Shozam Community

We are looking into Shozam features to help you sell more, easier and faster using your galleries. We want your feedback surrounding this type of new development. This should be of interest to anyone who has Shozam Business Edition or who has an interest to sell and make money through Shozam galleries. Let us know if you have any feedback on these issues you want us to consider.

BACKGROUND - 2 E-COMMERCE METHODS

Method 1: Use Sell Tab (Step 2 of Shozam)

WAYS TO IMPROVE
You could benefit from tighter integration with a provider that produces these types of products so once a Payer buys something, the order will be automatically processed and fulfilled by that provider. If you have specific providers you would like to see integrate with Shozam, please see this related forum post. This integration would allow you to simply fill-in your settings one time, rather than doing it for *each* product/image. Hopefully this simplification would be able to happen in Shozam as well as in the 3^rd party provider’s interface.

3 - Sell digital products

 Because of my plans to sell digital and physical products I welcome all the above well thought ways to improve.

One suggestion: because there is a limitation of the amount of html which can be typed in the html box, I would love to see a lenghthier form.

Paul

I use the same sell buttons over and over and need to apply them to new gallaries as they are added and also to new albums that get created.  It is unbearably time consuming to have to enter each button over and over.  There needs to be some sort of Global Settings feature that allows your preferences to be set and  to be carried through from one gallery or album to another.  As of yet I have been unable to find where to make those universal settings.

A drop down with different sizes and prices would sure be nice!!

jmooney:

A drop down with different sizes and prices would sure be nice!!

You can now create and use secure PayPal buttons with drop-down options...

Create the button using PayPal Button Designer at:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_button-designer

Then you paste the resulting code in the HTML tab in Step 2 of Shozam.

For now, you either need to create a new button code for each image/product -OR- create one code and then tweak it for each image/product by adding a little snippet that has some unique identifier. We hope to provide some new features in the future so this is done automatically by Shozam.

For more on how to do this, see the new related post at:
http://community.shozam.com/forums/p/1171/4059.aspx#4059

 Selling digital products with instant downloads is what I want to do. Currently I am experimenting with a third party program called SmartDD, this allows you to generate a "Paypal Buy Now" html button code for each product, but it takes a heck of a long time to generate a button for each image, paste in the html and then test it. The one good thing about the SmartDD script is, once you have purchased it, any profits you make are yours with none going to a third party digital download link provider. The presentation of Shozam is wonderfull, its so easy to produce a professional looking web site in a couple of hours, its just a real pity that its so long winded to use it to make some cash "hopefully". I would like to see digital downloading included in the program in some way.

Can you post two example scripts, for two different products (or Shozam images). I would like to see if the difference between them could be resolved by a find-and-replace action. For example, if all you have is a line in the script identifying the ProductID, which may be the Shozam image filename... Shozam may be able then to apply that one script to all images (products) with the one change being that it would replace for each, the value of the Product ID with the respective image filename.

Now that seems like an interesting solution. All the product details are contained in a SmartDD Mysql db which have to be entered manually in two places. Under the "Inventory" tab you enter: Product name, Selling Price, Digital Download or Physical Goods tag, Real location i.e you have to upload to a "digital download location directory" the zipped files ready to be downloaded, and optionally a downloadable file name (if you do not wish the actual file name to be seen by the purchaser before downloading).

 Under the "Item" tag yo are able to select the "product" from a list (from details entered under the inventory tag). Here again you enter the currency type, selling price (again?), shopping cart provider (either Paypal or Clickbank) and a few other "housekeeping" items such as what email(s) to want sent etc. Once you have saved these details you are presented with a list of "Items" with a number of options: Amend, View, Manage Images, Code Generator, Remove.

The code generator options are: Price Widget 2 examples of code below:

 "Please note: In order to use the price widget, your sales page must reside on the same domain as your SmartDD installation and must have a .php extension.

Add the following line to the very top of the page. Note: If you want to use the price widget more than once on a page, you should only include this line once"

<?php include("/home/photosof/public_html/smartdd/pricewidget.php");?>

"Wherever you want to include the item description, put the following line:"

<?=PriceWidgetGetDescription(7);?>

"Wherever you want to include the item price, put the following line:"

<?=PriceWidgetGetPrice(7);?>

Another example of the price widget script is:

<?=PriceWidgetGetDescription(6);?>

<?=PriceWidgetGetPrice(6);?>

There are also options to generate code for Paypal and Clickbank buttons as follows:

Select Live or test mode

Select button style, there are 8 to choice from

Give commission to the referring affiliate

Add the following line to the very top of the page. Note: If you have more than one item on the page, you should only include this line once

<?php include("/home/photosof/public_html/smartdd/saleshelper.php");?>

Add the following line to the very bottom of the page. Note: If you have more than one item on the page, you should only include this line once

<?php include("/home/photosof/public_html/smartdd/saleshelperbottom.php");?>

And her is the code for two different products using the same button style and "Live" selected" and give commision deselected.

 <form method="post" action="http://photosoffood.co.uk/smartdd/paypalredir.php">
<input type="hidden" name="aid" id="aid" value="6"/>
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but03.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Buy now" title="Buy now"/>
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"/>
</form>

And

<form method="post" action="http://photosoffood.co.uk/smartdd/paypalredir.php">
<input type="hidden" name="aid" id="aid" value="7"/>
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but03.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Buy now" title="Buy now"/>
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"/>
</form>
 

Does that help, is it of interest. Of course I would like to be able to use the price widget but an not sure which files(s) to rename to ."php" if any, at least that what the documentaion says I need to do, I quote " To make this(price widget) work, you need to rename your web pages extension to .php." an an example is given. As I understand it using the price widget means you can easily display and change the product price and description in the admin panel of Smartdd.

Hope that helps

 I would like to see an option added to the e-commerce function of Shozam. I know a lot of people who sell things on POD sites like Imagekind, CafePress, Printfection and others. In place of the PayPal button I'd like to see an option added where you could pick either to buy through Paypal or put a link into the same area of the gallery that could link to their CafePress or other product. Possibly much like using the links tab but be able to create a button and put it in the same place as the PayPal button.

Tom, you can do this now using the HTML tab; create any button taking you to some external page. Some of these fullfillment providers also provide button HTML code for the products you have listed with them. Otherwise you would have to create your own button HTML.

The single drawback is the lack of automation in applying one code for all your images, like our Sell tab does for Paypal integration. To automate this, Shozam would need to know how to modify the code so it is correct for each image. Each provider does things differently. We approached Imagekind (now part of CafePress) to create such an integration but could not work out a way to automate it. So for now you would need to get the HTML for each item from the provider and then paste it in the HTML tab in Step 2 for each respective image in Shozam.

We could have a way for Shozam to do a find-and-replace on some prototypical piece of code, for example searching for product id and replacing it with the image filename. This is basically how the Paypal code gets applied accross several images. The tricky thing is differernt providers use different identifiers and not neccesarily the image filename. For example, imagekind uses some random string for each of the products/images users put in their accounts and not tied to the image filename. So there is no practical way for Shozam to know the correct string for a specific image in Shozam.

 Thanks Razvan. I am on Imagekind and on Zazzle. I know they have some very strange URL's to products and images. I think what I'm after is placing the link (by button or a text link "Buy now" or something similar) in the same area the  Paypal button would be. Maybe I misunderstand where it would appear using the HTML tab. I'll just play around with it and see what happens.

 My bad. LOL, I was thinking the HTML in step 5, not step 2. That would work fine for what I'm doing.

Well, I have had any problems selling thru Shozam. Digital media as you said, I send it directly to the customers email and thats it. Creating buttons from paypal is easy, yet it can be difficult for those who don't do HTML and scripts, but they provide a better control of multiple prices for the same picture (for example) somthing that Shozam, doesn't do.

But for the inexperience ones, Shozam is a fast run to e-commerce.

Thanks for sharing. It's great

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