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We are excited to announce that it is now possible to sell your images, either printed or as a digital file, directly from your Viewbook site or individual Albums. To make this possible, we teamed up with Fotomoto, a great service that ‘works like an invisible team of sales people, professional printers, packaging and shipping services, accountants, and customer support squads’, as Fotomoto says themselves. Together we can now offer you the simplest and most beautiful way to present and sell your images and prints online.

Sounds good. How do I activate this?
To make your images available to buy, simply create an account at Fotomoto and add the given ID-code to your Image Manager. Then enable the sparkling new shopping basket button in those albums of which you want the images to be sellable. See complete instructions here.

Once installed, visitors can click the basket symbol in your album. The image is added to the shopping basket, and further details (print size, paper, etc.) can be specified from the Fotomoto widget, reachable from the right corner of your site. Orders are processed right on your website and you will receive an email with the order information and be prompted to upload the high-resolution image. You only have to upload the high-resolution file once a sale is made. Fotomoto then takes care of the payment, printing and shipping.

Print options
Fotomoto offers premium quality C-Print using high-end Noritsu and Chromira printers on professional Kodak Endura photo papers so that you always receive the longest lasting and highest quality photographic prints available.

Order processing and payments
Fotomoto prints, packages, and ships the order direct to the customer. Your profits, which is the sales price minus the cost of the product and Fotomoto’s 15% service charge, are deposited directly into your Fotomoto account. Though you can request your money at any time, Fotomoto regularly pays you every time your balance hits $200, via mailed check or PayPal.

It’s the quality and simplicity of Fotomoto’s service that makes them our partner of choice. But on top of this it’s extra nice to see we share visions: “We just think it makes more sense to bring the technology to the place your art is, not the other way around. Isn’t that simple?” Affirmative.

For an how-to to add Fotomoto to Viewbook, see the Fotomoto support page on Viewbook. For more information and FAQs on Fotomoto, see http://www.fotomoto.com/home/tour.