Rules and guidelines 👏🏻
Community standards
Accurate information is essential on Cuse because people rely on it to make informed decisions. When product specifications are correct, the platform becomes a trusted resource for everyone. Inaccurate or misleading entries can cause confusion, wasted time and poor purchasing decisions.
When publishing/editing products, make sure that your source is either official or trustworthy.
Ensuring the veracity of information improves collaboration, and strengthens the value of the community as a shared source of reliable knowledge.
What can be published on Cuse?
Any product that:
- Directly falls in any of the categories
- Isn’t already published
- Is not a fake
Cockpits, bundles and accessories are not supported yet.
Guidelines
To make sure products can be compared equally, there is a set of good practices to keep in mind. When publishing or editing a product, try to follow these guidelines:
Category
Select the most precise category possible. A product can only have one category but will appear in all of its parent categories.
Product bundles are not yet supported, instead, try to add products of the bundle individually in each of their respective categories.
Brand
Select the brand that makes the product. If it’s a collab between two brands, select the one that makes the product.
Fakes and duplicates are not allowed on Cuse.
A brand is missing from the list? Contact us so we can add it!
Product name
When filling the product name, exclude the category name and the brand name. For example: “Simucube 3 Pro wheel base” should be written as “3 Pro”. Brand and category names are automatically displayed when needed alongside the product name.
Keep an eye on how the name is formatted on the brand’s website. Try to respect uppercases, lowercases, symbols and spaces.
SKU
Short for “Stock Keeping Unit”. Some brands keep SKUs as an internal reference for easier inventory. SKUs can sometimes be found on online stores, invoices or in web URLs. Not all products have an SKU.
The SKU is used to index the product. It’s not mandatory but it helps others differentiate two similar products.
Production status
Set whether or not the product is still being manufactured. If unsure, check if the product can easily be bought online.
A product in backorder is considered in production if it has an estimated time of arrival.
Upcoming or unreleased products are not yet supported.
An “out of production” product has exactly the same fields as other products. They are important in multiple ways:
- To keep an archive of products.
- To compare features between product generations.
- To track the evolution of prices over the years.
Attributes
Set all options that match with the product (each attribute can have multiple values).
If your product can be configured with different options, be sure to set all of these. You can then assign prices based on those options.
Leave an attribute blank if you can’t find the information or if you are unsure about it. Other members can then contribute on the product page to complete the data.
If your product doesn’t have a specific attribute, set “0” or “None”.
Prices
Set the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) incl. taxes. If no MSRP is available, check prices across online stores.
Shipping cost is not to be included in the product price.
You can adjust the price per currency if the brand is selling the product in other markets. You can find those by changing the region/language of the brand’s website. By default, prices are automatically converted in other currencies using current exchange rates.
Configurations
A configuration is a set of options and a price for the product.
For example, a brand can let you configure a wheel with either 2, 4 or 6 paddles. If that makes the price change, it’s a configuration.
Complex configurable products tend to have many configurations. You can add as many as necessary to replicate the brand’s price list.
Image
Choose an image that best shows the product. Most products benefit from having a 3/4 angle shot, except for wheels where a front-facing product image is more adapted. It’s generally a good practice to choose the image that the brand displays first on their product page.
The ideal image is 1000px on the longer side, cut-out transparent and trimmed to the product edges.
WebP, PNG, and JPG are supported.
Multiple product images are not yet supported.
Source
Add at least one URL from which your data originates.
Official brand or manufacturer website is preferred. Online stores, review sites and videos are also accepted as long as the source is trustworthy.
No affiliate links are allowed on Cuse.
Submission
You can publish a product even when some information is missing. Other members can then help complete the data directly from the product page.
After submitting the form, a moderator will double-check your data as well as ensuring that the source is trustworthy.
