Oh! That’s a wonderful idea thank you for sharing. I will be making an inventory one for Shopify stuff. I’ll def note to add that information in there. 🥰 tyvm

@@EmiiCreations Thanks

Thank you for watching 🤗

@@DualGenStudios thank you for the kind words 🥰 hope it was helpful!

​@@EmiiCreations Yeah, it was.

@@saillewhite2698 I outsource all of them now cause I couldn’t keep up with production and low key hated fighting with my cutter. I use standout stickers now. 🥰 reptiles are the cutest I always wanted to have them as pets but never did so I just live vicariously through my art now

@@EmiiCreations warning, crested geckos are like potato chips or popcorn. You cannot have just one. They are the most ridiculous little derps on the planet and so soft! 🤣

In this video we use squareup.com/

@@EmiiCreations thanks you, say the app for make barcodes but many thanks.

@@Lau2artoh I see! I use: ibarcoder.com

Aw Seattle is a fun place. Sadly, I wont' be doing any more events as a vendor there because their convention center is just weird. But hopefully will get into artist alley one day! But thank you so much for the kind words! I'll try to show the setup process more for Otakon coming up. :D

@@EmiiCreations I don't blame you, on the Seattle convention center being weird thing, LOL. I'm sorry it wasn't a great convention for you, it has gotten kind of weird the last several years, and its very expensive.

@@MsMvsc Otakon is a littler weirder where they have three different artist alley spaces. Only the one-table spaces have regulations regarding fanart. The bigger spaces like I have in the front where we get basically a 10x10 space do not have this restriction. Tbh not sure why it’s setup like that but I hope that helps explain it!

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment 🥰

I honestly don’t use random SKUs and don’t recommend because of readability and scalability. Here’s my sku making video if you need help with creating SKUs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4bZeqKOf8-jfrcsi=9LIvy0V26qGJGgKV

Thank you for the kind words 🥰 I hope so!!

Im glad it was helpful! Good luck on your event! 🥰

Artist Alley, from my understanding, was exempt because it was assumed they would not be transporting "that much" stuff and most people in AA use suitcases anyway which is harder to regulate and usually exempt. But I would still be a bit careful and not use dollies/carts to transport AA merch in if possible. But to be EXTRA careful, I would also double-check your contract and any load-in instructional emails. And if you need further clarification, contact your rep/con contact via email. Email specifically so you have proof/paper trail.

@@EmiiCreations Thanks for the update, still waiting for the final details closer to August anyway but I will absolutely be keeping this in mind. <3

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It's a union specific regulation because the convention center is unioned. I think they just call it a freight fee on their end for ease of understanding. NOTICE: I'm not really an expert of how the union deals work.... but I do know that they have contracts between the convention and the unions. Then, in order to use this particular convention center, you are required to use their labor and their union labor have specific rules like all incoming anything over a certain size needs to be handled by their labor and their labor need to be paid a certain amount. I guess the size limitations is what you can carry yourself in one trip for this case. I think this edge case exists for restocking or just brining in small boxes cause that would be even more stupid if they charge for that. Some conventions will actually cover this fee for exhibitors like wondercon. But others like fanime require exhibitors to pay the fees themselves. It's also seems to be more intense for certain cities and states like California and New York. KINDA crazy mostly for a small business. :(

@@EmiiCreations It seems unions work a little differently in my country (well, from my limited understanding, I was in a union when I worked for a railroad company once, but that's the jist of my direct experience) I get the general purpose it to ensure employees are treated fairly, but to charge things like freight fees to vendors is unheard of as far as I know where I live.

@@user-wv3qh1tn9d Oh interesting! Honestly, it's such a weird system we have and I'll honestly say I don't fully understand it either. But they're always re-hashing those contracts and talks to there's hoping it gets better for us vendors in the future.

@@EmiiCreations Agreed.

Not a lot honestly maybe 20-30 for one show. But I usually also have postcard mailers that people can grab instead at the shows as well.

@@EmiiCreations ok thanks for that. How many postcard mailers would you have? I'm travelling from Australia so want to bring these with me to the summer show

@@estetika_australia I usually order 250 and mail out around 200 so I bring the leftover 20-30 postcards with me to the show.

Oh snap what did you come in on Thursday? I arrived around 2pm and they had people stationed at the doors till closing it was intense. A lot of people were saying it depends on what time you come and what day and if you get lucky 😆

Hey, Fanime Dealer's Hall staff here! I was the tall person with long hair, we probably talked at least once or twice during the con lol Allow me to comment on this! The reason things work the way they do is because the convention center is serviced by a union, and they're in charge of loading and unloading the hall (among other things). Carrying in freight breaks OUR contract with the union, because it's seen as job theft. Why would you pay them to safely load you through the dock when you can pay a scab who's willing to break their back to do it for half price or less? You guys probably wouldn't do that, but a lot of people (especially the very large booths with with tons of heavy merch) absolutely would, and we have to treat everyone fairly. With that said... it's unreasonable to say that vendors can't bring ANYTHING into the hall with them. It's silly to expect you to load your purse through the docks, for example. So the compromise that Cam (our department head or "floor manager" as you called her) makes is the "single person, no carts, one trip" rule. As a note: you CAN have multiple people working the booth if you do this, but only one person can carry the merch. If multiple people brought in suitcases you either came in at a time you weren't supposed to or through a door you weren't supposed to (most of the doors are supposed to be closed and locked even after load-in starts but sometimes people leave them open when they exit) OR one of our staffers didn't do their job right lol And yeah it's pretty unusual for people who fly to bring luggage with them; they usually have it shipped to the convention center and the union will receive and load it for you. If Cam was a little short with you during that whole thing, it's because no matter what we do there are always vendors who try to sneak in extra merchandise without us noticing (even people who've been vending with us for years and absolutely know better). So yeah she is VERY particular about the contracts, though in her defense they are extremely comprehensive and it's also her job to be particular lmao That's also just kinda how she is 😂 In regards to the boycott: that was basically just one department that walked out (gaming). I have a lot of thoughts on the situation that I won't get into, but I'll say I think it's telling that not a single other staff member from any other department I've talked to about it has had any major complaints. They did have some valid points, the majority of which have since been addressed (by far the biggest one being that we have a newly updated, much more robust harassment policy), but they keep changing their demands. As a side note, I haven't heard that we had lower attendance and iirc our pre-reg numbers going into con were up from last year. Many other vendors did complain that revenue is down, but same as you they largely blame the slow economy rather than attendance. Like you, they all said that revenue is down at most cons. Regardless, thank you so much for the kind words about our show, our dealer's hall, and our staff! I've been staffing this con for many years and I can say that we take our "By Fans, For Fans" motto very seriously. Everyone involved works so hard to make sure the show goes as smoothly as possible for all, and it's really special to have that hard work noticed. I'm really glad you had a good con, and please say hi to me if you see me next year!

It totally is! Mostly when booth prices are already expensive it just makes it harder and harder to make it profitable for smaller businesses. 🥲

10:02 😮 I’ve never seen any vlogs mention this 😮 so wrong that’s an insane fee

@@vidotter I know a lot of events have freight fees as an option. Most vendors to some degree expect to use and pay for it because of the nature of how much more merch vendors have. But I'm a bit of an outlier where I don't 'need' the help of freight to bring my stuff in. So the fact it's so intently forced on people like me is what's odd about this event. tldr: the other vlogs may be paying it but they are accustomed to paying it mostly if they are moving a lot of merch and artist alley is usually exempt.

Very welcome! I hope it ended up working well for you!

I don't have one myself but, correct me if I'm wrong, I believe the square terminal can connect to an iPad. The iPad would then be used with the scanner. So yes, if you have your terminal connected to an iPad, you will be able to use the scanner.

thank you Do you know how to do that? I would love that set up!

never mind.. got it, now I just need to get these barcodes set up. Your videos are great!

Yay! Just a warning the uv spray does attract dust a bit so dry in non dusty area!

@@EmiiCreations thanks! I'll send you an update as soon as I make some practice stickers 😄

Technically, the socket mobile itself it should be compatible. It's more of if the application you are using on the mac book supports it as well. Are you trying to connect it to Square on mac? How are you trying to use it?

@@EmiiCreations I use Square on my website and for in person events. So, your video helped me out a lot! 🤩 For in person events i would like to use: Square as my method to process payments, socket mobile for scanning items and a mac book to be used as a terminal (vs an ipad). I just wonder if Socket Mobile compatible with mac books systems (excluding iphone)

Thank you! It was such a great time!

I think I've changed what I used over the years but if you're looking for plastic bags, clearbags is a great source: clearbags.com/

Awwww maybe not at this show or maybe just not right timing. 🥲

Thank you!

You’re very welcome glad it was helpful!

That makes sense! It’s been weird year after year. Always hoping it’ll get better but I think we’ll have to see. I hear there wasn’t a lot of good talent signing this last one could have affected ppl willingness to attend.

Thank you! You’re too kind 🥰

Let me know how it goes! :D

Sorry not sure what you mean by licenses. I don’t think so.

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for the suggestion! I'm starting to plan new videos right now and I'll add it into the list. But just as a quick reply: I actually still use paper order forms. It's still way faster for me at the moment.

Glad it was helpful! Did you decide if you were thinking of attending? I think my next one might not be till winter but still on the fence too.

So true! Now even more money is tight and everyone is making those this or that decisions.

We were in an even weirder situation as an artist and one of the 18 vendors they threw in the Arch. We had sales Saturday, and Sunday pulled us out of the red, but Thursday and Friday was an absolute ghost town. They thought having us with the guests would make up for having nothing else in the building, but since those people were guaranteed to be dropping a huge chunk of change of guest experiences and autographs, not so much. So many poor first-time attendees picking up their day-passes at Will-Call, wandering the nearly empty and un-signaged building for an hour then coming back to ask random vendors “…. Is this it?” The guy doing the security check of my luggage at the airport on the way home was bummed he didn’t see me to make a purchase at the con, because like many people that showed up with no intention of buying autographs, he and his daughter had no idea there was a second building… The maps claimed there were like 200 vendors in our hall, so even attendees that did make the hike over felt bait and switched when they got there and the 18 of us were all she wrote. I’m very sorry to hear you lost money on the endeavor. :(

Glad you enjoyed it

Oh wow! Thank you for sharing your experience! I only been hearing good things from artist but I was wondering if that was the norm or just the ones that chose to speak up. I’m kind of glad to hear I wasn’t going crazy and that you felt that same vibe where there were many people but no one purchasing. Always really disheartening. I feel your pain and really hoping things get better overall.

Couldn’t agree more, I am a 3D artist and not local so I’ve always been put in the vendors hall here, but when I reached out later than usual to see if they had space for us, I really wish they had been honest and told me they didn’t have room in the hall rather than throw us in what felt like an “overflow” space in the old Arch building. We’ve had such a great experience and sales in the past that the feeling of being an afterthought was really disappointing… my table-helper made it her personal mission to get us chairs and a trashcan when they refused to given them to us until the show opened for some reason, then the facilities rep disappeared from his station before doing so and never returned. I went to the spot on the map where the vendor liaison office was to try to discuss things and provide some feedback, but it was a hot dog stand instead >_< definitely an off year…

Aw we’ll still see each other at other events hopefully!

Yes this links with your POS system. I use my iPad with square in the video but Shopify works generally the same. The app has a tab to connect hardware and there is usually an option for a barcode scanner. Follow the steps square gives you to get that connected. Then as long as your product has the SQU (barcode for Shopify) field filled out correctly, it will scan properly.

This would be much more easier if you make a video showing how to step by step with the terminal device that you actually use. Thanks for your quick reply! 🙏🏾

Some cons are really strict and some are not as so I can’t say for sure. But you may be stopped with a hard cart because more labor unions don’t allow it. But I advise something like suitcases instead. For this show I honestly don’t remember their exact regulation cause we did the suitcase route. But you can also find details in the exhibitor manual which is 100% always tell ppl to read through. Sorry if this wasn’t an exact answer!

Thanks for the response. This helps a lot. Sadly I didn't get accepted this year. I applied at 9am when it first opened up for an unlimited table and I guess over 1000 people applied. Didn't make the cut. Maybe next year.@@EmiiCreations

@@user-ku7xc8qf4s sorry to hear! Maybe next year!

Do you mean linking the barcode scanner? Is it having trouble staying connected or altogether not finding the scanner? There’s a way to reset the scanner by holding the power and scan button for a long time. Prob do that as well as ‘forgetting’ the scanner on the Bluetooth screen to have to try to reset the connection. Hope that makes sense and helps.

Hi Emili Sorry for the late reply- We were just trying to combine square with square space but it seems like we have to use another app called Zapier. Also one quick question how do you create a bundle of products in square space for sale to attract customers . Any help will be greatly appreciated. Hope all is well Take care Marc

@@marcl9911 Hi marc. Yes, square and Squarespace don't play well with others. I moved from that to Shopify for this reason. If you're dealing with inventory you can also try to look up Trunk (www.trunkinventory.com/) as a possible sync option as well. Squarespace does not support bundling. However, they might have this feature in Trunk. You might have to do more research on that end or reach out to Trunk support for questions on how that can be utilized to your needs.

Thanks Emili- Really appreciate The info. Thanks again

Glad it helped!

Depends on what you’re using it for. If just a register you won’t need much. If you are like me and work a lot on the iPad for things like procreate and writing notes, then more might be better.