Setting up a sales cart without upgrading Zenfolio Basic?

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I currently have the basic Zenfolio account which has no sales function. I've been thinking of adding a few images for sale with all profit going to charities linked to where I've taken the images. The only thing is I currently pay €5 per month but to get a sales function on my Zenfolio website would mean upgrading to a €20 per account, as I'm not going to personally make anything from any sales I don't really want to spend an extra €15 per month. It would be better to just give that €15 to the charities each month than Zenfolio. Is there any way to somehow link a sales page to my website that has a cart and checkout (PayPal?) function without needing to upgrade and at little cost to myself? I can't see me getting many sales but at least one or two would help something from my photography go to good causes.
 
Not an easy one - you can write/create your own pages within the Zenfolio website ... just thinking about it, this might depend on the plan you have. If you can and can create an html page then this can direct people to another website via a link.

To be honest, I think your options are rather limited.

You might find something/a comment of use in the zenfolio forums.
 
EdwardL said:
Not an easy one - you can write/create your own pages within the Zenfolio website ... just thinking about it, this might depend on the plan you have. If you can and can create an html page then this can direct people to another website via a link.

To be honest, I think your options are rather limited.

You might find something/a comment of use in the zenfolio forums.
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I didn't think it would be easy to solve. I'm wondering if something like a separate red bubble account (or similar) would let me set up an online portfolio with sales functionally and I could link to it via a custom page on my zenfolio website. I'm guessing that's my only option. I also would like to set my own prices so that I'm not giving the images away for free like my current zenfolio account wants me to. I would like something that self fulfills so I have the least amount of input (no arranging printing, taking payments etc) yet people can purchase good quality printed product at reasonable prices and securely.

Looking at Red Bubbles price list it's going to be quite expensive at base prices and isn't really to going to make much for charities so I think this idea may be out too.
 
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If it's literally a few items then you have the standard PayPal "buy it now" style buttons (see the api section of the PayPal site off the top of my head).

More than a few items that gets a pain to manage.
 
vintageman said:
I think you can do it for self fulfilled orders . Have a look on the Zen forums specifically http://forums.zenfolio.com/discussion/comment/69055/#Comment_69055

Hope this helps

David

http://vintageman.zenfolio.com/
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Thanks I will have a look at that. I would like to stay away from self fulfilling orders as they means I have arrange printing and delivery on each order. There are other ways I could do that without having a sales function on my website. I've looked at red bubble and zazzle and they look the closest I can get to what I want but at the cost of high base prices for providing the one off printing, check out/payment and delivery functions.
 
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