Print fulfillment

Have your prints automatically fulfilled by your preferred lab!

Many members have been asking for integration with labs. We’ve gone back and forth on this, over a long period of time, to finally settle on what we feel is the simplest and most flexible solution.

We let you integrate easily with the lab of your choice — with ANY lab, as long as they accept orders by email.

How it works

You simply define in your account the email address of your lab, and some information (e.g. instructions) for them.

When an order on your website is ready for delivery (e.g. paid), the system will automatically send an email to your lab to fulfill the order, in your own name. The email contains the order information, and a link to download the high-res files to print. The lab will then bill you directly.

Easy, flexible, simple.

Example order to a lab

Example order to a lab

It’s different

Traditionally, ecommerce website providers have deeper integrations with one or several labs. It’s very easy to take into use for the photographer, at least for basic products, and for the website provider, it is potentially a new revenue opportunity.

Ours is a different approach. It’s more flexible, and more transparent. In the same way as we stay out of your relationship with your clients, we stay out of your relationship with your lab — and make a living only out of the technology we offer.

Our solution lets you keep full freedom in defining your own products, and allows you to work with any lab that accepts orders by email — like that small lab down the road that makes fantastic fine art prints (we love the idea of supporting small local businesses, by the way).

It lets you work with multiple labs for different products — within the same client orders. It even lets you group orders to save on shipping!

Getting started is easy

See the documentation on fulfillment to learn more, complete with step-by-step instructions!


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PDF support

We’re delighted to announce that PhotoDeck now fully supports PDFs files, in the same way as still images and video clips.

Need to distribute PDF files in a controlled way? Want to sell an ebook?

We got you covered! Simply upload PDF files just like images or videos. All the same features are available: advanced proofing, secure download, e-commerce…

The system automatically generates a preview of the first page of the document (except for password-protected PDFs, naturally):

(and if you haven’t done so yet, remember to download our own Photographers’ SEO Pyramid PDF for free from our Facebook page!)


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New improvements

Here are 3 improvements we’ve just rolled out:

1- PhotoDeck websites now also speak Turkish

Turkish joins the list of languages that your website fully supports (there is now 10 of them!). Many thanks to member Vieri Bottazzini and his wife for the translations!

2- More information about downloads

When a client downloads an order or an image, the Activity Timeline now includes the geographical location the download occurred from. Especially useful when you don’t require login to download individual images!

3- Need to cancel a digital delivery?

When an order with digital files is ready, the system prepares a zip archive for your client to download, and that zip files expires automatically after two weeks.

If you wish to delete that downloadable zip file before its natural expiry, there is now a new button to do just that, on the order page in your admin space.

Thanks to member Ivan Rupes for the suggestion!


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Revamping the /latest page

All our websites include a special page: “Latest work”, accessed via the /latest path.

Stephen Alvarez' latest images published on his site

We’ve just revamped it, to show a kind of timeline of what you have added to your site. It is the same content as previously, but more intelligently displayed.

A PhotoDeck site can also automatically tweet or post on a Facebook page when new images are published, and this is the link that is shared — perfect to engage your followers and client on social media!

In addition, we’ve also made it much faster to display that page. You might not necessarily notice the difference, but as you know, we’re page speed addicts ;) The difference is noticeable on larger websites, where it is now as fast as any other page.


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HD Video

PhotoDeck supports video clips just like still images… and now, you can delight your clients with video clips displayed in their full HD glory (720p) on your website!

See a few beautiful examples on Michael Mauro’s website.


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Revamped gallery access control

Today, we’ve deployed a new update that significantly improves the way access rights to your galleries are managed.

Now, the interface is clearer and easier to use. It also brings a significant new improvement: you can give access to a gallery (and its subgalleries) to anybody, but allow (free) download only to selected trusted clients.

Since, by default, subgalleries inherit the settings from their parent, the access rights for a full section or your website (or even for your website in full) can therefore be managed easily.

There’s been quite a few changes under the hood to achieve this. Of course, the access rights you’ve set with the old system are still valid.

Let us know what you think!


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Introducing: packages

We’re proud to introduce a new feature, often requested by members: package pricing.

Package pricing when the client has not added anything to the package yet. For subsequent images, the view is simplified for clarity.

With this, it is for example possible to create packages at bundle prices for:

- albums of multiple images
- multiple images printed in different sizes
- digital downloads in different sizes
- mixes of digital downloads, prints and other products

It also allows to sell single images as a package of multiple formats (so you can bundle a low-res digital file and a high-quality print of the same image under the same price).

Back-end view of the same example package

We have created a few example packages to get started faster, and have strived to keep it simple both for site owners and clients (with plenty of intelligence behind the scenes), so creating your own package should not take more than a few minutes!


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Updated Photo Mechanic uploader

We’ve updated the Photo Mechanic uploader so that it now lets you create new galleries and upload directly into galleries, all from Photo Mechanic, for a more efficient workflow.

See how to install the new plugin.


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New theme and more

New design: “Europe”

Now available, this new theme is minimalist (as all our themes), easy to customize, and great if you want to display your images very big.

Like always, this theme was built with the same design editor our PRO and STUDIO members have access to, so it’s easy to tweek — or even completely redesign for advanced users!

Alternative currency display

The prices on our members’ websites are automatically converted in a couple of other currencies for international clients.

Now, it is possible to control exactly what currencies are displayed, or even to get rid of the alternative currencies altogether.

Alternative currencices can now be controlled -- or completely removed

Members will find the new option as part of each Pricing Profile settings.


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Mobile websites now available in BETA!

www.maion.com as seen on a mobile phone.
TRY IT NOW and let us know what you think!

We’ve gone so far with our mobile websites that it is time to make them available to our members. We still have a few minor improvements in the pipeline, but we feel they work great already!

Want your mobile site already now?

Just hit the Support button in your admin space (no other submission accepted) and let us know you’d like the mobile BETA!

UPDATE: THE BETA IS OVER, EVERYBODY NOW GETS AUTOMATICALLY A KILLER MOBILE WEBSITE!


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