Web Photography Sales Website In A Box – Does It Exist?

OK.... I have "Shopping Cart X" working.

http://scx.mainretail.​com/scx/welcome.htm

It's about US$ 55 (about $1Mil Australian). Easy to get running, a little time consuming to get all the data in, but might be the shop. My test site (please no cc on the photos, they were the first I found) is at http://trenthaines.myp​hotos.cc/shop . It's set-up to mail me every time there is an order then I guess I'd contact buyers for the $$ side of things.

Now I have this running I'll give zencart another try.....after my poor little brain cools down a little.

I have used SmugMug (http://www.smugmug.com​/) for "events" and "better" images. I like the customization of "your" site, and the fact that they will print and handle everything for you. They do prints, and gifts too, if you want to enable all the options. And YOU set what you would like to offer for sale. Different sizes and papers too. And they will send you any profits, if you give them a tax ID number.

I believe you need the PRO subscription to allow printing, otherwise, it is a photo sharing type site. Pro is $99 per year, I believe.

You can save $5 on a SmugMug subscription if you enter this code ( L5xvhn5DEtHqs ), without the parenthesis, in the 'Referred by' field on the signup form...

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In the UK (if you favor UK-ish merchants, or anywhere really), you might want to try PhotoShare (http://www.photoshare.​co.nz). The guy that runs it is VERY nice to work with.

PhotoShare just hosts pictures (no printing option), but it is WAY easier for average people to customize AND cheaper than PBase. It costs a whopping $6 for each 50mb, with a 100mb minimum. $12 per year is about half of PBase.

Their homepage isn't much, but if you look at some of the members galleries, you can see some nice layouts and things, that they offer. They have a "wizard" to use to customize, or you can do it more manually. Nice site with nice people...

New SmugMug pro account are now $150. You can sell prints at any subscription level, but only with the Pro account can you change the sale prices and make a profit.

Dang, they are $150 now. Didn't know that. Still probably worth it for them doing everything after the sale, so to speak.

They made an announcement that they were going to raise prices a while ago, although IMHO I think it's still fairly cheap and a pretty good deal. The unlimited space is wonderful, and I've not even come close to my bandwith usage.

For anyone who's interested, I'm approaching the final stages of developing a dedicated photo sales system with the following features (to name a few):

* secure albums (you give clients an event name and date which they use to sign on) - optional public albums
* print sizes and types and prices defined by you
* remote album admin tool -- resamples while uploading
* dynamic zooming and watermarking (allows clients to see close-ups of faces but still watermarks the zoomed version)
* full credit card handling
* allows purchase of images for download (variable sizes)

A pro photographer is already testing the system and I'm hoping to have it ready for everyone else in a few months. If you're interested in specifics or have features to recommend, feel free to PM me.

I hope there's nothing questionable about posting this here. I'm not actually selling a product yet, and this seemed an appropriate place to engage with photographers about what they'd like to see in something like this ...

Im a professional photographer using printroom as well. It has done wonders with my reprint sales allowing me to not have to deal with anyreprints physically anymore. I dont know what Id do without it. My time is limited having a fulltine day job on top of my photography business with the competition these days. Online ordering has been a key feature to provide customers with easy access to ordering vs going thru me directly having to run to the lab and mailing directly. An online lab does the work for you with less hassle and time consumption. The majority of big name photogs nowadays use online services to do their reprinting with the increased costs of running a business alog with ease for the consumer and speed of receiveing reprints.

I placed my european portfolio online through a company called www.creativemotiondesi​gn.co.uk. They allow for tons of image space and bascially unlimited galleries for different portfolios. Plus they have an easy to use control panel that allows me to easily add pages and edit existing info. Overall, I am pretty happy with them.

Hey guys,

Try

Picture Proofs

because it has exactly what this post is asking for. It does not refer your customers to another site. It allows you to make a box in your own site and

import their services

Also, only 5% on sales and no other costs. Can't hurt to try because it's free!

www.fotki.com also let's users sell their photos with the ability to set custom prices.

www.discofealey.co.uk made my site ---> www.esphoto.co.uk

If you don't want to spend a lot of money, you may want to look into Shutterfly's Pro Gallery. Allows you to host images, they handle the printing/payment/shipp​ing so you don't have to.

Anyone here use www.dotphotopro.com ?? or know anything good or bad about it?