Sell Photos Online — Print & Digital Store for Photographers
Selling photos online means giving clients a way to buy prints and digital downloads directly from their gallery, with payment and fulfilment handled automatically.
Selling photos online, for a working photographer, almost always means selling to your own clients from inside their delivery gallery — not listing stock photography to strangers. The gallery becomes the storefront.
The moving parts
- A price sheet — what a print or digital costs, per size and format.
- A checkout — the client pays by card without leaving the gallery.
- Fulfilment — prints either ship from a lab automatically, or you fulfil manually and mark the order done.
- Payout — money lands in your own account, not the platform's, minus any platform fee.
How the payout side works on lemon.gallery
Sales run through your own connected Stripe account via Stripe Connect, so money arrives directly with daily automatic payouts — there's no manual payout request. Free-plan studios pay a 2.5% platform fee on sales, taken from the sale itself; Starter and up pay 0%.
| Free | Starter | Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform fee on sales | 2.5% | 0% | 0% |
| Print fulfilment | Included (Prodigi) | Included (Prodigi) | Included (Prodigi) |
| Digital delivery | Included | Included | Included |
| Storage for galleries | 2GB | 25GB | 100GB (+£5/mo per 100GB) |
Frequently asked questions
Do I need my own Stripe account to sell photos?
Yes — sales pay out directly to your connected Stripe account rather than being pooled and paid out by the platform, which keeps you in control of your own money and its timing.
How does print fulfilment work?
When a print order is paid, it's sent automatically to Prodigi, a print-on-demand lab network, using the shipping address the client entered at checkout.
Can I sell digital-only, with no prints?
Yes — a price sheet can include digital-only items, print-only items, or a mix, and you can disable the store entirely on any gallery.
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