This is a reminder that you only have 1 week left to fill out your survey for your Basic Witch Ita Bag reward.
If you do not fill out your survey by July 9th, your order will not be included in my counts when I order the bags & pins.
I do not plan on ordering a ton of extra bags, so if you do not fill out your survey, you're at risk of not receiving your rewards, and your pledge will be considered "bonus support".
Please submit your survey ASAP!
Pay Over Time Backers
As I've mentioned in previous updates, POT backers will receive the official survey link 48 hours after your order is paid in full.
However, please do use the deadline of July 9th to fill out your pre-survey. If you don't fill out your pre-survey by July 9th, you'll also be at risk of your orders not being included in my counts.
If you missed the link to the pre-survey, please email me at [email protected] and I'll send you the link so you can submit it.
That's all for now. After the survey closes on July 9th, I'll tally all the counts and start getting the bags and pins ordered!
Just a heads up that I've now sent all the surveys out! Please fill them out as soon as possible to prevent unnecessary delays in getting items ordered. 💜
Pay Over Time Backers
As a reminder, POT Backers will not receive their survey until their order has been paid in full.
However, I have now emailed all POT backers a pre-survey to fill out so I can get your choices and include them in my item counts. Please fill this out in the meantime! But please remember that you still have to fill out your official BackerKit survey once you've paid in full and you receive it.
Just wanted to give y'all a heads up that the smoke tests for the survey have been sent. For those of you who don't know, the smoke test phase is when 5% of backers in each pledge level receive the survey first to make sure the survey is functioning smoothly and there are no errors.
This ain't my first rodeo, so I don't expect there to be many issues, if any. Once I get a decent amount of the smoke test surveys back, I will send out surveys to all other backers, so please keep an eye on your email over the next 24-48 hours to make sure you don't miss it. :)
Pay Over Time backers
As a reminder, POT backers WILL NOT receive their surveys until their pledges are paid in full. If you are a POT backer, you will not get your survey until 48 hours after your final payment goes through.
The Basic Witch Ita Bag campaign is over, and we ended up hitting over $34k in funding! I'm so pleased, and so grateful for all your support towards my first venture outside of crowdfunding pins!
So, what's next?
🪄Failed/Errored payments
Backers cards have all been charged. If your card payment failed, you will have received an email about it, but please double check that your payment went through. Even if you're SURE your payment went through, please double check anyway - it doesn't hurt to make extra sure! I have had previous backers who missed out on receiving their rewards because they were not aware that their payments failed, so please please PLEASE check!
If your payment failed, please make sure to update ASAP it so that your transaction can go through. If you don't fix your payment, you will not receive any rewards.
🪄Post-campaign surveys
I am working hard behind the scenes to set up your post-campaign surveys, where you will choose which rewards you will receive for your pledge and submit your shipping information.
Surveys are a crucial step towards receiving your rewards. If you don't submit your survey, you will NOT receive any rewards, even if your payment went through.
I will do my best to get surveys out within the next week. Once you receive your survey, you'll have about 4 weeks to fill it out before I start locking orders and taking item counts so I can start ordering items.
🪄Pay Over Time backers
As a reminder, Pay Over Time backers WILL NOT receive their survey until their pledge is paid in full, regardless of when I send surveys out.
Once your order is paid in full, whether that's after the 4 months or if you decide to pay it off early, you will automatically receive your survey within 48 hours after your final payment goes through.
In the meantime, I will be setting up a Google form pre-survey for Pay Over Time backers to fill out so I can include your choices in my item counts. Please keep an eye on campaign updates and your email for when I send out the link to the pre-survey form!
🪄Pre-order store
The pre-order store is NOW OPEN for anyone who missed the campaign! I'm still in the process of adding some items to it, but you can start shopping now. I should have the rest of the pins added to the store within the next day or two.
If you backed the campaign, DO NOT order anything through the pre-order store!! If you want to add more items to your order, please wait and order them through the add-on store when you receive your survey! Otherwise, you'll end up with 2 separate orders and you'll have to pay shipping twice.
You'll likely be hearing from me fairly frequently over the next couple weeks while payments go through and I get surveys sent out, so please make sure that email updates from this campaign are not going to your spam folder so that you don't miss out on any crucial information regarding your order.
If you have any questions or concerns, please check the FAQ page or the project disclaimers first to see if your question is answered.
If you have a question or issue that isn't answered on the FAQ page, you can always reach out to me at [email protected] or submit a support request through the FAQ page.
***please do not reach out to me through any social media platforms, as I rarely log into social media anymore and your message will likely not even get seen by me.***
TL;DR:
Please double-check to make sure your payment went through, and fix it if it didn't.
Surveys are hopefully coming within the next week. You'll have 4 weeks to fill it out.
POT Backers won't receive surveys until their pledges are paid in full.
Pre-order store is open - DO NOT PRE-ORDER if you already backed the campaign.
Contact me at [email protected] if needed, but please check the FAQ first!
That's all for now, thanks so much for reading if you managed to make it this far. You'll hear from me again soon!
I'm sneaking in one final update before the campaign ends in just ~5 hours. I have updated information regarding the zipper pull and one more surprise announcement!
Zipper Pull Add-On
I FINALLY got a quote for this from my manufacturer, so I was able to figure out a cost for the zipper pull.
A few notes about (VERY MINOR) changes to the zipper pull:
the moon dangle is going to be a stock 3D charm item that the manufacturer has (making my own was going to make the mold fee WAY too expensive and wouldn't have been fully 3D). The one they have in stock is 1.4cm tall, which is a bit big, but that's what they have, as far as I have been told by them.
Because of the size of the moon charm, it threw off the scale with the moth being only .75", so I have decided to increase the moth to 1" instead of .75".
This will increase the overall size of the zipper charm and the overall dangle length will probably be somewhere around 2", by my guesses.
Someone mentioned wanting a tweak to the tails so they would be going around the ring instead. I just wanted to add a quick note here that I am still considering this very small design tweak. I probably won't change it until I know how big the connection ring needs to be, but once I do, I'll post an update to the design :)
Here's a new mock-up of the zipper pull charm with the updated look for the moon dangle:
Based on the going prices for this type of item, I've decided to price it at $15. You can add the zipper charm to your order now through the add-on section on the campaign page, or it's also fine to wait until you get your survey and add it that way!
New Freebie - Luna Moth Sticker
As thanks & celebration for getting the campaign to 300 backers, I've decided to make a gold foil sticker version of the luna moth zipper pull artwork that will be included with all physical orders for free! Thanks so much for your amazing support on this campaign! 🫶
That's all for this update, though you'll probably hear from me again either later today or tomorrow after the campaign is done with more information about what comes next!
