I only sell a few pieces a month. Is $99 a month worth it?

It is $99 a month, flat, and that covers every app: your website, your writing and images, posting to social networks, selling, invoices and email. If you are paying separately for a portfolio site, a shop and a post scheduler, add them up. You can try it for 14 days without a card and decide on your own numbers.

I already have a following on Instagram. Why do I need a website?

The website is the one place you own, where a search can find you and a sale can happen. Posts point back to it, and comments and messages from Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and your Google Business listing come back to one inbox, beside that person’s orders and emails.

Can I sell originals and prints in different sizes?

Yes. A product can have sizes and options, so one print is one listing with three sizes, and an original can sit beside it. Orders from your site and sales at an open studio arrive in the same list.

Will my images look right everywhere?

Images are kept in one library and resized for wherever they appear on your site. When you post, the same picture is cropped to the proportions each network wants, and you can control which picture shows when your page is shared in a message.

Can I change the site myself later?

Yes, and that is the point. You edit by dragging real sections into place, see the actual page as you work, and every publish is a version you can roll back to.

Can I get my records out again?

Your customers, products, orders, invoices, articles and form replies each download as a spreadsheet from the list they live on, and a key lets your own tools reach only what you allow. Your domain is one you register and own, so it goes wherever you point it.

Make the work easy to find, and easy to buy.

Piggles keeps your portfolio, your writing and your posts in one place, puts them in front of people searching for what you make, and handles the sale or the commission when somebody is ready.

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Piggles for studios

ContentDescribe each piece once, and it appears everywhere it belongs.
Get FoundGet seen by people who have never heard your name.
My SiteA portfolio you keep current yourself.

If this sounds like your week

The portfolio site is two years out of date.

A friend built it, or it came from a template you cannot change without breaking. Your newest work lives only on Instagram, and the site people land on from a search shows the series you stopped making.

Posting everywhere became a second job, so you stopped.

The same photo resized four times, a caption trimmed for each network, then nothing for a month because the week filled up. The work did not get worse. It just stopped being seen.

People who know your name find you. Nobody else does.

Somebody searching for hand-thrown mugs, or a portrait photographer in your town, never sees you. Whether they do comes down to small, dull details on every page that nobody told you about.

A portfolio site, a shop plugin and a notes file of commissions.

That was the fix. One service for the gallery, another for selling prints, a scheduler for posts and a document listing who asked about a commission. Four bills, and still no single place that says what is for sale and who is waiting on you.

When the pictures, the words and the site live in one place, telling people about the work becomes something that happens while you do it, instead of a chore you get to on a Sunday.

What most studios are juggling, and what takes its place

~~a portfolio site a friend built that you cannot change~~My Site
You rearrange My Site yourself the evening a new series is finished, and every publish is a version you can roll back to if you change your mind.
~~a separate shop add-on for selling prints~~Sell
Prints and originals sit in the same catalog as the rest of your site, and orders from your own site and from an open studio day land in one list.
~~a separate app for scheduling posts~~Get Found
Posts are written beside the work they are about, reshaped for each network, and comments from Instagram and Facebook come back to one inbox, beside that person’s orders and emails.
~~a notes file of commission inquiries~~Customers
Each inquiry becomes a record with a value, a stage and a follow-up date, so a collector who asked in March is not forgotten by June.
~~a mailing list tool with its own bill~~Messages
Your monthly note goes from your own address to buyers who already have a record here, and someone who unsubscribes is respected everywhere without a list of exceptions.
~~a folder of the same photograph saved at five sizes~~Content
Each image is uploaded once to one library and resized for wherever it appears on your site.

A normal week for studios, on Piggles

Monday, 10am
Photograph the new series and add each piece in Content, as an entry with the fields you chose: medium, size, year, available or sold. The images go into one library and are resized for wherever they appear.
Content
Monday, 2pm
Drag a gallery section onto a new page in My Site and the series fills it. The preview is the real page, so what you see is what a visitor gets. Publish in one click, and the previous version is kept if you change your mind.
My Site
Tuesday, 9am
Get Found flags that the new page has no description and explains in a sentence what to write. Then one post about the series goes to Instagram, Facebook and the rest, cropped to each network’s shape and scheduled for your standing Tuesday slot.
Get Found
Wednesday, 3pm
Prints of the best piece go on sale in three sizes as options on one product, alongside the original. Sell the last original at an open studio and your site stops offering it, because both work from the same stock number.
Sell
Thursday, 11am
A collector asks about a commission. It goes on your board with its value and a stage, on her record, with a task and a date for your follow-up, so it stops depending on you remembering.
Customers
Friday, 4pm
She accepts the quote. It turns into an invoice without retyping, and you send her a link to pay the first part. Paid through Stripe, the payment records itself against the right invoice.
Invoices
Sunday, 6pm
A short monthly note from your own address to everyone who has bought from you, with the new series and where it is showing. Messages shows who opened it and what they clicked.
Messages

The apps studios use most, up close

Content

Describe each piece once, and it appears everywhere it belongs.

A studio website is mostly a catalog of work, and every piece has the same facts: what it is made of, how big it is, when it was made, whether it is still available. Content keeps those facts in one place, so two pages never disagree.

Everything Content does

Set up your own kind of entry for a piece of work, with fields for medium, dimensions, year, series and whether it has sold.
Mark a piece sold in one place, and every page that shows it changes with it.
Write about a new series as a draft, schedule it for the opening night, and unpublish it later without deleting it.
Every version is kept, so the artist statement you rewrote last spring can be put back from any earlier save.
Tags and topics keep years of work easy to browse, so a visitor can see every piece in one series.
Your commission terms and returns policy live as real pages you can edit, versioned like everything else.

Get Found

Get seen by people who have never heard your name.

Most new buyers reach a studio one of two ways: a search for exactly what you make, or a post in a feed. Get Found handles the dull details behind both, so the time you spend goes on the work.

Everything Get Found does

Every page is checked, and what is missing is explained in plain words with a box to write the fix in.
Set the picture and title that appear when somebody pastes your link into a message, so a shared page shows the piece and not a random crop.
Connect Google Search Console and see the real searches, like “hand-thrown mugs”, that brought people to each page.
Keep a pool of your best posts, so a week with nothing planned draws from it instead of going silent.
Save the hashtag blocks you use for each series and drop one into a post or its first comment with a click.
Reach, engagement and clicks per post and per network show which pieces people actually respond to.

My Site

A portfolio you keep current yourself.

The site a stranger lands on decides whether they buy, commission or leave. My Site lets you change it the same evening a series is finished, without waiting on anybody.

Everything My Site does

Set your colors and type once and every page wears them, so the site looks like your work rather than like a template.
Galleries, price lists, contact forms and product grids are finished sections you arrange and fill in.
The menu and footer are edited once and are right on every page.
Save a section you reuse, such as a commission inquiry panel, and update it in one place afterwards.
Every form inquiry is kept and readable, so a commission request is never lost with a deleted email.
Work on a draft of the new gallery while the live site carries on, then publish when it is ready.

Moving over

Bring the old site’s writing and images.

If your current site came from one of the website builders or publishing platforms Move in lists, drop its export into “Move in from somewhere else” in your console. Pages, posts and images come across, and so can a list of old page addresses, so links people shared still land somewhere. You see what will happen before anything is saved.

Rebuild the look on real sections.

The design of your old site does not come across, only its words and pictures. Start from a ready-made site, arrange galleries and pages from finished sections, and publish when it looks like you.

Bring your buyers and your prints.

A customer list from a mailing list tool or a shop export comes across the same way, including whether each person agreed to hear from you. Prints can arrive as products with their sizes. Commission inquiries kept in a notes file are typed in by hand.

Your first hour

Start from a ready-made site and swap in your own images and words.
Upload the twenty pieces you would most like a stranger to see first.
Connect Instagram and the other networks you already post on.
Stay on the free Piggles web address, or point your own domain at it. The security certificate is handled for you.
Connect Google Search Console, so you can see what people actually searched to reach you.

One price for the gallery, the shop and the posting.

$99 a month

$99 a month, flat, with every app included. For a studio that means the website, the writing about the work, posting to your networks, selling prints, invoicing commissions and email, all on one bill. Try it free for 14 days without a card.

Try it free for 14 days Work out what you pay now

One website on your own address is included, with the security certificate handled, or stay on the free Piggles address as long as you like.
10 GB of storage for images and files is included. If an archive of high-resolution photographs outgrows it, more room can be added in one tap with the price shown first.
Unlimited products, so every print size and every original can be listed.
Up to 5,000 marketing emails a month are included, and order confirmations do not count toward that.
Your payment provider charges its own fees, under your own terms with them.
Reaching a limit never takes anything down: your site stays up and only new uploads of that kind pause until you add room.

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