Our artists have approached offering prints or notecards in several ways:

1. Use the FASO Artwork Variants feature
2. Set up a collection for cards/prints.
3. Create a free form page for cards/prints.
4. Add info about availability of cards/prints in the description box for the work.
5. Use a Print on Demand service, like the one that FASO offers.
6. Use a custom shopping cart created in your PayPal account which enables you to offer multiple sizes from a drop down menu..
7. List print info in their Collection Description Box.

 Detailed info on each method is listed below.

Important

• To sell greeting cards, note cards, and/or prints, the images need to be in your Artwork Portfolio so that you can mark the artwork so that you can sell more than just one single item.
  
  See this FAQ:
  Adjust These Settings to be able to Sell more than one Giclee Print, Greeting Card, Book or DVD
  for the instructions on the 2 settings that need to be adjusted in order to make sure that more than one item is available for purchase.
  
  
• If you do not want the image to be promoted in DAS or in the Recent Works widget, the Visibility of the image needs to be marked "Website Only".
  See this FAQ:
  Artwork Visibility ~ Public, Website Only, Unlisted
  
  
• Also see this FAQ:      
  How to Enable and Track Instant PayPal Notifications (IPN)

Option 1 - Variants

See this FAQ on how to use Variants:
Artwork Variants

The Artwork Variants Feature allows you to create multiple variants of your artwork, such as prints, posters, greeting cards, t-shirts, etc.

This feature is for artists who want to sell their own products direct from the artist to the buyer.

Variant orders are not fulfilled by FASO. 

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Option 2 - Set up a Collection for Cards/Prints.

See this FAQ for how to set up the collection:
How to Group your Artwork into Collections 

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Option 3 - Use a Separate Info Page for Cards/Prints

First Step:
set up a single Page within the Pages Category

• FASO Control Panel
• click More Categories (left hand column)
• click Pages (right column)
• click Add New  (a new edit page will open)
• Add a Title for the page 
• Add your text
• Add image(s) in the text editing screen (place cursor in text editing screen where you want image to go; click on image gallery icon (mountains & sun icon on far right); follow instructions)
• Click ADD to Save

NOTE: you can also add a PayPal custom button to this page.
See this FAQ: Add Custom Paypal Button to a Page

Second Step:
Add the new page to your navigation bar:

• click on Navigation Menu (left menu bar)
• click on Page (bottom of left column)
  the drop down will expand - displaying your page title(s).
• click on / or drag your new Page Title to the Menu Structure column to the right
  (You will now see it listed with other categories currently displayed on your website)
• *you can also drag current navigation categories seen in the Menu Structure column, [up or down], to reorder them if desired.
• When finished, Click on the green SAVE button (upper right).

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Option 4 - Add Availability Info of cards/prints to the Description Text Field

• FASO control panel
• click Artwork icon (upper row)
• click on thumbnail image (left column) or the word Edit (right column) for a particular image
• scroll down
• enter text about card/prints in Description text field
• Save Changes

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Option 5 - Use a Print on Demand Service

Print on demand (POD) is a printing technology and business process in which copies of a book (or other document) are not printed until an order has been received, allowing books to be printed singly, or in small quantities.

There are a number of Print on Demand services out there to choose from including:

• Image Kind
• Cafe Press
• Artspan
• Fine Art America (FAA)

A Google search will lead you to even more.

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Option 6 - Custom Buy Now Buttons offering Multiple Choices

These artists have set up a custom shopping cart in their PayPal accounts so they can offer prints in multiple sizes with drop down options.

Selling prints at multiple sizes/prices can be done quite nicely, and requires some work in both your Paypal account and your FineArtStudioOnline Control Panel.

Following these steps, a couple of our FASO client's have set up their sites to allow for purchasing an item that has multiple sizes/prices/choices. You can see it in action on the following artist sites:

• JuliaDufaultMcGrath.com
• AnitaGerschEquineArt.com

NOTE: each of the above artists are using collections for their prints. They have omitted the price from the retail field for each print image and used a custom PayPal shopping cart button.

This leaves the option open to still use the FASO buy now button and shopping cart for other single works of art.

For a tutorial on how to, see this FAQ:
Add a Buy Now Button with Multiple Choices

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Option 7 - List Prices in Collection Description

You can simply list print prices in the Collection Description box. This simple but straightforward approach is attractive and works nicely.

See SarahHarless.com as an example.

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Important
Also see these FAQs:

• Adjust These Settings to be able to Sell more than one Giclee Print, Greeting Card, Book or DVD
• How to Enable and Track Instant PayPal Notifications (IPN)

There is quite a bit of information here to consider.  As you can see there are many options for selling prints and notecards.  How you choose to proceed is a personal preference. 

Once you decide how you want to present your prints you can let FASO Support know. We can then provide more detailed instructions as needed.

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