{"id":207,"title":"Why Teemill has flagged your store for quality","description":"On rare occasions, your store, content or product might not be published as it may not meet our quality standard or our terms of use.  It's no biggy, this blog explains the reasons why our system may have taken this action and how to resolve it.","content":"<p>Your store, content or product could not be published as it may not meet our quality standard or our terms of use. It's no biggy, this blog explains the reasons why our system may have taken this action, answers some questions you may have and provides help on how you can resolve the issue, before launching and making a success of your online store.<\/p><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/5cc03e734caff1.50816381.jpg.jpg?w=1140&amp;h=auto\" alt=\"central-2.jpg\" title=\"30342871\"><\/p><p>So why do we do this? First it's worth explaining why our systems are set up to flag stores - it's for your benefit. Teemill is a free product and that's good for you, but what's even more precious is your time. We put in place a check at launch so that we can help customers, and improve their chances of success.<\/p><blockquote><p>We want to make a product that leaves our users better off. So our systems detect stores that are less likely to succeed and flag up the issues before launch so that the user can learn, fix and get off to a great start.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>It's also important for the standards on the internet, and the high quality platform that Teemill is regarded as, to ensure that we are supporting and enabling great stores to be made available online. Publishing test pages or very low quality stores will not meet our quality standard. Equally, if a store owner has done their best but we know it's just not quite good enough to realistically make the user any profit in it's current state, we can offer some support on this page to help the store owner learn a bit and make a win from their Teemill project.<\/p><p>So below, here's some of the most common reasons, and solutions for solving the flagged for quality issue. Your store may require action on more than one, or even all, of these points before re-submission for launch.<\/p><h3>Is it finished or just a test?<br><\/h3><p>Launching a tester store with one product and random bits to see what happens, is not a store ready to be published. Keep building it until you\u2019ve got something that\u2019s worth publishing.<\/p><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/5dae17dfad9768.09853005.png.jpg?w=1140&amp;h=auto\" alt=\"\" title=\"39511580\"><\/p><h3>Review your t-shirt designs<br><\/h3><p>Make sure you take the time to produce high quality designs. If you just cannot wait to buy them all, you've done it right. If you wouldn't buy it, it's probably not good enough. Random pictures scraped from the internet or designs not cut out from their background are unlikely to ever get a sale.<\/p><blockquote><p>Designs that are blurry, have a block white or black background that needs cutting out, or where part of the design is cropped off: These do not meet the quality standard for a finished product.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>If you need to know more check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/teemill.com\/resources\/admin_templates\/teemill-t-shirt-design-template-ps.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">design template<\/a> or even better, start with some of the free designs we offer in the Design tab of the <a href=\"https:\/\/teemill.com\/studio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Product Creator<\/a> when creating a new product.<\/p><h3>Does your store look professional?<br><\/h3><p>Does your store look retail quality and super cool? We're not expecting everyone to be a pro from day one. What we're looking for here though is something more than the minimum effort. You can start with one of our themes, which are designed with <a href=\"\/blog\/?search=ecommerce\">e-commerce<\/a> best practise in mind. Avoid using a load of crazy colours and fonts too - remember, people will be entering their card details on the store, and will expect to see a trustworthy site with quality products. If in doubt go with an all white background, black text and a red or green button - and if you are struggling for a logo, use our logo maker for a simple type-based font.<\/p><p>Make sure you also use quality imagery for your banners and pods too, and that they are high quality and not pixelated. You can use your own images that you have the rights to, or download one of the thousands of free images available in <a href=\"https:\/\/teemill.com\/drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drive<\/a>.<\/p><h3><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/5cc03e2b7d6e98.18516383.jpg.jpg?w=1140&amp;h=auto\" alt=\"lowres-1.jpg\" title=\"30342718\"><\/h3><h3>Quality of your text\/copy<br><\/h3><p>The text (sometimes called copy) is a fundamentally important part of buying things online. People read this stuff, from words about the store through to category descriptions and <a href=\"\/blog\/?search=descriptions\">product descriptions<\/a>. It also matters to Google, who view low quality content negatively. Without great descriptions, nobody will find you on Google and more importantly they won't buy into the story of the design\/your brand. If you need a little help, try using our Magic Descriptions - but make sure you add your own spice to the sentences, and tell the story of your product. Just clicking \"insert generic text here\" or mashing the keypad does not meet the quality standard that is expected of a brand.<\/p><h3>Navigation and collections<br><\/h3><p>Make sure your menu is clear and easy to navigate. Your customers need to find products to be able to buy them, so make it obvious and simple. Why not just use the title as the product types, e.g. T-Shirts, Tops, Hoodies.<\/p><blockquote><p>We really care about store owners' success and want to make sure that our product pays back a store owner's time with great profits. Hopefully you found this informative and useful as you look to get off to a winning start with your new store.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>If you have any general feedback or improvements, please feel free to use the feedback button in the top bar of every page when you are logged in on Teemill. We often can't reply but we read every one. If you are ever unsure of what you can or can't upload, pay close attention to our instructions on the upload tab in the product creator.<\/p><h3>What to do next<br><\/h3><p>If you've looked through these issues and resolved them, go ahead and resubmit your store so we can launch, get you started and get your products out there.<\/p>","urlTitle":"flagged-teemill-quality","url":"\/blog\/flagged-teemill-quality\/","editListUrl":"\/my-blogs","editUrl":"\/my-blogs\/edit\/flagged-teemill-quality\/","fullUrl":"https:\/\/teemill.com\/blog\/flagged-teemill-quality\/","featured":false,"published":true,"showOnSitemap":true,"hidden":true,"visibility":null,"createdAt":1556101485,"updatedAt":1667887214,"publishedAt":1641986097,"lastReadAt":null,"division":{"id":12,"name":"Teemill"},"tags":[{"id":490,"code":"terms","name":"terms","url":"\/blog\/tagged\/terms\/"}],"metaImage":{"original":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5cc03a4c186004.61012296.jpg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5cc03a4c186004.61012296.jpg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/5cc03a4c186004.61012296.jpg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"metaTitle":"","metaDescription":"If your store, content or product does not meet our terms of use, it might not get published. 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