Pro pricing on cards?

Janelle · November 16, 2007

I am so excited about the new holiday card feature, but can't figure out how to up-price them for a profit. Is that possible? I've searched under the pro-pricing tool. Am I missing something?

Andy · November 16, 2007

HI, it's for gallery owners only at this time, thanks

http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-greeting-cards

magicpic · November 17, 2007

Andy wrote:

HI, it's for gallery owners only at this time, thanks

http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-greeting-cards

so do you mean that we are the only ones that can make the card so the customer can not make their own card and we can not price it in our shopping cart...trying to understand...janis

ivar · November 17, 2007

magicpic wrote:

so do you mean that we are the only ones that can make the card so the customer can not make their own card and we can not price it in our shopping cart...trying to understand...janis

You can make the cards, your customer can not.

You can make the cards available for purchase, and you can set a price. Give it a try, make a card, and you'll see what happens

Allen · November 17, 2007

ivar wrote:

You can make the cards, your customer can not.

You can make the cards available for purchase, and you can set a price. Give it a try, make a card, and you'll see what happens

Looks like at the moment only you can order cards logged in. They are not
available logged out.

Archangel · November 17, 2007

YAY!

I am so excited about this!!! But still a little confused.

I made a card for a customer and it says it's $12.95 for 20 cards. So there is no way to mark them up right? We just tell the customer they are $XX plus shipping...WE order them and have them ship direct right???

Jeanne
Photosbyjeanne.com

bwg · November 17, 2007

ivar wrote:

You can make the cards, your customer can not.

You can make the cards available for purchase, and you can set a price. Give it a try, make a card, and you'll see what happens

This is not correct. Cards are available only for you, for your photos at this time. They are not available for sale to non-smugmug subscribers.

bwg · November 17, 2007

Archangel wrote:

YAY! I am so excited about this!!! But still a little confused.

I made a card for a customer and it says it's $12.95 for 20 cards. So there is no way to mark them up right? We just tell the customer they are $XX plus shipping...WE order them and have them ship direct right???

Jeanne
Photosbyjeanne.com

Correct, this is the only way to sell cards to your customers at this time.

girouardphotography · November 17, 2007

We are getting closer.

I will probably use the Google shopping cart.

TomiGirl · November 18, 2007

So how do you do that?

girouardphotography wrote:

We are getting closer.
I will probably use the Google shopping cart.

How do you use a google shopping cart? I have a paypal account can I set that up?
Thanks ~ Tomi

TomiGirl · November 18, 2007

Why??

bigwebguy wrote:

This is not correct. Cards are available only for you, for your photos at this time. They are not available for sale to non-smugmug subscribers.

I can understand why for reg smug muggers this would be the case but for Pro Smuggers why is that? That would be a HUGE profit maker for the portrait photographers and for smug-mug. Is there any way around this? How can my clients see the card options online? Can I link it somehow?

Thanks all!

Andy · November 18, 2007

TomiGirl wrote:

I can understand why for reg smug muggers this would be the case but for Pro Smuggers why is that? That would be a HUGE profit maker for the portrait photographers and for smug-mug. Is there any way around this? How can my clients see the card options online? Can I link it somehow?

Thanks all!

It is not available for clients to order, we're very sorry. We hope to have this at somepoint.

Enjoy the cards.

You can make your own gallery of sample cards, and show your clients your amazing work on cards. Then sell them however you like

You can also link to cards.smugmug.com if you wish.

Andy · November 18, 2007

TomiGirl wrote:

I can understand why for reg smug muggers this would be the case but for Pro Smuggers why is that? That would be a HUGE profit maker for the portrait photographers and for smug-mug. Is there any way around this? How can my clients see the card options online? Can I link it somehow?

Thanks all!

Standby I'll have a custom solution for you soon, tonight

Andy · November 18, 2007

Andy wrote:

Standby I'll have a custom solution for you soon, tonight

As promised, http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/3848373

You can easily pimp your own cards

Just make a gallery and then put in some easy code from the payment provider you already probably use (you don't have one?!!!). I prefer Google Checkout, but Paypal or even your merchant account will do.

Archangel · November 18, 2007

Another question. I made 3 sample cards for my customer. I sent her an e-mail with the marked up pricing and small, watermarked samples of the cards. She loved them and wants to order...BUT...she wants a quantity of 30 only. Any way to get around this? I am just not having any luck lately and am beyond frustrated!

Jeanne
Photosbyjeanne.com

Andy · November 18, 2007

Archangel wrote:

Another question. I made 3 sample cards for my customer. I sent her an e-mail with the marked up pricing and small, watermarked samples of the cards. She loved them and wants to order...BUT...she wants a quantity of 30 only. Any way to get around this? I am just not having any luck lately and am beyond frustrated!

Jeanne
Photosbyjeanne.com

I'm really sorry, we have quanities of 20, 50 or 100.

GJMPhoto · November 19, 2007

Problem getting card menus
Folks:

When I click on 'Create a Card', I get a dialog - looks like a flash is loading - and I get a tab at the bottom 'Cards' ... and that's it. No Category pull down menu as per the help file.

Any ideas????

- Gary.

Andy · November 19, 2007

GJMPhoto wrote:

Folks:

When I click on 'Create a Card', I get a dialog - looks like a flash is loading - and I get a tab at the bottom 'Cards' ... and that's it. No Category pull down menu as per the help file.

Any ideas????

- Gary.

I know you are sorted but for anyone else out there:

It's a problem with custom domains. When in the card maker, simply change www.yourcustomdomain.com/blahblahblah to www.smugmug.com/blahblahblah and you'll be able to make the card just fine.

We're working on this, stay tuned.

bkatz · November 19, 2007

Very cool

Andy wrote:

As promised, http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/3848373

You can easily pimp your own cards Just make a gallery and then put in some easy code from the payment provider you already probably use (you don't have one?!!!). I prefer Google Checkout, but Paypal or even your merchant account will do.

Andy -

This is great - I like the way you did this.

djspinner2k · November 19, 2007

Andy wrote:

As promised, http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/3848373

You can easily pimp your own cards Just make a gallery and then put in some easy code from the payment provider you already probably use (you don't have one?!!!). I prefer Google Checkout, but Paypal or even your merchant account will do.

Is there anywhere I can go to figure out how you made this gallery. I didn't think we had that kind of ability. I am a pro member. I just haven't used it too long.

Andy · November 19, 2007

djspinner2k wrote:

Is there anywhere I can go to figure out how you made this gallery. I didn't think we had that kind of ability. I am a pro member. I just haven't used it too long.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=76819

TCS · June 25, 2008

Andy wrote:

I know you are sorted but for anyone else out there:

It's a problem with custom domains. When in the card maker, simply change www.yourcustomdomain.com/blahblahblah to www.smugmug.com/blahblahblah and you'll be able to make the card just fine.

We're working on this, stay tuned.

I tried this, for the same problem and it doesn't work...

Christine

Pro pricing on cards?

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