Why Aren’t You Accepting International Orders for Your Art?

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019

Why Aren’t You Accepting International Orders for Your Art?

Are you accepting international orders? If not, why aren’t you? When we refer to international orders, we of course mean orders shipping outside of the U.S. since we are based in the United States. Many artists and photographers do them thinking it is too complicated or too expensive to ship. If that describes you, you may be missing out on a golden opportunity if you use FinerWorks as your fulfillment partner for your prints. Starting last week, we adopted a new program called UPS i-parcel that should make things easier and less costly. Using us to fulfill your orders (drop ship) means it is even easier.

April 28, 2019June 24, 2019

Integrating Your Sites with Virtual Inventory

Are you creating a virtual inventory of your print products? If you want to integrate your online store with FinerWorks you will need to create a virtual inventory. If you are transferring your orders through an app (not thought our shopping cart), the virtual inventory is the “glue” that binds your order submissions with our fulfillment center. It tells us what to produce and ship.

April 8, 2019April 8, 2019

Connect Your Web Orders with FinerWorks Using Order Desk

Every day we field calls and email asking if we have an app or tie-in with carts and sites like WooCommerce, Shopify, Etsy, Amazon and more. This is because these people using these services want a streamlined method to send us the orders they receive.

December 24, 2018December 25, 2018

WooCommerce Integration & Batch Submission

Learn how to setup your WooCommerce site so that you can batch submit your orders to FinerWorks. This is incredibly useful when you have multiple orders you want FinerWorks to process and ship to multiple destinations.

October 28, 2018October 28, 2018

An Easy Way Earn More from Your Art Sales

How would you like to stumble upon a formula that reliably will increase how much you make in your art-based business selling prints or even original artwork? There is a method that a lot of businesses, especially those selling online use, but remarkably many others fail utilize. And it is very simple. It does not require you to raise any prices of existing listings or work harder promoting yourself. Of course, you can do that as well if you like which will likely help, but let’s see how you can do this without raising prices or working much harder.

October 7, 2018October 7, 2018

How Shipping Art Can Help You Raise Prices

One of the most frequent questions I hear from artists and photographers is “how much” they should charge for their prints. The short answer of course is “it depends”. There is plenty of online advice on how to decide this, including on our own blog. What is not asked as much is how can I raise prices without harming my sales.

June 24, 2018June 25, 2018

Does the New Sales Tax Ruling Affect Etsy Sellers?

Many of FinerWorks color lab customers are artists and photographers who use our drop shipping and order fulfillment services to have metal, canvas and framed fine art giclee prints made and shipped to their customers. Many have Etsy shops or sell on their own website. One of the pains though is dealing with sales tax. You have to register your business to get a Tax ID number and file either monthly or quarterly sales tax that you collect. But what if your customer is not located in the same State as your business. Do you have to charge sales tax to that customer and if so, how much?

June 13, 2018June 13, 2018

How Slower Art Sales Can Pay Off

Summer time can be a slower period for artists. If you are one of those artists whose sales begin to decline, don’t look at it as a negative. Instead use it to your advantage.

May 29, 2018May 30, 2018

Limited Edition vs Open Edition Prints

Does FinerWorks print limited or open edition giclee prints for artists and photographers? Both may be the obvious answer. This is one of those questions that pops up on occasion but when we start to get into the conversation with the customer it’s not uncommon that they do not know the difference or what they may be asking.

April 4, 2018April 4, 2018

Takeaways from a Working Artist Panel Discussion

The Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, TX is one of the city’s treasured gems that is nestled downtown. Originally known as the Ursuline Convent and Academy when it opened in 1851, Southwest School of Art has provided back to the community in the form of these discussion panel, events, a bachelor of fine arts program and community classes since 1965.