Gallery software offered by market leaders Coppermine, Gallery Menalto, Plogger and Simple Picture Gallery simply don’t offer prospective gallery site owners enterprise-class gallery site software with the following key features:

• Comprehensive nesting category system, where uploading photographers could suggest new categories and new subcategories with their image uploads.
• The ability to offer participating photographers a means to sell 4X6 and 5X7 colour photos of their uploaded images with profit from the sales shared with the gallery site owner.
• The ability to offer various levels of site membership to uploading photographers.
• A highly versatile admin system where the website owner can control all elements of the website, including photo prices, revenue share ratios, account balances, site membership fees, and multiple banner ad locations to name but a few.

We spoke with the owners of several leading custom gallery sites about the cost to license their software and we were quoted in the range of $20,000.

So we decided to build Gallery Ultimate from the ground up, incorporating all these desirable features, and to offer it at an affordable price.

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As operator of the website, you can select the prices the public will pay for 4X6 and 5X7 photos, as well as the 4X6 and 5X7 payout values to photographers.

Visitors to the website can browse the photos and purchase photos using the website’s integrated shopping cart (which is currently powered by PayPal .. we will be soon be adding CashSender payment integration).

When buyers complete their print order purchases, the system email notifies the website owner, and the order is waiting in the admin for processing. The owner of the site can download the orders (corresponding images for each order), have the photos printed locally, package the order, ship the order, and the Gallery Ultimate system keeps track of all the expenses (cost of the prints, postage) and revenues with each order.

We will soon be adding the ability to sell digital images.

Gallery Ultimate offers two levels of website membership .. paid and unpaid. In the admin you can set the price levels of your paid subscription memberships, which offers add-free browsing and higher payouts for photographers:

Within the admin you can manage all of your site members’ account, activate and de-activate accounts, and adjust site member’s photo-screener status:

We also offer an automated photo screener application system whereby users can apply to become photo screeners which can be accepted, rejected and managed in the admin:

The Mid and Top pricing levels of Gallery Ultimate allow the website owner to have full control of the 15 banner ad positions available within the system. For each of these banner ad positions the website owner can enter custom banner ad code in the admin as show on this screen shot:

Photographers upload images from their computer to the Gallery Ultimate website using the website’s bulk uploader (up to 30 images at a time).. or they can use the single image upload utility.

Once uploaded to a photographer’s launch pad, the images are then submitted on a one-by-one basis into the photo approval queue (where the screeners approve or reject each upload).

To submit an image to the site, the submitting photographer selects the appropriate categories for the photo upload, can provide comments in the comments box, and can decide if the image will be displayed with a watermark or not. All of this is set on the photo submit page:

 The following screen shots highlight additional features from the admin panel:

There was nothing available for prospective gallery site owners to launch an enterprise-class gallery site with the following key features:

• Comprehensive nesting category system, where uploading photographers could suggest new categories and new subcategories with their image uploads.
• A comprehensive search engine
• The ability to offer participating photographers a means to sell 4X6 and 5X7 colour photos of their uploaded images with profit from the sales shared with the gallery site owner.
• The ability to offer various levels of site membership to uploading photographers.
• A highly versatile admin system where the website owner can control all elements of the website, including photo prices, revenue share ratios, account balances, site membership fees, and multiple banner ad locations to name but a few.

We searched high and low for such a gallery software and couldn’t find one.

We spoke with the owners of JetPhotos.net and other custom sites about the cost to license their software and we were quoted in the range of $20,000. This is because of the high cost to develop this kind of feature rich software, coupled with the complete lack of availability in the gallery software marketplace.

For these reasons we decided to build Gallery Ultimate from the ground up, incorporating all these desirable features, and to offer it at price that was affordable.

If you’d like to launch your own gallery website, we encourage you to view some of the existing sites that are powered by Gallery Ultimate, and don’t hesitate to ask us any questions.