Sell art online with ArtGallery.co.uk (free!)
The purpose of ArtGallery.co.uk is to offer you, the talented artist, a platform from which to sell your art online to the public, without any of the hassles of having your own web site and dealing with e-commerce. If you can answer "yes" to these questions, then we want you to join us and start selling art online.
- Are you a talented artist living in the UK and willing to sell to UK customers?
- Do you have three or more original paintings, sculptures, or other artworks to sell?
- Are you prepared to take great quality photographs of your art?
- Will you be responsible and take your artworks offline when you are away and cannot fulfil orders?
If you answered all questions "yes", please read on, then apply to join us (it's free!).
Key features and benefits at a glance
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Free to join and sell art | No risk to you, no upfront fees to pay, free lifetime membership. |
| Fully automated admin system | Create, manage and remove artworks at any time |
| Automated gallery creation | Just photograph your artworks and upload them. We'll take care of creating a great-looking gallery complete with thumbnail images. |
| Outstanding test-drive tools | We have developed state-of-the-art test drive tools so customers can see how your art will appear when hanging on their walls. No other art gallery site has such advanced technology to help you sell. |
| Holiday management | Take your entire gallery offline with one mouse-click and put it back when you return. |
| Robust sales alert system | We alert you by text message and email when an order is placed. So you should never miss an order. |
| Free anti-fraud screening | Selling on the Internet is a minefield, with around 25% of all orders being fraudulent. We take the risk out of selling through our multi-layered fraud screening processes. We only alert you of an order when it has passed all of our anti-fraud screening checks, so you can be 100% confident that you will get paid. |
| End-to-end order tracking | Log in anytime to see the progress of your order from placement through to delivery, to payment |
| Total customer management | We take care of all customer-facing questions and issues, including invoicing, VAT, payment processing and accounting. |
| Fast payment turnaround | Your cheque arrives quickly and on the date clearly specified with each order - no need to worry when you'll get paid. |
| Fully automated invoicing system | Receive real paper invoices in the post for every artwork. |
| Free search engine promotion | We spend thousands of pounds each month on you, promoting your artwork in search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo! |
| Free national press promotion | We take out ads in the national and local press on your behalf |
HOW IT WORKS
We market and sell your art via this site, artgallery.co.uk, one of the UK's top destinations for serious customers wishing to buy art online. We will display, advertise and market your art online and offline, provide payment processing and credit card facilities, and work hard to bring appreciative customers to you.
Sell your art for free
Other online art galleries charge you whether or not you sell your art. This means their interests are directed towards recruiting as many artists as they can. They don't care about actually selling your art providing you are still paying them.
At artgallery.co.uk we're different. We only make money if you sell your art, by taking a modest commission of 25% from the selling price you set for each artwork. This is much lower than high street gallery rates, even though our costs are almost identical. It means our interests are completely in line with yours. We can afford to be choosy about which artists we represent, ensuring customers are only exposed the very highest quality art.
There is absolutely no risk to you whatsoever; we carry all of the financial risk of running this site ourselves, including spending large amounts on search engine marketing and press advertisements.
Your key responsibilities
In return for all the work we do and the money we spend on your behalf, we ask that you be a responsible and professional artist in the following ways:
- you will package your artwork carefully and despatch it promptly when you receive an order
- you will remove your profile from the site when you go on holiday and replace it when you get back (can be done online)
- you will remove artworks immediately from the site when you sell them independently (can be done online)
For the full artist terms and conditions of service, please read the artist terms.
You set the price
You know how much your art sells for, so you decide the selling price of your art. We take a small commission of 25% from your price, just like a high-street gallery would. Except, we take generally a lot less than high-street galleries. This commission covers our costs in advertising, marketing, customer services, credit card processing fees, invoicing, admin and VAT.
You must include packaging and delivery costs
You are responsible for the costs of materials, packaging, and delivery to anywhere in the UK. Therefore you must set your price to include this cost. As an established artist, you probably already know how much it costs to package and deliver your style of artworks. If in doubt, £30 is usually sufficient for smaller pieces. For larger or heavy pieces contact your preferred courier to establish the cost. Check delivery prices carefully as you are wholly responsible for the cost of delivery.
HOW TO GET STARTED
To get the ball rolling, please click the link below to create a new artist account. Creating an account allows you to login to artgallery.co.uk and provides us with the information we need to get your art onto the site.
During this process you'll be asked to provide contact details and other information we need to assess whether your art will sell.
ONCE YOU'VE CREATED YOUR ACCOUNT
Once you've created an account you can upload images of your artworks. We have made it really easy and simple to get your pictures online. we'll contact you to let you know if you have been accepted. Most artists are accepted, but please don't be offended if we think your art will not sell online. The whole process from application to acceptance normally takes about 48 hours.
HOW YOU GET PAID
Customers pay online through our credit card processing facilities or by cheque. When payment is received, we will notify you of the details of the purchase by email, text message and if necessary by phone. You must then package and dispatch the artwork to arrive with the customer within 5 working days. Once we have confirmed that the artwork arrived safely, you will be paid approximately 21 days after that date. You will be paid by cheque. You can see the date on which your payment will be raised via your control panel.
14 day money back guarantee
To stimulate sales and foster trust with potential customers, we offer all customers a 14 day no-quibble money back guarantee, which you must adhere to. The guarantee allows customers to return artworks within 14 days if they are not fully satisfied. They can return the artwork for any reason within this period. They will have to pay the postage and insurance costs if they return an artwork. You are not eligible to recoup the cost of delivering the artwork to the customer. Our current rate of return is approx 1 in 263 artworks returned (0.38%).
For full details of the terms and conditions you will be bound by please see http://www.artgallery.co.uk/info/artist_terms