Techcrunch featured a report on a new startup yesterday which aims to let photographers sell images from their site without sending visitors off to a third party store. Currently in closed beta for US customers only, Fotomoto allows you to add a couple of lines of code to your templates and their widget will index your images. As Techcrunch explains,
Fotomoto does things differently: photographers only need to insert a few lines of codes in their website, after which the images on his or her website will automatically be indexed and automatically provided with a ‘purchase photo’ link. Sellers can tweak the settings so the ‘buy’ links appear completely integrated and branded to match their sites’ look and feel, and the back-end of the tool enables them to set the availability next to the sizes and pricing of the photos. When visitors click the link to buy photos, a Fotomoto widget pops up and enables them to instantly purchase images through PayPal (with the ability to pay by credit card coming later this month). There’s also a sharing link, which lets people send the picture to others as an e-card, with the ability to push to social networking and bookmarking services coming in a couple of weeks.
There are no monthly costs, just a commission fee based on the image price and product chosen. At the moment there are just prints available, but this will expand into t-shirts, mugs etc in due course. I’m looking forward to this being available for UK sites – it’s definitely going on my blog then.
Read the full article on Fotomoto at Techcrunch here, and if you’re interested sign up to the beta program here.
