Create a Beautiful Photography Website
Our Tools Can help you create beautiful Photography Websites, and showcase Your Art Online! All of our products work perfectly on Smart Phones and Tablets.
Here is the complete list of features/tools in your admin area.
My Account
- Account Information
- Sell in any Currency – We have photographers in many countries using our system.
- Users
- Multiple Users – This feature gives you lots of control over who can do what on your site. Every user you set up can have different permissions. Example: Only permission to upload images, nothing else, or allow your accountant to access all of the order information, but nothing else. You can set up and limit users in just about any way you want.
- Activity Log
- Track who did what to your system and when they did it. Our system allows you to set up multiple users, and the activity log allows you to see when and how they interacted with the system.
- Invoices
- This is where we show you what you have paid us for the last year and why.
- Current Charges
- We Show your current usage so you can track how your month is going even before the end of the month.
- Billing Payment Methods
- This only shows if your credit card fails or needs to be updated.
Lab Manager
- Settings
- Allows for several different fulfillment methods
- Mark up features for your clients
- Orders
- See all of the orders sent to the lab
- Search through the orders by different methods
- Download fully rendered images ready to print.
- Order Status
- Set up custom order statuses to keep your customers informed about the order progress.
- Order Sync
- Retired Order Retrieval executable program.
- Payment Methods
- Set up methods to receive payments from your wholesale or vendor customers.
- Customers
- A full list of those that will be using your lab for the fulfillment, including all of the contact information to reach out to them.
Client Manager
- Welcome Email
- Create your email to welcome new customers to the system
- Welcome Pages
- Customize the first page your customers see when they log into the system to manage their cart or website.
- Theme Screen Shots
- Replace our website screenshots with your own to appeal more directly to your specific customers.
- Client Profiles
- Profiles help you manage what clients will see or have access to what features and what their pricing for your products will be.
- Clients
- A full list of all of your clients, with access to their back-end areas. This allows you to see what they see, and help them with any issues they have.
- This is all accessed via your login credentials, so there is no need to memorize every client’s login information.
- Client Billing
- See the actual billing that you should be charging your lab’s direct customers.
- Statistical Reports
- Retired reports have been replaced by better methods to get the data.
- Client Messaging
- Send your clients information or messages abo0ut changes to your system, or reminders about sales, etc. This allows you to send bulk messages to your clients that they will see as soon as they log into their admin areas.
- Client Signups
- See who used our form to sign up via your website.
- Tickets
- Labs can even manage call logs (tickets) – Labs that use our system will have access to a customer management system. There will be a call log and the ability to escalate tickets to us to answer questions etc. as well as keeping track of your customers’ calls.
Website Editor
- Website Layouts
- If you choose to use one of our websites as well as our cart, you have over 300 website looks to choose from.
- All of our themes are mobile-ready because they are designed as responsive sites. This means they will work on any size screen.
- Website Pages
- You can add as many pages as you like.
- All of the pages are designed to be mobile optimized.
- Blog
- We offer a blog for an additional charge.
- Portfolios
- Show off samples of your work to increase sales.
- Social Media
- Add a social media link for all of your social accounts.
- Settings
- Optional Right-Click Protection -Of course this feature is on the images in the shopping cart – this is for everything else on your website – including content.
- Images and Files
- Handle the cleanup to keep your site running clean and fast.
- My Music
- Add your music for use on the website. We also have our music that you can use if you wish.
Cart Settings
- GENERAL:
- Kiosk-like cart – Why: This design makes it easier for customers to drag and drop photos, backgrounds and add text to the products and see what the finished product will look like.
- Secure Checkout – Of course the system is protected by an SSL at the cart area, and you can add an SSL to the full website if you wish.
- Zoom Viewing Feature – Standard feature on our shopping cart, this feature allows the end customer to use a magnifier to see if eyes are open, etc. This works great for team or group shots.
- Consumer Digital Upload – This feature allows your customers to upload their images to you, and opens up a lot of opportunities to sell your products with your designs, like custom Christmas cards, or save the date cards, etc. with your customer’s images. You can also sell your services for things like “touch up work” work or Photoshop manipulations etc.!
- Responsive design – This means it does not matter what device your customer is using. Our cart will look and work great on all of them.
- Settings
- Different Cart Settings – You can customize the cart to show what is best for you. Do you want to force a password search, do you want to force login before shopping, do you want to arrange your events by date or by name? There are many ways to make the cart work for you.
- A simple viewing of photos for customers by tracking their login history. – We can track your customers’ logins and their use of passwords, then if they are logged in when they return, they will not have to re-enter the passwords/keywords, etc. Why? It results in a simple one-click viewing of their images for return visits.
- Consumer Cropping – Our consumer cropping is done as a “what you see is what you get” type of display. No old-fashioned “rubber band” type cropping is needed. Customers may be allowed to crop the image to fit a product and see exactly what it looks like. This comes in handy for specialty items like a piece of jewelry, or a memory mate and they will know now exactly how it will look. And remember we can automatically render this for printing as well.
- Choose to force a password or allow open viewing. – You can choose to force your customers to key in a password to find and see their event photos, or you can show a list of collections/events and allow your customers to select from the list.
- Customizable the “Order Product” Button – You can change the text of the order online button so that it better fits your needs or language.
- Show the image filename under the image – You can choose to show or hide the filename under the images.
- Allow “Anonymous Viewing” or force a sign in to view the images. – You can choose to Allow anonymous viewing or force your clients to log in before viewing the images so that you can track who has viewed what collection/event.
- Minimum Order requirements. – You can set up a minimum order amount if you wish. This is quite often used as a replacement for packages. It allows your customers to buy whatever they want as long as the minimum order requirement is met.
- Event Image Thumbnail – Why: The system atomically resizes your large images in two sizes – small thumbs for viewing and a 1200×1200 one for ordering with zoom.
- Thumbnail Size and arrangement options – We automatically use the small thumbs for the cell phone viewing – this setting lets you pick the size for viewing on a computer
- Multi-Select Image Feature – select one 8×10 of every picture – This makes it easy for a customer to order all images at one time
- Add Custom Checkout Field, – Do you need to know the teacher’s name or the student’s name or anything else to make it easier to fulfill the order, then just add a field to the checkout asking for the data you need.
- Tax Settings
- Automatic Tax System: – Our system uses TaxJar for calculating the taxes your customers are charged. This assures you the most accurate tax collection possible. Add your zip code into the system and it will update the tax rates automatically if tax codes change in your area. Taxes for out-of-state orders etc. are always correct. You can even set up multiple tax areas if you need.
- Shipping Methods
- Shipping methods – You can set up as many shipping methods as you wish, and assign only those that are needed to any event. Shipping can be done via several methods and customers can have items shipped to places other than the billing address of a Credit Card etc.. – Examples: Pick up at school, pick up at a studio, USPS, UPS, Fed Ex, etc…
- Ship To Locations
- Payment Methods
- You can set up as many payment methods for your clients to use as you wish. Keep in mind we have made a deal with a major payment processor that could save you $30.00 per month or more.
- Free Merchant Account for Real-Time Processing with No Monthly Charge – Most credit card companies charge $30 to $60 a month – We made a deal with a company that waives the $30 monthly fee for all our customers!
- Discounts
- You can set up discounts in several ways and combinations – Order totals, early orders, or even code-based. We can do almost any type of discount.
- Order Status
- Customizable Order Status Emails – You can customize the emails that are sent out to the customer when an order is placed, or when an order status is changed.
- Create Order Confirmation Emails – The system can send you an email with full customer order information
- MailChimp
- MailChimp Integration – You can set our exports to go directly to your MailChimp account so that you can handle any kind of marketing campaign you wish.
Products / Prices
- Vendor Accounts
- Vendors integrated into our system. – We have several vendors already integrated into our system and are adding more as we can.
- Product Options
- Product Options – Our options capabilities are unmatched. You can even use options that are conditional based on other option choices. Our options can change backgrounds, select different looks for the product, change the colors, and the list goes on. You can see samples at www.demolabimages.com and we would love for you to check that site out.
- Color Display Options- This optional feature allows your customer to see what the photos will look like in Color, Black and White, or Sepia.
- Products
- Sell Any Product You Can Design – If you can design it, you can sell it on MorePhotos – Jewelry, greeting cards, albums, any product we mean it!
- Sell framed prints – customer builds the frame online – You make your frames or have a framer that you work with. It is easy for the customer to build the frame they want with all the options and Buy it! We even have a framer already integrated for convenience.
- Packages
- Limit Number of Poses per Package – Gives you the ability to offer packages with a limited number of poses.
- Create any package – mix digital with prints – Gives you the ability to offer a package with printed images and digital or any combination of products you offer.
- Must Buy Package to Order Single Images – The customer must order a package before they can buy add-ons or a customer must buy something from this group, before they can buy from a different group of products. You have control.
- Green Screen
- Multi-layer green screen capability – You can allow your customer to choose a composition with both a background and foreground or just the standard single background replacement. We can then render it for digital download or to add the completed composition to other products. A sample would be things like magazine covers or a flag wrapped behind and in front of the subject. You can also allow your customer to add text to the product.
- Upcharge for green screens other than the original background. – You can set the pricing up so that your customer gets the original background for no extra charge, then add an upcharge for more elaborate background/foreground combinations, etc.
- Price Sheets
- Must Buy Package to Order Single Images – The customer must order a package before they can buy add-ons or a customer must buy something from this group, before they can buy from a different group of products. You have control.
- Quantity Discounts – Great way to up a sale is to offer quantity discounts. This can be applied by the product, or only by the product with duplicate images. – Examples: All 5x7s can get a quantity discount, or only 5x7s with duplicate images get the discount.
Photos
- Upload Settings
- Allows you to slow down the uploads to accommodate really bad internet connections. This is not used very often but has been used during large conferences, etc to solve upload issues.
- Watermarks
- Custom Watermarks – Our watermarks feature allows you to set up different watermarks for different events. You can use anything from our simple text watermark to uploading your logo with opacity and place it where you want it on the photo. Watermarks are a great defense against image theft from the website.
- Welcome Pages
- Welcome Page: – Add a video to show off products and services, collect emails, add a donate button for brides or charities. The welcome page has many uses. It shows after your client or customer clicks on their event, but before they see the images.
- Upload Profiles
- Add custom upload profiles – Set up as many profiles as you need. Profiles bring together your price sheets, shipping sheets, watermarks, and everything else. It is then a simple choice before dragging and dropping your images.
- Collections / events
- Event Customization – Why: Each event can have different prices, different shipping choices, different thumbnail displays, etc. This gives you an EXTREME amount of control over how you want to sell your images.
- Event Creation/Upload – You can do a simple drag and drop of a folder, you can drag and drop several folders at the same time, you can upload images alone, or you can use the API to upload photos. There are many ways to upload your images into our system. Even LightRoom can be used to upload images.
- Lightroom plugin – Use Lightroom to upload the images right from the lightroom
- Background extraction. – We allow the extraction of either low or high-resolution images. If you only cut out the low-resolution images, then you can do replacements only on the images that need a different background. Our system also allows for up-charging on different backgrounds. (example: the standard background can be free, whereas a different choice will cost your customer more.)
- Background removal – We can automatically remove the backgrounds of high or low-resolution images during the upload for use in the cart. These backgrounds do not have to be a single color like green or blue. They can even be standard “Picture Day” type backgrounds.
- Team photo selection or viewing with the * as a wildcard – Why? This feature allows all team members to see the same team photo without having to upload it for each team member. This team photo can then be placed on any product by any team member.
- Keyword search: Folder name, File name, Master Keyword – This feature allows the final customer to enter a unique identifier and see just their images from within a single event. It can be generated into our system by using the file or folder name, or from just the front portion of the file or folder name. They can also be added or modified later.
- Forced Keyword Search – Our “Force Keyword Search” feature functions as a password so that school subjects can only see their images in a collection or event. You can also add a MASTER keyword so that a principal or leader can see all of the images.
- Auto Expire Events – Helps manage the events and lets your customers know the date they have to order by. This puts a sense of urgency on the ordering process.
- Pay To Enter Events – Why: This function allows you to charge customers upfront to enter the event and view the images. This works great for sports events that are done on speculation. It also allows you to give the customer a credit for the upfront money to use during checkout. Example: You could charge 10.00 to view the images and then give any amount of credit you wish back for use at checkout. Even more than the 10.00 if you wish.
- Pay To Enter Events – Why: This function allows you to charge customers upfront to enter the event and view the images. This works great for sports events that are done on speculation. It also allows you to give the customer a credit for the upfront money to use during checkout. Example: You could charge 10.00 to view the images and then give any amount of credit you wish back for use at checkout. Even more than the 10.00 if you wish.
- Coming Soon Events – Why: This is a very important feature and we recommend to use all the time. This allows you to post the event before you photograph it. Then when visiting the cart, your client will get a message like “Thank you for coming to West High Football Photos. The photos are not ready yet but should be available soon. Please enter your email here, and we will let you know when they are posted”. Then when the images are uploaded and the event type is changed to active, the system will send an email to everyone that signed up for the notification.
- Event Image Thumbnail – The thumbnails used to show the customer images, can be shown in 4 different sizes, small, medium, large, or extra-large. They can also be shown as a cropped image, an image that will be fit to show the entire image inside of a square area, or collage organization.
- Event Groups – By creating an event group, you can add price sheets, shipping sheets, etc, and have them apply to all of the collections/events under this group. The common samples would be for weddings or schools or portrait shoots, where all of the underlying collections are similar. There is a way to have different price sheets etc under these groups if you need, but that is less common.
- Password Protection – Why: You can password protect some events and not others. It is your choice. You can even have multi-tier passwords – one for the school and one for the student for example.
- Flip Albums
- Proof and Sell Albums Online – This is a very powerful tool if you sell Albums or Flipbooks online. Your customer can view the entire book and if you allow them to, they can ask for changes with a secure password via our note area that tracks what page they are looking at when they put in their notes. Or you can use it just for viewing and selling.
Store
- GENERAL
- This store is designed to sell simple products that could include knitted items, or carved items, etc.
- Settings
- Tax Settings
- Payment Methods
- Order Status
- Gift Certificates
- Products
- Product Options
- Price Sheets
Customers
- Customer Search
- See a list of all of your customers.
- See what their favorites are
- See what collections or events they have visited
- See what they have currently in their carts if they have not checked out yet.
- Assign them to be able to “Proof” their flip album.
- See what digital images they have downloaded from the site.
- Orders
- Rendering of complete products. – If you upload the high-resolution images to us, we can completely render the finished product including customer crops and backgrounds, etc. so that you can simply download the digital file to print yourself or send it to a lab. This feature also is integrated into our digital downloads.
- Pre-order with fulfillment after the images are taken. – You create the preorder event online using just a sample image, then start taking orders. Once you have the photos, you simply upload them and we match them to the orders and then we render the ordered products for printing.
- Customer Order List – This is a list of all of your orders. You can do all kinds of exports containing the information you choose. This is also where you would fulfill your orders if you are using an integrated lab or if you are using our flattened images for download.
- Customer Order List – This is a list of all of your orders. You can do all kinds of exports containing the information you choose. This is also where you would fulfill your orders if you are using an integrated lab or if you are using our flattened images for download.
- Instant Digital Image Fulfillment – Once the order is paid for the customer can download the image immediately. These can be complete with backgrounds or whatever product graphics were included. Examples would include full custom sports cards or any flattened digital file. They would be ready for instant download as soon as they are paid for. Very powerful tool!
- Sales Reports
- Custom Sales Reports – Whatever type of sales report you need, the system will generate it. Reports can be generated by the event, by photographer, by what type of prints sold the most, and more. There are tons of different ways to export your data for just about any purpose you need.
- Add reference numbers – Why? Adding a reference number will help you integrate sales from your website with your studio management software. This can be used as a customer number etc.
- Gift Certificates
- Gift Certificates – Gift Certificates come in handy for many things. They can be used for anything from your customers’ loved ones helping out with the wedding photographer, to adding a gift certificate to orders going out to entice the existing customer to come back. Gift certificates have an amount on them and can be used again and again until that amount is gone.
- Favorites
- Favorites Accounts – This feature allows customers to pick their favorites for many different reasons. It allows them to pick images for an album or just to narrow down the choices to use while shopping.
Event notification system
- Settings
- Text message your clients when images are uploaded. – We have a feature that would allow you to have a text message sent to your clients as the images are uploaded.
- Phone Numbers
- Choose a local phone number to send your text messages from
- Activity log
- See all of your outgoing texts and see if anyone has tried to text you back etc.
Tools
- Lightroom Plugin
- This plugin is used to be able to upload to our system directly from your LightRoom program.
- APIs
- API access for almost any function. – Our APIs are built in such a way as to allow your programmer to build their integration into our system. You can upload images, manage orders, send orders to your printer, etc. without even having to use our interface.
Domain Control Panel
- My Domains
- If you are using us to manage your domain, details will be shown here
System Email
- My Email Accounts
- If you are using our system to manage your email, details about your account and setup instructions for your devices can be found here.
Tech Support
- Contact
- Use a form to let us know about your issue or question. This form also gives us specific information about your computer so that we are better informed when it comes to your issues.
- FAQs
- This area has been retired as we now have help files on every single page of your admin area and videos on the home page of your admin area, that are designed to address your questions in a simple to understand, short as a possible format. We will try to keep it simple. Remember we are also available by phone in case you need us.
Mobile Apps
- Photo Folio
- A simplified version of “Sticky Albums” will allow you to create digital business cards that are “hard cached” on a customer or potential customer’s mobile device.
- Photo Viewer App
- Future development – that may include things like “Digital Wallets” or something similar. This is still under development.
Event notification System
- Settings
- Text message your clients when images are uploaded. – We have a feature that would allow you to have a text message sent to your clients as the images are uploaded.
- Phone Numbers
- Choose a local phone number to send your text messages from
- Activity log
- See all of your outgoing texts and see if anyone has tried to text you back etc.
Tools
- Lightroom Plugin
- This plugin is used to be able to upload to our system directly from you LightRoom program.
- APIs
- API access for almost any function. – Our APIs are built in such a way as to allow your programmer to build their own integration to our system. You can upload images, manage orders, send orders to your printer, etc. without even having to use our interface.
Domain Control Panel
- My Domains
- If you are using us to manage your domain, details will be shown here
System Email
- My Email Accounts
- If you are using our system to manage your email, details about your account and setup instructions for your devices can be found here.
Tech Support
- Contact
- Use a form to let us know about your issue or question. This form also gives us specific information about your computer so that we are better informed when it comes to yourissues.
- FAQs
- This area has be retired as we now have help files on every single page of your admin area and videos on the home page of your admin area, that are designed to address your questions in a simple to understand, short as possible format. We will try to keep it simple. Remember we are also available by phone in case you need.
Mobile Apps
- Photo Folio
- A simplified version of “Sticky Albums” that will allow you to create digital business cards that are “hard cached” on a customer or potential customer’s mobile device.
- Photo Viewer App
- Future development – that may include things like “Digital Wallets” or something similar. This is still under development.
And All of it Works Prefect on the Smart Phones and Tablets
Of course they do!