'Tis the Season — For New GC Designs!
December 8th, 2008 • Posted by Andrea Feucht • Permalink
That's right, we are once again producing new Instant Gift Certificate designs for you and your wonderful clients to enjoy as the year all-too-quickly winds down.
One of our excellent blog commenters, Christine of Great Lakes Relaxation Center, has agreed to demonstrate how you can find and show off the new designs in your account. I'm using her account to create the screenshots below, so you'll know what it will look like for you — nothing complicated or staged about it.
First, we wanted to make sure that your current "Most Popular" designs are not abruptly yanked from your website, so we have not forced into your list the new designs — you'll need to go get them. You can do one of two things to begin showcasing those new designs — apply our default "most popular" in one fell swoop, or choose your own favorites for display. I'll describe both options below.
1) The first option is quick and easy. Go into your Setup Tab, then click on GC Designs on the left side of the screen. You'll see your already selected list of thumbnails:
On the left, look for the "Restore Defaults" link, and click on that. 
Click OK on the next screen, and you'll be all set. You will now have six (6) new and snazzy Most Popular designs, which gives your IGC page enough room for the seasonal designs that we feature before major holidays (4 at a time).
2) Here's how to do the second option — pick your own designs:
Go into your Setup Tab, then click on GC Designs on the left side of the screen. You'll see your already selected list of thumbnails.
To download the brand new designs, click on the link on the left of the screen called "Update Designs". They will come in as "Hidden" by default. To show all of our new designs, click on "show hidden designs" and they will appear in your list:
Let's say you'd like to start by removing one of your current Most Popular designs — Celebrate Life. All you need to do is click on the handy (and new!) "Remove from popular" button.
Next, we'll be making the new design "Lavender" visible and Most Popular. Click on the "Show" button below the name Lavender to un-hide the design, then click on "Make popular" and you've just given super-cool in-crowd status to the lovely Lavender design.
Perfect! Christine at our demo spa decided to go ahead and do the same thing for two more designs, hiding old ones and revealing two new designs, "Waves" from All Occasions and "Sincere" in the brand new Sorry category. Her GC page just was transformed from this:
To this:
When we decide to go all the way with her page to leave some room for seasonal designs and use the "Restore Defaults" link, her Instant Gift Certificate page will now end up like this, all nice and clean:
This was a long tutorial, but it should make all of the steps clear and give you a boost of confidence in customizing your offering to your clients — now go out there and have fun!
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Sweet!!! I completely forgot I changed the defaults. I changed it back and I am promoting the new designs on our blog… Thanks for the reminder!!!
Thank you! So timely and just what I needed. I had put off updates for fear my current settings would be lost and now I know otherwise.
Love the new designs!
Request for future updates: more generic or more ethnically diverse prenatal designs.
Keep up the good work!
I did the "default" option so I could get your new designs and they are so lovely. It's interesting though. All the Christmas ones are coming through with that red border one on the top and bottom and the pinecone picture. It is very popular! Here we try to save them a little red ink and they still choose that one! Very nice new ones, thanks! –Jan