
Your Own Online Sales
The Internet offers artists and photographers one of the least expensive ways to carry out transactions. The cost per transaction is negligible compared to what it would cost in a traditional brick and mortar business. Selling one's work online can be very rewarding, but planning a successful marketing approach for your online portfolio is the only way to achieve a successful outcome. The staff at FolioLink would like nothing better than to see you successfully sell your photography, art and design work online, and we are happy to extend some of our online business experience to any of our users who wish to call us for a free consultation. The following are descriptions of our 2 extensive E-Commerce solutions:
Online Sales with a FolioLink Premium Account
This option is included at no extra charge with a FolioLink Premium Account. Premium users are able to offer any of their images for sale through this convenient, easy and powerful solution. Paypal integration has all you need to sell your images in a professional manner. If you are a Premium Account user, all you need to do is send us your PayPal account, enter the relevant image pricing and marketing information in the "Marketing & Sales" tab of your image pages and you are ready to go.
*Please note that shopping cart sales allow for a single price point per image. If you need to list multiple price points per image, you may want to consider the Pro Account.
Online Sales with a Foliolink Pro Account
The Pro Account makes it possible for photographers to create private client areas, license images, sell royalty free images and/or sell prints at various sizes and price points.
The new Pro Account gives you all of the E-Commerce features of FolioLink’s popular Premium Account coupled a with a fully searchable companion Image Archive website that is ideal for photographers who want to manage private client areas, send custom pricing to clients and who want clients to be able to have their own account administration side where they can manage their own image selections, view order history, view status of quote requests, select images from convenient email based FLASH slideshows and more.
The shopping cart with this account is a robust solution that allows your clients to accumulate items, change quantities, apply shipping and tax information, and pay securely online with PayPal™ credit card processing.
If you are looking, instead, for an Image Archive solution that accommodates thousands of images for a large E-Commerce portal site, please contact our office and inquire about FolioArchive.
Premium Account Online Sales Highlights:
- Full cart and payment processing integration with PayPal™ (Paypal is a third party solution owned by eBay Corporation)
- Keeps transaction screens separate from your web site (your art web site will not look like a vending machine)
- Quickly assign default values to all images in a portfolio or maintain transaction parameters on a per image basis
- Support for multiple units of measure and currencies
PayPal™ is a service of eBay Inc. ®
Pro Account Online Sales Highlights:
All Premium Account Online sales features +
- Supports offline payment and online payment options
- Full quotation and custom pricing workflow
- Clients can register and manage their own requests and lightboxes/favorite’s list
- Support for shopping cart with shipping and sales tax grids
- Support for multiple price points
- Support for online digital delivery and download areas
- Support for digital and print sales
- Convenient option for clients to purchase directly from webgallery slideshows
- Ability to upgrade to FolioArchive advanced Image Archive portal building solution
- And so much more…
PayPal™ is a service of eBay Inc. ®