Selling photography prints on Squarespace
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In this episode I show you how I'm selling my photography prints on Squarespace. I share my recent switch to a minimalist approach to selling prints online through Squarespace, but this applies to any website/service you use.
This is the first time I’ve ever had success selling prints online, so I wanted to share what’s working for me.
I touch on pricing, sizes, paper, editing your gallery, and the difference between editioned and non-edition prints.
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Thanks!
Thank you Larry, so kind of you.
So I'm discovering your video in 2023! Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to create it. Very helpful!
Thank you Graeme, I’m making an updated version of this very soon.
It's 2024, look forward to your update 😃
Awesome video cheers Justin I’ve been wanting to to offer some of my personal work featured on my channel for sale for years but business and admin wise I’m lazy and easily intimidated I just want to shoot photos but the days job in newspapers doesn’t pay great and these days bits no a job for life so i need another income. I will give square space a try and implement your tips cheers
Great video for those of us just starting out! I'm from Memphis and love to travel the US as well as to Central America and Europe. I'd love to start actually selling prints of some of my photos and came across this video. It was very insightful and gave me the push I needed to get things rolling. Trying to find ways to supplement my income (7th grade public school teacher here) and be creative! Thanks again!
Mr. Mott, thank you for posting this video, straight to the point and concise appeals to me always and I appreciate that you reply to your audience. My wife and I have thousands of digital images we have taken over the past twenty-two years of our marriage while at home and traveling to zoo's and aquarium's. Our passion is animal and nature photos, we have been looking for a way to share them and earn a little money on the side and donate a percentage of the proceeds to animal keepers. Thanks again for your time, talent, and passion posting this very inspirational video.
Another great and helpful piece; thanks for the insights and tips, Justin. You really are a wonderful mentor to the community of photographers.
I appreciate that David , I’ve really enjoyed doing this.
Thank you so much Justin for the simple and straight forward advice! So much practical information I can apply immediately!
My pleasure Grace, thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Great info, thank you!
Thank you for your time in doing this video and explaining your methodology to selling prints. I jive with your approach, it makes complete sense to setup simple solutions and limit options. Cheers!
My absolute pleasure Ian, thanks for watching.
Looking to dip my toe into trying to sell prints. Super helpful video, thanks.
This video is so helpful. I really appreciate it, Justin. Love your work 🤟
Thanks Joseph :)
Great video Justin! Love the layout on your store currently as well!
Thank you :) I’m constantly tweaking it
Dude this was the most helpful video I’ve seen in a long time. I’m starting a store (not prints, household items) and you answered most of my questions. Thank you.
Glad it helped Joshua , wish your store success.
Great video. Very informative. Thanks Justin.
Thank you Mark, I have a follow up coming soon.
Thanks Justin! Great Work, great helpful inspiring videos!
My pleasure Jorgos, thanks for watching.
Saving this. Good direction given lots to unpack here. Thank you.
My pleasure :), thanks for watching
love the K.I.S.S. method- Thank you Justin!
My high school teacher taught me that one and it stuck :).
This is some great advice. As a beginner this was quite eye opening, even though I have several ideas of my own this gave me a sense of direction & an understanding of how to apply my ideas productively. Thanks a lot!
Thanks , glad you like it .
NICE love your simplicity......
Thank you Aurora.
Great video. Looking forward to starting up a small print shop for some of my favorite shots. Appreciate the video.
My pleasure , thanks for watching :).
this was comprehensive and really helped me, thanks!
Happy I could help Christian :).
Smart methodology! Thank you!
Thanks Hart.
This was super helpful. Thank you so much!!!
My pleasure Laura, thanks for watching.
Really enjoyed, and appreciated this video. Thank you
Thank you Troy, working on an updated version of this shortly.
Thank you for the great advice.
Thank you Abraham:).
Good info. Thanks for sharing, regards from Belize
Thanks and hello back from cold Hanoi :(
I started out on Fine Art America and it was awful. The prices on there kill all sales. Then, I started selling them on my website but, like you, people had to let me know what they wanted, what size, and what medium, then I would figure out the best price and get back to them. I got way more sales doing that than I did on Fine Art America, but it was still hurting my sales because people want convivence. So, now, I'm trying to figure out how to sell them directly on my website. Making this transition is going to take me several days to set up, but I think it will be worth it. And getting back to what you said about simplicity, that is the key. People get overwhelmed quickly and easily lol
Lovin the honesty in this right from the beginning. Im not one to make comments! but this is soo helpful 👌
I appreciate that Toby, I’ll be making an updated version of this episode soon.
A boatload of great information here! Thanks for putting it all together and helping those of us who have been struggling to try to figure out what to do with our images to generate some sort of extra income. Especially us older guys that need to subsidized our Social Security! 🤣 thanks again. Great photo work by the way.
Thank you so much Evan :). Good luck with your print store.
glad U put out this video, going to dip my toe in & try to sell prints. Going to build a site on Square Space & print myself . U help me make up my mind , just trying to recoup some of the money I spent on camera gear ! already use luster paper
Great to hear Ernest, let me know how it goes for you. I finally had luck going w this system after years of not getting anywhere.
Hey Justin! Glad I came across your video, because I've also been making some prints on whitewall. I still haven't figured out which quality I like the best. I'm not seeing an option for luster paper on there. The options I see are lambda, light jet, Ultra HD, and metallic. Which do you use?
this video was extremely helpful!
I appreciate that Ron, thanks for watching.
Thank you, you gave me the motivation to made my own website. Thank you
That’s incredible Mauricio, congratulations!
Excellent video! Thank you very much for sharing your workflow and congratulations on your success! Kind regards from the Netherlands :)
Thanks for reaching out and for watching :).
Great video helped me a lot thank you !
My pleasure Jason Kidd, big fan of your ability to assist:).
Hi Justin, You don't need to put cm on your website as in Europe we use all measurements and for prints we use inches like the US. Hope this helps
thank you for this information
My pleasure Harrison , thanks for watching.
Great video! What is you soft proofing process across all your print shops? Cheers!
Thank you very informative.
Thank you Dharmvir, I just did an updated version of this episode that you might enjoy.
Hi Justin, great video! Is there a particular Squarespace template you’d recommend? I’m trying to figure out the best starting point template for selling my art prints. Thanks you
At 8:25, you said something that means that you only sell digital files only, no shipping or framing tension. Correct, if wrong.
Thank you mate.
My pleasure Singh.
good one
Very educational. Which squarespace template do you use? I'm having difficulty finding an easy to use one being not very savvy. Ps, I'm not a photographer I paint and do ceramics.
Very helpful vlogs. Thanks for sharing. From your words I am on the right track or we both like the same things lol.
Great info! Does White Wall do your color correction, or do tgey provide anICC profile so you can soft peoof? Cheers!
Thank you !
You’re very welcome :)
I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate this and I can't wait to delve into the other information that you are so generously imparting. Wow - I have struggled with this stuff SO MUCH and this seems to make it so much simpler... There are a couple of gaps for me - like: You are using different printers so when you get an order you do need to MANUALLY assign which one to the order to finalize it, right? I'm not sure how that all ends up working then if it's not fully automated (which is what I'm aiming for) BUT nevertheless you have truly simplified it in ways that, I think, will help me a lot with figuring out what's best for me. I would like to do that hour zoom meeting with you but first want to figure out what I want to start with for that. I'll be in touch. Thank you SO MUCH! Janet
I would love a fully automated site and I could do that if I was only shipping in the USA and link Squarespace with Printique or something like but it's too complicated with global shipping. I recently revamped my one-on-one session packages here, www.justinmott.com/bookme-online-store
Super informative video. Thank you. How about when it comes to selling athletes photos? I do a lot of track cycling and drift racing. Am I only allowed to sell to the riders ND drivers themselves?
In March 2023, I revamped my online print store. I drastically cut down the total images and now offer essentially two types of products, print-only or framed prints in 3 different sizes. www.justinmott.com/store-buy-prints
Thanks for the update. I’m going to go look today.
great video. so you use white wall to fulfil US/Europe and other labs for other territories? I am not sure how do you manage the interfacing with these labs after someone has bought a print on your website (does Squarespace allow you to specify each time which lab to use depending on region?) thanks!!
I see you also changed the shipping - can you explain?! Thanks!!
I've been experimenting Jessica with just USA/Canada to keep things simple and reliable but I'm not considering going back to shipping in Europe using Whitewall as that is a nice market for me.@@thejessmac
what if i made up an complete and quaility physical product instead of just digital files?Great idea.
Does your site automatically notify your print on demand company or do you have to?
I also use Whitewall for prints too large to print myself, canvas, and aluminum prints. They do an excellent job.
Good to hear Romie, so far I’ve been really happy w the prints :)
Hi Justin, what way is the simplest to built a website for photo selling?
Was hoping you would've shared which pro lab(s) you used and how you came to that decision. Especially how you automate the process so that when a buyer makes a purchase it is sent automatically to the lab and then the lab ships to the customer on your behalf. - thanks for the video
I use Whitewall Tanya and I don’t automate it at this point , I fulfill the orders manually.
I love this!! I’ll definitely be signing up for a one on one session!!
I look forward to it Annie :)
5:46 how do you able to do that, I mean how do you do print in bulk? and also, how do you manage to get things selling on there, as in how have you managed to set it up?
Just getting into this :-) I already have the 125.000 followers now I just have to choose the right platform to sell my prints on. Probably gonna go with a "Big Cartel + Printful" solution.
Hi Jason, I’m Paul from Nottingham in the UK. Found your steam when looking at reviews of the Hasselblad X1D. I’m a Leica user with the original Q, Monochrom and M10. I’ve also had an SL and S-E. You are spot on about the weight of the SL. Before lockdown I did a workshop with Leica Mayfair and borrowed an SL with a 70mm lens. It does fit in the hand well but if you are using wide aperture lenses it becomes too heavy - iIMO anyway. As for the Q - best take anywhere camera ever made. I’ll be going through your other videos over the next couple of days. Thanks
Thank you Paul, I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Yeah, the SL is a beautiful camera but a little bit hefty but I’m considering it as a video camera.
@@AskMOTT that’s my opinion too. - I class myself as a photographer not a videographer - I see still in my head and have nothing but admiration for those that can see both. One of issues with ( probably only ) the Q is that the video button is close to the shutter button - maybe it’s my fat fingers that I’ve ended up taking a video and then had to redo the shot for a still. I think most ( all?) manufacturers are combining the the two. Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man! I find now I’m using a film Leica M4 (1958) with an collapsible. Elmarit-50mm f3.5 from 1952 or if I want real quality I use my 50mm f1.4 Summilux beautiful. Just looking on your site about 121 sessions can these be used for just discussion.- e.g. 35mm vs Medium Format / Leica S vs Hasselblad X1D?
I always wanted to buy the Leica feature photo but currently I can't afford it but if it will available in future I will definitely gonna buy this . ❤️
Thanks for tuning in SK , you mean the Leica camera or my print taken w the Leica ?
I’m looking to upload bulk photos from events to sell single digital downloads. Squarespace doesn’t seem to have a “bulk” upload, just single?
Thanks for that, I‘m already using white wall and squarespace. I get requests for prints here and there but still have no real process to get it done quickly. Also, great chanel. Tiny bit of advice: there‘s a bit of an echo. Maybe try to get the mic closer. Cheers
Thanks Hendrix, my mic is a rode wireless so it clips onto my shirt so it’s not possible to get closer. My home is very industrial style so the walls are concrete which makes it’s challenging but I’ll see if there is anything I can do in post production to reduce it. Thanks for your input.
Excellent and very informational video, Justin! Exactly what I was looking for. I have one question. How long will you keep a non/slow selling print in your gallery before you rotate it out and replace it?
Great question Peter, typically I do an audit of my gallery every 3-6 months.
@@AskMOTT Thank you for your timely reply!
@@peterk9818 My pleasure Peter.
Great video Justin love the minimalistic approach, new subscriber here! I wonder if, for selling prints in general, for example street photos, you need a model release (quite complicated let's say with a big shot but run and gun, documentary...and you hadn't the time and occasion like in a settled situation) or you can manage to sell them even without it, if for example their face isn't recognizable or far away. Thanks!
Hello Roberto, thanks for your question. I don’t use a model release for travel and street photography prints but also don’t have many recognizable faces in my prints, some , but not a lot.
@@AskMOTT understood. Thanks man!!
A very helpful video, Justin. Thank you very much. I just checked out your website, amazing work. Please my question is, do you obtain permission from the subjects in your portraits before selling their prints?
Good question , does he , would want to know ?
Great info. I want to know how to sell art prints. And I like Leica cameras.
Well a 2 for 1 situation with my channel then :)
Great video! Question What monitor Are you using yo get best resultat for printing?
I’m not fussy about calibration Anders , I just use my iMac.
Whitewall is an excellent recommendation. Q - what Squarespace subscription level are you using?
I’m using their business plan because I’m doing w commerce and my newsletter.
Got the square space site but fell flat after that. I’ll run through it again and work on marketing. Thanks for the useful info.
Selling prints is up and down David and it takes a lot of direct marketing and frequent advertising, give it time :).
@@AskMOTT When you say "advertising" do you mean you are doing paid ads? thanks!
Brilliant. Did you do test prints from prospective print labs?
I didn’t because shipping to Vietnam is too complicated. I went by reputation and that’s worked out for me well so far.
Did I understand you correctly, you have only about 50 prints in your Squarespace account? I’ve checked out a few others places to sell photos and they can have “LOTS” of prints to view. Can be exhausting. Thx, your vid on KZhead helped a great deal.
Thanks Jim, yeah I typically keep it to under 50 and rotate out what’s not selling.
Thank you for the great video. I checked your website and your images are stunning! But, I am wondering who would be your printing clients. I naively thought only pleasing and easy topic prints sell.
It depends really, sure landscape images sell well but some people are interested in really photojournalism work.
Thanks very much for your information which is a great help. But do you actually have a printer yourself and if so, which one? Many years ago I started with a Canon PIXMA Pro 9000 but the mini cartridges were far too small and in any case I never set up a website to sell any of my prints. But now, many years later and with many more prints available to sell I bought an Epson ET-8550 as critiqued by Englishman Keith Cooper on KZhead. That will print up to 13" wide and also do some nice panoramas of stitched photos. I have already had several prints framed and they look great (mostly dramatic sunsets). Looking at your sizes my printer will cover the first two 8"x12" and 12"x18" But the 16" x 24" would have to be on the Epson SC-P900 (906 in Australia) or one of the larger Canons. Or get them printed by a lab.
I sold my printer during Covid , with it being so hard to ship form Vietnam it didn’t make sense to print and ship form here .
Hey, Justin,. Greetings from Canada and thanks for this video. I'm interested in selling prints and wanted to ask for a bit of clarification. Do your various printers do the shipping for you? Thanks again, Justin. Great as always.
Great question Barry and sorry I didn’t address that. Yes, all the printers I use offer shipping and it’s typically very affordable.
@@AskMOTT Thanks!
Excellent video/strategy. I have recently decided to give print sales from a website(heavily leaning towards Square Space for that) a try. The info available on the subject is overwhelming to say the least. I've always favored the K.I.S.S. method in all aspects of my life and your video was an "AHAA" moment. Thanks so much
I think I'll take the time to print myself ... someone ordered my art front hr UK and printful was my printer....long story short the art was damaged and they had to get a refund. I couldn't help thinking that if I packed it myself it would have got there fine like the things I ship in the US.
A lot of helpful advice in this video, thank you! One question I have has to do with the process of outsourcing printing. I’m struggling with the concept of using a printing service, but selling it on my website. Do you pre-purchase these prints, or do you wait for an order to come through, then go to your preferred printing service and order it though them after the fact? Does whitewall have the option to link to your website for a somewhat seamless buying option for you and your costumer?
Great questions and thanks for watching. I recently switched to trying out an automated system for USA and Canada market only using Adorama’s Printique service. This always me to sell framed prints and other products all seamlessly integrated w Squarespace. Too early to have any thoughts on it, but if it works how I think it will this is an awesome system for me.
@@AskMOTT that’s good to know, I’m still in the stages of figuring out the basics of my website, so I have a little time. Before moving to this model, did you wait for an order, or pre-print/purchase a batch before adding to your store?
@@sawyermedic I'm in Vietnam so that wasn't really an option but before I used it professionally i would use it for gifting prints and giving away prints for charity auctions and I was happy w the feedback from the recipients.
Hi, thanks !! so you ship then by yourself after getting the print form whitewall or can whitewall be integrated into squarespace?
I switched to using Printique and they automate my orders which is really convenient for me. They only ship to the USA and Canada though , where do you live ?
Germany :-( ok, I asked whitewall, they have a "white" shipping model now.. so this will be a small step forward... thanks anyway!@@AskMOTT
have you notices any differences in between signed versus unsigned art work? which do you sell more of
It’s hard for me to sign because I’m in Vietnam and shipping locally from where the purchase came from. People definitely prefer signed but unfortunately for me I have to do it this way.
Hi can I just ask how you order from white wall once you get an order do you have to order it from whitewall or does it go to whitewall without you having to do anything and if so how do you set that up
Thanks for your question Neil, since I ship globally I have to do everything manually but it's only a small part of my business so I don't mind. If you are only doing orders in the USA you can integrate printing companies like Printique and others with Squarespace.
On a photography website do you recommend adding a "privacy policy & disclaimer page"?
Good question Caroline, I use a “Cookies” pop up on my website, is that what you’re referring to?
Just found your video and followed up to check out your website. First print I looked at now has nine print products and up to ten sizes. Have you changed your thought process on print sales since the recording of this? Currently designing my first Squarespace site to see if it's the right option for me and doing the research.
I did change it recently Ian but I’m still tweaking it and trying to sort out if I can customize it through Printique. Essentially I still wanted to have only a few sizes/options but for some reason it still shows all the options as out of stock rather than not showing them at all.
@@AskMOTT I hear you, sometimes setting up what seems to be simple can be quite the job. I'll check in to see how its coming. Is Printique something that accompanies Squarespace? I had to immediately take a break during the holidays on designing and am getting back to it now.
Hey great video info, can you recommend a quality print shop in Hanoi, preferably one that prints photo books. cheers!
I've tried a few here but I haven't found anyone with the quality that I'd recommend. I've heard good things about a few shops in HCMC but I haven't used them yet.
@@AskMOTT feel free to recommend one that you think is easy to work with and can print decent photo books. This is just a trial run to understand the process of building a photo book and printing. Cheers! Your videos are straight and honest, looking forward to the next one!
Thank you for this video. Great information. Also, incredible image of the guy and the Rhinoceros. How is he able to interact with an animal like that?
Thank you, the rhino is one of two northern white rhinos left in the world so she grew up in captivity. I don't recommend for anyone sakes to interact with wild rhinos.
Are there any shipping companies that offer built in price for framed prints that you recommended
In the USA I think Printique by Adorama has it Tyler. Whitewall might but I can’t recall.
Thanks for the help
Thanks for watching Chris.
Hey Justin, nice video. One question, since you have no real control over the printing process, do you actually go through the process of a test run for selected images for yourself just to see how the photo is printed, quality, colors etc? I would be very uncomfortable to put something for sale without at least seeing once how the final product looks like. One more question, is your file resolution (I assume it is around 24Mpix) enough for 16 x 24 print? I know for that print size, you are not going to stick the nose right on the print but still. I have no real experience with printing myself.
Hello Richard, for prints that I sell online I’m very happy w the quality from these big print companies for the price I’m selling my prints for . I’ve found the quality on of 24mp sensor to help more then enough for 16x24, quality is sharp and details great. I wouldn’t over think it :)
@@AskMOTT and Richard Simko. - here in the UK we have lots of print shops but many are geared towards the school, wedding and family market so the quality can vary even from the same company. I tend to use Whitewall ( which you mentioned ) and a london based company called Genesis - the range of papers are superb.
Great question because I had a bad experience with Smugmug (I think it's better now but now I'm gun-shy with them) where I wanted to do large prints so I ordered them for myself first and the quality was so bad - I was so relieved the order was for ME and not a client... I was hoping that they would not print something if the file wasn't large enough to handle the size but that was not the case.
@@traveldrivers413 Unfortunately Whitewall had printed and image that was to small for the size I ordered. Lesson learned.
Do you have to process each order manually? Or when an order is made, everything is done automatically?
With this method yes but to be honest, most of us aren’t realistically going to sell enough prints for this to be a nuisance. Alternatively, I’m currently testing Adoromas Printique service w the squarespace plug in and will report back soon on how I find it.
@@AskMOTT Yeah, but if youre away for like 1-2 weeks without service, and you happen to get an order during this time, then it doesn't seem like you care about your business
Hi great video ! I just wanted to ask if you send your prints to your clients directly from the printing lab or do you send them to yourself first and then post them yourself? Thank you
Hello Ariel, thanks for your question. I print and ship directly from the labs I work with.
@@AskMOTT Thank a lot
@@AskMOTT So that's the part that's a bit of a disconnect for me. So - the order comes in and then you send the file to the printer with the order and they ship it to the customer or...? I would LOVE to figure out how to just have them ordered * printed * shipped without my having to do any of it at all - wondering whether that's possible... again, thank you so much!
Justin, how do you prevent anyone from copying or downloading your images from the site. How secure is that process? Thanks, FW
From my website ? It’s hard , my images get stolen a lot but I refuse to watermark them , hate watermarks:(. Sorry wish I had a good solution for you.
@@AskMOTT Glad to know this as I've always hated them, too... - not a problem as few want my images lol - but your images are AMAZING and I'm so sorry to hear people steal them.
Justin, thank you for this video. I'm a photojournalist and about to create a site and store to sell my work. Could you possibly tell me who you use for printing in the Australian market? If not here, could I email you, please? I was in vietnam just before CoVid hit... Amazing place. Thank you !
That's great to hear, it's another source of revenue if you can make it work. It takes time to get it set up and a lot of effort to generate sales but it pays off over the long haul. As for a printer in Australia, I don't have one that I've used enough to recommend yet sorry.
Does it work selling prints worldwide? Particularly for us, UK, USA, Australia, India
Not w Printique, for UK and EU I use Whitewall.
Hey, how did you get to connect your Squarespace account with Whitewall? I've been thinking of using Whitewall for printing services, I ordered sampled prints and they came out great
I cnnnected Printique originally but then it was clunky so I went back to fulfilling orders manually.
@@AskMOTT so all I have to do is go to the commerce section and activate it as manual orders? I’m still confused how they’d be able to go directly to the Whitewall website, I spoke with a rep from Whitewall yesterday and she said there’s a way for my website to link to their site when wanting to purchase the print although it still won’t be integrated, do you have a video showing how to set up your shop on Squarespace?
@@AskMOTT Hi can you please respond back to my previous message? I'm confused of what to do
@@artbyshies3992 I don't know how to link it with Whitewall sorry, I just set up a shop on my store in Squarespace and I fulfill my orders manually using Printique as them come in.
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Thanks brother:).
Do you have any advice on how to get more people to your site?
Have an eco system with different channels pointing towards your website . For example I use Instagram and KZhead to funnel people to my website .
is whitewall automated? or do you have to put the customers info into whitewall for each order
I recently switched to an automated system using Printique and so far so good, but it's just for US market.
@@AskMOTT ive seen that! Im in the US awell, the quality is just as good?
@@frxnch00 Yes, it has been for me.
@@AskMOTT awesome thanks!
Hi Justin, Question on what comes next after the order is placed via your website: How do you communicate the order with the printers? (which photo, what size, the shipping address, etc.) Does the printer keep a folder with all the photos you sell? Or do you have to send each order manually?
Also wondering this.
Good question!
Can you recommend a good printer in Hanoi?
I don’t have one in Hanoi that I like but this guy is in HCMC contact@dannybach.com
@@AskMOTT thanks :-)
I can't say I agree with your approach, which is solely based off what YOU want, not what your customers want (you only sells prints, not mounting/framing, leaving them to have to take your print, drive it to a framing shop, etc - no one wants that. You force clients to choose the sizes you want to sell, and don't offer a variety of options, etc. your clients might want). You want to make it as easy for your customers as you possibly can for them to get exactly what THEY want. There are plenty of options of sites that offer a myriad of printing, sizing, mounting, framing, etc. so your clients are free to buy the products THEY want - and it's all still completely passive. I don't have to deal with anything - the clients buy, mpix fulfills, and I don't have to lift a finger. I sell prints, mounting, framing, gifts, etc. and like I said, never lift a finger.
Sorry for the late reply and you bring up some good points. For me, early on, my buyer are very international, Europe and SE Asia, and of course the USA. So shipping to those countries can be quite a nightmare due to customs complications, and import taxes, never mind consistency w various types of papers and add to that mounting and frames, it's a nightmare. My plan was always to test the market and I've contemplated a separate US store so I could easily sync a print shop like Printique and provide more options. It was never a matter of just what I wanted, it was a balance of keeping quality consistent, keeping things manageable, etc for me and many photographers out there this is only a small portion of our business so too many products would be harder to manage. I've done quite well with this model for a while but I am considering testing the US market only as my channel has shown analytics to say that's where the majority of my audiences is so I hope it goes well. Thanks for your comments.
Justin!! May i please ask, what is the process once people have ordered an item?? Do you get that notification, contact whitewall and have them send it out to the buyer??
For me I have an automated notification set up through squarespace.
@@AskMOTT So it automatically sends the order to the printers?
@@JoshuaNeech If you use Squarespace you can set it up to automate if you choose one of their 3rd party extensions like Printique. I currently fulfill my orders manually. They come in through my website, the site sends me the details, then I work with the printers directly.
@@AskMOTT Ahh okay I understand now! Thank you so much for the info, you're a bloody legend!!
@@AskMOTT Ah - that's what I needed to know. Thanks! So, did you dislike the Printique quality? I am hoping such a setup is possible with WIX as that's the platform I use for my travel site and I found Squarespace to be complicated for a luddite such as myself - but this is making me want to consider SS for this, even if I keep the other WIX site. Decisions Decisions...
GUYS I REALLY WANNA SELL MY PRINTS BUT I DON T HAVE A PRINTER IS IT OK TO JUST LIKE SELL THEM ONLINE ON A SITE OR SMT WITHOUT PRINTING THEM
I use Printique imp.i261257.net/oqWRyg
Honestly in 2023 I can't believe someone hasn't figured out a good platform for this. Squarespace, Picfair, Shopify, Ecwid, 22slides etc they're all awful and do a poor job at getting people into their ecosystem. All I want is a platform that lets me add my prints for sale with various options and takes payment, display it in a component on my site, then lets me fill the order myself. It's extremely difficult to just do this simple process as every platform wants you to use their entire system, pay before you setup a store to see how it works/looks, or has awful service appearance (Why does picfair use a frog as the sample image instead of putting the actual image on the sample?!). The price Squarespace requires per month is extremely expensive when you can't even 'try'/demo it first.