RedCart: The perfect solution for a photo shopping cart
After months of coercion from Barbel I started considering shopping carts for my web site and clients. After much consideration and thought I decided to use Tommy Tompkin's RedCart. Over the past several years I had been using a shopping cart that I had custom made that worked nicely but was missing some integral services that needed to be offered to all of my clients. Although I was one of the first photographers to have a personalized shopping cart I had let it become outdated and needed something more sophisticated.
RedCart offers me and my clients everything that I want. It is completely customizable in that it integrates into my website without looking like an outside company's product. Loading events is so much easier than before. Cindy's son would load every photo individually before and somehow manage to be consistent every time. (The few times I did it I messed up the order of the images therefore creating a bit of chaos with reprint orders!)
There is a 'store' where we list every product we offer. Instead of having to update our products page every time a small item changes which entails being able to edit html we just have to go into our RedCart software and make the changes.
The slide show option allows everyone to view the images large enough to see all of the pertinent details. There is an option to convert the image to black & white which helps viewer see what the image will look like converted instead of them having to use their imagination!
There are two sections that I love using myself and those are the 'favorites' and 'album' options. They allow me to go through hundreds of images and pick out the ones that i want to use in a particular album that we are making for marketing purposes. It allows my clients to choose their images for their personal albums which is a great time saver!
Finally, on the back end of the program we are able to gather data and use it for marketing purposes. I am able to track all of our orders, & see what products are selling. In the 'olden days' Cindy would have to highlight a print out of the images so at the years end I could see what images people were choosing to order.
I want to thank Tommy for creating a shopping cart that fulfills so many needs for my photography studio. He offers a wonderful product at an affordable price. If you are a photographer you have the option of purchasing it completely and being in charge of customizing it yourself. Tommy literally holds your hand during this process and answers all of your questions in a very timely matter. Or you can opt to pay a monthly fee and he will set up your page himself and make any updates that are necessary. The other thing that is so wonderful is that Tommy listens to every suggestion that you might have and integrates any upgrades that he thinks will improve his product.
If you are a photographer searching for a cart check out his site! He has me listed on his web site in the testimonial section and I am very proud to be affiliated with him and his company!
http://www.redcart.com/
RedCart offers me and my clients everything that I want. It is completely customizable in that it integrates into my website without looking like an outside company's product. Loading events is so much easier than before. Cindy's son would load every photo individually before and somehow manage to be consistent every time. (The few times I did it I messed up the order of the images therefore creating a bit of chaos with reprint orders!)
There is a 'store' where we list every product we offer. Instead of having to update our products page every time a small item changes which entails being able to edit html we just have to go into our RedCart software and make the changes.
The slide show option allows everyone to view the images large enough to see all of the pertinent details. There is an option to convert the image to black & white which helps viewer see what the image will look like converted instead of them having to use their imagination!
There are two sections that I love using myself and those are the 'favorites' and 'album' options. They allow me to go through hundreds of images and pick out the ones that i want to use in a particular album that we are making for marketing purposes. It allows my clients to choose their images for their personal albums which is a great time saver!
Finally, on the back end of the program we are able to gather data and use it for marketing purposes. I am able to track all of our orders, & see what products are selling. In the 'olden days' Cindy would have to highlight a print out of the images so at the years end I could see what images people were choosing to order.
I want to thank Tommy for creating a shopping cart that fulfills so many needs for my photography studio. He offers a wonderful product at an affordable price. If you are a photographer you have the option of purchasing it completely and being in charge of customizing it yourself. Tommy literally holds your hand during this process and answers all of your questions in a very timely matter. Or you can opt to pay a monthly fee and he will set up your page himself and make any updates that are necessary. The other thing that is so wonderful is that Tommy listens to every suggestion that you might have and integrates any upgrades that he thinks will improve his product.
If you are a photographer searching for a cart check out his site! He has me listed on his web site in the testimonial section and I am very proud to be affiliated with him and his company!
http://www.redcart.com/
posted by Melanie Nashan, Nashan Photographers at 3:35 AM
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