This is a full list of features and services
we provide with the MorePhotos System:
Unlimited Technical Support
- We provide online Getting started guides, FAQ's, and Demos.
- We provide phone and email support. We will help you with the simple and advanced
issues. If you need help just ask.
Hosting Options
- Host your existing custom website at no additional Charge.
- Link your existing site to your new MorePhotos shopping cart.
Whether you host your existing site with us or simply add a link to your
existing site, you can add your site's look and feel to your new MorePhotos shopping
cart so it is a seemless transition for your customers.
If you don't have a website, you can use our website creation/management
tools to create your own site even if you have no website creation experience.
If you need help, we will be there for you and its at no additional cost.
Please see the Website creation section for more information.
Note: We also have a Web Site Design Team.
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Domain Registration Services
You can purchase/maintain your domain name using our domain name registration/management tools.
Click here to purchase/transfer domain names.
Supplied Software(PC, Mac, Linux with Wine):
- PhotoManager re-sizes, watermarks and uploads your images to our servers.
- Online Manager is an Event/Website creation/Shopping cart/Customer management
tool (No HTML skills required).
- OrderManager (optional) sends your high-resolution images to the Vendor for
order fulfillment.
Integrated Business Solutions
Our software products have been integrated into several Photo Managment Software packages.
Click here to see our Integrated Business Solutions.
Free Marketing Links
All of our MorePhotos customers have the option to be listed on the following sites. These are sites that are owned by WD Web.
Email Services
When you host your full domain with us, you can have up to 3 email accounts at no additional charge. Having an email address that contains your domain name provides a more professional correspondence between you and your customers.
Website Creation/Management tools
No more costly website design! We provide a fully functional website for every MorePhotos customer. If you already have an existing site, just load it to your web site and it will override the template feature.
There is no requirement to customize the site that we provide. However, if you choose to customize it, we provide the ability to easily:
- Choose from any of the 38 Flash Designs, and many HTML template styles.
Click here for examples
- Load your logo.
- Match your website colors to your pictures and/or your logo.
- Load your own buttons.
- Select from the following supplied pages:
- Albums Page - Provide the ability for your customers to proof albums online and provide feedback for modifications. Click here for examples
- Portfolio - Show samples of your favorite pictures.
- Order Online - Sell your photos using the shopping cart and favorites albums.
- Order Status - Allow your customers to check the status of their orders.
- Email us link
- Create new pages and Modify Existing pages including:
- Information about you
- Information about the products and services you provide
- Pictures
- Your prices
- Links to your events/groups
- Links to your partners sites or references
- All pages except html code. So, if you have existing page or you design your page in another tool, simply copy the code into pages in the template.
- If you have an existing site, use our header and
footer function to wrap your look and feel around your shopping cart.
This provides a seamless transition from your custom site to your shopping
cart. We will help you create this as part of our service.
Price Sheets
Your price sheet can be as simple as a list of sizes and prices or it can include:
- Sample picture of the product offered. This is called a product sample. Any pictures loaded into product sample events can be selected within your price sheet item.
- Multiple pose package pricing using the "Photo Unit Select" Product Option. This option allows you to create items where you need the customer to choose more than one picture. An example of this could be a parent album, collage or 9 up picture. You have control over how many poses and how many items those poses can be applied. So, you can define a 2 pose package with five item package.
Click here for samples of Package pricing.
- Selectable drop down options for each item by using the "Option Select" Product Option. This allows you to provide ordering choices within the item. For Example, you could add a color option where they can choose to order a black and white or sepia copy of the picture.
- Personalized product information by using the "Input Field" Product Option.
This can be used to offer trading cards, birth announcements, greeting cards,
cropping options etc...
- Build as many price sheets as you like.
- Copy existing price sheets to save you time when creating new price sheets.
- Sell images and specialty products:
- Personalized Photo Gifts and Accessories
- Packages
- Christmas cards
- Trading cards
- Calendars
- Announcements
- Special Cropping instructions
- Color choices
- Finish Choices
- Framing Choices
Integrated Fulfillment Options
You have freedom to choose to fulfill your own orders, use a local lab,
use any of our integrated vendors or a combination thereof.
If you are a self reliant Photographer and fulfill your orders yourself,
www.lexjet.com can provide you with the needed supplies. They can provide a wide variety of printers and supplies. Plus, they have excellent free Technical Support.
Listen to Mr. Tom Hauenstein from the Lexjet on VTalkRadio.
Our integrated vendors offer a wide variety of products.
Click here to see a list of our integrated vendors.
Multi-level Discounts
You can setup incentives for your customers based on:
- Quantity Discounts - This is based on the quantity of the item purchased.
This option allows you to provide different pricing if the customer
orders more then 5 of the same picture.
- Order Total Discounts - This type of discount can be used to encourage
your customers to order a certain order total. The discount given can
be based on a percent of the order or a flat rate.
- Date Based Discounts - This type of discount encourages your customers
to order before a certain date.
The discount given can be based on a percent of the order or a flat rate.
- Code Based Discounts - This type of discount can be used for brides
that have prepaid for their photos or to present a discount card to
everyone at a certain event. The discount given can be based on a percent
of the order or a flat rate.
Gift Certificates
Sell gift certificates to your customers online or in person. Your customer can shop online and purchase from any event and our system will keep track of how much of the gift certificate remains. Once the amount is used up the gift certificate is removed.
Shipping
Create multiple shipping options for your customers. You decide what shipping options are given to each event. You can setup the following types of reusable shipping sheets:
- Flat Rate
- Unit Based Rate
- Total Based Rate
Shopping Cart
- Multi-level event Grouping
- Organize the events by date or event name
- Display options:
- Your entire event list
- Your entire event list with Thumbnail images for each event in multiple columns.
- Your entire event list with Thumbnail images for each event in one column.
- Event search
- Password only entry
- Email Collection
Optionally, collect the email addresses of your customers as they enter their events. Then, you can create emails that are sent to the customers that have visited.
- To accommodate our international customers and various preferences for displaying dates, the date can be presented to your customers in the following formats:
- m/d/y
- d/m/y
- y/m/d
- m-d-y
- d-m-y
- y-m-d
- m.d.y
- d.m.y
- y.m.d
- Background color options for your shopping cart varies based on what kind of Website you have.
- If you are using a custom site (a site created by you or a website designer outside of our tools) or one of our Html style templates:
- If you are using one of our Skin Style Templates you can customize the colors for your Shoping cart.
- If you are using one of our Flash Style Templates, the background color of your shopping cart is preset depending on the Flash design and colors you select.
- Display the Shopping cart using any of the following Languages: English,
Espanol, Portugues, and Deutsch. Or, let your customers choose the language they need during their visit to your site.
- Display File names and Order tools under the Thumbnails.
Payment Options
You can decide how your customers pay you. You can accept checks, money
orders, credit cards, Paypal. If you want to accept credit cards or PayPal
payments,
you must have an account with a merchant or Paypal.
To utilize our real time options, you must have an account with
one of the following merchants. We connect to them during the ordering
process and automatically send the customer order information to your
merchant.
Merchant Accounts
- Supported Real Time Credit Card processing options:
Real Time processing provides an easy to use instant authorization of your customers payment. If you have a credit card processing service, check with your merchant to see if they offer one of the following real time gateways.
- Plug n Pay
- Authorize.net
- DirectOne
- eProcessing Network
- Internet Secure
- PayJunction
- SecPay
- Money Movers
If you need a Real Time Merchant account:
- Visit www.photographersprocessing.com
or call 877-333-6266
- Visit www.photosignup.com or call 866-915-9949
Listen to Jason Graves of Power Pay on VTalkRadio
- Many of our MorePhotos photographers use PayPal, the world's number one online payment service. When you signup for PayPal, you can start accepting credit card payments instantly. In conjunction with your MorePhotos account, your customers can use their credit cards on your website to purchase your images and they don’t need a PayPal account of their own. Best of all, it's completely free to sign up!
To sign up or learn more, click below:
Uploading Images
- Automatically creates thumbnail images using the
following sizes:
- Automatically resizes your pictures to any of the
following sizes:
- 250x250
- 400x400
- 500x500
- 600x600
- 600x600 with zoom option
- Easily apply the following types of filters to your
images:
- Gray Scale
- Sharpen
- Soften
- Buttonize
- Despeckle
- Rotate images during the upload process. Or, you can rotate one image at a time after your images have been uploaded.
- Specify all setup information of an event during the upload
process.
- Easily load pictures to:
- Website pages - You can upload pictures for display
on your website.
- Shopping cart - These are images that you want
to sell. You can load pictures to new events or add pictures to
an existing event.
- Portfolio - These are images you want to show
potential customers.
- Price sheets - Add picture samples of the products
you are selling.
- Coming Soon events- This announces that an event will be loaded
soon and gives your customer an option to be notified via email
when the event is loaded.
- Album pages to your site so your brides can approve them online
and enter comments/approvals for each page. Click here for examples
- Events with multiple folders at the same time.
- Events with multiple folders into separate categories.
- Groups of events at the same time.
- Automatically rotate images.
- Automatically Watermark your images with a secure
embedded watermark. Set it up once and have it automatically applied
to every event until you turn it off.
- Import file and caption information via XML files.
These files can be generated by other software packages that rename/manipulate
the information attached to your images.
Import image and/or caption information from the following software packages:
Event Options
Event options give you the ability to specify what the customer sees for your event and what
options they have while veiwing their event. It also allows you set Archive and expiration dates for the
event and even post a Coming Soon notice.
- Event Description - Optionally specify the following information per event:
- Event Name
- Event Date
- Location
- Notes
- Archive Date
- Expiration Date
- Password Protection - you choose which events have a password and which events are open to the public.
- Welcome Page - Customize the first page of the event with your company
name, a picture and a message.
- Choose from the following reusable lists (these are items you define):
- Price sheets
- Discount sheets
- Shipping sheets
- An automatic message will be sent to your customer as a thank you when they place an order.
This message is customizable.
- Black & White and sepia display options
- Optional Zoom featureLive
demo
- Categories - Allow customers to view the images in different folders within the event.
- Image search - Allows search based on file names and folder names. You can also customize each caption after the event is loaded.
- Imbedded Watermark protection
- Event Archiving
- Automatic event expiration
- Post an event ahead of time as a coming soon event.
Customer Management
- Automatically receive email notifications when your customer orders.
- Automatically receive email notifications when your customer saves images to a favorites Album.
- Customize the automatic thank you message your customer receives when they place an order.
- Fulfill your customer orders yourself or through one of our integrated vendors.
- Manage the status of your orders in your Customer Manager and optionally activate an automatic email to your customer any time you change the status of their order.
- Order History of all of the customer orders.
- Manage your customers Favorites albums. As a photographer you have full access to your customers favorites albums. You can view, edit, delete and even create an order right from their favorites.
- Export Profiles allow you to export any of the following information:
- Customer Information
- Order Information
- Favorites Albums
- Tax information
This information can be exported to the following formats:
- Email profiles allow you to customize all of the emails the system automatically sends on your behalf. They are as follows:
- Event Coming Soon Email
- Event Expiration Reminder Email
- Send to Friend Email
- New Order Confirmation
- Order Status Change
- New Favorites Account
- Retrieve Favorites Password
Picture protection
We offer a high level of image protection.
- We automatically resize your images during the upload process. So, only low res images are available in your shopping cart.
- The print screen function is disabled for shopping cart images.
- Shopping cart images are right click protected.
- Automatic embedded Watermarking(optional)
Privacy & Security
MorePhotos does not sell our customers email addresses. In fact, we do not share any kind of information about you in any manner. See our Privacy Policy here.
MorePhotos e-commerce system is safe.
Our Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) secured checkout enables us to provide the highest industry standard of 128-bit-encryption. It encrypts all of your customer's personal information, including credit card number, name, and address, so that it cannot be read. We also adhere to all industry standard security protocols and are PCI Certified (Visa and Mastercard's strict rules for online e-commerce.
Account Management
- Action logs provide history of changes to your shopping cart:
Additions, Deletions and Modifications of orders, events, favorites, groups, price sheets, shipping sheets, discount sheets, billing information.
- Activity report shows the peak image counts of the events you have loaded on a monthly basis.
- Online Invoices
Community Market place
Offer your services new and used equipment to other photographers. You can
access this feature from your Online Manager or by going to
www.professionalphotographysupply.com
Additional Services
These services are available additions to our service at a small monthly/yearly
fee:
