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Thoughts on using Squarespace-Smugmug-Zenfolio as a sales portal?
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<blockquote data-quote="RocketCowboy" data-source="post: 536645" data-attributes="member: 25095"><p>I haven't tested Squarespace yet, but it looks to me like they potentially have the best analytics around how your website is being accessed. I do have both Zenfolio and Smugmug ... in that regard using Google Analytics with Zenfolio has been pretty interesting as well ... except that Zenfolio jumps the ecommerce portion of your site outside of your domain name for SSL purposes, so Google Analytics loses track of users at that point. I really like Smugmug and used it until I wanted to start selling product ... I liked the fulfillment options with Zenfolio better, plus the ability to put up event pictures with a quick rough edit for preview, and then have any sales need approval prior to shipping to the labs. This lets me take a second edit on purchased prints before they go off to print, so I can correct crop, etc for the actual print size ordered.</p><p></p><p>Between Zenfolio and Smugmug, I felt that Zenfolio had a better selection of themes to work with, and it was easier to customize their appearance for what I wanted. I was looking to have tight integration between either Zenfolio or Smugmug back into Wordpress as my ideal scenario, but both seem to be missing that. Smugmug might give easier access to CSS/html customization over Zenfolio's theme interface in that regard. Both Zen and Smug would need to work as subdomains under your main wordpress domain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RocketCowboy, post: 536645, member: 25095"] I haven't tested Squarespace yet, but it looks to me like they potentially have the best analytics around how your website is being accessed. I do have both Zenfolio and Smugmug ... in that regard using Google Analytics with Zenfolio has been pretty interesting as well ... except that Zenfolio jumps the ecommerce portion of your site outside of your domain name for SSL purposes, so Google Analytics loses track of users at that point. I really like Smugmug and used it until I wanted to start selling product ... I liked the fulfillment options with Zenfolio better, plus the ability to put up event pictures with a quick rough edit for preview, and then have any sales need approval prior to shipping to the labs. This lets me take a second edit on purchased prints before they go off to print, so I can correct crop, etc for the actual print size ordered. Between Zenfolio and Smugmug, I felt that Zenfolio had a better selection of themes to work with, and it was easier to customize their appearance for what I wanted. I was looking to have tight integration between either Zenfolio or Smugmug back into Wordpress as my ideal scenario, but both seem to be missing that. Smugmug might give easier access to CSS/html customization over Zenfolio's theme interface in that regard. Both Zen and Smug would need to work as subdomains under your main wordpress domain. [/QUOTE]
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