Whew - it was a lot of work and a lot of fun. Got to talk to many long-time users and signed up lots of new users at SGIA Atlanta 2015. Thanks to all who helped make the show a great success for us! The booth: The team: Mark Sr.by Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
With the new year, both UPS and FEDEX have shaken up the world of Ecommerce. They have implemented something called dimensional weight. This means they are now charging more for light objects in big boxes. While I understand their need for this, short of artificial intelligence, there is no way of knowing the package size when customers are buying multiple products of varying size. We suggeby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
We've not added any templates to the base site in quite a while. We have created many new templates for clients which are not licensed for sharing. We've considered putting an artist on staff but considering all the clients we have over so such a wide spectrum of the personalization/printing industry, we haven't identified a segment who are willing to "buy" any templates. A lot of our cby Admin - General Discussion
take a look at magneticsigns.com - some of the things we've done using the API include: 1. Auto Import of RTD products in OpenCart 2. Removed BUY IT NOW type buttons and replaced with DESIGN IT NOW buttons 3. Integrated design templates into the opencart site through API links 4. Integrated user login to auto sync between the opencart and RTD 5. Pricing is calculated in RTD and passed to Oby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
This post is really old. We're currently finishing up on an entirely new version. You can see a similar version done in OpenCart at www.magneticsigns.com Here's what we do to integrate the various carts with RTD... 1) Add ability to create products in cart that are directly linked to RTD products - much easier than trying to match products bewteen cart and RTD. 2) Add "design onliby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
Print was ecosolvent on vinyl then applied to frisbee... At the last moment we were notified that Roland was running short on loaner flatbed UV printers. It would have been great to print right on the Frisbees. But as we saw it, any print method could be supported. The 6 RTD kiosks allowed several to be designing at once. Things we learned... 1) We had several types of plugs on a USB hubby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
Basically, you have 3 options: 1) Download Vector and re-create the effects 2) Turn off the drawing effects that aren't supported in Vector format 3) Download the files in bitmap where these effects are fully supported. Mark Sr.by Admin - General Discussion
Unfortunately this won't work as simple as described. Let me describe what RTD does and what we rely on UPS for.... When you enter your SHIP FROM zip code, we go to ups distance tables to determine how far away the SHIP TO address is. if its close it may be 2 zones; far away may be 6-7 zones. There are 999 of these tables so that every area (first 3 digits of zip code) has its own table. Eveby Admin - General Discussion
No - but the warning message can be very descriptive and tell them the artwork isn't usable or there will be extra charges, etc. Mark Sr.by Admin - General Discussion
The CSV files are something UPS created long ago so we didn't try to explain it too detailed. It sounds like you've got them figured out now... weight,rate for zone1,rate for zone2,.... weight+1, rate for zone1,rate for zone2,.... weight+2, rate for zone1,rate for zone2,.... Giving the customer the ability to select local pickup with zero shipping cost is done by uploading a csv file witby Admin - General Discussion
We teamed with Roland at ISA this year and were able to print nearly 500 frisbees on demand that were created by visitors. Unlike other vendors who bring highly tuned test files for demo, our printing was entirely customer driven, mostly by photos from cell phones uploaded by cutomers themselves. We felt we have proven our abilities in the web environment, but this was a first for us driving a fby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
since day one we knew good artwork was important to rtd users. its time to hear from our users about their needs and desires. our public domain clipart obviously doesn't cover every need. also good template creation can take considersble time. so here's what we want to hear from you... we have located some artists that will sell higher qualty illustration images for a few dollars for each iby Admin - General Discussion
There are a few steps involved. They are: 1) set up a payment gateway ADMIN PANEL > Online Payment Systems Setup > Payment option to use > ONLINE PAYMENTS ONLY, then enter data for your selected payment processor 2) Turn pricing on for that particular product ADMIN PANEL > CONFIGURE PRODUCTS > Configure Pricing Structure > ENABLE PRICING 3) Be sure that the pricing matby Admin - General Discussion
Try again importing the .ps file - we use corel x5 and x6 all the time and have no issues with the ps format. This is a known issue with Corel and PDF. Markby Admin - General Discussion
Here's one site.. http://designer.realtimedesigner.com/stickerz/stickerz/index.php&tng=Y3BpPTQ3NjE5 Click on the CLIPART button. Markby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
For those interested in premium clipart images, we've worked a deal with fotolia.com. Clients can add fotolia images to their design. your cost is $3 per image you can charge whatever you desire. this addon requires that we turn it on for you. please contact us if interested. mark sr.by Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
You can't disable cliparts individually but you can basically eliminate the bitmap images by going to configure products > configure cliparts > select SVG only and set max number of colors to 4 colors or similar. Mark Sr.by Admin - General Discussion
please give us a link to the problem orv ellbus the product we should look at and your site nameby Admin - General Discussion
you can use decimal numbers for sizes. there is no limitby Admin - General Discussion
For fixed size products, you could insert a forground image that is a white rectangle with a cutout in it that shows the background color everywhere else. Mark Sr.by Admin - General Discussion
Here's the newest link - we phased out the old server..... http://support.realtimedesigner.com/docs/auto_post_from_api.4.11.13.v1.zipby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
In the admin panel check out these links: Quick stats Access Trend Orders Trend There are multiple options for these reports - don't be afraid to click on the radio buttons to see what they do. Mark Sr.by Admin - General Discussion
We've added a new link in the Admin Panel - "Clipart Search Log". Guess what it shows? You can paste the table into excel and sort it to find most common search phrases on your site. This might help you target templates and clip art to your users. If it shows "File Not Found" it means there have been no clip art searches on your site since the feature went live.by Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
You can offer either or both payment and quote options by going to "ONLINE PAYMENT OPTIONS > Online Payment Systems Setup" and choosing the otpion you prefer. Regardless of whether it's a quote or paid job, you will have access to the users artwork once the order is submitted. Most RTD users have some other business management software to handle phone and walk-in orders and they iby Admin - General Discussion
That is the purpose of the Quote option on submittal. We can't enable a feature that is likely to cause us to lose revenues . Is there a reason the quote form won't work?by Admin - General Discussion
RTD is supported by charging per order fees. Why would you need the artwork if the customer doesn't order? Mark Sr.by Admin - General Discussion
Instead of product template you can use general templates. Heres a link to read more. http://support.realtimedesigner.com/wiki/doku.php/rtd_manual_ch_07_artwork_templates B y default general templates are available to All products you can disable categories bfor each product or filter them using keywords in the template names. mark sr.by Admin - General Discussion
You're adding it to cart with no image added so its a blank design. If you intend to sell blank designs you need to put your blank price into the CUSTOM BASEPRICE field. Please take a new look at my edits. Either way is fine since I don't think your users will be buying a blank canvas. Mark Sr.by Admin - General Discussion
I think its working now. I modified your pricing table by clicking the "ADD NEW 'COLORS' ROW" button and moving $15 to that row. Please take a look and let us know if it is doing what you intended. Mark Sr.by Admin - General Discussion
there really isn't a report export function. rtd has several on the fly reports displayed to screen. the api will allow you to do most any report you can imagine but requires a bit of programming. no promises, but if you give details on what reports you want, we might be able to provide some help. mark srby Admin - General Discussion