What service can handle print sales, fulfillment, and shipping from my photography website?

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I want to sell my photos online as prints, greeting cards, and similar products, but I’m not looking for a stock photo marketplace. I’d like a service that can process payments, arrange printing, and ship orders to customers.

My priorities are:
- good print/order fulfillment
- some control over pricing and storefront appearance
- ideally an easy way to add a simple purchase button or link from my own website rather than sending people to a separate gallery system

What services should I consider for this kind of setup?

user50 · Answer

My SmugMug experience as a SmugMug Pro user:

Pros
A lot of control over your gallery's settings and prices.
Excellent customer support. This high level of support on the web is uncommon.
The customer's experience is simple and straight forward (as long as you don't overwhelm them different sizes and options).
Tons of cool features with the Pro account, like coupons and packages.

Cons
Almost too much control over your gallery's settings and prices sometimes. It can sometimes be a little overcomplicated.
Not necessarily that great looking right out of the box.

SmugMug handles all of the transaction. The customer checks out, SmugMug takes their money, sends the stuff to the lab and ships it to the customer. SmugMug takes 15% of your profit. I don't think you can have a buy link on your photo that integrates with their shopping cart.

I don't think SmugMug is really all that great as simply a photo sharing site. Flickr is better. But, SmugMug is pretty darn good for the pro selling prints.

What service can handle print sales, fulfillment, and shipping from my photography website?

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