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Creating an account for use with Digibug API To use the Digibug API the first step you need to do is create a Digibug account. Goto http://www.digibug.com/ and then click on "tell me more" then click on "Free sign-up". This will bring you to a form you need to fill out for company information. Fill out the information and click the submit button. After you reach the confirmation page you are ready to log in and get your IDs. You will receive an email to the email address given in the signup. Inside it contains a link to your admin page. Click on the link and log in. Notice at the top of the page is your company id. This is the second field of the API form post. Next you need an event id. The Digibug API uses the "price sheet" of an event to decide on the pricing for your products. The use of events relates to the core professional/event photography functionality of Digibug. For Digibug API users, the event id is what ties your photos to the prices you set.
Click on Add Events in the left hand navigation. You will need to fill out the form fields whether you plan on publishing this event on the Digibug website or not. The set up fields for an event generally apply to images that Digibug hosts. However, the use of Digibug API means that your images will be stored external to Digibug. This means that most of what you put here is generally not used . but completing this form is required since we pull the price sheet based on the event id.
Click on "Proceed to Pricing" BEFORE WE CONTINUE. You need to decide what price to charge for photos sold through your site. A pro/event pricing scheme would apply to special pictures you.ve taken of people or events that you think might be saleable for a premium. You can even build a business off of Digibug API, taking pictures of events and selling them on your site. A "consumer/retail" pricing scheme is for family photos, friends, etc. or when your site allows the end user to upload their own photos. Here the profits are a lot lower per image, but there may be many more images. KEY POINT: YOU CAN HAVE MULTIPLE EVENTS WITH THEIR OWN PRICE SHEET . SO YOU CAN USE DIFFERENT PRICING FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF PHOTOS/USERS. With Digibug API, you are in complete control of pricing and profitability. You can experiment, set up multiple price sheets, and associate them with events. The relationship is "n-to-many" where a price sheet can be associated with any number of events. You can have multiple price sheets (hence the "n" in "n-to-many"). However, an event may have only one price sheet. To change pricing for your photos you can (a) edit the price list associated with the event, (b) assign a new price sheet to the event, or (c) change the event id in the HTML code.
Price Sheets are the true underlying power of Digibug. There are two steps in this section.
For standard customer accounts, we supply two base price sheets . wholesale and MSRP. NOTE: you cannot edit these base price sheets. You can create new price sheets, as described below. "wholesale" is the base pricing for your account. It represents the cost of each print, gift item or other product sold by you. If you use the wholesale price sheet for your "event" you will not generate any profit, and therefore will not receive any revenue from the sales of photos on your site. "MSRP" is a fictional price sheet showing profit on all items. For most types of Digibug API users, the MSRP reflects pro/event pricing (e.g. a 4x6 is priced at $2.99, not $0.19). We recommend that you create a new price sheet based on one of the base price sheets and edit it. Note . once you have created a new price sheet, you can use that as the starting point for additional price sheets you create later. This will save you a lot of time in the future.
The defaults are all pre-configured based on the price list you started with. However, many people like to change them. For example, perhaps you want the express order to apply to matte prints instead of glossy? Or you may want to exclude Express Order and have only poster prints in the Quick Order section. This is totally under your control, as are the headings and contents of the Cool Gifts section. Make your changes, click Save & Continue and then Main Menu. Now click on Edit Event in the left navigation. When the page loads you'll see a number to the right of the name of your event. This is the event_id you need for the API.
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