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Sell Digital Photos

PhotoStore allows you to upload unlimited photos of any size. For each photo you have the option to add a title, keywords, description, price, quality and display order. You also have the option to... select the categories a photo will display in, select the photographer who took the photo, assign prints and products that can be sold with that photo and select other sizes of the photo to be created when the original is uploaded. PhotoStore only supports jpeg photos at this time (jpg, jpe, jpeg).

Your customers can browse your photos and add them to their carts. When they have the photos that they would like to purchase they checkout. After they make payment you are sent an email with the order details and the order shows up in the orders area of the manager. The customer receives an email with a link to a unique download page for their order. Once they visit the download page they are able to download the photos that they purchased. You can also set the download link to expire after a certain number of days. The entire process is automatic.

Sell Prints & Products

PhotoStore allows you to sell prints and other products along with your photos. Setup global products to sell with each photo or select only certain products to sell with a particular photo. Prints and products can be setup to sell anything you would like. For example "8x10 Glossy", "5x7 Matte", "XL T-Shirt" or "Photo CD". You can also set shipping costs to each item. If you only have a certain number of an item you can also set a quantity. You are resposible for fullfilling prints and product orders.

Your customers can browse your photos and add them to their carts. When they have the photos that they would like to purchase they checkout. After they make payment you are sent an email with the order details and the order shows up in the orders area of the manager. The customer receives an email with a link to a unique download page for their order. Once they visit the download page they are able to download the photos that they purchased. You can also set the download link to expire after a certain number of days. The entire process is automatic.

Integrated Shopping Cart

PhotoStore has a built in shopping cart that allows your customers to add digital photos and prints/products to their carts. In the cart quantities for products can be choosen and shipping applied. The cart automatically totals the order and ties into 2checkout.com or PayPal for payments. The cart also ties into a check and money order feature to allow customers this type of payment.

PayPal, 2Checkout.com, Check, Money Order Support

PhotoStore currently supports PayPal, 2checkout.com, and check & money order payments to allow your customers a variaty of payment methods. This allows your customers to use any major credit card, PayPal funds, bank account, check or money order to pay. You can choose to turn on or off each of the payment methods. If you know basic PHP you can also add other payment gateways besides PayPal and 2checkout.com.

Dynamic Watermarking

A watermark is automatically applied to all sample size photos so that your photos are protected. The watermark is applied dynamically. Meaning that you can change the watermark at any time and it automatically updates on each photo without having to reupload the photos with the old watermark. The watermark is very easy to change and can look however you would like. Just replace the watermark.png file and all your watermarks are updated.

Create Monthly & Yearly Subscriptions

If you are running your PhotoStore as a stock photo type site you can give your customers the choice to signup for yearly or monthly subscriptions where they can pay one set price to download unlimited photos. This option can be turned on or off and configured in the manager area.

Newest Photos Area

PhotoStore automatically generates a newest photos area where you customers can browse and purchase the latest photos added to your site. The newest photos area is automatically generated based on the time and date the photos were added.

Popular Photos Area

PhotoStore automatically generates a popular photos area where you customers can browse and purchase the most popular photos on your site. The popular photos area is automatically generated based on the number of times a photo was viewed by a customer.

Featured Photos Area

PhotoStore automatically displays a featured photos area on the homepage. 12 photos are randomly selected for the featured photos area. The number of photos displayed can easily be changed.

Image Counters

Each image has a counter for how many times it has been viewed. This counter shows under the thumbnail of each photo and also next to each thumbnail in the manager area. Also each category displays the number of photos in the category next to the name. You can turn these features on or off.

Photo Search

Your customers can search for photos by keyword or phrase. The search will search the title, description and keywords of a photo. Results are displayed 12 per page. The number of photos per page can be changed.

Photographer Photos

Your customers can also browse photos by photographer. 6 featured photographers are displayed on the homepage with a link to view all photographers that have photos listed on your site.

Automatically Generated Thumbnails & Sample Photos

PhotoStore automatically generates thumbnails and sample size images when you upload the original photo. You can also configure the size of the thumbnail and sample size photos that display on your site.

Styles

PhotoStore comes with 5 different color styles with more coming soon. These styles use CSS to change the overall color sheme of your site. Changing the styles is very each and can be done in the manager area of PhotoStore. You can also create your own style so that PhotoStore looks just how you would like.

Management - General Setup

In the manager's general setup area you can most settings on your PhotoStore site including website name, install url, tagline, support email address and metatags.

Management - Options

In the manager's options area you can:
• Turn on/off the image display and view counters
• Turn on/off the featured news on the homepage
• Turn on/off the selling of digital photo
• Turn on/off the selling of prints and products
• Set the number of photos to be displayed per page
• Set the number of columns of photos to display
• Set the default price for photos if none is entered with a photo
• Set the size of the thumbnail photos
• Set the size of the sample photos
• Set the number of days that a customer is allowed to download the photos that they purchased

Management - Payment Options

In the manager's payment options area you can:
• Turn on/off check and money order options
• Turn on/off the PayPal checkout method and add your PayPal account details
• Turn on/off the 2Checkout.com checkout method and add your 2Checkout account details
• Select the default currency your site operates in

Management - Subscriptions

In the manager's subscriptions area you can turn on or off monthly and yearly subscription options. You can also configure the prices for each.

WYSIWYG Content Editor

In the manager's content area you can edit most of your website's content using a WYSIWYG editor. You can also easily add photos and files to these areas.

Site News Management

In the manager's news area you can add, edit and delete news articles to post on your site. You can also select news items to be featured on the homepage. Each news item can have photos and files attached to it.

FTP Upload

Using the FTP Upload feature you can batch upload your files using your favorite FTP client. This allows you to upload all large batches of photos at once and add the same details as you would on a single upload.

IPTC Support

When you upload a photo with IPTC data PhotoStore will automatically read it and import the title, description and keywords data to the database. IPTC data is extra information within a photo file added by your digital camera or photo editing software such as Photoshop.

Multiple Sizes

PhotoStore can be configured to automatically create up to 6 different sizes of a photo from the original. Each size can have its own price.