Bead processing and your own beads
Use your own beads in a design
Place real beads from your warehouse in a design. They are not charged again and ship together with the design’s new materials.
Who it is for
Signed-in customers with beads ready to use.
Before you start
- Signed in, with beads marked “Ready to use”.
Add your beads
- Open your design and, in the material library, switch from “Public materials” to “My beads”.
- Press a bead to add it, or to fill a selected “To choose” position (matching beads are listed first).
- Each real bead can be in a design only once; a bead already used shows as in this design.
Buying and shipping
When you buy the design, your beads are checked and reserved with the order; only new materials and one shipping fee are charged. If a bead is no longer available, or its stone or size does not match its record, the payment is refused with nothing charged: choose that bead again and add the design again.
Sharing and copying
A shared design shows only your beads’ photos, sizes and arrangement, never your warehouse, account or orders. Someone who copies or buys it gets replacements of the same stone, round shape and size from the public library (or, when copying, their own beads first); this does not promise the same look or quality.
What you will see
- “Already yours” as the price of your beads and “Own beads in the same box at no charge” in the total.
- Your beads listed in the order as “Own beads in this box”.
Limits
- A bead can be in several draft designs, but one order reserves it.
- Cancelling the order before shipping returns your beads to the warehouse and does not refund earlier processing.
- Repeat a group cannot copy own beads.