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Elegant Features
Whether you're a photographer requiring a complete proofing and ordering system, a designer requiring password protected downloads for fast file delivery or an artist looking to email hundreds of contacts about your upcoming show, BigBlackBag has the features you need to look great, work smart and be protected.Domain name & email
- Use your existing domain name or have us secure one for you, www.MyCoolDomain.com
- Websites are standalone, you do not share space with other artists in a larger website
- Professional POP email for your domain (me@MyCoolDomain.com)
- Works with all email software programs and mobile devices such as the iPhone or Blackberry
- World class webmail for emailing from any computer connected to the internet
- Free SpamAsassin and greylisting for almost 100% spam filtering
Simple file management & anti-theft precautions
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- Bulk upload Images, Flash, Quicktime, FLV, PDF and MP3 files
- Correct images by adjusting rotation, brightness, saturation and sharpness
- Optionally extract and/or preserve IPTC meta data or enter your own captioning manually
- Display your images with your desired ICC profile in supporting browsers
- Automatic file resizing and thumbnail creation
- Drag and drop sort ordering
- Add your name watermark to the top left of any image
- Add a copyright symbol watermark in the center of the image and set it's opacity
- Allow or deny right-mouse-click image downloading from a gallery
- Password protect any page or gallery. You may use the same password for many pages so the user won't have to log-in to each page.
No image protection scheme is infallible.
Here's what you need to know.
Ecommerce
Our turn key ecommerce feature allows you to sell anything from within your galleries.
This feature is best suited for items like: stock photography, fine art, jewelry, gift cards or clothing sales.
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- Integrates directly with your PayPal account
- Accept multiple currencies
- We charge no commissions or fees*
- Full shopping cart with ability to add multiple items and quantities to an order
- Orders are saved so a customer may return to complete an order at a later date
- Receipts are emailed to you and your customer from PayPal instantly
- Ability to define up to 3 separate ordering options per product with 10 variables per option to help a customer choose anything like size, colors, matting, framing or shipping options
- Inventory control so an item will no longer be available should it sell out
- Quick data entry tools allow you to copy a single item's ecommerce settings to:
- all other items in its gallery or to all other galleries
- and/or to only items with ecommerce applied
- and/or to only items without ecommerce applied
*PayPal charges $0.30 per transaction and 2.9%
Advanced keyword search & lightbox
Combined with ecommerce, these two powerful features turn your website into a searchable stock photography website.
- Customers can search your entire portfolio by keyword and can narrow down the results using AND, OR and NOT between keywords
- Customers can create and name as many lightboxes as needed to save their favorite images
- Customers can rate the images they add to their lightboxes for easy sorting
- Customers can return, log-in and access their lightboxes at anytime
- Customers can email thumbnails of the images in their lightboxes to themselves or potential buyers, which links back to your website
Event proofing & no commission ordering for photographers
Perfect for wedding, portrait and event photographers who prefer to use their own lab and wish to give their clients an easy method for proofing, ordering and paying for their photographs.
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- Flat fee, no commissions or upload fees*
- Post unlimited images in unlimited events
- No time limits, events expire when you want them to
- Create your own products and set your own prices
- Create unlimited price lists to sell different products at different price points per event
- Create unlimited packages, to up-sell your customers
- Accept PayPal*, check, cash or credit card** payments
- Differentiate between known customer and unknown customer orders and how to handle them
- Set state and/or federal taxes
- Set local and international shipping charges based on percentage or finite fees. Set minimum charges as well or allow customers to pick up orders
- Apply percentage or finite discounts and set minimums and expiration dates to encourage sales
- Optional password protection per event
- Post event before it is ready and collect emails
- Fast FTP upload of complete folders - folders are automatically turned into online galleries
- Automatic image resizing
- 2 types of optional watermarking where you set the opacity and right-mouse-click locking***
- Set automatic email reminders for your clients to order before an event expires
- Track all orders by state and keep detailed notes about each one
- Print order details and file lists for lab processing
- Send mass emails with one click to all potential customers when event is ready
- Customers can preview images in black & white, sepia tone and with different borders such as sloppy white, keyline. You can even charge more for these options
- Customers can view in slideshow mode or via thumbnails
- Customers can email invitation to their friends & family to create more sales
- Customers can save orders and return to pay at a later date
- Customers can save favorites
- Loop like zoom feature to help prevent screen capture theft of hi res images***
- Set the mood of each event by setting music and colors
*PayPal charges $0.30 per transaction and 2.9%
**Requires own merchant account and phone processing.
***No image protection scheme is infallible. Image watermarking is the safest way to prevent theft.
Marketing tools
Our service includes powerful marketing and reporting tools to help you build business and get the most from your website.
- Custom Forms allow you to build forms to collect information from your viewers about their upcoming wedding shoot or commercial job or anything you want
- Contact Form allows customers to contact you without publishing your email address
- Guestbook Form allows customers to leave contact info and sign up for permission based emails which are stored in your own mailing list database
- Mass Email your entire mailing list database with just a few clicks, or separate them into groups
- Calendar allows customers to see when you're available for work
- Links tool allows you to easily add links and/or banners to your blog or other websites for networking opportunities
- One-click social marketing icons quickly allow your viewers to share your website with their Facebook™, Twitter™, LinkedIn™ or Flicker™ friends. It's simple for your viewers to subscribe to your RSS news feed generated by your blog or hosted here so they're always up-to-date with your business.
- Embedding your youTube™ videos or other popular html or javascript plug-ins is simple and helps generate further traction for your website.
*We cannot guarantee that all html or javascript plug-ins will function properly and some could cause your website to malfuction.
Productivity tools
Our service includes smart tools that help you get things done.
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- Downloads tool allows you to deliver high res files for download with optional password protection
- FTP allows you to post hi res files for download, flash based slideshows, personal blogs and web pages and proofing pages created in Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom.
- Messages & Activity Window captures events in real time so you can track important events that occur on your website such as when someone adds themselves to your guestbook, creates a lightbox or makes a purchase