layout your products and we’ll handle the rest. Your moment begins here.

 

Take this week’s challenge for a chance to win an iPad Pro

How do you enter for a chance to win the iPad Pro?

  1. Record a video testimonial about your journey so far with Spreadshop or the Shop Launch Challenge. Tell YOUR story and why you’re selling merch with Spreadshop. keep it under 5 minutes
  2. Publish your video on at least one of these channels: YouTube, Instagram IGTV or Facebook. Use the tags #shoplaunchchallenge #spreadshop #merchgame in your post.
  3. Post a link to your video in our Shop Launch Community HERE.

Entries are due by March 16th! Good luck!

Contest Period from February 12, 2021 to March 16, 2021. Winner announced March 25 2021. Must be 18 to enter and resident of an eligible country. See Official Rules for details. Void where prohibited. No cost to enter and no purchase necessary. See complete terms and country eligibility at the link above.

Spreadshop COVID-19 Shipping Availability: Updated

Spreadshop COVID-19 Shipping Availability: Updated

As a result of the pandemic, shipping carriers are still unable to ship orders to specific countries for both the North America and European platforms. If your customers live in a country where shipping services are temporarily suspended, they will be unable to place orders for the time being.

North American platform

Shipping remains temporarily unavailable for the countries included  in the table below. This affects all Shops running on top-level domains od the United States (.com), Canada (.ca) and Australia (.co.au).

Country Country Code
Afghanistan AF
Bhutan BT
Brunei Darussalam BN
China CN
Eritrea ER
French Guiana GF
Guadalupe GP
Kiribati KI
Laos LA
Lesotho LS
Martinique MQ
Mongolia MN
Saint Pierre & Miquelon PM
Samoa WS
Suriname SR
Tajikistan TJ
Timor-Leste TL
Turkmenistan TM
Tuvalu TV
Vietnam VN

European platform

Shipping remains temporarily unavailable for the countries included in the table below. This affects all Shops running on the top-level domains of Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Italy, Denmark, United Kingdom, France and Ireland.

Country Country Code
Afghanistan AF
Australia AU
Brasilia BR
Chile CL
China CN
French Polynesia PF
French Guiana GF
Guadeloupe GP
Japan JP
Yemen YE
Canada CA
Libya LY
Lord Howe Island AU
Martinique MQ
New Caledonia NC
New Zealand NZ
New Zealand Outer Territories NZ
Puerto Rico PR
Réunion RE
Singapore SG
South Africa ZA
Syria SY
Taiwan TW
Tasmania AU

Countries affected by shipping restrictions can change quickly. We’ll be sure to update these lists when we receive more information. Until then, stay healthy!

If you have any questions about COVID-19 shipping conditions, let us know in the forum or comments below.

 

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Improved Statistics and Product Magic

Improved Statistics and Product Magic

Are you looking forward to more detailed statistics and automation when creating products? Check out the latest updates, now available via the desktop application and the SpreadApp is coming soon!

Use stats and take advantage of the Performance Bonus

The new statistic labels help you get the best out of the Performance Bonus so you can increase your revenue. From now on, all sales for which the Performance Bonus was applied will be marked with a corresponding Performance Bonus label in your statistics. This helps you organize your future marketing campaigns. By promoting the Performance Bonus products that sell well, it will be easier for you to reach the next success tier. In doing so, the reduced base price will increase your revenue even more.

Statistics: Customized products and multiple print areas

In your statistics, the new “Customized” label and an extended product preview shows how your products have been customized at a glance. For example, see whether text or additional designs have been added with the Customize Tool.

This also applies to products with multiple print areas. You can now see print areas in your statistics too. This hasn’t been possible before as there was only a preview of the standard view. Now you can check quickly and easily, for example, if the print area on the back of a product was used for another design or text.

 Product Wizard works like magic for multiple products

You probably know that you can use the Product Wizard to quickly and easily add a new product to all of your designs. A recent update has equipped the Product Wizard with even more power. Use it to add up to 5 product types at the same time to your designs and save time when keeping your product portfolio up to date. Find out how it works here.

Automatic optimization of pixel graphics when uploading

For optimized printing, your designs should meet certain requirements. A sufficient resolution or transparent backgrounds are necessary. And if transparent backgrounds are too large, the design itself cannot be enlarged when customizing the print area of a product. In this case, you will be notified when uploading the design so you can adjust the file. We’ll crop the image to the visible area of the design, so you’ll lose all unnecessary background. But, of course, you can keep your original file as is– a preview image gives you an option to take it or leave it.

No more non-active members

A non-active member of a team is of use to no one. The same applies to your designs after a product has been deactivated – they become inactive as well. Our newsletter subscription keeps you up to date whenever we deactivate products. Let’s say you’ve placed some of your designs on a few seasonal products and we deactivate these, your designs won’t be for sale anymore. You’ll be alerted about these “designs without products” in the message center of your partner area, so you’ll know which designs are affected. Just click on the message to get directed to the designs and place them on other products.

Which of our partner updates do you find most exciting? Let us know in the comments.

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