Photo calendars: a full year on one sheet

Your Picsha Cards storefront can also sell photo calendars: one photograph and twelve months on a single sheet, printed on photo paper. An 8×10 calendar is an 8×10 print, so it goes down the lab you already run, on paper you already stock. Nothing to bind, nothing new to order in.

Turn them on first

Calendars are off until you offer them. In your admin page, open Prices, find the Calendars section under your card sizes, and click Offer on the ones you want. They reach your storefront the moment you do.

Two sizes, each priced per calendar rather than per pack:

• 8×10 — suggested $19.99
• 11×14 — suggested $29.99

Those are starting points. Set your own price in the same row, and badge one Popular if you like.

What the customer does

1. Picks a calendar instead of a card in step one, and adds their photos.
2. Picks one of three designs — photo above the months, larger months with a smaller photo, or the photo filling the sheet with the year over it.
3. Sets Starts in, Week starts on, and whether to mark US holidays, then adds a title such as a family name.
4. Chooses how many, enters their details, and pays.

Any month, not just January

This is the thing customers ask for most, and it is the reason a calendar sells in July. Starts in offers the next eighteen months, so a calendar bought in July can run August through July of the following year. The heading says so — August 2027 – July 2028 — and each January carries its year, so nobody has to wonder which February they are looking at. US federal holidays are marked in the design's accent color, taken from the correct year on each side of the boundary.

The customer's own dates can be marked too, and the whole sheet is previewed at actual size by the same code that renders your print file.

What you get

A paid order gives you, on the order in your admin page:

• One JPEG at the calendar's exact size, 300 dpi, no crop marks — ready for a photo printer.
• One PDF with bleed and crop marks, for a press.
• A printable order summary with the calendar, the quantity, and the customer's details.

Both files are there whichever output you chose for that size. If you run Photogize Lab, calendar orders go into your Lab queue like any other — map the size to a Lab product in the same row, which can be the 8×10 or 11×14 print product you already sell. See Sending orders to Photogize Lab.

Calendars work on the kiosk exactly as cards do, and customer photos are deleted after 30 days.

Want a photo for every month? The same storefront also sells a thirteen-leaf monthly calendar, bound at your counter: see Monthly photo calendars: a cover and a photo for every month.

Questions? help@graphx.com