Sell your photos from WordPress — without running an online shop. Publish your galleries, and Portrait-Service takes care of everything else: secure payment, professional production and direct shipping to your customer. Every month you receive your commission — with a detailed statement. No shop setup, no logistics, no accounting on your side.
Running a real online shop is a huge effort for a photographer: payment providers, invoicing, VAT, print production, packaging, shipping, returns. This plugin (and the Portrait-Archiv.com service behind it) takes all of that off your plate — so selling your photos becomes realistic even for a small studio or a hobby photographer, without complexity.
What makes it different
- Built for school & kindergarten photography (QR codes). Shoot whole classes with per-child QR codes: on upload every child’s photos are sorted into their own protected folder. Parents enter the personal code from their child’s card and see only their own child plus the group photos — never another family’s children. Enforced on the server for real privacy (GDPR), with a 7-day, encrypted share link for grandparents. This is a genuine unique selling point for your studio.
- Publish as many galleries as you like — portraits, weddings, events, and specialised jobs like school and kindergarten photography.
- Not just downloads. Your customers order real photo prints, wall art, canvas, gifts and digital downloads — you decide which products and at what price.
- Full fulfilment through us. Order intake, payment processing, production and direct shipping to the end customer all happen through Portrait-Service. You never touch an order.
- Monthly commission payout with a clear statement — you keep the margin between the lab price and your own sale price.
- Access-protected galleries for sensitive jobs: public list, guest password or gallery code (ideal for schools and kindergartens).
- Volume discounts (tiered prices) to encourage larger orders — shown to your customers automatically.
- Edit only what actually sells. Upload your photos straight out of the camera and mark them as unedited. Customers see and order them as they are; you retouch just the ordered ones and upload the finished file, and only then does production start. A whole shoot no longer has to be retouched on spec.
What the plugin does in WordPress
- Connect your Portrait-Archiv account in one step, or create a new free account right from WordPress — no tokens to copy.
- Manage galleries: create them, upload images, set visibility and edit title, date and price list. Uploads go into the gallery folder of your choice — pick an existing subfolder or name a new one — and you decide per upload whether the photos are finished or still to be edited.
- Manage price lists: your purchase price, your sale price and your net profit at a glance; add or remove products; set tiered prices.
- Embed a gallery with a Gutenberg block (just pick it from a dropdown) or a shortcode.
- Give the cart its own page – one block, and every cart link leads there.
- See how often each gallery was opened: a “Views” column in the gallery list and a day-by-day chart per gallery, with the visitors from your own website and those from Portrait-Archiv.com side by side.
- Make the galleries look like your website — without writing CSS: accent color for buttons, links and prices, preview images cropped to squares or shown as whole photos, their size, rounded or square corners, and what shows behind them. With a live preview right next to the settings.
- A modern, fast, mobile-friendly shop for your visitors; payment by prepayment or PayPal. Your public list of galleries is split into pages, so even a large archive opens quickly.
More about the Portrait-Archiv photo reordering system:
https://www.portrait-service.com/portrait-archiv
Screenshots
Your gallery on your own website — visitors browse by folder and order right there.
Opening a photo: choose the product (print, canvas, download …), size and quantity.
Added to the cart — confirmed right at the button, with the cart total and the way there.
The cart on a page of its own: items, quantities and prices at a glance, with shipping and grand total.
Checkout: shipping address and payment method — prepayment or PayPal, fees included.
Manage all your galleries right inside WordPress, each with its visibility.
Price lists: set your own sale price and instantly see your net profit per product.
Uploading: pick the target folder inside the gallery, and decide whether the photos are finished or still to be edited after they are ordered.
Student ID cards: the customer fills in the details you defined in your card template and sees the finished card while typing.
See how often a gallery was opened: the daily course, the visitors from your own website and those from Portrait-Archiv.com side by side, and the orders of the same day.