Fotomoto gives you flexibility in how your orders are fulfilled. Most of our sellers want to have us fulfill the products automatically via Bay Photo, for those that want to make their own prints or fulfill them elsewhere, we also offer Manual fulfillment.
You can change your option at any time in the Fotomoto Dashboard as explained in How to change your Order Processing method .
Automatic Fulfillment
Use this convenient option to have Fotomoto automatically handle your printing and shipping for you. When your customer places an order, we send you an email letting you know that you'll need to upload the print-ready image to us (or we use Auto Pickup to grab it automatically), then we send your print orders to one of our hand-selected professional labs for printing, and the order is shipped directly to your customer. Printing and shipping costs will automatically be deducted from your credit card or PayPal account.
Manual Fulfillment
If you prefer to print your own images or have them printed at a lab of your choice, you can choose Manual processing. When this option is selected, you'll be able to select either "I will process this order myself" or "I want Fotomoto to process this order for me" for each order that comes in. If you choose to have us fulfill the order then you'll be prompted to pay for the printing and shipping costs on the order, otherwise you can handle the printing and shipping however you like, and you already have the funds from the order credited to your account.
To keep your customer (and Fotomoto) up-to-date on orders that you process yourself, just update the order status to "Printing" and "Shipped" as explained in "How to manually fulfill orders that you print yourself or via a 3rd party lab .
For detailed specifics on how the ordering and fulfillment process works, please see Fotomoto order process .