The Store Designer Settings page lets you control how the Online Designer behaves for a specific affiliate store. These settings affect the customer customization experience, including available tools, layout behavior, text and image controls, zoom behavior, stock design visibility, and decoration process selection.
If the Fulfillment Center permits overrides, affiliate stores can customize their own Designer behavior independently of the global Designer configuration. This allows each store to tailor the Designer experience to suit different customer types, workflows, branding requirements, or decoration processes.
In this article
- Prerequisites
- Why Configure Store Designer Settings?
- Step 1: Access Store Designer Settings
- Step 2: Configure design safeguards
- Step 3: Configure availability and override settings
- Step 4: Configure text and image options
- Step 5: Configure toolbar and selection options
- Step 6: Configure design and process options
- Step 7: Save your settings
- Best-Practice Tips
- Troubleshooting
- FAQs
- Additional Resources
Prerequisites
- You must have administrator access to use this feature
- The Fulfillment Centre must allow Affiliate sites to make their own designer configuration changes
Why Configure Store Designer Settings?
Store Designer Settings allow you to tailor the customization experience for your customers without affecting other websites in your DecoNetwork environment.
- Control which Designer tools and editing options customers can access.
- Simplify the customization experience for less technical users.
- Enable advanced editing capabilities for power users and design-focused stores.
- Customize terminology to better suit your business or niche market.
- Improve usability by controlling zoom, selection, and layout behavior.
- Control access to stock designs and decoration process selection.
Step 1: Access Store Designer Settings
- Log into your DecoNetwork website.
- Access the Designer Settings page:
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Affiliate Store: Browse to Admin → Designer Settings → Designer Settings.
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Fulfillment Center Website: Browse to Admin → Websites → Manage → Designer Settings → Designer Settings.
The Designer Settings page opens with grouped options for configuring how customers interact with the Online Designer in the workspace.
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Step 2: Configure availability and override settings
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Locate the Availability and layout options section.
- Configure:
- Allow Online Designer toggles the availability of the designer to customers.
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Locate the Override default settings section.
Note: The override option is only available when the Fulfillment Center allows affiliate websites to manage their own Designer configuration. - Configure:
- Change default settings for the designer: lets you choose to override the designer display options as set by the fulfillment center (this may not be available as determined by the fulfillment center).
Step 3: Configure design safeguards
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Locate the Cropped design warning section.
- Configure:
- Warn if outside design area: when enabled, the customer will be warned of their design extending beyond the design placeable area.
Step 4: Configure text and image options
Use the Text Options and Image Options sections to control naming conventions, editing controls, and advanced Designer functionality.
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Configure the Text options:
Some of the places that "text" would be replaced by your word choice.
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Rename "text" to: By default a text layer is named "text" and this can be renamed if required.
Entering a new name (singular and plural for text) will use this new word (or words) in place of "text" in the designer.
- Show text dimensions: When enabled, will show the measurements of the text in the layer information panel.
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Show advanced text options: When enabled, reveals extra editing options in the designer.
- Start with advanced options expanded: When enabled, you may choose to have the advanced text options expanded when the Designer starts up.
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Configure the Image Options:
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The default name of a design element is a "design" and this can be renamed (singular and plural) in the Rename "design" to: fields.
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Show image dimensions: When enabled, will show the measurements of the design area in the layer information panel.
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Show advanced image options: When enabled, reveals extra editing options in the designer.
- With "Show advanced image options" enabled, you may choose to have them expanded when the designer starts up when Start with advanced options expanded is set to ON.
- Show degrees when rotating When enabled, will give the specific angle for precise rotation of designs.
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Show remove background option: Allows you to enable or disable the background removal tool in the Designer, giving customers the ability to remove backgrounds from uploaded images.
When the checkbox is ticked, the remove background option will be available. When it is un-ticked the option be disabled.
remove background option in the frontend Designer
remove background option in the Business Hub Designer
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Configure the Team Name Options:
Configure how team name fields are labeled in the designer
- Rename “team name” to: Customize the terminology used for team name layers
- Singular label: Defines the wording used when referring to a single team name field
- Plural label: Defines the wording used when referring to multiple team name fields
Step 5: Configure toolbar and selection options
Toolbar and selection settings determine how customers interact with decoration areas and Designer controls.
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Configure the Design area toolbar options:
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Show zoom option enables and disables the ability to zoom in on the decoration area being worked on.
- Show copy paste 'all' allows you to toggle the ability to copy and paste all decorations in the Designer.
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Show copy/paste 'selected' allows you to toggle the ability to copy and paste multiple selected decorations in the Designer.
If neither Show copy paste 'all' and Show copy paste 'selected' are enabled, the copy and paste function will not be available in the Designer.
- Show 'Select All' allows you to toggle the ability to select all decorations in the Designer.
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Configure the Area selection/zoom behavior options:
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Clicking area in designer selects it will toggle whether or not the clicked decoration area becomes the focus of the designer.
- Additionally, the designer may Automatically zoom into area at the same time, if enabled.
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Clicking area in designer selects it will toggle whether or not the clicked decoration area becomes the focus of the designer.
Step 6: Configure design and process options
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Configure the Design Options:
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Show stock designs: If enabled, will display stock designs that have been selected as usable within DecoNetwork.
The Stock Design node in the design selector.
Where to add Stock Designs to DecoNetwork - See Stock Designs.
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Show template filter: If enabled, will show the template filter in the Select A Design popup in the Designer.
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Configure the Decoration Processes option:
- Show not available processes in the ‘select process' popup if enabled, will cause decoration processes that cannot be used to be hidden rather than disabled in the Select Processes popup in the Designer.
Step 7: Save your settings
- Review your configuration changes.
- Click Save.
Your Designer configuration changes will immediately apply to the selected website or affiliate store.
Best-Practice Tips
- Keep the Designer interface simple for general retail customers by limiting advanced controls.
- Enable cropped design warnings to reduce production issues caused by artwork extending beyond printable areas.
- Use custom naming for “Text”, “Design”, or “Team Name” fields to better match your industry terminology.
- Test the Designer experience after making configuration changes to ensure workflows remain intuitive.
- Enable zoom controls for products with small or highly detailed decoration areas.
Troubleshooting
The override settings option is missing
The Fulfillment Center may not allow affiliate websites to override Designer settings. Contact the Fulfillment Center administrator for assistance.
Advanced editing controls are not appearing
Ensure the relevant “Show advanced text options” or “Show advanced image options” settings are enabled.
Stock designs are not visible in the Designer
Verify that stock designs are enabled and that usable stock designs have been configured within DecoNetwork.
Customers cannot use the Designer
Confirm that the “Allow Online Designer” setting is enabled for the website.
FAQs
Can affiliate stores use their own Designer settings?
Yes. Affiliate stores can configure their own Designer settings if the Fulfillment Center allows overrides.
Do these settings affect all websites?
No. Store Designer Settings apply only to the specific website or affiliate store being configured.
Can I disable advanced editing tools?
Yes. Advanced text and image editing controls can be turned off to simplify the Designer interface.
What happens if both copy/paste options are disabled?
The copy and paste functionality will not be available in the Designer.
Can I customize the wording customers see in the Designer?
Yes. You can rename terms such as “Text”, “Design”, and “Team Name” to better suit your business terminology.
Additional Resources
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If I go to designer settings within anystore the only option I have is to allow the designer. No other customization options.
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