p.1 #1Digital store for selling prints: the right approach?
I am trying to enter the space of selling the (occasional) print and want to remove friction from making sales (i.e. I don't want to make them email me, etc. It should be "one-click"). I currently have a self-hosted website that I designed from near scratch. I am currently thinking about migrating to an all-in-one type platform such as Format, Pixieset, etc. to reduce the number of services I am paying for and maintaining.
My current stack:
- website for portfolio - self-hosted on Digital Ocean Droplet. $6/month but a bit of a pain to maintain
- client gallery for digital download sales (from surf photography) and client review/sharing - Pixieset (paying $8/month so that I don't pay commission fees)
- no current webstore for selling prints
Ideal stack contains:
- website for portfolio
- gallery for digital download sales (from surf photography) and client review/sharing
- elegant webstore for selling prints
Format.com and Pixieset are the top contenders right now. The cons to each:
Format.com does not seem to have digital download sales for the client gallery
Pixieset does not have a very nice webstore interface. It's more of a grid of products, and not something that you would want to sell "fine art" type products, which is my goal
I have also thought about making a webstore on my current website, but I'm pretty worn out on doing site maintenance and would like to focus my energy elsewhere.
The question: I'm fairly confident there is no single platform that checks all the boxes, but is there a different approach to a webstore for selling prints that I should be considering?