BitShelter Press Release

PhotoShelter Integrates PayPal Payment Processing to Allow Photographers to Sell Directly from Their Online Image Archives

NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 28, 2005—Digital storage platform provider BitShelter LLC today announced the immediate availability of PayPal payment processing within PhotoShelter (www.PhotoShelter.com), their online image archiving service and marketplace.

The integration of PayPal payment processing adds an additional secure e-commerce payment gateway option for their subscribers.

“Making it easy for photographers to collect money from their clients is important,” says Grover Sanschagrin, VP of Sales & Marketing for PhotoShelter. “PayPal is an excellent, trusted, easy-to-use solution for those who don’t wish to use a standard credit card merchant account.”

In addition to PhotoShelter’s locally and geographically redundant storage solution, PhotoShelter enables photographers to turn their image archives into a revenue source through its suite of built-in marketing and sales tools.

The PayPal payment option within PhotoShelter is an additional option to the already-integrated commission-free payment method via a photographer’s own credit card merchant account. The PayPal option works seamlessly with PhotoShelter’s secure e-commerce shopping cart system for the automated sale of prints and high-resolution digital image downloads.

“This means, that any photographer with a PhotoShelter archive and a PayPal account can sell images directly to their customers and immediately receive the money from their sales,” says Sanschagrin.

“This new addition to PhotoShelter is at the heart of our mission,” says Sanschagrin. “To create, encourage and support an innovative marketplace which allows the business of photography to be more efficient, profitable, and secure.”

About PhotoShelter
PhotoShelter offers professional photographers a truly affordable and robust archive system, along with the tools and resources they need to turn their storage into sales.

PhotoShelter provides secure storage that is both locally and geographically redundant, with 24-hour online accessibility and simultaneously serves as a sales platform, allowing photographers to create galleries, sell images, add search capabilities to their own sites and create RSS syndication feeds.

PhotoShelter plans start at just $5.99/month, and offers a 7-day free trial.

About BitShelter
BitShelter, LLC creates technological solutions built upon the BitShelter Digital Asset Storage Solution platform. Founded in 2005, BitShelter is committed to developing products that help people protect and manage their digital assets. Our principals include professionals that have designed, developed and managed some of the largest websites in the world.