photo solutions
Online Photo Ordering Software
Sell photo products online on your own website, fully integrated, with no developer required.
Online photo ordering software (Photo Factory) turns your website into a 24/7 ordering channel for photo products and services. Customers order whenever they are ready instead of calling, emailing, or coming into the store. Orders flow directly into your lab workflow for production and fulfillment.
What it is
Built for
- Photo labs and camera stores growing print revenue online without adding staff
- Retailers who want online ordering under their own brand and domain
- Multi-location operators managing one product catalog across every channel
How it fits
Customers browse, customize, and order photo products directly from your website. Print orders flow automatically into your lab workflow.
Service orders such as film developing or scanning are managed from intake through fulfillment, so nothing sits in an inbox waiting to be transcribed. Your customers stay in one place from first click to pick up.
Why customers choose it
- Capture orders beyond store hours with 24/7 ordering on your own site
- Keep customers on your own website and under your own brand through checkout
- Offer prints, wall art, gifts, film developing, and scanning in one place
- Sell beyond your in-house capabilities through dakis fulfillment partnerships
- Let customers add photos from any device with a single QR scan
- Receive orders with customer details and product specs already attached
the power of unified commerce
Why dakis
dakis is built for photo labs and camera stores. Photo ordering, service ordering, and lab workflow are native capabilities, and they share one catalog and one customer record with your kiosks, your webstore, and your point of sale. General ecommerce platforms treat photos as an add-on, which is why retailers running them spend their day moving files and re-entering orders between systems.
Works with
Photo Kiosk Software
Same catalog in store, on a self-serve screen.
eCommerce Webstore
Sell cameras and gear alongside your photo products.
Lab Printing Software
Route finished orders straight to your printers.
Unified Point-of-Sale
One customer record across online and in store.
Proof
Businesses using it
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 sends jobs to minilabs, wide-format printers, and hot folders, so you keep the equipment you have.
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.
Can I keep my current website?
Yes. Online photo ordering runs on your own domain and under your own brand. dakis also builds and manages websites for labs that want one.
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. All three use the same catalog and the same pricing.
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?
[Pending Ryan.]