Views from Phanfare CEO and Co-founder Andrew Erlichson
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Link Start Selling with Phanfare

We are proud to announce that you can now sell photo merchandise through Phanfare and earn money!

Phanfare Pro customers can set their own prices and earn 85% of the markup. Phanfare will send you a check each month where your balance exceeds $500.

We have tons of Professional photographers that have been asking to sell photo merchandise through Phanfare and are pleased that we finally are able to offer it. The details are explained in our help system.

Here are few highlights

  • Our entire catalog of photo merchandise, including books, cards, prints, and gifts, can be ordered at prices you set.
  • Phanfare ships directly to the customer under the Phanfare brand and Phanfare handles all customer service.
  • Our standard return policy applies, which is that we guarantee customers are satisfied or offer them their money back.
  • You earn 85% of the markup between Phanfare prices and the prices you set. Phanfare keeps 15%.
  • Phanfare Pro accounts only!
  • Merchandise you order from you own account is not marked up.

We need your feedback on Phanfare’s new Pro Selling features. Let us know by contacting support if there are features you want to see in the next version.

Who’s this for?

Phanfare selling is great for wedding photographers, portrait photographers, and part time photographers interested in earning money from photography.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 11:57 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

  • What lab do you use to process photos?
  • For prints, we use a national consumer lab with very good auto color
    correction. What they don't offer is pro paper (Endura) or a color managed
    process (they won't provide an ICC profile.)

    Books and gifts come from other national labs. We think you will like the
    quality of the products. Try them.


  • i love it thanks
  • Okay, this is pretty awesome. I'm only an amateur photographer myself (you know, there's the dream....), but it's good to know that there's a service like this out there now. Score.
  • Cool! Question? So say your calender is $30. If we charge $35, we will make 85% of the $5 difference only correct? 2nd, am I reading that correctly? You will only send out the checks when our account exceeds $500? What if that takes 1year to reach? Thanks!
  • Yes, you earn 85% of the markup that you set. We keep Phanfare retail plus
    15%.

    You can request a check at any time during the month via the merchant sales
    page and we will include you in the next batch, regardless of what the
    balance is.
  • mahimatt
    So very excited about this i have been hoping and waiting for this!! Andrew well done, you guys listen so close to your customers it makes a huge difference and I use a bunch of companies for hosting and other stuff the customer service at Phanefare is unmatched.

    Since you are so willing to make adjustments it would be of great value to be able to have the option to offer at least a second pricing option. Even if that 2nd option is at 0% profit to myself. I would love to create a unique price scale for each album that being said if i could at leas have a second option or there is a second options for "At Cost" being that there is no mark up. At times I would like to offer prints to family form family functions and what not but dont want them to pay my professional prices. Hope this makes sense.
  • What you are saying does make sense. We are listening carefully to all of
    you to figure out how to enhance the functionality in the next release. The
    way we would implement this is probably to offer pricing on a per album
    basis. Hence, if you took photos of family, you could specify that the album
    has no markup. A further refinement would be to offer pricing on a per image
    basis. We have not heard a lot of desire for that yet.

    In about a month, we will survey everyone who signed up for selling and see
    what they most want and combine that with what we are hearing through our
    other feedback channels (blogs, facebook, twitter, forums, support)
  • I'm loving it too. The pricing per album is good as long as you don't have to reset prices each time you make a album. I'm hoping you can do thing better with the custom croping for the customer. That may save a lot of problems with cutting off parts of the photo that they want in the photo. I would also like to know if I can have more then one Cname. I would like to know the best way to keep my sports and wedding separate. I have two web address. I need to set something up just for wedding
  • mahimatt
    Yes the pricing per album, I do not have a need personally for by image pricing.

    Check one box for, Pro Pricing Check another for "at cost pricing"

    I will keep my eyes out for the survey.
  • Paula Simson
    Finally! This is a feature that I have been asking for, for quite some time, so I'm delighted that I will now be able to sell photo's. I was going to start my professional site on Smugmug just for this feature, but will stick with Phanfare now. I'll be upgrading to Pro right away.
  • Awesome. Glad to keep you around. Let us know what features are missing.
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