Photo Seller – images on variety of media

[Clayton Hairs]

Hi

I’m selling my image on a variety of media i.e. Canvas, Print (Fine Art) and Acrylic facemount….I am trying to avoid having a multitude of options below each image in my store for each size AS WELL as each medium – total list would be around 50 combinations…I was hoping there was a way the potential customer can FIRST choose ‘type’ of media they are interested in and then they would be given the correct price list to refer to….as it is I am able to make a bunch of variations in size and price and whether the image is a digital one or a printed one – but cannot see how to offer a variety of media options – anyone help? Thanks

[Peter]

I think the best thing to do is to provide us with an actual example of how you envisage the scenario to work so we can correctly understand what you are trying to achieve.

[Clayton Hairs]

thanks Peter….take a look at the page I have created using PhotoSeller here

[http://www.clayton-images.com/photogallery/photo_details/?gallery_id=4&image_id=732]

you will see I have had to list every possible size ) AS WELL AS every possible media I will print to….this means a huge list below every image….I would like to have 3 options for a potential client: Canvas Print, Fine Art Print and Acrylic Facemount Print….this way they can select the media they prefer and then the list of various sizes in that medium can be shown. That way there would need to be an enormous list below every image for the buyer to wade through….

looking forward to hearing from you

[Peter]

Ok I see what you mean now.

So, the immediate thing I can see from a development standpoint is the extra complexity which will need to be added to the code regarding how variations are saved – in other words the functionality you are asking for is not that straightforward. (The variations functionality is already reasonably complex)

Having said that we will have a careful think about this and explore all the possible solutions.

In the meantime you can try the following quick and easy workaround:

You can create separate galleries and price lists for each media type. This way you can give your clients the option of viewing all photo/art pieces which are of a particular media type.

For example you will have one gallery and price list to represent all “Acrylic” products and another gallery and price list for “Stretched Canvas”.

Do you think this will this work for you?

[WcpStudio]

l’ii like something like that too!.. more that one custom physical variation per gallery or per Items. let me know!.. that definitely will buss your sales.

Thanks!.

[Clayton Hairs]

thanks Peter I’ve given your recommendations a bit of thought….

it presents the same amount of ‘wading’ for the customer as the existing ‘problem I’m facing ….the trouble is if a photographer has, say 50 images (which is not very many by a Pro Photographer’s standards) ‘s then they would have to list 50 images within the ‘media type’ gallery and these images cannot be further refined (in my case my images are delineated by geographic region where they were shot – for ease of use for an end user wanting to find an image/region relatively easily) ….I think it would create more problems then it solves….having the lengthy price list seems relatively ‘clean’ by comparison…..

I must say if you were prepared to invest in new coding it wold be a worthwhile investment – I would be very doubtful if ANY photographer worth his salt sells his images on ONLY one type of media…thanks for your responses and look forward to hearing more….

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