iPad for displaying and ordering photos at an onsite multi day event

CrescentiPhoto

Hey All,
Hopefully someone can help me out there with this one. I shoot indoor sporting events during competitions and throughout the days that the events are going on, people can come and browse the photos that were shot and order them from me.

I am trying to find something that will make my life easy with an iPad that will allow people to browse the photos, add them to a cart and either pay us cash/check or enter a credit card right there and then. The photos would NOT be printed onsite, but sent to the customer a week later via a printing house. I will have a small laserjet there to also print up receipts for the customer too.

I do have a smugmug account, but during these events, I shoot pretty heavy and the bandwidth to send to smugmug isn't fast enough...

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
Steve

Tmetroff

I personally would be afraid that it would get broken/stolen. Alot of times people that do sporting events that are not printing the pictures on the spot just give out a business card and a date of when their photos will be uploaded.

ImageX Photography

Tmetroff wrote: »

I personally would be afraid that it would get broken/stolen. Alot of times people that do sporting events that are not printing the pictures on the spot just give out a business card and a date of when their photos will be uploaded.

This is the easiest way. The small Moo cards are great for this purpose. I have "Find your photos at" and then the link in bright red lettering... as well as other contact info. It works great if you catch a random special moment somewhere because then you can just walk up and hand them the card and forget about it.