Pro account - am I right in thinking...

philx123philx123 Registered Users Posts: 201 Major grins
edited December 8, 2009 in SmugMug Pro Sales Support
That the only two real benefits are commerce and watermarking?

I initially thought I was going to go for a Pro account (on a trial, at the moment), but I'm not so sure now.
I'm in the UK, and I understand that all sales are in $ (understandable for a US site) - but this means if I did use the commerce function, and people bought images, I'd have to pay a conversion charge in my UK bank, which I seem to remember is pretty steep.
I'm setting up my website to build my wedding business, and forsee very few sales coming through the commerce function.
I'm assuming, then that if I go for a power, the only thing I'll gain is watermarking.

Just checking there isn;t anything else I'm missing that I'll kick myself for not getting.

Many thanks

Phil

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  • Dan7312Dan7312 Registered Users Posts: 1,330 Major grins
    edited December 5, 2009
    Don't know if these are real or not but you also get:

    jpegs > 12 MB
    HD Video
    Bay Photo

    philx123 wrote:
    That the only two real benefits are commerce and watermarking?


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  • dmakogondmakogon Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited December 5, 2009
    Dan7312 wrote:
    Don't know if these are real or not but you also get:

    jpegs > 12 MB
    HD Video
    Bay Photo

    Pro users may upload 24MB Jpegs vs 12.

    In addition to the filesize diff, HD video, and Bay Photo:There's watermarking, backprinting, cart branding, proof-delay, and digital downloads. Maybe there's some other stuff, but that's what I recall.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 5, 2009
    Hi Phil, you may compare features here:
    http://www.smugmug.com/photos/photo-sharing-features/

    We just added Coupons for pro accounts.
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  • philx123philx123 Registered Users Posts: 201 Major grins
    edited December 6, 2009
    Andy wrote:
    Hi Phil, you may compare features here:
    http://www.smugmug.com/photos/photo-sharing-features/

    We just added Coupons for pro accounts.

    Thanks for the help. I'll have a look and see if I need to upgrade.

    All the best

    Phil
  • StevenSzaboStevenSzabo Registered Users Posts: 93 Big grins
    edited December 8, 2009
    something to look in to doing for your currency woes is add in the paypal cart instead...you can charge in any currency you want that way, and take payment directly. however it does have the negative side effect of no longer self fulfilling, so you would have to e-mail the files and do your prints yourself or farm out to a local lab(isn't necessarily a bad thing since it would save your customers from having to pay shipping on prints from the states, and wait for the mail)...I personally did it for both the currency reason and the fact that I wanted to do my own printing...so far it is getting a very positive response.

    Feel free to check out the functionality if you want on my site at(all the galleries are open):
    http://www.stevenszabophoto.com

    and check out the thread for how to do it here:
    http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=116380

    I'm by no means the best at coding it in there, the people in that thread are much better, but I seem to have managed to hack it together in the end.
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