why dakis
dakis for photo labs
Ordering, production, and selling online, built for how a lab works
dakis is a unified commerce platform for photo labs and camera stores. Customers order through your website, a kiosk at your counter, or a client gallery. Orders route to the right printer or imposition folder, and you sell prints, albums, frames, and photo products from one catalog. Independent labs and retailers have run on dakis for over two decades.
THE DAKIS WORKFLOW
How an order moves from customer to print
The order arrives
A customer orders from your website, a kiosk at your counter, or a private gallery you have shared with them. All three land in the same place, with the same production workflow behind them..
It arrives ready to produce
The order carries its own instructions. Customer, product, size, paper, and finish arrive attached, ready for the printer.
It reaches the right printer
Orders route by product type automatically. Wall art goes to the wide-format printer, a 4x6 to the minilab, and press work to an imposition folder.
The customer collects it
Customers pick up in store or have it shipped.
Every print order is a production instruction
Photo products are made to order. Two prints of the same image are different jobs if one is matte and one is metallic, and the difference decides which printer produces it. dakis treats the specification as part of the order, which is what lets it route on its own.
Tell us how orders move through your lab today.
dakis for photo labs
What labs use
Taking orders
Customers place customized orders, on their own time, at home or in store.
Online Photo Ordering Software
Ordering on your own site, under your own brand.
Photo Kiosk Software
Self-serve ordering at the counter, on your catalog.
Producing orders
Every order enters your production workflow ready for the right printer.
Lab Printing Software
Orders routed to the right printer or imposition folder.
Selling more
Selling beyond the counter, beyond opening hours, and beyond your local market.
eCommerce Webstore
Sell frames, albums, and photo gifts alongside your prints.
Managed Website
A professional site built for how a lab sells.
Getting set up
Your account, products, and workflows set up by the team who knows the platform.
Onboarding Services
Setup, migration, and configuration handled for you.
dakis for photo labs
Labs running on dakis
Labs on dakis range from single storefronts to multi-location operations.
Don's Photo has spent nearly fifty years earning its place as one of Western Canada's largest independent photo...
Fitzgerald Photo Imaging
Fitzgerald Photo Imaging has spent decades adapting to how people shoot, share, and print. This North Perth lab serves...
Camera Corner
The Camera Corner is an independent camera store, photo lab, and print shop in Davenport, Iowa.
Frequently asked questions
Can I run a photo lab on a general ecommerce platform?
A general platform can take the order. It cannot send it to the right printer. That gap gets filled by a person who opens each order, reads the specification, and moves the file, which works at low volume and becomes a role as orders grow. Every handoff is also a chance for the wrong paper or the wrong size to reach the machine. dakis carries the specification through to production and routes by product type, so the order reaches the printer without the step in between.
Does dakis work with the printers I already have?
Yes. dakis supports two setups. In the back lab, IPS Order Manager sends jobs to Fujifilm, Noritsu, Agfa, and Epson minilabs, including older wet and dry labs. At the counter, the kiosk prints directly to the Fujifilm Frontier DX100, the Epson SureLab D1070, and other models.
Do I need to replace my point of sale?
No. dakis offers its own point of sale as part of Unified Commerce, and it also connects to existing systems. Labs run dakis for ordering and production without changing what happens at the counter.
Do I need a new website to sell online?
You can start on the site you have. Online photo ordering runs on your own domain and under your own brand. Most labs move to a dakis managed website, where ordering, catalog, and content are built as one, and the site is structured to be found by customers searching for a lab near them
How do customers order?
From your website on a computer or a phone, from a kiosk in your store, or from a private gallery you share with them.
What happens when a product comes out that isn't in the system?
You request it and dakis builds the record, then makes it available to every dakis retailer. New products are added daily.
How long does it take to get running?
Most labs are running within a week. A lab with more products, more equipment or more locations can take one to two weeks. The timeline depends mostly on how much of your catalog and setup is ready when you start.