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Our take on user accounts

Sunshine requires user's to register an account in order to mark images as favorite and to make a purchase. Some photographers seem to not like this approach. Here is our take: When a user wants to make a purchase with Sunshine Photo Cart, they need to provide email, name and shipping/billing information. The difference between […]

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1.7.0 Released - Watermarks

We finally caved, you can now setup an automatic watermark feature for your photo cart galleries in Sunshine For a long while we resisted adding a watermarking feature to Sunshine. We believe clients should be shown the highest quality images when making the decision to buy. When you let a web server add a watermark, […]

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1.6.5 Released - Enhancements galore!

Sunshine Photo Cart 1.6.5 is now available for automatic update. This release does not contain any major new features, but instead a plethora of enhancements our users have been requesting. So here are the highlights: See pricing without being logged in This was by far the most requested feature. Previously Sunshine required a user to […]

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Bulk adding products

Lost in the huge 1.4.0 release of Packages was an efficiency improvement: Bulk adding of products. Several of our users sent us messages asking for ways to create all their products when setting up Sunshine much more efficiently. When you have 50+ products, we were the first to admit that this was a time consuming […]

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1.4.0 Released: Packages

Packages have by far been our most requested feature and today we are happy to announce this feature is finally here! A package is the selling of multiple products as a single product. For example, you could sell an 8x10 print, 20x30 canvas and a digital download all for a single price (usually discounted from […]

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1.3.0: Internationalization, Improved WordPress Theme Integration & PayJunction

We have released version 1.3.0 which has some large, important updates for our growing international user base. We've also worked on improvements to make Sunshine integrate into your custom WordPress theme a little better. Internationalization We originally built Sunshine thinking it would be almost entirely US based photographers using it. However, it quickly spread out […]

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New Addon: Price Levels

So our new Price Levels add-on for our Pro version was built because we know wedding clients have bigger budgets than the annual family photo session. The new Price Levels add-on will let you setup as many prices for a single product as you want. You can then choose which price level you want all […]

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So is it "responsive"? See for yourself!

"Responsive" is the web's hottest term right now. To make a website responsive means that it can adapt to any window size and still look good. This also means that the site will adapt to various devices such as tablets and mobile phones. Lately the most common question we have been getting is "Is your […]

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No watermarking?!

As of 1.7.0, we have included a watermarking feature. However, we still don't think you should use it. Nope, we do not have an automatic watermarking feature in Sunshine. And it has purposefully been left out. Here is why: One of the biggest complaints we had with other photo carts which you installed on your […]

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