Our ECommerce tool is a great one to use for selling your photography to your clients. You can sell anything from digital prints to physical prints to photo products and packages. If you're just getting started on your ECommerce photography store, it can be difficult to figure out how to start. See the steps below to guide you through the process of setting up your store. Along the way, there will be links to more specific articles with more step-by-step instructions if needed.
STEP ONE
Configure Your Merchant, Shipping, & Sales Tax Options
In order to get paid properly for all these items you've just set up, you'll need to set up a merchant to process payment, as well as shipping and taxes. All of these settings can be found if you hover over the PAYMENT tab,
- MERCHANT: We recommend using Stripe for your credit card processing merchant. You can set up multiple merchants if you like.
Guide: How To Set Up A Merchant - SHIPPING: You can set up shipping based on a flat rate or a percentage of the total order with a minimum.
Guide: How To Set Up A Shipping Method - TAXES: The way you set up sales tax, if you set it up at all, will depend on the laws in your particular area. We recommend seeking advice from a tax professional if you're not sure what you should be charging for tax.
Guide: How To Set Up Sales Tax Rate
STEP TWO
Add What You're Going To Sell On Your Website
The first step is to add everything you're going to sell. If you have tiered pricing, or different prices for different kinds of pricing for different customers, go ahead and add everything into the "SELL ONLINE" area of your e-commerce control panel.
STEP THREE
Create Your Price Lists
After you've added everything you're planning to sell, you can create price lists to separate different pricing for different types of customers. You can create a price list under the SELL ONLINE tab.
STEP FOUR
Configure Your ECommerce Settings
The SETTINGS drop down menu in your ecommerce control panel holds the following three areas:
- General Settings: Email Order Notifications, Currency settings, Order Minimum amount, Global Low Stock Mark, and When The Price Of An Item is Set To "$0.00" Display As settings.
Guide: ECommerce General Settings Overview
- Check Out: This area allows you to create custom check out options and add a thank you message that is sent out after a purchase is made from your ecommerce.
Guide: Creating Custom Checkout Options
- Order Statuses: This area allow you to create custom order statuses to help you manage your orders in your control panel.
Guide: Creating Custom Order Statuses
FINAL STEP
Determine Where You Want To Sell
There are two major ways to sell online with PhotoBiz- through private client Proofing galleries, and through a public online store.
TO SELL THROUGH PRIVATE CLIENT GALLERIES:
- Create a new event in the Client Galleries tab and select the price list you wish to use for the event.
- Check on your client's progress on their order in the Activity section of your Client Gallery control panel.
- View your orders in the ECommerce tab in the left side menu of your PhotoBiz account.
TO SELL THROUGH A PUBLIC ONLINE STORE:
- Simply add Products Block or Services Block to the page on your website that you would like have ecommerce available on.
- View your orders in the ECommerce tab in the left side menu of your PhotoBiz account.
Please note: you can also accept payments with your PhotoBiz account through the Form & Contract builder with Form Payments as well as the Quotes & Invoices tool.
