Sales Questions

emiliewasmyeve

I've been using SmugMug for my photography business for almost a year and I LOVE it. I'm about to land a deal doing "holiday card" photographs for a private school. Essentially, I'll be creating galleries for nearly 75 families and each family will be able to order from the galleries.

I have a couple of questions about this:

-Is there a way to simplify the items for sale? For example, they won't need to order compact camera prints or commercial rights. Can I remove these options from the "store"?

-Is there an option for these clients to design/buy their holiday cards on SmugMug?

-Is there an option for clients to buy rights to a whole gallery? Or order a high-res DVD of the images?

Thanks for the help!

Andy

1. Set items you don't want to sell to $0.

2. Cards - At this time, cards are only available for creation and purchase by you, as a logged-in SmugMug account owner. We'd like to allow pro pricing on these in the future, but no timeline on that yet, sorry!

In the meantime, you'll need to make a card for your client, then order it and ship to them, collecting payment from your client by your own methods. Here's how I do it for my clients: http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/3848373 .

You can show your client the designs on http://cards.smugmug.com/gallery/3824198 or, you can make your own gallery of samples like I did.

How to? Have a look here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=76819 and post any questions there in that thread. If you'd like help in registering and posting on Dgrin, that's right here: http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/2588068/1/136393291

3. If you fulfill and charge, yes - adding something like Google Checkout is rather trivial - you can collect the money and burn a CD.

We hope to one day have our CD/DVD Backups in the shopping cart.