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Larry:
Hi, I would like to find a service that fulfills the delivery and payment of my stock photos. I will maintain the front end, and pass along a click to this service that accepts payment and downloads the image to a customer. 

Does anybody have a recommendation on this.

I maintain my own front end of the photo site so I can display my photos as I wish, but do not wish not get involved directly in the commerce end of if. Right now this back end is carried out by a stock agency but that is a poor way to do this.

thanks

madelaide:
Isn't it what Smugmug does? As far as I remember, some people have their websites with galleries of images in Smugmug, using some sort of HTML, and sales are directed to Smugmug.

Featurepics also allow some HTML integration, but then you have the regular submission/approval/commission process of regular stock agencies.

Larry:
Madelaide, Thanks I looked at their website.  It seems like they specialize in offering prints from your images. I could not find the specific service I was looking for on their very whizzy website. It seemed really sparse on details, very full of bells and whistles though.  Perhaps others may have some experience with them?  How about Photoshelter?

Larry:
I have found out about this option called Payloadz.com which is offered by PayPal.  It is specifically intended for what
they call "Digital Goods Ecommerce".  It basically covers any type of file you want to offer (mp3, ebook, pdf's, jpegs, etc). 

They host the file, they perform the download, they collect payment and send it to you as in plain old PayPal payments.  You get an account, and get a provider number and you register each product and get an item number for it then upload the master to them.  You put two buttons on your web page (e.g. detail view) of a photo.  One is buy and one is checkout.  The costs look ok to me I won't try to summarize it.

Does anybody know about this service, does anybody use it, or have any helpful input.

I would have to make multiple items per image, to accommodate various resolutions file versions.
I wonder how you would make the license part of the deal.
As I understand it you do get customer information from the sale which is better than the stock sites give you.

thank you for any info or opinions.

Ed:
Zenfolio is an option as well - you can offer prints or electronic downloads.  If it's prints, the order will get sent to a printer and the print will be mailed to the customer, the net profit will be delivered to your paypal account or by check.  Same with electronic downloads - you will receive the net profit.

Very similar to smugmug.

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