Picsha Books: sizes, pricing, and the print-ready PDF

Picsha Books is an AI-designed photo book storefront under your brand. The customer uploads photos, the Picsha AI designs a finished book in about a minute, and you print and bind it, or the lab does.

What the customer does

1. Uploads their photos, up to 200, straight off a phone.
2. Picks a size. That is all they are asked for.
3. The Picsha AI reads every photo, sets aside the weak ones, recognizes the occasion, designs a finished book, writes its title and captions, and shows a full preview.
4. Shuffles layouts, changes the style, and edits the title and captions if they want to.
5. Enters their name and an email or phone number, and pays.

Book sizes and pricing

For each size you offer, set on the admin page:

• a base price;
• the pages included in the base price (20 minimum);
• a price per extra page.

Example: a $54.99 base price with 20 pages included and $2.25 per extra page makes a 26-page book $68.49.

The lowest base price the platform accepts is $19. Leave the extra-page price at $0.00 to charge one flat price however long the book is.

You can edit as many sizes as you like and press any Save: every edited row is saved with it, and the page stays where you were. A row that cannot be saved says why.

The ↑ ↓ buttons beside a size move it up or down the list, and that order is the order customers see the sizes in.

You can also set a minimum order. Prices are yours and can change at any time; changes apply to new orders immediately.

On a lab-printed store the size rows work a little differently: you pick a lab product instead of typing a width and height, the label is optional, and the extra-page price has to be entered. See Books lab printing.

What you get

Once the order is paid, the order in your admin page offers a print-ready PDF at 300 dpi with bleed and trim baked in. Download it and print and bind the book as you normally would.

If you run Photogize Lab, connect it on the admin page and paid books go straight into your Lab's queue: the cover and every page as exact-size images, on the Lab product you choose for each size. See Sending orders to Photogize Lab.

If you do not print books yourself, your store can be switched to lab printing, where the PDF goes to Picsha's lab partner instead of your download queue. See Books lab printing. A store uses one or the other.

Photos and reprints

Customers' photos are deleted after 14 days. The book layout and the print PDF are kept, so reprints remain possible after the photos are gone.

Books on the kiosk

Books runs in kiosk mode. A whole memory card of vacation photos becomes a designed book while the customer waits; the kiosk holds its idle reset while the Picsha AI works. See How the kiosk works for customers.

Questions? help@graphx.com