Sell your photos using wordpress

[PixelpeepS3]

Hi all - got a bit of a tricky one here - friend wants to sell his photographs online - no problem so far..

well, he wants to offer digital downloads but also a physical print if they want.

the solution we have so far is using creativehub for the whitelabel printing and shipping, via shopify, via a wordpress plug in to the final site.

whilst this kind of works for the printing side of it, it doesn't allow the option to have the print OR the digital download (at different price points, obviously)

just wondered if anyone else offers this, and what they use to do so?

if it comes to it i don't mind linking out from his wordpress website to a 3rd party 'store', as long as they deal with all the printing/shipping and payments.

any ideas? thank you!

[DailyHack]

Have you looked into using Etsy as a shop/e-commerce, its good for digital print downloads, I use this for digital photo download sales.

Edited by DailyHack on Monday 1st June 22:40

[sgtBerbatov]

If you're going to use WordPress then you're going to either have to religiously check it every day for updates, as WordPress is a highly targeted platform for hackers etc.

As someone else said, maybe go for Etsy instead, or even Not On The High Street?

[PixelpeepS3]

sgtBerbatov said:

If you're going to use WordPress then you're going to either have to religiously check it every day for updates, as WordPress is a highly targeted platform for hackers etc.

I been running a suite of wordpress sites for around 12 years, auto updates are enabled for plugins and core WP, non used themes and plugins deleted, custom rule wordfence running in the background, non standard usernames (no one called admin!) and 2FA for any access level user accounts, plus daily log checking and maintenance runs by me - so i am already well in that world

sgtBerbatov said:

As someone else said, maybe go for Etsy instead, or even Not On The High Street?

i'm looking at Etsy this morning, thank you everyone for your suggestions

[StevieBee]

Pixieset offer digital downloads as well and print and other products. You set the price.

Simple and very good service.

[steveatesh]

StevieBee said:

Pixieset offer digital downloads as well and print and other products. You set the price.

Simple and very good service.

+1

[tog]

I use Pixieset too. A good service, simple to set up and good looking galleries.

[eps]

I'm sure it's obvious, but how does Pixieset work? I mean technically - where are you displaying your photos, is it just a backend?

[StevieBee]

eps said:

I'm sure it's obvious, but how does Pixieset work? I mean technically - where are you displaying your photos, is it just a backend?

It's a platform to which you subscribe

You upload your photos. Allocate them into albums (if you want). Choose the look and feel of how people will see it. You then select the products you want to sell via which affiliate. They provide a list of products (Canvas, Prints, etc) with their price to you. You choose the mark-up you want to apply. You activate digital downloads and apply a cost to these. And you're done.

What you end up with is effectively a website to which you can direct people. The domain name is something like pixiset.com/your.name but you can use another domain if you have one.

Customers order from the affiliate provider via the site. Their money goes to Pixieset who then pay the provider and your mark up directly into your PayPal, Stripe or Bank Account.

You do nothing in terms of order fulfilment. An important point to note (and why these services are so useful) is that if something goes wrong, you're not liable. If you do something yourself and the lab screws up, it's still down to you to rectify on behalf of your customer.

Mine is need of some fettling but you can see it here: https://stephenwbates.pixieset.com

It's quite simple to set up.

HTH

[WelshChris]

StevieBee said:

Mine is need of some fettling but you can see it here: https://stephenwbates.pixieset.com

It's quite simple to set up.

HTH

That’s a great looking site. Hope you don’t mind me asking, but was it set up to fulfil a demand that was already there, or do you get random sales as well?

[StevieBee]

WelshChris said:

StevieBee said:

Mine is need of some fettling but you can see it here: https://stephenwbates.pixieset.com

It's quite simple to set up.

HTH

That’s a great looking site. Hope you don’t mind me asking, but was it set up to fulfil a demand that was already there, or do you get random sales as well?

Thanks

I set it up a year ago as quite a few people were telling me I should do something else with my photos other than just 'look at them'.

It was really just to see what interest there is out there so set it up and pushed it via social media. Had quite a bit of interest and some sales from it but like anything, you need to pro-actively promote it which I've not really had the time to do but is on the to-do list!

[percy]

I'm looking to sell more of my photos and like the look of Pixieset... I'll probably try the free version (with commission) and see how it goes. Before I set up a site - are there any drawbacks - and are there any other sites I should look at as an alternative (I did look at Smugmug a while ago) ?
Thanks