Integrated shopping cart (not fotomoto)
Posted: 17 Dec 2012, 18:14
Imagevue is one of the sleekest ways of presenting visual material around and deserves a shopping cart to match its the simplicity and options.
I have been looking into fotomoto. I am a pro plus member there, but I think it is not a suitable solution at all:
To put it bluntly, I actually think it is a horrible business model, and taking far too much money out of the most times poor artist's pocket.
• The prints when fulfilled by fotomoto are expensive.
• They take a huge cut of the sale amount (from 10% to 25% depending on the monthly fee you pay on top of that).
• There is no options for selling numbered signed copies of work, a major income source for photographers, painters and visual artists alike.
• There are no options as to what paper is printed on. (Professionals surely care about what paper their art is printed on).
The recently introduced self fulfillment option was thought to solve some those issues, but it didn't.
Still no paper option, which means you have to go out and buy the paper used by fotomoto, even if you would like to use other brands and kinds, like for example the industry leader Hahnemuhle. (For this last issue, I contacted the support team, that don't seem in a hurry to implement this).
I was thinking if it was possible to integrate a cart in a fotomoto way. I.e. appearing on top of imagevue site, so you don't have to leave it, by using existing code and add it to imagevue.
I am not a coder, but could imagine something like this possibly being implemented quite easily:
http://codecanyon.net/item/plumshop-a-j ... obocreatif
Fotomoto could still be an option in imagevue off course, because for some it works flawlessly and according to their needs.
But for those who want to print and/or sign and/or sell numbered copies of work there would also be an option, which would put less money in other people's pockets and more in the artist's.
Thanks for reading
I have been looking into fotomoto. I am a pro plus member there, but I think it is not a suitable solution at all:
To put it bluntly, I actually think it is a horrible business model, and taking far too much money out of the most times poor artist's pocket.
• The prints when fulfilled by fotomoto are expensive.
• They take a huge cut of the sale amount (from 10% to 25% depending on the monthly fee you pay on top of that).
• There is no options for selling numbered signed copies of work, a major income source for photographers, painters and visual artists alike.
• There are no options as to what paper is printed on. (Professionals surely care about what paper their art is printed on).
The recently introduced self fulfillment option was thought to solve some those issues, but it didn't.
Still no paper option, which means you have to go out and buy the paper used by fotomoto, even if you would like to use other brands and kinds, like for example the industry leader Hahnemuhle. (For this last issue, I contacted the support team, that don't seem in a hurry to implement this).
I was thinking if it was possible to integrate a cart in a fotomoto way. I.e. appearing on top of imagevue site, so you don't have to leave it, by using existing code and add it to imagevue.
I am not a coder, but could imagine something like this possibly being implemented quite easily:
http://codecanyon.net/item/plumshop-a-j ... obocreatif
Fotomoto could still be an option in imagevue off course, because for some it works flawlessly and according to their needs.
But for those who want to print and/or sign and/or sell numbered copies of work there would also be an option, which would put less money in other people's pockets and more in the artist's.
Thanks for reading