I do professional photography work and some of the work I do is shoot pictures of people competing at ballroom competitions. During those competitions, pictures are downloaded from the cameras and put on a central computer for people to view and order prints. The printing is NOT done onsite and they are shipped to the customer 1-2 weeks after the comp is over. The age range and nationality of these people is all over the place and their writing is generally horrendous. I used a paper order form in the past where they wrote the filename in the form and told me if they wanted an 4×6, 5×7, 8×10, 11×14, Low Res or High Res download. People would fill out the forms and I couldn’t read their writing and they would put the wrong filenames down and the wrong pictures were sent (costing me money).
This is my plan. I will have 3-6 iPads (Wifi Versions) for people to view the pictures. There is NO APP FOR THIS, so I need to see if someone can build a website script that can allow the users to browse the photos on the ipad, click add to cart and then fill in their info and it sends it to a local printer or makes a pdf on the machine with the script. I will have a Windows 7 laptop with me also, so keep in mind that I can install apache, mysql, whatever you like to make this work. The site should also be able to handle 10-20,000 photos (not all in the same gallery, but sub galleries).
I don’t need credit card processing or anything like that built into it, just add to cart, customer info (name, addy, email, phone) and a file/print (file might be better for long term storage) that shows the customer info and MAYBE a thumbnail of the print they ordered so that it confirms that is the right one. All the credit card, cash and check processing will be taken care of seperately.
On another note, if you want to make an iPad app that I can load pix to the iPads, I would be ok with that too.
Thanks and happy bidding! Let me know if you have any questions.
