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Sunshine Photo Cart
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Sunshine Photo Cart is a freemium WordPress plugin that gives photographers everything they need to sell photos directly from their own websites. The free, core plugin gives professional photographers all the tools they need to setup beautiful galleries and sell to their clients:
- Cart system for letting users choose photo, select product and add to cart for purchase
- Accept offline payments (check) or online payments (PayPal, Stripe*, Square*)
- Unlimited galleries, images, and products!
- Integrates directly into your theme automatically (or use one of our design layouts)
- Upload images via FTP or browser in WordPress admin
- Galleries can be password protected, require email, require user account or be completely private for specified users
- Gallery expiration dates – great for pressuring clients to buy and not wait forever without purchasing
- Sub galleries – organize your client photo galleries into a hierarchy, great for weddings or large events
- Favorites – Let users select their favorites, view any user’s favorites in the admin
- Social sharing – Get friends and family to see photos, increase exposure and possible sales!
- Watermarking – Automatically have a watermark added to all your images when uploaded to a gallery
- Multiple shipping methods (Flat rate, local delivery, pickup)
- Easy order management
- Printable invoices
- International ready
For photographers who want to go further, Sunshine offers 20+ premium add-ons that unlock advanced features:
- Digital downloads – Allow users to purchase digital download files at any size and have instant access to files securely
- Discount codes – Boost sales with flexible discount codes, enticing customers to purchase more
- Lightbox – Deliver a seamless browsing experience with user-friendly lightboxes and slideshows for your clients
- Advanced Analytics – Gain key insights from gallery analytics, best sellers, and precise profit figures to guide your sales approach
- Price Levels (price sheets) – Set unique prices for your products across your galleries giving you more control, flexibility, and profits
- Packages – Bundle products to offer clients more prints at a discounted price, encouraging larger purchases in a single transaction
- Product Options – Increase sales by empowering customers with customizable options for anything from frames to paper types
- Multi Image Products – Products, like picture boxes or albums, that let customers select many photos
- Sell Anything – Sell any type of product that does not require customers to select a photo from a gallery
- Exports – Simplify financial reporting and order fulfillment with effortless CSV exports of order data
- Automated Emails – Empower your outreach with automated emails, tailored to your clients’ gallery interactions for a personalized touch
- Client messaging – Simplify the task of inviting clients to galleries with message templates
- Minimum Order – Boost your sales by setting a minimum order requirement for checkout
- Quantity Discounts – Stimulate larger purchases with quantity-based discounts for your clients
- Price List – Effortlessly display product pricing on your page with our simple short code
- Advanced Shipping – Set more complex rules for when specific shipping options are available
- Exports – Simplify financial reporting and order fulfillment with effortless CSV exports of order data
- Light Blue – Integrate with this popular photography CRM
Also available are these additional payment gateways:
- Stripe payment gateway (removes platform fees)
- Square payment gateway (removes platform fees)
- Authorize.net payment gateway
- Mollie (with iDEAL support) payment gateway
Integrate with these email newsletter platforms to grow your customer base
- MailChimp integration
- Campaign Monitor integration
Created by Derek Ashauer
