Hello everyone!

I am thinking of buying the ktools software for my website! For selling the images and earning some money. I know that it is hard, but I want to make a website. I need your suggestion.
Should I buy ktools or is there any other selling software that is more better in its features than the ktools.
The second question is that the ktools software is expensive! So is there going to be any deal on Black Friday? Any coupon code? So that it wil become much cheaper!
Hope you will help me on this! Thank you.
I know about tune coupon code for 20% discount but I want to know about something in between 40  or 50%

Thank you!

At $199 or $299 or whatever...

Whether something is expensive or not depends on the person who is about to purchase something, I'd say.

People who buy Ferraris and Lambos probably would feel the same like Sean: "$150,000, $500,00 or whatever, just charge my credit card."

Teach the man how to fish...

Mediworm, ktools is a ready to go piece of software for photographers to sell their content. The price is set and I don't think that there will be any 40% or 50% discounts coming anytime soon.

However, there are plenty of free e-commerce solutions out there that allow you to do the same like ktools BUT often require lots of customization and extra programming to make it work the way you want it.

Unfortunately, if you want an easy way you're probably best off with ktools so you can focus on selling your stuff but if money is a huge issue then why not try a free solution like oscommerce, zencart, opencart or even Wordpress?

Again, the free solutions won't offer as many features and tailored functions to your photographer needs but it's either pay for it or sit down and modify it yourself.

Whether something is expensive or not depends on the person who is about to purchase something, I'd say.

People who buy Ferraris and Lambos probably would feel the same like Sean: "$150,000, $500,00 or whatever, just charge my credit card."

Teach the man how to fish...

Mediworm, ktools is a ready to go piece of software for photographers to sell their content. The price is set and I don't think that there will be any 40% or 50% discounts coming anytime soon.

However, there are plenty of free e-commerce solutions out there that allow you to do the same like ktools BUT often require lots of customization and extra programming to make it work the way you want it.

Unfortunately, if you want an easy way you're probably best off with ktools so you can focus on selling your stuff but if money is a huge issue then why not try a free solution like oscommerce, zencart, opencart or even Wordpress?

Again, the free solutions won't offer as many features and tailored functions to your photographer needs but it's either pay for it or sit down and modify it yourself.

Ha, ha, yeah, I guess.  However, you have to spend it to make it.  I bought my Rebel for $600 when I didn't really have any extra cash.

CMS account is NOT a bad software and it's cheaper than ktools.. works out of the box if you know what you are doing..

I use CMS account and updated it 4 times without much of a problem.. Anton has provided useful support so I have to give him credit.. It also offers "lifetime" free upgrades unlike ktools' "1 year free upgrades" offer..

How many images do you have in your portfolio?

I can make a deal with you and provide you a software solution for free if you allow me to use some of your images and/or contribute your images to my stock photo website. I pay 75% commissions to contributors.

I sell on istockphoto and getty, but I think any business that pays anything below 50% is a robbery, so I decided to start my own stock photo agency.

I am interested!

Quote from: Maui on November 11, 2012, 10:37

You may also look at CMSAccount, which is a bit cheaper:

http://www.cmsaccount.com/

I don't see the part about collecting direct payments and providing a individual, time limited... download link, without my intervention. Does it do that?

Ktools and CMS account.. They both do that it's basically an almost fully functional stock site.. (at least CMS account is, as I am using it myself, but pretty sure ktools does it as well, otherwise it would have been useless..)

with CMSaccount, you can choose "time limited" or limit the number of clicks for a download link..

CMSaccount has a little nicer UI for the buyer.

When adding something to your cart to buy this is how it plays out
CMSaccount
   - You click 'add to cart' and you get a java pop up that the image was added to your card.
(1 click, 0 page loads)

Ktools
  - You click 'download image'
  - you get a java pop up with another button to 'add to cart'
  - once clicked it takes you to your cart with the image in your cart
  - you press the 'back button to get back to the image you were looking at.
(3 clicks and 2 page loads)

There are nice features with both options.. I might recommend CMSaccount though if you aren't going to try and modify it much and if price is a factor.  I had problems modifying the template for CMSaccount which was the big deal breaker for me and also it is a lot of work to change the water mark once it is set.

Yes! you better get the watermark right in the first place..

If ktools gets to a level that many of your concerns are addressed I will probably get it for my other site.. following the improvements closely, especially search functionality..

What's the difference between K-tools 3 and K-tools 4?

Thanks for all the info on CMS. I imagine if I get the watermark wrong it means, "start over" is the way to correct it.

hi all,

buying ktools mean a software that run on a server that serve as your website? it is just one time payment right?

Do buyers have the access to the code? or if i want to customize something..can i hired a programmer to do modifications for me?

I saw there are lots of themes with e-commerce features in themesforest, does it serve the same purpose?

what is a themes? is it something like what k-tools offer?

It is a one time payment for PHP software that runs on your site.  You can hire a programmer to customize features.  I've done lots if my own tweaks to it for features that I didn't like or weren't available.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of code, because it tries to do too much instead of concentrating on being a stick site.  It is also hard to merge changes with new code that is released frequently.

If it were stable, a market could develop for themes, but things change too often to make that work, from what I've heard.  So, you're stuck with the base look, unless you know som HTML.

oic..thank you very much for explanation.

But is it allowed to get a programmer work on the PHP software?I am thinking there should have some kind of copyrights involved?

It is a one time payment for PHP software that runs on your site.  You can hire a programmer to customize features.  I've done lots if my own tweaks to it for features that I didn't like or weren't available.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of code, because it tries to do too much instead of concentrating on being a stick site.  It is also hard to merge changes with new code that is released frequently.

If it were stable, a market could develop for themes, but things change too often to make that work, from what I've heard.  So, you're stuck with the base look, unless you know som HTML.

No, you can do whatever you like to it.  You're supposed to leave in their copyright at the bottom if you didn't pay for that upgrade.

that applies to ktools, not cmsaccount

if you're considering hiring someone to tweak php you might also want to look at GALLERY2 which is opensource and has excellent support

i tried it for awhile, but eventually decided on smugmug because i didnt want to mess with the programming anymore