Sweet Shoppe TOU question

[alien21xx]

I thought about addressing this directly to Robin, but I'd also like to hear what the other designers would like to say.

So my work life really sucks, and my mom, sister and stepmom are pushing me to quit my job and try to work out a little scrap business on my hybrid work. The suggestion is maybe a little Etsy shoppe to sell at and finding a couple of good solid S4H friendly home decor templates for use, and digi scrap kits. Since I'm really in love with the kits at SSD, I checked around in the SSD TOU for S4H and found this info:

- YOU MAY create layouts or other craft items for individual clients to be delivered to the client in paper or flattened form without asking permission or purchasing an additional license.

- YOU MAY use MOST of our items for SCRAP FOR HIRE. (The only items excluded from S4H use are Sweet Keepsakes Projects, brag books, quick pages, and any other pre-made page.)

- YOU MAY NOT use our designs for an online scrap for hire business.

So, um just to clarify, what I want to do is final home decor paper crafts. I don't plan on doing design crafts for hire. Is this ok to have on Etsy?

Hope the SSD sweethearts to shed a bit of light on this

[lauren grier]

per the tou.. you're not allowed to sell "premade" things and use them in a storefront. You can only do individual custom designs. did that answer the question? lol.. I don't know.. ^_^

[Libby Pritchett]

Yeah technically, according to our TOU as a store, that isn't allowed as it's online. You could advertise your services and show some samples of your work, but you couldn't make a final product and put it up on etsy for someone to order that item.

BUT some designers have a more broad TOU than what is stated in the store TOU, so if there is a designer who's stuff you'd really like to use for this purpose, you might contact her individually to see what her terms are.

[SaraAmarie]

My tou is a little more broad then the store tou. You can check it out here. Specifically:

Under this Personal Use, Scrap-4-hire, or Limited Crafter's License, you MAY:

-produce tangible crafts and products that are sold at craft fairs, and other venues, including online websites, selling no more than 200 items per calendar year using these files.

[alien21xx]

Oooh! Thank you for clarifying that! So it can be a sample but not premade to be sold at a storefront. I'm gonna be contacting my fave designers soon and hope for the best then.

Sara, thanks so much for pointing to your TOU!

[ColleenSwerb]

Interesting. I'd been thinking of starting up an etsy store eventually. I didn't realize you couldn't sell premade things with SSD products like that.....