Does anyone here have or know of any existing RM or RM/RF mixed Symbio site that I can check out?

Yes, my site. It now has both Standard/Extended and RM. My standard Licence is similar to RF because those images were originally pimped out to all the agencies as RF. I didn�t want to call it Royalty Free so it�s the Standard licence which is similar but not as free.

It can be created by using Leo�s Premium Plugin. The licence system is being changed as we type but you can have different licences. I have four different types.

Gate.Com good chat support, email support and live phone support.

Symbiostock site, with just the starter basics and 33 images takes this: Data 2992 MB  of 1100000 MB

Linux, they installed WP for me.
$6.95 a month
They provide a space for storage of 1 Gigabite along with other features such as POP3/SMPT/IMAP/Webmail along with that they offer with virus and spam protection. (I may have a larger plan with more storage, the 1GB is the $6.95 plan)

My other account I have the business plan:
Annual = about $100 a year

The Business Plan Includes:

    Website Builder �Unlimited Pages
    Social Media Integration � Provide visitors with multiple ways to find and interact with your company by incorporating links and icons to your social sites, adding the ability for visitors to �like� or �follow� you, and automatic updates from your Facebook or Twitter feeds.
    Email � Unlimited mailboxes
    MySQL or MS SQL � 10 Databases
    Advanced Web Analytics � Understand how visitors find and use your website so you can make smarter marketing decisions and target new customers.
    Unlimited Storage
    Windows or Linux Plans
    Plus�
        Unlimited Traffic, GigaMail, Shared SSL Certificate, 24x7 Phone & Email support

Many included that I don't use or need but good service, speed and reliability.

For $100 a year and some add on sites hosted by the same account, using the same plan and storage, for under $10 a year (or in that range) I'm very pleased.

For those who have got it up and running what sort of hosting plan are you using (specs please) ?

Interesting, I looked at your host, Fastdomain to see what they offer right now:

free first year domain name
$5.95 a month hosting. ($72 a year US)
Free Stats
Sitebuilder
All the other stuff below.

That sounds expensive.  I have recently paid �96 for four years
Unlimited GBs of Space*
Unlimited GBs of Transfer*
Unlimited Domain Hosting
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited MySQL Databases
etc
*subject to fair use - they say providing the space is used for your site, not storage.

I started my symbiostock site but as I can't do any direct saling I'm using the ajt-stockplugin for now to point the visitor to the stocksites where my work is available.

To start direct sales from my country (Belgium) two things are missing.

1. I'm full time employed now and I'm not registered as a business. To be registered as a business has a certain yearly cost and I'm not sure my potential sales would cover this having still a small portfolio.

2. The symbiostock theme  needs  some extra functionality for European law.
- Registration of country and vat number in the registration process of client.
- Possibility to add vat to invoiced amount for European customers that don't have vat number.

As for now I'm quit happy with the symbiostock theme to show my portfolio and I'm in the process of uploading my pictures. I'm of course missing the added value of the network but time will tell how to go from here.

Just out of interest is there anyone out there considering Symbiostock but is holding back?

If you are hesitant - what would persuade you to start using Symbiostock?

It doesn't work. If WP changes Symbiostock break. No documentation. Go to the website and read the problems. When it's fixed, I will use.

Quote from: travelwitness on July 15, 2013, 06:41

Just out of interest is there anyone out there considering Symbiostock but is holding back?

If you are hesitant - what would persuade you to start using Symbiostock?

It doesn't work. If WP changes Symbiostock break. No documentation. Go to the website and read the problems. When it's fixed, I will use.

It's true that getting up and running has been hard for some people, but it's not true that Symbiostock doesn't work. There are over 150 live sites and they're all working.

There is documentation (Christine just updated some step by step guides here, for example). It is also not true that WordPress updates break Symbiostock - there have been several WP upgrades in just the two+ months I've had a site and most didn't require any changes to Symbiostock at all.

Don't get me wrong, none of us wants people who don't want to be there, so if you don't want to be, that's fine, but honestly, Symbiostock is generally more "fixed" than iStock and no software - ever - is finished or fully fixed, so if you wait for that, you'll never join. Not that there's anything wrong with that

Quote from: Batman on November 19, 2013, 21:40

It doesn't work. If WP changes Symbiostock break. No documentation. Go to the website and read the problems. When it's fixed, I will use.

Sorry, Batman, but... my Symbiostock site works quite nicely. And so do 150+ others.

170+

Hi. I am very keen on self-hosting and using Symbiostock! Really excited actually! Only problemon closer inspection, is the Paypal payment gateway. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that the only way to receive payments or is it possible to use a different payment gateway or plugin?

I am based in South Africa and receiving payments via Paypal is pretty expensive and quite limited. You have to pay your bank a monthly fee of approx $8 to facilitate the Paypal account, and there are the currency conversion fees charged by the bank, as well as the Paypal transaction fees every time you receive a payment. Then there are restrictions eg. any money paid into Paypal has to be withdrawn within 30 days - so if you only earn a very small amount, you are forced to withdraw it and incur all the transaction and minimum conversion fees each time, rather than let it accumulate to an decent withdrawal amount. You are only allowed 5 payment per year on a personal account - not sure if that is just a South African thing - so would have to have a Premier Paypal account with the associated fees mentioned above.  It seems hardly worthwhile. Especially if you are paying monthly bank fees and not selling anything for the first few months. 

I recently installed a 2CheckOut payment gateway on another site of mine, which works out a bit cheaper as I can transfer money from there into my Payoneer card, and there is much less red tape. 2CO do have a Wordpress plugin, so I was wondering if I would be able to use it with my Symbiostock site? Payfast is also an option here in SA. (there are probably a few other too.) Is this a possibility right now - to have a custom payment gateway? or are there any plans for this in the future? Any advice?

Thanks.

Hi. I am very keen on self-hosting and using Symbiostock! Really excited actually! Only problemon closer inspection, is the Paypal payment gateway. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that the only way to receive payments or is it possible to use a different payment gateway or plugin?

I am based in South Africa and receiving payments via Paypal is pretty expensive and quite limited. You have to pay your bank a monthly fee of approx $8 to facilitate the Paypal account, and there are the currency conversion fees charged by the bank, as well as the Paypal transaction fees every time you receive a payment. Then there are restrictions eg. any money paid into Paypal has to be withdrawn within 30 days - so if you only earn a very small amount, you are forced to withdraw it and incur all the transaction and minimum conversion fees each time, rather than let it accumulate to an decent withdrawal amount. You are only allowed 5 payment per year on a personal account - not sure if that is just a South African thing - so would have to have a Premier Paypal account with the associated fees mentioned above.  It seems hardly worthwhile. Especially if you are paying monthly bank fees and not selling anything for the first few months. 

I recently installed a 2CheckOut payment gateway on another site of mine, which works out a bit cheaper as I can transfer money from there into my Payoneer card, and there is much less red tape. 2CO do have a Wordpress plugin, so I was wondering if I would be able to use it with my Symbiostock site? Payfast is also an option here in SA. (there are probably a few other too.) Is this a possibility right now - to have a custom payment gateway? or are there any plans for this in the future? Any advice?

Thanks.

I am 95% sure that SY is only set up right now to handle paypal payments. 

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Thanks Noodle. I will try the Symbiostock.org forum, and see if I can track down the other South African.

Hi,

This is JoRodrigues profile page in the symbiostock forum, the SA member. He's quite active in the forums, I'm sure he'll help you.

http://www.symbiostock.org/community/user/589/

Only 150 or 170? I thought the list had 200+ something sites in the network?

There are currently 158 sites in the Symbiostock network and it is gaining momentum.

You can see how many sites there are at the bottom of the following URLs:

symbiostock.info

http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=25

I have only ca. 150 photos uploaded, have 4 sales.I love my sait www.elilena.com and have with it no problem.All is working well :-)

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