WooCommerce

Table of Contents

  1. Step 1: Configure Your Account
  2. Step 2: Download & Install the Plugin
  3. Step 3: Connect to FinerWorks
  4. Importing Products / Syncing Virtual Inventory
    • Option A: Using the Plugin
    • Option B: Using WC Products Manager:
  5. Sending Orders to FinerWorks
    • Option A: Using the Plugin
      • Manual Export
      • Auto Export
    • Option B: Using the Order Fulfillment App
  6. FAQs

Step 1: Configure Your Account

Login to your FinerWorks account, go to the Order Fulfillment App in your account menu.

Launch the wizard to complete the necessary steps, including business and billing information. More information can also be found here.

Step 2: Download & Install the Plugin

Make sure you have WordPress and WooCommerce installed on your website. If you’re not sure, check with your hosting provider or consult the WordPress Guide and WooCommerce Docs. Click the download button below to download the plugin zip file.

Download Plugin
In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New.
Click Upload Plugin.
Choose the FinerWorks plugin ZIP file.
Activate the plugin.

Step 3: Connect to FinerWorks

Login  to your FinerWorks account and in a new tab, go to the following link: https://finerworks.com/myaccount/MyWebApi.aspx
Click New App to generate your App Key.
From within the WordPress dashboard, go to the FinerWorks Media. Enter the Web Api Key and App Key in the designated fields and click Save to store your credentials.
Click Test Credentials to verify the connection. If the test is successful, your WooCommerce store is now connected to FinerWorks and ready to send orders!
Important: The field Test Mode by default will be set to “Yes”. Set it to “No” when you are ready to go live; otherwise, any orders set to FinerWorks will not be received.
You can set a preferred shipping method. When you use this, Auto Export orders will try to be shipped to your customer by the method you choose. Note, this is not guaranteed, but we will do our best to accommodate your preference.

Importing Products / Syncing Virtual Inventory

For the most hands-off approach when it comes to having your orders automatically processed, or even simply fetching your WooCommerce orders via the Order Fulfillment App, you sync your Virtual Inventory to your WooCommerce store.

Option A: Using the Plugin:

In your WordPress admin menu, go to  FinerWorks Media > Import Products.
Click the Import Products button.

Option B: Using the WC Products Manager:

In your WordPress admin menu, go to  Products.
Click the Import FinerWorks Products button.

Sending Orders to FinerWorks

Option A: Using the Plugin

If you know your products do not change frequently (image, size, media, etc) and are correctly imported and synced with your FinerWorks virtual inventory. For instance, if you are an artist, selling prints of your artwork in set sizes and options, then it makes more sense to create Virtual Inventory, sync them in your WooCommerce store as products. This way, when you send the order to FinerWorks, we already have all the details (image file to print, print specs, etc).

How to Manually Export Orders
From within the FinerWorks Media Menu > Export Orders.
Select the data range or status, or both, and click the Export Orders button.
How to Use Auto Exporting
Go to FinerWorks Media Menu > Import / Export Scheduler.
Configure your auto-export options.

Option B: Using the Order Fulfillment App

If product specifics frequently change, such as an image to be printed, as in custom-made art or photos that need to be attached to the order. For instance, if you are an individual who creates custom pet portraits, it may be impractical to develop virtual inventory and sync it with your products after the customer has placed the order. In that case, use our Order Fulfillment App to import your WooCommerce order and add the custom-made art to the order.

FAQs

Geo Galleries Artists

Geo Galleries sets the retail price at 3x’s the cost as of July 2022. To see the retail price as your customers would; you must be logged out of your FinerWorks account.

When someone buys one of your printed products, the order is automatically forwarded to FinerWorks for fulfillment and shipped to the buyer. Within 30 days, once the order ships, details of the order (including the buyer) will be available to you.

This can be done using your gallery’s URL. The link will look something like this

https://geogalleries.com/my_username

Make sure you replace “my_username” with your actual name.

Note: If you used to use FinerWorks old gallery, your FinerWorks gallery url now automatically redirects people to your Geo Galleries link.

Virtual Inventory gives you the ability to store “virtual” prints. Create and store as many prints as you wish, and when you are ready for us to print one, its only a matter of checking out.  Read more…

Only lower resolution web versions of the images are shown. These contain a watermark which provides some protection. If you are too worried that people will copy your web viewable images, we recommend not participating in the gallery experience.

Existing FinerWorks members are given an exclusive invitation to join at no charge. In the future there will be optional priced services relating to promotion and fulfillment that artist can take advantage of.

Aside from having artistic value, the image must be a suitable print quality/resolution. It must also be properly titled,  include a well written description, and be submitted to the appropriate category and assigned to a collection.

No. Buyers can only purchase printed works.

Reporting of your sales is done through the Geo Galleries reporting interface. Sales are shown after an order is shipped.

The artist will receive the difference of the retail price they set and the seller fee.

An artist may also get 10% in shared revenue on the sale of any frames, matting or glazing when ordered as part of the finished item.

Geo Galleries retains a seller fee that is based on the sale of any print. This seller fee equals what the artist would pay for any unframed printed item, plus a 10% administrative fee which is based on the cost of the unframed print or product.

For example,

For example, if an artist sets their canvas print to be priced at $200 but the cost for them to order it at Finerworks is $50, Geo Galleries would receive $50 for the print and $20 as an admin fee. The artist would receive the remaining $130.

You must have a PayPal account. Your earnings will be paid out on a monthly basis for any sales 30 days or older.

We plan to integrate a new system that will allow payment direct to your financial institution which will allow weekly payments as the platform grows. When this will happen is not set but would be announced in the newsletter.

Geo Galleries will offer a set of default print products, however if you have a set of 3 or more print products in your virtual inventory for an image, then this will be used in place of the default products.

Geo Galleries will reserve the right to adjust based upon the advice of FinerWorks when it comes to optimizing the file for printing. This will be limited to any necessary sizing and cropping adjustments or color correction as FinerWorks deems is necessary. Artists recommended adjustments may be considered however are not guaranteed.

No. You retain full ownership of your images and you may remove them at any time.

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