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Articles with tips and tricks on how to better use Sunshine Photo Cart and make more money from your gallery sales
Posted on September 11, 2026
The Automated Emails add-on has a new trigger that sends the "your photos are ready" email for you, and it waits until the gallery is genuinely finished before it goes out. Here's how it works and how to set it up.
Posted on June 1, 2026
If you run pickup at a school and pickup at your studio, you used to be stuck with one global pickup option. Now each pickup location is its own shipping method, with its own address, hours, and gallery scope.
Posted on December 17, 2024
Sunshine Photo Cart 3.4.7 was released today with a couple bug fixes and, more importantly, one of the most requested features: ability to watermark on a per-image basis! When uploading images to a gallery and you have a watermark configured, you will see a new toggle option to enable/disable the watermarks on the images you […]
Posted on February 20, 2024
Ever wondered what's necessary to include in a print release document? It's not as complex as you might think. In essence, a print release document is a legal agreement that permits someone else to print copies of your work. You're probably thinking, "What exactly should I include in this document?" Well, there are a few […]
Posted on December 8, 2023
Sunshine Photo Cart 3 marked a significant enhancement in the overall design and flow of client galleries for photographers, elevating the experience for your customers. The goal is to maximize the revenue your client photo galleries can earn from photo proofing sales. Every aspect, from viewing galleries to the final checkout process, was redesigned from […]
Posted on October 25, 2021
Today many things officially changed with Sunshine, including: 2.9 is released with important changes New pricing structure for new customers A new Exports add-on! Sunshine 2.9 is released and is a required update The 2.8 branch of Sunshine was released over 3 years ago, so moving to 2.9 is a big deal! This release is […]
Posted on July 20, 2021
A new way to create galleries in bulk is now in beta for all existing Pro customers. You can go to Sunshine > Add-on Manager to find the new add-on and install it on your site. I am looking for feedback on how the add-on works and where any tweaks can be made or if […]
Posted on July 12, 2021
We are happy to announce that a new add-on is available for integrating Sunshine with a Light Blue account. Light Blue takes the stress out of your business admin tasks, and helps you to manage shoots, clients, and finances with ease. Meaning you can spend more time taking great pictures, and less doing office work. […]
Posted on April 20, 2020
Sunshine's search widget has never been all that advanced as Sunshine's primary use case is not for stock photo sites. However, in the 2.8.16 update, this search process will be updated! Sunshine will loosely match any title or description for the image. So for example, searching "car" would return an image if it's title is […]
Posted on April 12, 2016
Sunshine has been in "cruise control" for a while. My focus on Sunshine coding has been on small tweaks to usability and fixing bugs. I have also been focused heavily on marketing so Sunshine can grow it's user base and "get bigger" so I can spend more time working on it (more income Sunshine generates for […]