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zensario.ImagePool

What are the main target groups of zensario.ImagePool?

zensario.ImagePool adresses to companies, photographers, and photo agencies that want to professionally manage their image data on the web.

Pre-requisites, Customizability and Contract Duration

What do I need to run my zensario.ImagePool?

You need your personal computer and an internet connection to work with zensario.ImagePool. Given the fact that the solution runs in the web browser, it can be used with Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Can zensario.ImagePool be customized according to my own design?

Yes, you can select one of the several layouts that are available with zensario.ImagePool. Furthermore, you can alter the style sheet according to your wishes.

How long is the contract duration?

You can set the duration of contract for zensario.ImagePool. We offer you a monthly or annually contact period. If you choose an annually contact period you will get one month for free. You may cancel our contract 2 weeks prior to the end of every month. For more information, please read our terms and conditions.

Functionality

What is zensario.ImagePool?

zensario.ImagePool is a professional, simple and secure application to internationally present, manage and distribute image data via the internet.

How can I add my images?

You can upload your images easily via web form or use the FTP upload to add images to your zensario.ImagePool.

How can I tag my images with keywords?

In order to retrieve images quickly, zensario.ImagePool allows you to tag them with adequate keywords. Furthermore, you can create tag groups containing all tags related to a certain topic. zensario.ImagePool also supports the IPTC standard to import already tagged images.

How can my customers quickly find images?

The proactive search function of zensario.ImagePool supports a quick and easy search process. While typing the first letters of a keyword, possible search phrase completions, relevant categories, and best hits for the keyword occur.

Can I define usage rights for my images?

Yes, on the basis of licenses, certain rights and restrictions can be defined and assigned to your images.

Can I offer different image resolutions and prices?

Of course, zensario.ImagePool allows you to set and offer several quality options like different image resolutions and thereby design your own price structure.

What are categories?

Categories are groups of images, which you can define by yourself. Categories allow you to sort your images thematically. You can create various major and minor categories. Every group can be defined to be private or public.

How can I improve customer-connectivity?

With zensario.ImagePool you can offer different abonnement types and define individual couponing campaigns for your customers.

Can I add further content to my homepage?

Yes, you can easily add further pages and subpages to your homepage.

Security, Reliability, and Service

Are my images secure?

Yes, the safety of your assetes is very important to us. zensario.ImagePool automatically adds visible watermarks to all low-quality thumbnail images. Beyond, we are providing backups and redundancy to guarantee the safety of our data.

Can I create private areas for my customers?

Yes, you can bundle registered users in groups and set access rights to categories for each user group. Consequently, every user has access to the predefined assets. This is also considered in the search process.

Which control and monitoring tools are provided?

Besides statistics related to images, categories, and the amount of users, you can get an overview about all orders and downloads and relating key figures.

Who takes care of operations and maintenance?

Technical aspects like maintenance and updates will be done by the zensario team.

Orders and payment

How can my customers order images?

Your customer can add pictures to the shopping cart and choose appropriate licenses. Once shopping is finished, the prefered payment method needs to be chosen. After you have received the payment, the download link for the customers´ order is sent via email.

How does my customer receive the purchased images?

After successful payment, your customer is informed and given access to download the images one by one or in a compressed format.

How can I keep track of customer invoices?

All orders and invoices are documented chronologically. You can access them at any point in time. The handling of payments is a fully automated process. Therefore, you do not have to do one single action manually but you always have the opportunity for complete monitoring.

Which payment methods are provided to my customers?

Your customers can different payment methods like bank transfer, credit card or PayPal.

IPTC

Who is IPTC?

The IPTC is a consortium of the world''s major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. It maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by virtually every major news oragnization in the world. More informations can be found on www.iptc.org.

What is the IPTC-standard?

The IPTC-standard was developed by the IPTC-consortium to expedite the international exchange of news among news agencies and newspapers. Therewith a set of metadata attributes like name of author, title or tags as well as advices concerning copyrights can be embedded to several media types. The IPTC-standard provides easy media searchings and therefore it found broad worldwide acceptance and is been used by most of news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. We support and will compliance with the IPTC-standard and for this reason we offer you the opportunity to embed a set of metadata attributes to several media types.

Is the IPTC standard supported?

We support and comply with the IPTC standard. For this reason zensario.ImagePool provides the opportunity to import existing images with embedded IPTC meta data.