FilledFrame for Creators
Our Mission
FilledFrame exists to take your photography beyond peoples' phones and into their homes or, more specifically (but less rhymingly) onto their walls.
If you are anything like me, you put a lot of effort, and a lot of yourself, into your photography. You've also put in the time to create real connections with your audience. FilledFrame lets you leverage all of that effort to earn some extra cash, all while deepening your bond with your friends, fans, family, and followers by making your work part of their surroundings.
Our goal is to be the easiest way for you to start selling prints online. Setting up a website and creating individual listings is a lot of work, not to mention fulfilling orders, processing payments, handling customer service, returns, and all the other little day-to-day challenges of running an ecommerce site. At FilledFrame, we do all of the hard work for you, without the need for you to spend your time or your money.
Invitation & Application Only
While we do plan to eventually open our services to any and all Content Creators, for now we are inly accepting photographers who have been invited by us, or filled out our beta tester application.
Why FilledFrame?
There are lots of ecommerce platforms out there, including some specifically catered to selling prints, so why should you work with us?
Ease of Use
FilledFrame is, hands down, the easiest way to start selling photography online.
We can't get into the details yet (it is still very hush-hush), but we will be beta testing soon and are really excited to tell you all about it.
Cost
We do not charge anything to use our service. We are 100% commission-based, so we only make money when you make money. Monthly or annual fees can really add up, leaving many of our competitor's customers spending more to host their gallery than they are making off of it. With us, even if you never sell a single print, you can never do worse than break even.
Another great thing about FilledFrame; we don't have a Silver Plan, a Gold Plan, or any other Give-Us-More-Of-Your-Money plan. We don't charge anything out of pocket today, and aren't looking to get you to upgrade (AKA pay more) tomorrow.
Personal Touch
As a small businesses, we really care about our customers. We will do everything in our power to make sure your experience with us is a great one. We also want to hear what you have to say. If you have any feedback on our products, our site, our mission, or just about anything else, please let us know.
High-End Prints, Mounting & Framing
We only sell high-end products. Our paper prints, for example, use fine-art, eco-friendly, bamboo giclee paper. We also offer a range of mounting and framing options so all your customers need to to is hang and admire their new artwork. You can find more details on our Formats page, or by looking at any of the listings in our Sample Gallery.
Offerings
We can't get to into our services in detail yet, but don't worry, if you are invited to be a beta tester we will be happy to share more. What we can discuss now is the two ways we have to reach customers, and how that impacts your payouts.
You Sell Your Prints
Our primary service is to give you the tools to sell prints to your friends, fans, family, and followers. When you are the one finding customers, we only take 25% of the profits as a commission.
We Sell Your Prints
Photographers using our services can also opt-in to let us sell prints for you. This option expands your reach beyond your own audience and lets you take advantage of our followers, consumer marketing, and advertising.
This option may entail us listing you prints in the FilledFrame Gallery, featuring your work in our advertising, and sharing your work through our social media or other sales channels.
When we do the selling, we split the profits 50/50.
Pricing & Payouts
We are just getting started, so we are keeping it simple using standardized pricing. In the future, we will let Creators set their own markup.
Markup / Payouts
This is what we charge customers above and beyond the physical cost of the print. Your payout and our commission both come out of this portion of the price.
For prints that you sell, we take a 25% commission, the other 75% is all you. For prints that we sell - ether through the FilledFrame Gallery or through our other sales channels, we take 50% and you keep 50%.
Currently we have 3 pricing tiers. We start with the markup on an 8x10 print, which can be set at $10. $20, or $40. For other sizes we adjust the price by 1/2 of the amount charged per square inch - which changes the price by more than you might think. No need to get out your calculator, we did the math on some common sizes in the Pricing Examples table below.
Physical Cost
This incorporates the cost of the physical print and the fees charged by our payment processor.
We do not mark up the prices set by our fulfillment partner (more on them below) for mounting and framing. This keeps the price as low as possible for your customers. It also means that your payout is unaffected by mounting and framing options and is determined solely by the size of the print, according to the formula above.
Pricing Examples
The table below provides details on the price, physical cost, and your payout for some common sizes using our middle pricing tier. The cost and customer price are based on our eco-friendly paper prints. The markup and payout would be the same regardless of any mounting and framing options selected, though the physical cost and customer price would change.
Please note that the sizes available and aspect ratio will vary based on the dimensions and resolution of the photograph.
Note: All numbers are rounded
"Physical Cost" includes payment fees
Shipping
Our shipping rates, which are added during checkout, are:
U.S. orders under $50 = $7.50
U.S. orders over $50 = $15.00
International orders = $40.00
Payments
We can pay U.S. based Creators by either by Venmo or by check, whichever you prefer (which is hopefully Venmo).
Payments for non U.S. Creators will be dependent on local regulations, but will most likely be made through PayPal. We will also need to consider exchange rates and other potential fees based on currency and jurisdiction. If you are outside the U.S., just let us know and we will work through the details with you.
Partners
Fulfilled by FinerWorks
We have partnered with one of the nation's best photo labs to make sure that your photos are going to look great on your customer's wall.
Feel free to check out their website to learn more about them.
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Additional Questions?
If you still have questions, or are interested in being a beta tester, let us know. We detail all of the ways to get in touch with us on our Contact page.