Feature list

Fully automated search-purchase-download workflow supported. Fast and highly customizable pricing calculator for RM licensing (traditional, based on PLUS rights-ready packages, or fully custom). Automatic image resizing upon delivery.

Simple price list based on image resolution. Upload once, images are automatically resized upon delivery.

Simple size-based price list, or multi-option pricing structure — your choice! Upon order payment, you handle the printing and shipping separately.

Extreme flexibility in setting your very own prices and fully customize pricing options on multiple levels!

Enables you to split your collection into different pricing tiers for licensing, downloads or prints sales.

Manage easily custom requests and negotiations online, while keeping the same automated and professional workflows as with standard sales.

Choose your base currency – your website will also display prices in other major currencies for your clients’ convenience. PhotoDeck supports all major currencies, and new currencies can be added easily upon request.

Your PhotoDeck website integrates with your PayPal, Moneybookers or Authorize.Net account, so you collect the money immediately, and directly. Your website is notified upon payment, so automated delivery is possible without your intervention.

You can offer offline alternative payment methods (e.g. cheques or bank transfer) without compromising the ordering workflow.

Create your own tax rules based on your clients’ location to match your tax requirements. For EU-based members, includes support for VAT exemption based on a EU VAT number validated automatically by the system.

Offer your customers multiple shipping options, following a similar Tier-based structure as postal services and shipping carriers.

Offer your customers discount coupons, with optional minimum order value, or number of items purchased.

You decide what happens when clients places an order: immediate online payment and download (for digital delivery) – or off-line order review.

View the payment and delivery status of orders placed on your website. Optionally edit orders (perfect for off-line negotiations) before requesting online payment.

Add a “buy image” link to image pages on any existing website, and use PhotoDeck as the cart. You can even disable your PhotoDeck website to use only the pricing, checkout and fullfilment features.

Password-protect and / or hide galleries to share work in confidentiality with your clients

Optionally require client login to access galleries, tied in with your client database.

Lets you and your clients comment on images and videos, for example to discuss retouching needs after a shoot, or to interact on reccee shots (can be switched on/off)

Lets your clients rate images/videos for an easier proofing experience and for better interaction. You can also designate your own selects to make your clients choice easier still.

Offer to your clients easy and free download of high-res image files from a gallery, either as 1-click single downloads or in batch – Ideal for the delivery of commissions

Allow your clients to download low-res comps in a single click

Upload a shoot to a protected gallery, let the client pick and order the selects, retouch & replace images, then deliver in a single click – easy and effective!

Letting galleries expire at a certain date is a great way to increase sales – since your clients know their images won’t be there forever.

Your choice: [your_url].photodeck.com or under your own domain!

Get a great-looking website in seconds, just pick one of our clean and modern pre-set themes. We even have a theme for A Photo Folio members to help them match their portfolio design!

Your website in your language

Spice up your design with custom splash images and slideshows on your front page or in deeper galleries

Minimalist portfolio or full-featured functional proofing: galleries can have different purposes — and different styles. You can also customize and create new styles with a PRO or STUDIO plan.

As an alternative to uploading videos to your PhotoDeck website, you can also embed videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Animoto, …

Create completely custom pages with your own content, easily editable with a rich online editor.

Any custom page can be your website frontpage, for a truly unique home page.

For an optimal display on any computer, from tablets to 30″ displays (example)

A super-fast, future-proof website that looks good on all browsers, animated slideshows and videos that work also on Apple’s iPad.

You’re not limited to themes anymore! Build your own design with PhotoDeck point-and-click Layout and Style editor, no coding required. A great tool to create a truly unique website, or match the design of an existing website.

Customize your watermark with PhotoDeck editing tools, or upload your own.

Integrate your blog perfectly: export your own custom design as a WordPress theme.

Lets your website automatically update your social networks on your behalf when new images or video clips are added – at a time of the day of your choice.
1-click sharing of images, clips or galleries.

Manage your clients centrally, invite them to open an account on your website

Subscribe/unsubscribe your clients to your newsletter, send rich newsletters with images and links.

Your visitors can subscribe to your website’s RSS feeds and be automatically notified when you publish new content. You can also use the RSS feed e.g. on your Facebook page! (RSS feeds can also be disabled if you don’t want them)

Your visitors can share pages on your website via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and other social networks.

Straightforward integration with the leading website statistics providers gives you insights on your traffic and visitors.

Allows you to get insights on how your website is shared and mentioned on Facebook.

Our SEO helped a single website enjoy thousands of visitors a day through Google. But we hate empty promises so here is a fact few companies mention: the number 1 factor in any Search Engine ranking is the number and quality of links from other websites to your website – not something any website company can help with.
See our SEO guide for photographers »

The SEO customization tool lets you influence how Search Engines index the pages on your website. For example, SEO experts can fully customize the Title tag content.

As soon as Google knows that your website exists, we’ll provide it with a sitemap of both your pages and your images.

Upload once (preferably high-res versions), we handle all conversions and resizing.

With Photographer’s Toolbox plugin (must be purchased separately)

Plugin embedded in Photo Mechanics v4.6 and above.

Lots of images to upload at once? We accept hard drives. Additional fee applies.

Your image collection is readily keyworded and captioned? PhotoDeck will import your IPTC metadata upon upload.

Manage your metadata as easily as in dedicated desktop applications.

Powerful search engine for your visitors to find images on your website. Complete with boolean operators for complex queries and stemming (knows plurals) and in-gallery search.

Search for images/videos matching exact keywords, images without a price or not published, etc…

Rate your images/videos for easier editing/sorting, and to designate your favorites to your clients

Automate your image management, metadata, publishing and pricing!

Upload proofs for your clients to select, then replace by final retouched versions, without compromising the metadata

The work you do on your metadata can be easily exported via a CSV or XML file. For developers, it is also a very neat way to get image pricing URLs to integrate with existing websites.

You can restore previously exported metadata – perfect if something went wrong!

Your files are stored on the AWS S3 cloud, the leader in cloud storage, designed to provide 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year.

We will contact you if your image/video traffic exceeds this quota. These limits are high and very few members will ever reach them!

Buyers finding your work on Photographers Direct can instantly purchase and download images on your PhotoDeck website. See how »

A PhotoDeck website can integrate seamlessly with an A Photo Folio portfolio and be used merely as an e-commerce backend. More »

Additional 19.6% VAT apply to consumers in the European Union. EU businesses and professionals with valid EU VAT number are exempted, when outside France.

Additional 19.6% VAT apply to consumers in the European Union. EU businesses and professionals with valid EU VAT number are exempted, when outside France.

Upgrade or downgrade your subscription at any time

Pay-as-you go, no commitment – you’re free to leave at any time, when your prepaid subscription expires. Automatic billing optional.

Your website and its content (including metadata) available in multiple languages.

Adds PRO website customization features to LITE subscriptions: Style and Layout editor, Customizable URL, Customizable Watermark

Adds unlimited pricing profiles to LITE subscriptions so you can split your collection into different pricing tiers.