Buy All For Favorites Only

Short version: Is there a way to restrict a BuyAll option to just those selected as favorites, but not have the option in other galleries?

Long version: I am shooting sports. I want to offer the ability for someone to purchase the right to download negatives that they select for a single player. I would then do a quick visual check that they are keeping it (mostly) to one player. These selections may be restricted to a single game at one price or across multiple games for another. Since there may be many (>100) photos of one player, I want to keep the time needed to select them low. The Favorites feature seems to be an ideal way, since they could select the photos from the thumbnails and then only have to deal with the cart when the selection is done by doing a "BuyAll" inside Favorites. I can do all of this now, except the user could use the same "BuyAll" in any gallery. My description says not to do this, but it will certainly happen as they will figure they found a way to get all the photos, or they won't bother with the description.

Is there a way to achieve this behavior or something similar with Sytist?

Thanks.

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There is not a way to only have buy alls offered in the favorites. But how are you pricing your buy all? Price per photo, tiered pricing or set price? If it is one of the first 2 then I would think they wouldn't want to buy all in a gallery because of the price.

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Unfortunately, what I've been doing in the past was a set price. Much easier to explain when I only have their attention for a few minutes. And you're right, if it were on a photo count basis, it could drive it. But I've broken most of my galleries into < 400 size sub-galleries, and they may very well have 200-300 pictures of their kid... so the mistake is likely. I put in a lengthly description, but most people probably won't read the fine print. That is a work-around at this point. Thanks for the help and the suggestion.

Paul

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If this were to be available it is something that I could use as well.

Scenario: Equestrian Event i.e. many horses completing same circuit

I currently offer a buy all images of one rider at one event USB deal (no limit on images but a fixed price)

I want to offer a similar deal with a limit of images but across many events (this is easy with the system as is if they could transfer from favorites)

It is the adding to favorites and then adding to deal as opposed to what I currently do which is order the USB to which they add images, many already have a favs collection

I have gone in to admin and selected their favs to complete a few sales.

Mike

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I do the same for dance recitals... fixed price, all digitals of their kid. I would love this feature. Thanks!

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If you use a "set price" clients can typically buy from their favourites across several galleries; this becomes an issue though because they can add favourites from their FRIENDS as well as their own galleries - so if they cooperate you'll find people downloading a lot of images for one fee and then they just share them with each other.

I ended up creating an obnoxiously long "Tiered Pricing" setup to solve the issue; the "tiers" end up being just a single image count so the math all works out. I start with the "single" download price of $69.99, work up to my "target" price for a buy all of $199 for the set, and then keep the price at approx $199.99 until they order more than 20 images.

"BUY ALL" Tiered price ranges:
Qty From Qty To Price Per Photo
1 - 2 $69.99
3 - 3 $59.99 (The 'range' can be just a single digit; so if they buy a set of 3 downloads it works out to $59 each.)
4 - 4 $49.99 (Total $199.96)
5 - 5 $39.99 (5 images at $39.99 each = $199.95)
6 - 6 $33.33 (6 images at $33.33 each = ~$199.98)
etc... up to
20 - 9999 - $9.99

So at 20 images the price per image has dropped to $9.99 ($199.80 total). After that point they pay $9.99 per photo, so the final sale price will continue to increase if they buy more. This was a bother to figure out but it solves the issue for now.

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Thank you for this post Michael. It helped a ton!

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You're welcome Joey!

Follow up tip: don't accidentally miss a number! I had somehow skipped the "19 - 19" quantity in my long list, so there was no price assigned, and Sytist gave a client who had 19 photos the entire download for free. (She's not responding to my calls or emails asking for payment so I may be out of luck on $200 there.)

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