Suggested Features
Please add any suggestions for site features here. There’s no guarantee we will be able to implement your idea, but we welcome your thoughts!
31 results found
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Facebook
Please can you re-instate the 'share' on Facebook box rather than the 'like' option. I much prefer advertising my shop to my friends instead of telling everyone I like my own stuff!
3 votesUnfortunately Facebook no longer support the Share button.
From, http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/
Facebook make this announcement:
“The Share button has been deprecated in favor of the Like button, and will no longer be supported.
Please use the Like button whenever possible to drive maximum traffic to your apps.”These are now the only Social Plugins websites are able to use: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
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Contact buyer button
I'm sure most sellers like to contact buyers to acknowledge/discuss their order. Expecting sellers to contact buyers through an external email address without a Folksy reference must surely be confusing for buyers. I simply can't understand why you don't want messages to remain within the folksy site as this must encourage customers to come back to folksy. As a seller it is really frustrating to have to email customers separately.
Please bring back one click messaging!!!!
3 votesFollowing the launch of the Guest Checkout feature (where buyers are no longer required to register an account on Folksy to complete a purchase), buyers who don’t open an account won’t be able to use the Folksy messaging system. You should be able to contact buyers who have a Folksy account as that feature hasn’t changed.
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Please can we make prices of sold items invisible?
Please could it be possible to hide the prices paid for items once they are viewed in the 'sold items' section? This has been an issue when things are bought as gifts, and also when I need to put the prices up (or down)!
2 votesWith the new system of re-stocking listings and permanent URL’s for items it’s possible for you to have a item appearing on the sold screen and, because you’ve re-stocked the listing, appearing in your shop. If you want to change the price of an old listing that you aren’t using any more you could edit that listing to reflect a different price.
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Please create a DOG TSHIRT as subcategory on GARDEN and PET category; as there is not a subcategory i had put my DOG TSHIRT on DOG COAT
I need a subcategory for my DOG TSHIRTS as there is nome I had add them on DOG COATS category. Thanks
1 voteThank you for the suggested feature request.
Additional categories on Folksy are created when evidence gathered from our site analytics and users reveals a need. At this time ‘Dog T-Shirts’ would not be necessary addition to the navigation, being too similar to ‘Dog Coats’.
Thank you.
Folksy Support
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Please can you remove the 'gold stars'.
Featured sellers now have gold stars against every item listed for sale. Gold stars, by their very nature, indicate to buyers and browsers that those sellers' items and shops are better than the competition's, and therefore gives them an unfair advantage. Featured sellers are already on a special list, and will be there forever, so this further boost is not only unfair, it's unnecessary.
71 votesThank you for your contribution to this feature request.
We have no plans for removing the marker for Featured Sellers.
However we are planning to introduce other ways for Folksy designer-makers to be featured and promoted on the site (other than editorial ones).
Folksy Support
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Tick Box for Yes or No to pinning an item to Pinterest
A box for yes or no you can add this item to pinterest - I have come across some sellers who don't want their items pinned because of concerns regarding copying from pinterest. If there is a 'yes you can' or 'no you can't' pin this item ready to be ticked on listing the item & then visible for anyone to see, this would avoid inadvertently pinning an item against the wishes of the copyright owner.
31 votesWe’re not convinced that developing this feature would restrict the sharing of work across social networks. We do monitor the Pinterest debates, their revised terms of use are much improved. Also the Folksy Terms of Use allow Folksy to reproduce your work for the purposes of marketing and one of our marketing channels, along with Twitter, Svpply and Facebook is Pinterest.
If there continues to be concern over the use of Pinterest for our sellers then we may look alternatives for communicating non-particpation in sharing images. -
Multi-edit
It would be extremely useful (and time saving) if multiple items could be edited at the same time, e.g I have just changed the price of some items (the same item, listed in different colours). This could've been done much quicker if I could highlight the items I wanted to edit and edit all at once.
2 votesWe can add a ‘bulk change’ feature for some actions to update listings. For example you can now re-list, delete and hide multiple listings. Together with a bulk action to change the sections of the shop your listings appear. However more detailed editing of listing content isn’t an easy action to create a ‘bulk edit’ feature for.
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Short term listings
Although you have shortened the listing time to 4 months it would be helpful if there were some extra short term listings for specific celebrations such as Christmas, Easter, Valentines Day, Olympics etc so that items for Christmas, say, are 'extinct' by New Year.
4 votesThe new interface for managing items will make it a lot easier to de-list items after a certain event (e.g. Christmas or Valentines), so we don’t think there will be a need to specify the listing length up front when first listing the items.
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10 votes
We already have many ways to search for, browse and filter items, including the categories, price, colours and materials, listed date, and so on. We’ll continue to evolve these features into the future in response to feedback and usability research.
As this isn’t a specific suggestion I’m closing this idea.
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Featured sellers
I'm always interested in the featured sellers displayed on the homepage however I have one or two 'issues':
1. The shop is on holiday. I realise sellers cannot be available all the time but it would be nice if they were whilst their shop is on the front page.
2. Very small selection of products. Over the 18 pages of featured sellers there is one shop with no products listed, one shop with one product listed and two shops with two products listed. I often pop back to a shop I liked to see if they have listed anything so…6 votesWe try to ensure that the currently featured seller (on the homepage) has items available for sale. The list of previous featured sellers is provided as an archive however, and we can’t control whether these shops still have items for sale.
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What happened to the 'continue shopping' button? Can we have it back please?
I have just purchased some items and nowhere could I see 'continue shopping' so had to keep pressing the back button instead. Not very professional.
3 votesWe’ve removed this link as it was confusing some buyers (it always linked to the homepage, rather than the category or shop you’d arrived from).
In the future we may offer buyers additional links or suggested items after adding an item to the basket.
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