If your shop offers a technique that isn't one of the six built-ins — think laser engraving, rhinestone, or a specialty transfer — you can add it as a custom decoration method. Custom methods work alongside the built-ins and appear in the same method pickers, pricing, and workflows.
Add a new method
- Go to Settings → Decoration Methods.
- Select Add Method, then choose Custom Method rather than one of the built-ins.
- Give it a clear name, for example "Laser Engraving".
- Choose how it prices: by area in square inches, by color count, by stitch count, or a flat fee.
- Save it.
the pricing dimension is chosen here, in the create dialog, and only here. There is no way to change it afterwards from the method's detail page, so pick correctly the first time. If you get it wrong, create a replacement method.
do not choose color count. The Design Studio does not measure the number of colors in a design, so a color-count method matches no tier and prices the decoration at zero. Use area or a flat fee instead.
Custom methods have no description field on their detail page, so the description shown in lists stays empty.
Make It Usable
- Mark the method active so it shows in pickers.
- Configure its pricing tiers and quantity breaks (see Pricing Tiers and Dimensions) and its status workflow (see Decoration Status Workflows).
methods are listed alphabetically by name. There is no sort-order control, so the name is the only way to influence where a method appears in the list.
Tips
- Name custom methods the way your team and customers refer to them, and remember the list is alphabetical.
- Pick a pricing dimension you can actually charge on — area or flat for most custom techniques.
- Do not rely on the constraint fields to stop bad artwork. Apart from the color-limit switch, none of them are enforced. See Method Constraints and Configuration.
- Deactivate a method instead of deleting it if you might offer it again later.