Pixline vs ShootProof
ShootProof is a good gallery platform with contracts and invoices built in, and it charges no commission on print sales. Its plans are priced by how many photos are stored in your account at one time — and its unit of delivery is still the gallery, so forty families still get the same forty-kid gallery.
What ShootProof does well
- Contracts, invoices and online payments are part of the product, not an add-on.
- 0% commission on print sales on every paid tier — Pixline matches that.
- Clean, fast galleries with favouriting, and a print store with lab fulfilment.
- Ten years in market and a large community; support and documentation are mature.
Where delivery breaks for an event with forty kids
A school photo day is 200 photos and 40 buyers. ShootProof's tiers are counted in photos held in the account: 100 on the free plan, 1,500 at $9.99/mo, 5,000 at $19.99/mo. Nothing in that ladder changes who sees what. You make one gallery, everyone in the room gets the same link, and the parents who want only their child's photos download all 200 or ask you to re-send.
What Pixline does instead
| Problem | ShootProof | Pixline |
|---|---|---|
| Forty families, one gallery | Everyone gets the whole collection; splitting it means making forty galleries by hand | Faces are clustered into people, you name the families, each family gets one link with only their photos |
| Photo-count pricing | Tiers are capped by photos stored in the account, so a volume event pushes you up a tier | One price, $9.99/mo, unlimited events and unlimited families, 100 GB |
| Getting files onto a phone | Gallery download of the collection | A save-all page of direct image links, one per photo, verified in a 390×844 phone viewport |
| Who actually got the photos | Download activity per gallery | Views and downloads per family, plus a suppression list naming the families whose email bounced |
These are measured on the staging deployment: open the demo event and look at what each family sees.
Price
| Tier | ShootProof | Pixline |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 100 photos stored, no commission | One event, 100 photos, 30-day galleries, Pixline-branded, no commission |
| Paid | $9.99/mo for 1,500 photos, $19.99/mo for 5,000, up to $60/mo | $9.99/mo or $99/yr. Unlimited events, unlimited families, 100 GB |
When ShootProof is the right choice
If contracts, invoicing and a print store in one product are what you need, ShootProof is a solid choice and Pixline does not offer them. Pixline is for the shoot where the people in the photos are not the people buying them.