sell photos?

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by Michael P

Well, the code is all there; its still an issue of finding companies willing to take orders via our software.

From the Photopost 5.3 release announcement:
Order Photos. This functionality has been removed and is no longer supported.

My understanding of this is due to Photopost not being able to find companies willing to take orders via Photopost?

If this is the case can we please at least have a 'manual purchase photo' process? What I mean is that the site owner has the ability to sell photos from his Photopost site but is the one responsible for dealing with their preferred shop or online photo company to fulfill the order and post it to the customer.

[dustinto]

I would like this.

It would just need to send all the users info along with the picture to an email address.

[Bill Thebert]

I don't need integration with an online photo printing service (e.g., smugmug, shutterfly, etc.). I'm perfectly content to manage my own supply chain, procure prints from my own sources, etc.

I still need, however, a built-in PRINT SALES facility within PhotoPost. My requirements/desires for such an interface would include:

1) Allow me to specify WHICH photos are available for sale. (Not all posted images are currently offered in printed form.)

2) Allow me to specify WHICH print sizes are available -- on a gallery-by-gallery basis, plus with override ability at the individual image level. (Not all images are able to be printed at all sizes -- owing to both aspect ratio and resolution constraints.)

3) Allow me to specify PRICING for each available print size -- on a gallery-by-gallery basis, plus with override ability at the individual image level.

4) Integration with an online payment processor (PayPal comes to mind). I don't necessarily need item-by-item integration with a PayPal-provided shopping cart; although that wouldn't be a problem if it happens to be the easiest way to solve the problem. I would, however, like to see feedback FROM the PayPal process to the PhotoPost database -- marking each order as properly paid. (Much like vBulletin databases are updated as a result of a successful PayPal transaction.)

5) Provide me an administrative back-end to view a summary of orders, and to mark orders as fulfilled/shipped or not. (Or better yet, a specific ship date.) Allow me to view just pending orders, or just completed orders. Allow me to locate an order by customer name (fuzzy search -- customer name CONTAINS "xyz").

Things offered by other online printing facilities (e.g., smugmug) which I definitely DO NOT need or desire:

1) The ability for users/customers to custom CROP images. If such facility is offered, I must be allowed to TURN IT OFF. I do not wish customers to be able to re-compose my work, or to crop out my copyright information.

2) The ability for a customer to select a print surface (e.g., glossy vs. matte vs. lustre). Nice, but not necessary. And should be able to TURN THIS OPTION OFF if I do not elect to offer a choice.

If such an interface exists, but is simply not being released owing to a lack of compatible online print providers, then perhaps it could be easily re-tooled for those of use who have our own print sources.

I would, in fact, be willing to HIRE the development/creation of such an interface/add-on to PhotoPost, if someone can convince me that they're up to the task.

[torralaq]

if you get this worked out, as I would like the same thing myself.

[Bill Thebert]

Any prospect of this happening?

Any suggested add-on providers that can accomodate this?

Or should I start looking for some other (non-PhotoPost) solution?

[ppdigital]

Just to let you guys know, I use PhotoStore on www.pixelperfectstock.com and I'm extremely happy with the script and support from Ktools.

Another turnkey ecommerce script you might want to consider to sell photos is:
www.lightboxphoto.com

I haven't had any personal experience with lightboxphoto, but it looks very good and I've seen many positive reviews on hotscripts.com

Hope this helps!