Ask Pixerr (chat assistant)
Real sentences you can type into Ask Pixerr (the chat bubble on most Pixerr pages), and what should happen on screen. Use this like a creator playbook—not a developer checklist.
Sign in first
General questions work while logged out. Mockups, gallery picks, Buy now, Sell this, and store actions (list shops, view or update store title/slug/description, switch active store) need a signed-in account with tokens.
Supported products: mugs, phone cases, apparel, posters, canvas, puzzles, pillows, holiday decor, pet bandana collars, calendars, and more—see Creating Products. Stickers are not available yet.
Navigate anywhere
Ask Pixerr can open Pixerr pages for you. Try:
- Take me to Image Gallery — opens your gallery in the Designer.
- Open my storefront — opens your live shop.
- Go to subscriptions — opens token and plan settings.
See Navigate anywhere in Pixerr below for expected behavior and more destinations.
Open Ask Pixerr
- Click the Ask Pixerr button (bottom-right).
- Type a message and press Send, or use the paperclip to upload artwork first.
- Watch for Awaiting confirmation on plans that spend tokens—click Confirm before mockups generate.
For transparent PNGs, store pricing (automatic for physical products), and Studio placement, see also Working with transparency and How pricing works.
Getting started
Open Ask Pixerr from the chat bubble on most Pixerr pages. Sign in with your creator account so it can see your store and your tokens.
You should get a plain-language answer about making designs, putting them on products, adding them to your store, and checkout — not a wall of technical detail.
- The chat panel opens and you can scroll past the welcome suggestions.
- While it is thinking, the status text keeps changing instead of freezing on one word.
You should get real products from the live Pixerr Studio catalog — mugs, phone cases, desk calendars, posters and canvas, puzzles, pillows, holiday ornaments and stockings, pet bandana collars, printed shirts, printed socks, digital downloads, coloring books, and more — not a vague “phone cases, mugs, and more.” Stickers are not available yet, so they should never be suggested. Pet products that have not launched (bowl, leash, sweater) should not be offered either. See Creating Products for the full list.
You should get your real balance, or a pointer to check your dashboard — never an invented number.
Welcome & suggestion chips
When you open Ask Pixerr on a fresh conversation, you should see a row of starter suggestions you can tap instead of typing. If you already have products in your shop, these may be replaced by shopping-focused suggestions — see Storefront product links.
Starter suggestions on an empty conversation:
- Everyone: Start a side hustle, Create wall art, Digital download ideas, Explain Pixerr Studio
- Signed in, you also get: Product example
Once you start chatting, signed-in creators may see more suggestions such as Improve my store and Plan a product pack. Signed-out visitors may also see Product pack ideas.
You should get creative digital-only product ideas: single image downloads, coloring books, wallpaper packs, themed pack concepts — not a list of physical products like ornaments, pillows, and mugs.
This asks something different, so you should get the full catalog: physical product names plus digital types.
Your first product preview
This is the core loop: Ask Pixerr builds a product preview card showing your art on a mug, shirt, or whatever you asked for.
Ask Pixerr should not pretend the mug already exists. Because generating costs tokens, you get a confirmation step first.
- You see a short plan: what it will make and roughly how many tokens it costs.
- You click Confirm.
- A card appears with your artwork thumbnail and a product mockup.
- Two big buttons sit at the top: Buy now and Sell this.
Same flow, but the plan should mention a transparent image, and the preview should show a checkerboard behind the art where that makes sense.
Works for the calendar types Pixerr offers. If you ask for something that does not exist yet, such as a 2026 wall calendar, you should be told what is available (a desk calendar, for example) rather than “we don’t support products.”
You should get an honest answer with close alternatives — a shirt or sweatshirt, for example — instead of a flat “unavailable.”
Same confirm-then-mockup flow as mugs. Pillows should also show up under Try another product and in the list of what you can create.
You should get a real ornament mockup shaped like the ornament — not your art dropped onto a flat poster. Confirm the plan before any tokens are spent.
The pet bandana collar is live, so you should get a bandana preview. Pet products that have not launched (bowl, leash) should not be offered.
Buy now, Sell this, and Publish
Every product preview card should offer two clear paths:
- Buy now — you order one for yourself through secure Stripe checkout.
- Sell this — Pixerr adds the design to your shop, usually with all of its size and color variants.
Buy a sample for yourself
What you do: Click Buy now on the preview card (or say “I want to buy this mug”).
- A brief “thinking” message, then your browser opens Stripe’s checkout page. Payment always happens on Stripe, never on a card form inside the chat.
- If the product was not in your store yet, Pixerr sets it up behind the scenes first, then opens checkout for the variant you picked.
- After you pay, you land back on Pixerr and Ask Pixerr should open and confirm the payment, with an order reference when one is available.
- If you cancel checkout, you come back to Pixerr with a friendly “cancelled” message and your preview is still in the chat.
Sell it in your shop
Or click Sell this on the card.
- You may be asked to confirm first.
- After you confirm, a success card appears with View product page (opens your live listing in a new tab), View your store, and buttons for editing or adding variations.
- The reply usually includes a clickable link to the same product page.
- The original preview card gains a View product page button once the product is in your store.
- Clicking Sell this again should tell you it is already in your store, not create a duplicate.
You should get the full variant set (sizes, colors, and so on), not just the single mockup you are looking at.
Publish (make the listing public)
Sell this adds the product to your shop, but it may still be private. Publish is the separate step that makes the listing visible on your public storefront.
Or click Publish on the preview card, which appears once the product is in your store.
- You get a confirmation step, then a success message — or a clear explanation if your store or the listing is not eligible yet.
- Publishing does not replace adding to your store. If the product is not in a store yet, you should be told so plainly.
If the preview belongs to a different shop, nothing should be quietly published in the wrong place. You should be offered a store switch, an add-to-store step in the shop you named, or a clear “that product isn’t in this shop” message.
Storefront product links
Your shop home lives at pixerr.com/shops/your-shop-name — note the “s” on shops. An individual product page drops that “s”: pixerr.com/shop/your-shop-name/your-product-name. Creative collection pages are different again: pixerr.com/shops/your-shop-name/creative/your-collection-name.
You should get a card listing your real products, each with a button that opens its live product page — not plain text links pointing at the wrong address.
Or tap the Generate social posts or My product links suggestion once you have products in your active shop.
- Ask Pixerr should look up your real products before writing anything.
- The copy should use your actual product page links and real product names — never made-up ones.
Once the mug is in your store, you should get its real product page link, and it should be clickable right in the chat — for example /shop/doggy-mugs/monday-mug.
/shop/doggy-mugs/monday-mug” with a working link.
/shops/doggy-mugs/monday-mug” — that mixes up the shop home address with a product page.
Continuity and workspace rail
After you generate a collection or a few mockups, Ask Pixerr should remember what you are working on so you do not have to re-describe your whole project every time you type.
You should hear the name of your active artwork collection, how many images it has, and your recent mockups. That is not the same thing as a product grouping in your shop, and the two should not be confused.
You should get a summary of your drafts — previews that are not in your store yet, and store products that are not public yet — matching the draft count on the workspace panel.
Or click Continue on the workspace panel, which fills this line in for you. You should get the same collection images on a new product type, not a brand-new collection.
You should get a real description of your current preview: what product it is, whether it is in your store, and whether it is public — not a guess.
Gallery to product workflow
You should get a gallery picker card with numbered thumbnails, 1 through 5.
- The thumbnails sit in a tidy grid with even spacing — not tiny cramped squares with wrapped titles.
- If you have no preview open yet, Select just tells Ask Pixerr which image you mean.
- If a preview is already in the chat, Apply to preview redraws that mockup with the image you picked.
- On a product with a front and a back, tiles also offer Apply to front and Apply to back.
That image becomes your current artwork. If a preview is open, the mockup updates, with a confirmation step when it costs tokens. The gallery picker should not stay stuck at the top of every following reply.
You should get a confirmation plan and a preview card marked Awaiting confirmation — not a finished mockup, and not “I’ve created a mockup…” until you click Confirm.
Once your artwork is picked, you should get one batch plan card listing all three products and the token estimate. Confirm once and you get a preview card for each.
Listing title, description, and tags
You should get a draft card with a title, description, and tags. Tap Apply to preview to save it onto your preview. This does not touch pricing.
On a preview that is not in your store yet, the name changes right away. Once the product is in your store, you get a confirmation step first, because changes to a live listing are riskier.
Store product tags
Ask Pixerr can help you fill in missing tags on the products already in your shop — a few at a time by product type, not your whole catalog in one go.
You should get a count of untagged products in your active shop, broken down by product type (mugs, posters, and so on).
You get a proposal card with suggested tags for up to five products at a time. You can revise or skip any of them, then confirm once to apply the whole batch.
Double-sided products (pillows)
You get a confirmation step, then the back matches the front placement. On a mug, you should be told there is only one wrap-around surface.
Use Apply to back on a gallery tile, or just say it. Only the back changes.
Generate more like this
Once a collection has finished generating, you can add more images in the same style without starting over from the style picker.
Or try “expand this collection” or “same style, different pose.”
- You should be expanding your existing collection, not starting a new one from scratch.
- The confirmation step shows the token estimate and which image the new batch is based on.
- After you confirm, a progress card runs and the new thumbnails join your collection in the same style.
Creative collection pages (public)
This is different from grouping products in your shop. A creative collection page is a public showcase of an artwork set and its story, at an address like pixerr.com/shops/your-shop-name/creative/your-collection-name.
What to expect:
- A confirmation step showing the page name and description.
- After you confirm, a card with View public page. You can open it as the owner even before visitors can see it.
- A social preview image is created automatically, so the link looks good when you share it.
Everything you made from that collection gets published together. If some products cannot go public yet, you should be told exactly which ones and why — for example, your store is not live yet.
Pillows, holiday decor, and pets
These product families joined the live Pixerr Studio catalog in May 2026, and they use realistic shaped mockups rather than flat previews.
Confirm, then you get a pillow mockup card with the same Buy now, Sell this, and Try another product buttons as a mug.
You should get a real holiday ornament, and the mockup should follow the ornament’s shape — not your art on a flat poster.
The pet bandana collar is live. Pet bowl, leash, and sweater have not launched, so they should not appear in product lists or under Try another product.
If you already have a mug or a collection mockup, your existing artwork gets reused and you get a new preview card for the stocking.
Workspace rail (clicks, not typed)
Use the workspace panel to check what you are working on and which shop is active, without typing anything.
- Continue — fills “Continue this collection on another product” into the message box for you.
- Mock all — the same as the “Mock all on…” button in the gallery grid: one mockup per image in your collection.
- New collection — fills in “Start a new collection”.
- View store — opens your active shop in a new tab.
- Switch store — fills in “Show my stores” so you get the list of your shops in chat.
- Plan hint — for example, “2 of 2 storefronts, plan limit reached” when you are at your cap.
- Open / Sell / Share on a recent preview — opens Studio, adds it to your active shop, or writes share copy. Recent previews only show items from your active shop.
- Preview titles become clickable links to the live product page once the product is in your store.
Moving art on the mockup (not resizing the file)
These change how your design sits on the product photo — centered, bigger, rotated. Your original image file is not cropped or changed by these buttons.
Or click Center on the card.
- The mockup updates, and the small “source artwork” thumbnail beside it stays exactly the same.
Or click Fit safely. Your design lands well inside the printable area, with nothing cut off.
Or click Expand 5%. Only the layout on the product changes.
Or use Rotate left and Rotate right in the card’s extra actions menu.
Fixing the artwork file itself
These sit under labels like Prep: in the card’s extra actions. They change your actual image — its margins, its size in pixels, its transparency — usually through Studio or by regenerating it.
Or click Prep: fit margin. Your source artwork changes, and the mockup refreshes to match.
This shrinks the image itself. That is different from “Shrink 5%” on the mockup, which only changes how big your art looks on the product photo.
Or click Fix transparency on the card.
- You get a confirmation step, because this spends tokens.
- After you confirm, you get new artwork and an updated mockup.
You should get fresh artwork, not just a nudged mockup.
Open in Studio
Studio is the full editor. Open in Studio is deliberately a smaller, secondary button so it does not compete with Buy now and Sell this.
What you do: Click Open in Studio on the preview card.
- Pixerr Studio opens with your artwork and product already loaded.
- You can fine-tune the placement, run print prep, and save.
- When you close Studio, your mockup in the chat should update to match what you left behind.
Or use Fine-tune in Studio in the card’s extra actions, which can open Studio straight into placement editing.
Same design, different product
Or click Try another product.
- Your existing artwork gets reused whenever possible, which saves tokens.
- You get a new preview card for the poster.
You should get the product you were just working on, not an old unrelated design. See also Continuity for “what did we just make?”
I already have an image
What you do: Attach or upload an image in the chat.
- A card confirms the upload worked, and shows the size and shape when it can.
- You pick a product — a mug, a phone case, whatever you like.
- A preview card appears with Buy now, Sell this, and Open in Studio.
You should be pointed to another product type, or to Try another product once you already have a preview.
Collections and themed sets
What to expect:
- A style picker, if you have not chosen a style yet.
- You pick watercolor, or just say the style out loud.
- Say “give me ideas” and you get several concept titles.
- Pick a concept, get a plan for 1 to 6 images, confirm, watch the progress, then see the thumbnails.
- Then say “put these on mugs” to get a plan, confirm it, and get your product previews.
Once a style is set, it should simply change. The style picker should not reappear unless you ask to browse styles.
You can generate 1 to 6 images at a time in chat. If you do not say a number, you should be asked.
Once your thumbnails exist, you should get mockups of the same images — not a restart of style and concept picking. Mock all in the workspace panel should use the product you named.
Multi-store (list, profile, switch, create)
If you run more than one storefront, Ask Pixerr keeps track of which one is active for this chat, matching what you picked on your Dashboard. Switching updates your workspace panel and decides which shop receives new products. You can also read and change your store profile from chat — title, shop name in your address, description, and tagline — and you get a store details card showing your shop link and image count.
You should get a Your storefronts card listing every shop with its shop name, how many public products it has, how many gallery images it has, Active and Default badges, and a Switch to… button on each. The written reply should mention both product and image counts.
You should get your store title, shop name, description (or “not set”), public product count, and image count, plus a store details card listing every profile field, including your tagline if you have one, and your store’s status.
You should get the active shop’s name, address, description, product and image counts, and whether it is live — plus a store details card with Open shop, View products, and Switch store.
You do not have to type the name exactly. After the switch:
- A short reply: “Switched to Doggy Mugs.”
- A store details card for the shop you moved to.
- The workspace panel updates to Doggy Mugs, and recent previews filter to that shop.
- Your Designer and Dashboard should show the same active shop when you open them.
If you have both “Doggy Mugs” and “Doggy Dogs,” neither should be picked for you silently. You should get a clarifying question, or the list of your shops again.
You get a card listing the top products in your active shop. Each row opens that product’s live page in a new tab — the product address, not the shop home address.
You get a confirmation card showing exactly what will change. After you click Confirm, the reply and the updated store details card show your saved title, description, shop name, and counts.
Both the title and the shop name in your address change together. Shop names in addresses are always lowercase with hyphens. If the name is already taken, you should be told — nothing is quietly overwritten. After you confirm, the details card shows your new shop name and full shop link.
After you upload or pick a gallery image, it becomes your shop profile image, and your creator avatar too if you ask. There is no separate confirmation step here, and you should only be told it worked after it actually saved.
You get a confirmation step, then your new shop. If you are already at your plan’s shop limit — Creator allows 2, for example — you should get a clear message with an upgrade link, not a generic error.
You should be told plainly that moving products between storefronts is not supported, and offered the alternative: switch to the other shop, then use Sell this to create the product there. Never a fake “moved” confirmation.
Store setup and going live
You should get a calm explanation of your Stripe payout setup — what is missing and what to click — not a lecture.
You get your real, current status, and a setup card if anything is still restricted.
You get a checklist: store image, products, Stripe, email verification — based on your actual account.
You should never be told you are live unless your store really is published.
Flash sales
You should get a confirmation step first. Nothing should say the sale is running until you confirm it.
(Answering when it asks how long.) You should get a real 2-minute countdown sale, not just an “OK” with nothing behind it.
The flash sale stops and you get confirmation that it is off.
Wall art and wallpaper packs
You get a draft pack card, you confirm, then the pack is saved. Nothing should claim it is saved before you confirm.
Same draft-then-confirm pattern for wallpaper packs.
When something goes wrong
The card may show the mockup as still pending. You can retry it or open Studio, and your artwork should still be safe either way.
What you do: Click retry on the mockup, if it is offered.
The mockup image refreshes without regenerating your whole design.
If your preview still exists, you should get it back with a real description — not “I don’t know.”
What you do: Refresh your browser part-way through, after making a collection and some mockups.
Your chat history comes back, and the workspace panel still shows the same active collection and recent previews.
While a confirmation step is showing, Cancel drops it with no tokens spent and no products created.
Signed out vs signed in
What you do: Open Ask Pixerr while logged out and ask a simple question.
You get a few answers, then a prompt to sign in before you can create products, buy, or sell.
What you do: Sign in and repeat “Put my design on a mug.”
The full flow works: confirmation step, then your preview card.
Quick day-in-the-life walkthrough (30 minutes)
New to Ask Pixerr? Try these ten steps end to end:
- Say hello and ask what products you can make.
- Ask for a mug preview, then confirm the plan.
- Click Center, then Fit safely — only the mockup changes.
- Click Sell this, confirm, and open your product link.
- Click Publish if it is offered, and confirm.
- Click Share, or ask for Reddit copy, and copy the text from the card.
- Click Buy now, then either complete or cancel Stripe checkout and come back.
- Say “try it on a poster” and confirm the new card.
- Open in Studio, nudge the placement, close it, and check your mockup in chat updated.
- Ask “what did we just make?” and check the workspace panel matches.
If all ten felt smooth, you have the core Pixerr product and selling flow down.
Collections walkthrough (about 15 more minutes)
- Make six images in watercolor and confirm the plan.
- Ask for 3 more like the second one, and confirm.
- Mock all of them on mugs, and check the workspace panel shows your collection and recent previews.
- Refresh the page — your panel and history should still be there.
- Sell one mockup, publish it, and get share copy for it.
- Create a public page for the collection and open the link.
Navigation walkthrough (about 5 more minutes)
- Say “Take me to Image Gallery” — your gallery opens in the Designer.
- Say “Open my storefront” — your live shop opens in a new tab.
- Say “Go to subscriptions” — your token and plan page opens.
- Sign out and say “Take me to Image Gallery” again — you get a sign-in prompt, not silence.
Multi-store walkthrough (about 10 more minutes, needs two shops)
- Ask “Show my stores” and check each row shows the shop name, product count, and image count.
- Ask “What's the name and description of my store?” and read the store details card.
- Click Switch to… on the storefronts card.
- Check the workspace panel shows the new shop and your plan hint.
- Create a mug and click Sell this — it should land in the shop that is active.
- Switch shops again and ask “Show products in this store.”
- Ask to change your store description, confirm, and check the details card updates.
- Ask to move the mug to your other shop — you should be told that is not supported.