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Custom-printed fabric, wallpaper and home decor.

Spoonflower Site Updates

Check here for the most recent site updates to Spoonflower. For specific inquiries or questions, please email help@spoonflower.com

8/17/2020

  • Bulk/Wholesale Masks (set of 500) are now available
    • Users will find these here

7/29/2020

  • Collection Size Limit Raised to 10,000 Items
    • Users will find that they are no longer limited to 1,000 items in a collection, and the limit is now 10,000

7/16/2020

7/15/2020

  • Belgian Linen Fabric Release
    • Users will now find Belgian Linen fabric available for purchase on the site

7/1/2020

  • New mobile navigation
    • Mobile users will now see a newly laid out mobile navigation. They can now log in/out through this menu or via the menu under the user icon.

6/30/2020

  • Arrow up and down through search bar options
    • When users type in the search bar on a desktop computer or laptop, they can now arrow up and down through the dropdown options that are provided while typing the search

6/16/2020

  • Persistent search bar on mobile 
    • Mobile users will now see a persistent search bar on mobile, no longer having to open the mobile menu to search

6/12/2020

  • Two new fabric masks
    • Users will now find ready-made standard fabric masks and ready-made gaiter fabric masks available on the site.

5/26/2020

  • Adult content filter
    • Users can turn adult content on or off and this setting can be found in the dropdown under the search bar or at the bottom of the filters list when shopping

5/12/2020

  • Additional search features
    • Users can now search by design ID
    • Users can now search by screen name
    • Users can now search by designer name

5/5/2020

4/13/2020

3/4/2020

  • Fabric samples available from home decor product detail pages
    • Users will see “Buy a fabric sample” on any home decor product detail page. Clicking this will quickly and simply add a sample fabric for that product to a user’s cart.

3/3/2020

  • Additional product images
    • Users will see that new (additional) product images have been added for Cocktail Napkins, Dinner Napkins, Placemats, Duvet Covers and Wallpaper

2/4/2020

  • New search and shopping pages
    • Users will now receive a new search experience when searching or shopping the site. This includes a new algorithm that returns much stronger search results, as well as numerous filters that will help with narrowing results. Shopping and results pages for all home decor products are now on the site as well.

11/20/2019

  • More prominent access to shop designs on all products
    • When shopping fabric and wallpaper, users will now see a small “See on all products” button under each design. This button links to an All Products page where the products that the designer has made available for sell are displayed.

11/4/2019

  • Edit home decor items from the cart
    • Users can now modify aspects of their cart items without deleting and re-adding them. Previously this functionality only worked for fabric-by-the-yard items.

10/30/2019

  • New cart header
    • Users will now see a cleaner version of the header when visiting their cart. Clicking the logo in the cart header will now take a user to the home page.

9/17/2019

  • Throw pillows, throw blankets and  curtains now available
    • Users will now see these additional products under “Living & Decor” in the main navigation

9/11/2019

  • New wallpaper product detail page
    • Users will now see that wallpaper has a new product detail page which includes translated content for German, French and Spanish.

8/20/2019

  • Cocktail napkins, dinner napkins, placemats and tea towels now available
    • Users will now see these additional products under “Dining” in the main navigation

7/22/2019

  • Tablecloths, table runners, duvet covers, sheet sets and pillow shams now available
    • Users will now see “Bedding” and “Dining” in the main navigation
  • See any design on all products 
    • From any product detail page, users will now see a link to all products available for a certain design, which is accessed via the “Available in…” link in the grey designer bar.

7/18/2019

  • New home page
    • Users will now see a newly designed home page

6/12/2019

  • Clearer linking to a designer’s collection
    • Users will now see clearer linking to a designer’s collection within the grey designer bar on product detail pages

6/11/2019

  • Filter by Fresh Picks
    • Users will now see Fresh Picks in the filters options on shopping pages

5/16/2019

  • Design descriptions clean-up
    • Design descriptions have been reformatted to respect line breaks and to display URLs that were being made invisible by the removal of HTML in design descriptions.

5/14/2019

  • Fabric and Wallpaper now in main nav
    • Users will now find that the nav is surfacing products

5/13/2019

  • New Petal Signature Cotton™ in fabric selection
    • Users will now see the option to choose this fabric when selecting a fabric

4/23/2019 – All users now receive the new internationalized shopping pages

4/22/2019

  • Yards and meters for all users
    • All users may now view and order in both yards and meters

4/15/2019

  • Pagination
    • Users can now enter a specific page they want to jump to when browsing multiple pages of results
  • Fabric selection detection
    • Per session, the site remembers which fabric a user has selected from page to page

4/11/2019

  • Number of shopping items per page
    • The number of items per page has been increased to 80

4/4/2019

  • Cut lengths
    • For poly fabric order items of 8 yards/meters or more, users can now select cut lengths of 8, 4, 2 or 1.

3/28/2019

  • Zoom
    • Users can now zoom images on the product detail page

3/21/2019

  • Designer-submitted and customer-submitted photos
    • These now appear at the bottom right of the product detail page, open larger when clicked and include associated comments

3/6/2019

  • New fabric images on the product detail page
  • Removal of watermark images on the product detail page
  • Accurate rulers across all fabric sizes and widths
  • English site users may now choose meters as well as yards for their measurement system

2/13/2019

  • Viewing design detail before fabric selection
    • Users will now see the design detail before selecting a fabric

2/7/2019

  • Correction to ‘sort by new’ on shopping pages
    • This sort now correctly displays new designs

2/4/2019

  • Favoriting and collecting on shop/browse pages 
    • Users will now see favoriting and collecting under each thumbnail when shopping. These are represented by a heart icon and collection icon.

2/1/2019 – US, CA & AU Internationalized Shopping Pages Testing Launch

1/28/2019

  • Additions to product detail page
    • Users will now see a Product Details content block
    • Users will now see a Shipping Info content block

1/24/2019

  • Improved product detail page
    • Revision of overall layout
    • The cross-sell area beneath the designer bar now includes other designs in the designer’s collection
    • Correction to the link for designer name in the designer bar
    • Inclusion of a light blue display message in the add to cart area that alerts users to the designer’s recommended fabric (as long as the fabric is something other than Basic Cotton Ultra). Basic Cotton Ultra is the default fabric if a designer hasn’t recommended a fabric, so it doesn’t make sense in most cases to call it out as “recommended.”
    • Inclusion of design tags
    • Inclusion of a Happiness Guarantee block

1/23/2019

  • Improved international search
    • 120,000 additional tags have now been released in German, French and Spanish. This will allow these users to find more designs more easily when they search in those languages on-site.
    • This also creates international “friendly” URLs, meaning that German, French and Spanish searches from search engines will also see similar benefits.

1/3/2019

  • Fabric selection modal
    • An on-page modal now opens when a user clicks to “edit fabric” on a product detail page.
  • Small Business Grant page
    • A page explaining the new Small Business Grant is now live. This can be found under “For Your Business” in the navigation.

1/2/2019

  • Change of default currency from Euros to USD for 32 countries  
    • This was done for countries that have especially strong import/export ties with the US and have strong use of USD. Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Chad, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Gabon, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Korea (Republic of), Malaysia, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Singapore, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Vietnam.

12/20/2018

  • Collections
    • Users are now able to create collections and add to their collections on the international product detail pages. The icon can be seen next to the ‘favorite’ icon.

12/19/2018

  • Redirects for users without language preference set
    • Users without any language preferences set (or who aren’t logged in) will now be redirected to their browser settings’ preferred language, but only if they are supported (EN, ES, DE, FR).
  • Change to default fabric size on product detail pages
    • Users will now see fat quarter as the default size. It was previously swatch.

12/18/2018

  • Reorganized filters and improved design for fabric selection page
    • Users will now see reorganized filters to help with choosing fabric type and the ability to sort fabrics by name (A-Z) and price ($-$$).
  • Translation update
    • The German order receipt email confirmation has been updated for improved grammar.
  • Cart update
    • The cart is now available in four languages (English, German, French, Spanish).

12/7/2018

  • Fix for display of image carousel and thumbnail images when changing fabric selection on international product detail page
    • Users will no longer experience a problem viewing images when switching their fabric type and returning to the product detail page.

12/6/2018

  • Redirect in place when users change their language preferences
    • If a user starts on an /en page and changes the language preference to Spanish, they correctly get redirected to the corresponding /es page.
  • New thumbnail images for the image carousel on the international product detail page on wider screens
    • This allows users to  navigate through the carousel more easily with the aid of thumbnail images on wider screens.
  • Paypal popup available more broadly
    • This is now available in German, Spanish and French for users with those language preferences.
  • Override of manual entry of measurement to the URL (international feature)
    • Example: When a new guest user, located in Germany and paying with €, attempts to adjust the measurement system by manually adding it to the url, the measurement system remains metric to avoid unwanted errors.
  • Improvement to the scaling of images
    • The rulers and the images match more accurately to give the users a better understanding of the actual size.

12/4/2018

      • Pricing for ‘Payment’ and ‘Review Order’ pages now more readable to US users
        • On these pages, users will now see Subtotal, Tax, Spoondollars, and Total on different lines.
  • Re-addition of long design description on product detail page
    • Users will now see a designer’s longer, more detailed description of their design.

11/29/2018

  • Tax no longer displaying at an individual item level for US
    • Tax will no longer show to users at an item level on the international product detail page, the checkout funnel (both cart and review order page) or on their email receipt. Their total will remain the same and they will see the price with and without tax.
  • Wallpaper/gift wrap links
    • Users can switch from the international fabric product detail page to the corresponding non-internationalized wallpaper or gift wrap product detail pages, if those are available for the design.

11/28/2018

  • Zip code fix
    • In checkout, if the user enters an invalid zip code, e.g. ‘00000’, when they attempt to submit the page, it will notify them that the zip code is invalid and ask them to enter it in again.

11/26/2018

  • Displaying internationalized country name on order review 
    • Example: If a user wants their order to be shipped to Germany but they have Spanish language settings, they will see ‘Alemania’ (the Spanish translation for Germany).
  • Language selection fix
    • When guest users change their language preferences, they get redirected to the same page but with updated language settings.
  • Meta tags
    • Meta tags are now in the language chosen by the user.

11/23/2018

  • Reviews French translation fix
    • French language users will see added one ’s’ missing in one French translation inside of the French review form. So instead of asking them: “Quel matériau avez-vou reçu ? (champ requis):” we will ask them “Quel matériau avez-vous reçu ? (champ requis):”
  • Reviews translations fix
    • Added some translations that were missing in the review form. Users will see all the materials available now instead of weird locales.

11/22/2018

  • Search autocomplete translations
    • New localized prepositions in every language in the search (autocomplete when performing a search query in the shop).
  • Reviews photo upload
    • A photo upload for the design reviews done by users. Now users can upload pictures of the projects that use the designs they purchased (including captions).
  • Language selection redirect 
    • When users change their language preferences, they will be redirected to the correct page.
  • French nav typo
    • Correction in the navbar dropdown menu for French.

11/21/2018

  • Hypothetical/discount pricing
    • When looking to add an item to your cart, it will take current discounts already applied to your account (or discounts that would apply, if you added this item into your cart) into effect and show you that price instead. This may help relieve the confusion with customers seeing price A but getting shown price B in the cart.
  • Edit design link
    • Added a link to the international product detail page which redirects designers to the edit page of their design.

11/19/2018

  • Receipt of order email translation
    • Translation of the Receipt of Order Email sent to the users after they place an order. If they buy something in the Spanish/German/French version of the site, they will receive this email confirming their order in the chosen language.

11/16/2018

  • US tax implementation
    • US customers are now being charged tax for approximately half of the states. The level of tax you pay is based on what items you have in your cart. For instance, fabric items may get charged a different level of tax than paper items, depending on the state.
  • Sprout Patterns removal
    • Users will no longer see Sprout links on the homepage and in the top navigation bar.

11/15/2018

  • Review guidelines
    • Users will now see a link to review guidelines when posting a review.
  • Text areas
    • Users will now see text areas more consistently in different browsers.
  • Wider international site rollout
    • All users will now be redirected to the international site except for those located in the US, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand with English as their language preference and imperial as their measurement system preference.

11/14/2018

  • Reviews voting
    • Users can now vote if the reviews from other users were useful or not.
  • Watermarked images
    • Users can now see watermarked images in the second spot within the product image carousel.
  • Currency based on country
    • Currency now changes in the cart based on the user’s chosen country.
  • Meters vs yards fix
    • Certain users were getting meters when they should have gotten yards. New guest users will get yards for countries that pay in US based currencies (USD, CAD and AUD).

11/13/2018

  • Shop gift wrap link/layout
    • The link/layout has been corrected for English users going to Shop > Gift Wrap in the main navigation.

11/7/2018

      • Review form presentation
        • Users will now see the form to write a review in a slide-in modal on the right of the page.
      • Add to cart button
        • Upon adding an item to the cart, users will see the button confirm the addition with a check animation. The add to cart confirmation modal no longer appears.
  • Review form languages
    • User preferences available in the form are now linked to the user’s selected country to prevent unavailable combinations.

11/1/2018

  • User preferences translations update
    • Users can now see the countries list in multiple languages (English, German, Spanish, and French). Example: When a user changes their language to German (Deutsch), they will see the countries list translated in German.

10/30/2018

  • Flag icon for user preferences
    • International users will now see a flag icon for their shipping country in the header. Clicking on this opens the user preferences modal where the users can change their country, currency, and language.