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Please Note: Transaction Fees may apply to all art print orders. If you intend to make a test purchase, make sure it does not exceed $4.99. These Transaction Fees are NON-REFUNDABLE.

You’ll need to navigate to Stripe.com and create an account so that you may securely process credit card orders as well as process automatic deposits into the bank account you specified when creating the account.

Once you have created your Stripe account, you’ll want to obtain your Secret Key and apply it to your Shopping Cart. If you need more information in finding and applying this key, please see our Self Help article How To: Add Your Stripe Secret Key To Your Shopping Cart.

Please be aware that the deposit timeline of Stripe can vary. This timeline is controlled entirely by Stripe. If you find you are having issues with this timeline, you will need to reach out to Stripe Support.

When a sale is made on your website, the funds from that sale go directly to the payment processor (in this case, Stripe) and from there Stripe will transfer the funds to your preferred bank account.

We highly suggest processing a test transaction on your site to ensure that everything is set up correctly. You can read our article How To: Run a Test Transaction to see how to do so. This will allow you to see what your customers see, and you can make changes to your store if you need to enhance your customer's experience.

Once an order is successfully placed, you will see the order, vendor purchase, and receipts emailed out, and you will be assured that any future live orders will process without fail.

At this time, you will be able to use Stripe, Authorize.net, and PayPal, but you will not be able to use any other type of payment options such as Pay By Check.

If you want to use a vendor that uses a different currency then you do, please reach out to our tech support team at cs@artstorefronts.com

When selling things like originals and standard products on your site, you can choose to use any payment methods you would like, including the Pay By Check feature.

If you are already using Stripe for your prints, you will not be able to also use Authorize.net. You will only be able to use one credit card payment gateway and we strongly suggest using Stripe.

First, a customer will place an order on your website and you will receive ALL of the funds at the time of the sale. These funds will do DIRECTLY to your Stripe account.

You will see the customer’s order on your website in the order section

Art Storefronts (the software) will then automatically create an order on the Vendor’s website.

Once that order is created, your credit card that is ON FILE will be charged at the Vendor’s wholesale rate, along with any taxes or shipping costs the Vendor charges.
​- Please Note: It is incredibly important for your credit card on file to be completely up to date so that the charge will go through.
​- Please Note: As of 12/21/2016, if you are an artist using a Fulfillment Vendor, you still MUST set up your own tax methods. They will not be inherited from your Fulfillment Vendor.

After the charge is applied to your credit card, the Vendor will fulfill the order and ship the product to the customer.

If your credit card is out of date or has insufficient funds and the order is declined, you will be required to first update your card within the billing section of the site.

After your card has been updated you will need to navigate to the Orders section of the website.

There will be a section labeled Orders With Unpaid fees which you will need to click on and retry the payment.

Then you will navigate to the Vendor Order tab and retry the payment here as well.
​Please Note: If you do not attempt to retry the payment in both sections the order may still fail to go through to the Vendor.

Originals and Standard Products are not fulfilled by Vendors.

These products are fulfilled by you so there are no vendor charges.

You must set mark-ups on your products in order to make a profit on any of the prints you are selling on your website.

If you need to learn more about setting mark-ups, please see our self-help article How To: Edit Your Pricing Using Mark-Ups.

For originals and standard products, you will provide a specific price to the items.

You will not use mark-ups for these items.

Because a Vendor is shipping the order from their facility, they do have the option to create a shipping method and charge for your prints.

You cannot remove this shipping charge, but you can offer a coupon to make shipping free.
​- Please Note: You will still be responsible for paying the Shipping Cost to the Vendor.

When a vendor updates the status of a shipment, your customer will automatically be notified. In addition, any update a vendor makes will appear on the order. This allows you an easily accessible and complete record of the transaction.

The customer can purchase both Prints and Originals (or Standard Products) within the same session and can be charged two different Shipping Methods.

When a customer adds a print to their cart as well as an Original to their card those items are filtered, on the back end, into separate baskets (or batches). The ASF system will recognize that one will be fulfilled by the vendor and one will be fulfilled by the Artist, but the customer won’t have to make two separate orders.

Because you are shipping out Originals and Standard Products, you can create your own shipping methods for them. We strongly suggest reviewing our articles on Shipping By Weight, Flat Rate Shipping and In-Store Pick-Up.

If you are an artist using a Fulfillment Vendor, you still MUST set up your own tax methods. They will not be inherited from your Fulfillment Vendor.

The customer can purchase both Prints and Originals (or Standard Products) within the same session and can be charged two different Taxes.

When a customer adds a print to their cart as well as an Original to their card those items are filtered, on the back end, into separate baskets (or batches). The ASF system will recognize that one will be fulfilled by the vendor and one will be fulfilled by the Artist, but the customer won’t have to make two separate orders.

Because you are fulfilling Originals and Standard Products, you can create your own tax methods for them.

If you need more information on creating tax methods, we strongly recommend reviewing our article How To: Create A Tax Method. If you are unsure of whether or not you need to charge taxes, please visit a site like Avalara and consult a CPA in your area.

Art Storefronts has implemented a feature where you can now offer coupons to customers even if you are connected to a Vendor.

There are many types of coupons that you can offer and we strongly suggest reviewing How To: Create A Coupon Code

Please remember that even though the customer is receiving a discount, you will still need to pay the vendor the full amount if they are fulfilling the order for you.

Because the customer purchased their Art Print from you, you will be responsible for the total refund to the customer if you have a refund policy in place.

The vendor will never provide a refund to your customer as you are the one who received the full amount at the time of purchase of the print.

To refund a customer who paid online, you must go to your payment gateway's website to process the refund. You cannot process refunds from within the ASF Orders page. Your Payment Gateway will be either Stripe.com, Authorize.net or Paypal.com. Please select the payment gateway used for the order and follow the instructions on how to refund the payment.

Vendors are not required to provide refunds to you.

If you feel you need a refund from the Vendor, you will have to contact them and request and they can decline the refund.

Also, be aware that even if you receive a refund from your Vendor, you will not receive a refund for the transactions fees charged on the order as those go directly to Art Storefronts.

If you were not originally set up to auto-fulfill with your sales representative at the time of sale, you can create a ticket in your site manager, or email our support team at cs@artstorefronts.com to make the switch. We can provide you with a list of Approved Fulfillment Partners for you to choose from.

Please Note: Art Storefronts does not control pricing, media or framing availability for Approved Fulfillment Vendors. You, as the artist, are responsible for researching and understanding the offerings of your preferred Fulfillment Vendor.

If you are fulfilling through an Approved Fulfillment Vendor, you will be paid at the time a customer checks out. The total amount of the order will be deposited into your Stripe account, and a subsequent transaction will be charged to the card you have on file with ArtStorefronts for the price that the Fulfillment Vendor charges for their printing services (Media, Framing, Styles, etc).

Stripe is a credit card processor/ merchant account that we have made the premier partner for our Fulfillment Vendor Program. Stripe enables all of the transactions to process effortlessly in the background, and is very easy to set up. You can visit Stripe’s website to read more about them.

If you follow Step 5 in "Accepting Payments for Prints" above, and your order successfully processes, your store is ready to accept live orders from real customers!

YES! On the new fulfillment program, you will no longer get paid on the check schedule your Print Studio previously used. You will get paid immediately -- less headache for everyone’s accounting!

Art Storefronts reserves the right to invite Print Studios into this program at our discretion. If you are connected to a Print Studio that is not currently part of this program, you can elect to stay with them until they are, or, we can suggest other Print Studios you can link with.

YES! You will need to set up your store as a "Self-Fulfilling" artist, and create all applicable media, frames, and styles that your print studio offers, with appropriate markups on pricing to ensure you cover the Print Studio's costs and generate enough profit for yourself. These orders will then have to be manually transferred to the Print Studio. This method does not allow for automatic fulfillment and you will be responsible for transferring all of the order information to the Print Studio, as well as paying the Print Studio for their portion of the costs. You, as the artist, will need to work out with your Print Studio the most efficient way of transmitting the order information to the Print Studio, and ArtStorefronts is not liable for this transmission.

All of the current plans we have available are listed in the billing area of your Site Manager. You will go to the “Jump To” drop-down menu in the top right-hand corner, select “Billing” and then select the plans for Artists/Photographers. These plans are all eligible for the Fulfillment Vendor Program. You can email your sales rep with your intention to upgrade to a newer plan, or email cs@artstorefronts.com for further assistance.​

You can find the specifics of the program on our Terms and Conditions page, in Section 3a.