Portrait-Archiv Photostore – Sell Photos & Client Galleries

You set your own sale price for every product. You keep the margin between the lab’s production price and your sale price. Portrait-Service handles order intake, payment, production and shipping for you and pays out your earnings every month with a detailed commission statement. See portrait-service.com for the current terms.

Creating a Portrait-Archiv.com account and using this plugin is free. There is no monthly fee; Portrait-Service earns through the production of ordered prints. You always define your own sale prices.

Yes. The plugin is the WordPress front end for your Portrait-Archiv.com account. You can create a free account directly from the plugin (“Account” page) or connect an existing one — no tokens to copy.

Yes — that is one of the plugin’s key strengths. You create the QR-code event and generate the per-child QR codes on Portrait-Archiv; embedding the gallery, the code entry and ordering then run through this plugin. Each child gets a personal code; parents see only their own child plus the group photos and never another family’s children. The access check runs on the server (GDPR-friendly), and parents can share a 7-day, encrypted link with relatives.

In principle yes. Please note, however, that some labs only ship photo prints, posters or canvases within Germany. Selling digital products is of course possible worldwide. To register a Portrait-Archiv.com account from abroad, please contact us via Portrait-Service.com.

Open “Portrait-Archiv > Galleries” and create a new gallery (optionally choosing a price list), then upload your images. Galleries you already published on Portrait-Archiv.com appear in the list automatically.

Yes. On the upload page you mark an upload as unedited. Customers see and order those photos as they are; each order containing one of them waits for you, and production starts once you have uploaded the retouched file. So you only edit the photos that actually sell. Customers are told in the shop that such an order takes a little longer — you can reword that notice under Settings. Finished and unedited photos can sit side by side in the same gallery.

Yes. Before uploading you pick the target folder: the gallery’s main folder, an existing subfolder, or a new one you name right there. One folder per group, class or family keeps a large shoot tidy, and visitors switch between the folders inside the gallery.

Yes. “Portrait-Archiv > Galleries” shows the views of the last 30 days per gallery, and every gallery has a statistics page with the daily course: visitors who came through your own website, visitors who came through Portrait-Archiv.com, and the orders of the same day — for 30, 90 or 365 days. A visitor counts once per gallery and browser session, so reloading a page does not inflate the number. The counting happens at Portrait-Archiv, so both routes are measured the same way and the plugin only displays the result.

The plugin keeps a small local cache to speed up page loads and avoid unnecessary requests. Galleries are synced automatically in the background (the interval is configurable under “Portrait-Archiv > Settings”). For an immediate update, click “Refresh galleries now” on the Settings page.