Uploading Your Project

Thumbnail

• This is the first thing about your product that your customer sees. Therefore, a good thumbnail can make a product more attractive to customers.
• Classic Shop Image will be displayed on the IMVU Classic Website and it is required in order to submit a product to the Shop.
  • Product Image Guideline for the IMVU Classic Website:
    • The product image must be 100 x 80 pixels and its size 50 KB or less.
    • Supported file types: GIF, JPG, or PNG.
    • The image file name must be 50 characters or less.
• NEXT Shop Image will be displayed on the IMVU Website and IMVU Desktop App.
  • When clicking on the CHOOSE PHOTO button, you can choose, among pre designed images, the one you want to be displayed in the Product Preview Window of the IMVU Website and IMVU Desktop App.

  For more information about how to make a good thumbnail, please check out the “Creating Catalog Snapshots” article.

Name

• This is how your customers will find your product.
• Product names matter to a product’s relevance in Catalog searches. So, choosing a clear name will have a good impact on sales
• There is a 24 character limit for product names.

Type

• This is the type of item you are Creating. It is pre-filled depending on the base product you derived from to create the current item.
  • For example, if  you want a product to end up in Furniture, you have to derive from a Furniture product.
    

Rating

• The IMVU Terms of Service requires that every Creator rate each product they submit to the IMVU Catalog appropriately.
• Every product available for purchase in the IMVU Catalog has a rating of General Audience (GA) or Access Pass Only (AP).
  • GA
    • Goods available to all users.
    • Users are required to be 13 years or older.
  • AP 
    • Goods available only to users aged 18 years or older who have purchased the Access Pass.
  IMPORTANT

  You can’t make a GA product which is derived from an AP product!

  If your product is inappropriately rated, it will fail Peer Review and/or be flagged for review by a member of the community. So, please make sure you understand the Virtual Goods Policy before setting the rating.

Category

• This will depend on your product’s Type. For example, if you are creating Clothing, you can choose whether the product is a Top, Bottom, etc.
• Choosing the category that best suits the product you are submitting helps consumers to know which kind of product they are purchasing.

Compatibility

• This determines which avatars will work with your product.
  • Female: your product will be only compatible with female avatars.
  • Male: your product will be only compatible with male avatars.
  • Unisex: your product will be compatible for both female and male avatars.
  • Custom: your product will be only compatible with the typed PID.
• Compatibility pertains to avatar related products only such as body, clothing, and accessory products.

Product Price

• Your Profit 
  • Credits you will earn once your product is purchased by consumers.
  • You can set any number in this field from 0 to 999,999.
  • Adding or changing the Profit does not result in existing Products going through Peer Review.
    
    IMPORTANT

    You must set a Profit in order to submit your product!

• Derivation Fee
  • It is a fee you will pay to the Creator you are deriving from in order to upload your product to the Shop.
  • Depending on the kind of product you are creating and how many products are in the subsequent chain, the fee will be lower or higher.

• Mark Up
  • It is the amount charged (10%) for submitting your product. This is standard.

• Total Price
  • It is made up of three components: Your Profit, Derivation Fee, and Mark Up.
  • As you type in the Profit field, the Mark Up and Total Price of the product is calculated on the fly.

One-Time Fees

• One-Time Fees break down what you will be paying.
  • Submission Fee: the fee charged by IMVU.
  • Derivation Fee: the fee you will pay to the Creator you are deriving from.
  • Total Fees: the number of Credits you will be paying in order to upload your product.

Search Keywords

• Many consumers search products in the Shop using keywords. Although this field is not required to submit your product, we encourage you to add keywords to help customers to find your product.
  • Keywords must be 30 characters or less and separated by commas (no spaces).
  • The more relevant the keywords are, the easier your Product can be found by potential buyers.

Controls

• These Control toggles allow to set four important features of your product:
  • Derivable
    • It allows Creators to derive new products from this product.
    • This setting cannot be turned off if the product has been derived from. That is to say, once a product has been derived from, the Derivable Control as well as Profit are permanently locked.
    Keep in mind

    If you make your product derivable, you will not be able to resubmit it to the Shop once another Creator has derived from it!

• • Searchable 
    • If you check this option, it makes your product visible in the IMVU Shop.
    • If you un-check this option (hide your product), it does not affect its usability to those who already own it.
    Note

    If you do not make your products searchable, customers will not be able to find them in the IMVU Shop!

• • Display only 
    • If this option is checked, your product is visible in the IMVU Shop but consumers cannot buy it.

• • Allow inclusion in 3rd party bundles
    • This feature allows other Creators to add your product to their Product Bundles, Promotional Bundles, Outfits, etc., if they have also purchased the item.
    • When a Creator sells a bundle with your item in it, you will receive your full profit as if you had sold the item.
    • This setting can be changed at any time but it will not remove the item from already existing bundles.