Creating a bridal registry

sellis

I had a potential client ask me about setting up a bridal registry to pay for the cost of the photography since they already have a house and all the furnishings. I haven't found anything online that's what I want, so is there a way to do this through SM?

I was thinking about setting up a pricelist for cards in a special registry gallery and creating cards with their engagement portraits that their friends would buy and give to them at the wedding. For example, one card would have a message like "$50 Towards Your Photography" and others for other increments. But how can I set it so that one design costs $50 and another design costs $100? My other thought is to make it $50 for a 4x6 print and $100 for a 5x7 print and just use one design so they just buy the size in the amount they want to give the couple.

Any thoughts on how I can make this work? Am I missing something? Anyone try this?

Thanks,
Sam

Wendee

Hi Sam,

The best way to do this so that everything the family and friends pay goes toward the photography registry is to create your own shopping cart through Google or PayPal, and let them pay you through that. If you rely on the SmugMug shopping cart you would need to remember the cost of the product and the 15% of the markup that SmugMug keeps. So if you charge $100 for a 5x7 print, that doesn't equal $100 going to the bride and groom, if you're using our cart and pricelist setup.

This page may help,
http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/84515

If you need anything else, please let us know.


Wendee
SmugMug Support Hero
http://help.smugmug.com/

sellis

Thanks Wendee, that seems perfect! I did a quick test with that sample code and it's easy as pie

jasonscottphoto

I ran across this recently... might be just what you want. I haven't tried it yet (although I just won 6 months free in a facebook contest so I might try it out real soon!)

https://ciderr.com/

sellis

jasonscottphoto wrote: »

I ran across this recently... might be just what you want. I haven't tried it yet (although I just won 6 months free in a facebook contest so I might try it out real soon!)

https://ciderr.com/

Thanks, I saw that on another forum. I requested an invitation, but still don't have any info from them on pricing. Someone else on the other forum said it's $5 a month or more depending on usage. I'd rather pay the processing fee than $60 in the hopes someone uses it. I just don't see this as a popular thing yet.