Photonesto is an intuitive tool for photographers that allows you to easily create and manage online photo galleries for clients, while offering the possibility of easily selling products directly from these galleries.
Are you selling photos on Photonesto and thinking about expanding your offer with additional products? Read our guide to find out how to do it!
If you already have a photo gallery on Photonesto, you can easily start selling additional products such as prints, photo canvases, or albums. By expanding your offer, you will show clients how many fantastic things they can have thanks to your photography – often when ordering photos, they don't realize that their beloved shots can be featured on high-quality products. From your point of view, every additional product sold is pure profit!
You can enable the additional product sales option in two ways, depending on whether you want to add it to an existing gallery or to a completely new one.
Key topics:
1. How to enable the additional product sales option when creating a new photo gallery?
If you are currently creating a new photo gallery and want to enable the additional product sales option, click the "Show more options" button.
Move the slider next to the "Sale of additional products" option to activate it.
You must also decide which currency clients will use to pay you. By default, the currency consistent with your account settings will appear on the screen. To change it, select a different currency from the dropdown list.
You also need to select a product price list that will be assigned to the gallery (if you don't know how to set one up, take a look at our article).
2. How to enable or disable the additional product sales option in an existing photo gallery?
To enable or disable product sales in an already existing photo gallery, go to the "Shopping configuration" tab located on the left side of the gallery. Then, activate the sales option by moving the "Shopping in gallery" slider:
When enabling photo sales in galleries or sessions for the first time, a warning may appear stating that price lists/products have not yet been configured in your account. To start selling, you must first add them to your account.
3. How to configure product sales options? Price lists, delivery methods, payment methods
To add products that should be available to your clients, go to the main menu in the top right corner of the screen, then select the "Sales configuration" option from the list.
On the left side, you will see four options, but we will focus on the first three: Products pricing, Delivery methods, and Payment methods.
To add the products you want to start selling, you must create a price list. Therefore, go to the "Products pricing" tab, click "Create pricing", select a default photo lab, choose the products, and assign prices to them. We have written more extensively about price lists in our article: Product Pricings in Photonesto.
Regarding the delivery methods for your products, select the "Delivery Methods" tab and configure the ones you want to offer. Remember, however, that even if you decide on free delivery (e.g., in the case of personal pickup), you still need to provide a name and a price (in this case, 0 USD). We have written more about delivery methods in the guide: Delivery Methods.
For personal pickup, it is worth disabling the Require address option – the client's address likely won't be necessary if the products are being picked up in person.
Under the "Payment Methods" option, you can configure options such as bank transfer or fast online transfers (PayPal). The configuration is very similar to that of delivery methods. You can read more details on how to configure payment methods in a separate article in our guide.
4. Frequently Asked Questions
How will customers be able to order my products?
After logging into a gallery where the additional product sales option has been enabled, your clients will see an additional button on their photos that will allow them to purchase products.
To purchase your products, they must click the "Buy" button. They will then be asked to provide an email address for identification. Now they will be able to select any of the products you offer and add them to their cart.
In the cart, customers will be able to see all the products they have selected, confirm their order, and choose the delivery and payment methods.
We have prepared a general guide dedicated to clients – How to order photos in galleries?
How will I know that a client has placed an order for my additional products?
As soon as a client places an order for additional products, you will receive an email notification about the new order. The order will also appear in the general "Orders" panel as well as within the gallery itself, under the orders tab.
Where can I find the orders placed by my clients?
You can view all orders placed by your clients in the general orders panel (the "Orders" tab at the very top of the page), as well as in the details of your photo galleries, under the "Customer orders" tab. Next to the tab, you will see a red counter showing the number of orders placed – this way, you won't miss any of them.
Each new order is assigned a number. Each one also has the email address of the client who placed it assigned to it.
To review the contents of each order, simply click on the order number to see all of its details.
How can I fulfill customer orders? Is Photonesto integrated with photo labs?
Whether the client ordered digital photos or physical prints, you can fulfill these orders in Photonesto. Everything takes place in the "Customer orders" tab within a specific gallery.
After clicking on the order details, you have the option to fulfill them - depending on what the client ordered - by either immediately sending the digital versions of the photos or submitting a fulfillment request to a photo lab.
We have written about order fulfillment in the article: Orders - selling photos in galleries.
We support integrations with photo labs such as nPhoto, Crystal Albums, Snap Albums and DGLab. However, currently only Polish photographers can use these integrations, but we hope to change this very soon.
Remember that the key to effective sales is the proper configuration of price lists and delivery methods, which you only need to do once. After activating sales in a gallery, your clients gain an intuitive way to order products, and you receive ready-made orders directly in your inbox and the photographer's panel.