Picfair lets you set up a personalised photo store

STOCK image specialist, Picfair, has announced a big addition to its ‘Stores’ product, allowing any photographer to launch their own store selling digital downloads and a range of printed products. The features, released as part of the new ‘Picfair Plus’, allow photographers to connect their Store to a custom website domain, strip away Picfair branding, organise their images into albums and featured collections, and a number of other customisation features.

‘For photographers looking for a simple, fully featured way to sell their work online, it’s a one-stop shop: your own standalone website, connected to a global marketplace,’ said Picfair founder Benji Lanyado. As Lanyado stresses, Picfair has always allowed photographers to upload images and set the price, after which the images are available to sell online.

‘Unlike traditional stock image marketplaces who keep up to 85% of a photographer’s royalties, Picfair adds 20% on top,’ he adds. ‘Until now, options for photographers looking to sell their images online were expensive and complicated. We’d see our photographers listing their images on Picfair, and then have a separate portfolio website, and another service that allowed them to take print orders, and yet another service or addon that actually produced and shipped their prints.’

The Picfair Plus package, starting from £4.99 a month, includes the option to organise your images into collections, choose a featured album to display on your store homepage, connect your store to your own domain, add your social media links, and remove Picfair branding. For full details, see www. picfair.com.