Printcart Photobook
| 开发者 | printcart |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年9月11日 23:15 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
Printcart Photobook turns WooCommerce products into multi-page photo-album designers. Shoppers design the cover, spine, inside covers and any number of interior spreads in an embedded designer; the plugin bridges the finished design into the WooCommerce cart, prices every copy on the server, and — through the Printcart Cloud — renders a print-ready CMYK book for fulfilment.
It is a productized, standalone plugin with its own top-level admin menu. You connect a Printcart account in one step, and the rest of the workflow — pricing, products, orders, design files and canvas behaviour — is managed natively inside WordPress. A free Printcart account is required (it powers the designer, pricing and print render), and photobooks are sold as WooCommerce products, so WooCommerce is required too.
Who it is for
Print shops, photographers, agencies and WooCommerce merchants who want to sell personalized photobooks without building a designer or a print pipeline themselves.
Key features
- One-step Printcart connect with a guided setup wizard — sign in or create a free account right inside wp-admin; the plugin binds this site to the right store automatically.
- Embedded photobook designer on product pages — a full-screen canvas where shoppers lay out every page, with the finished design bridged into the WooCommerce cart and order.
- Native Pricing management — create and manage per-copy pricing options in WordPress, with a live per-copy estimate as you build them.
- Native Products — create a photobook product with a guided wizard, or enable an existing WooCommerce product as a photobook.
- Orders — a photobook orders list plus a detailed per-order view that shows every page of the book, with one-click sample data so you can explore the flow immediately.
- Design Files library — browse the design files your shoppers produce.
- Canvas Workflow settings — control how the designer behaves (placement, autofill, print quality, layout, content tabs, cover & spine, save & proof), kept in sync with your Printcart Dashboard.
- Server-authoritative, per-copy CMYK pricing — the storefront never sends a trusted price; Printcart recalculates from your catalog and renders the print-ready book.
- WooCommerce HPOS (custom order tables) compatible.
安装:
- Upload the
printcart-photobookfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins screen in WordPress. - Make sure WooCommerce is installed and active.
- Activate Printcart Photobook through the Plugins menu.
- Open Printcart Photobook in the admin sidebar and follow the one-step connect: sign in to Printcart, or create a free account, right on the screen. The plugin connects this site to your store automatically.
- Use the setup wizard to create your first pricing option and a photobook product. On a connected store you can also load one-click sample data to preview the whole flow.
屏幕截图:
常见问题:
Do I need a Printcart account?
Yes — and it is free. The photobook designer, per-copy pricing and print render are all provided by the Printcart Cloud. You can sign in to an existing account or create a free one directly from the plugin's connect screen; see the "External services" section below for exactly what is sent and when.
Does it need WooCommerce?
Yes. Photobooks are sold as WooCommerce products, so WooCommerce must be installed and active. Without it the admin screens still load, but no products or orders are shown.
Do shoppers have to enter my Printcart password?
No. Your Printcart sign-in email and password are used once, by you, on the connect screen to authenticate; they are never stored in WordPress. Shoppers only ever see the designer.
Where is the canvas workflow configuration stored?
Your Printcart Dashboard is the source of truth. The plugin's Canvas Workflow page is a synced editor that reads and writes the same backend configuration, so changes stay consistent across WordPress and the Dashboard.
Why does my photobook cover not show on the Cart page straight away?
On the block-based Cart and Checkout pages, the first time you view a newly designed photobook the line still shows the product image. The plugin never contacts Printcart while a page is rendering, so your cover is fetched in the background once the page has loaded and appears on the next render -- usually the moment you continue to checkout, change a quantity, or reload. It is then cached for 15 minutes. The classic Cart and Checkout shortcodes swap the cover in without that extra step.
How is pricing calculated?
Pricing is always server-authoritative and per-copy. The storefront only sends the shopper's selections; Printcart recalculates the price from your pricing options. A client-supplied price is never trusted.
更新日志:
1.2.0
- Added: choose the gap printed between photos in a multi-photo layout (Canvas Workflow → Layout & structure). It is millimetres of print, so the same physical gap on a small book and a large canvas, and it defaults to 0 so photos touch.
- Fixed: a workflow setting your Printcart account does not yet support no longer breaks every Save on the Canvas Workflow screen. Unsupported settings are shown disabled and say so, instead of a Save that never works.
- Fixed: a per-product workflow override is no longer lost when Printcart stops supporting the setting — it is kept on the site and written back once support returns.
- Fixed: a photobook priced from a "Page count" list is charged for the right book. One that cannot be matched to an option in your own list is refused with an explanation rather than priced on a guess.
- Fixed: a photobook priced per extra spread is charged for its spreads even when the browser does not send a page count.
- Fixed: a partly refunded order is now visible as refunded. WooCommerce only marks an order refunded on a full refund, and the refund call a gateway actually makes marks nothing at all.
- Fixed: "Order again" can no longer put an undesigned photobook in the cart.
- Added: filters
pcpb_selection_pages_option_from_sides,pcpb_require_reserved_designandpcpb_undesigned_add_to_cart_notice.
- Changed: activating the plugin no longer redirects you anywhere. Setup is reached from the "Get started" link on the plugin's own row, and every screen is browsable before you connect an account.
- Fixed: an order you refund or cancel is never sent to Printcart, including by the background retry that runs minutes after checkout.
- Fixed: an order Printcart refuses outright is no longer retried on the schedule meant for outages — you get the real answer and the manual retry straight away, and the order note says it was refused rather than claiming three attempts.
- Fixed: editing a photobook already in the cart replaces that line instead of adding a second one, so the shopper is no longer charged twice.
- Fixed: a book whose price Printcart could not confirm can no longer be checked out at the plain product price.
- Fixed: the "from" price on the product page now reflects the cheapest configuration the designer can actually produce.
- Added: if the designer fails to load, the overlay now offers "Try again" and "Close" instead of spinning indefinitely.
- Added: orders that could not be delivered to Printcart are flagged as such, record the failure, and can be retried by hand.
- Added: book size and pricing template can be changed after a photobook product has been created.
- Changed: the starter photobook is now a fully functional product — the clipart library and photo uploads work in it, and it can be sold, unpublished, or duplicated like any other product.
- Changed: admin screens no longer block on Printcart while rendering, so a slow connection cannot stall wp-admin.
- Security: API credentials are no longer written into the connection form's HTML, and the manual credential fields now require the
manage_optionscapability.
- Improved reliability when sending a photobook order to Printcart: an order is marked synced only after Printcart confirms delivery, with bounded retries for temporary failures.
- API credentials now use a dedicated non-autoloaded WordPress option and are removed when the plugin is uninstalled.
- Initial release.
- Embedded photobook designer on WooCommerce product pages, bridged into the cart and order.
- One-step Printcart connect with a guided setup wizard (sign in or create a free account in wp-admin).
- Native Pricing management with a live per-copy estimate.
- Native Products — create a photobook product with a guided wizard, or enable an existing WooCommerce product.
- Orders — list, per-order detail showing every page of the book, and one-click sample data.
- Design Files library for browsing shopper design files.
- Canvas Workflow settings synced with the Printcart Dashboard.
- Server-authoritative, per-copy CMYK pricing.
- Printcart activation events so merchants receive setup/activation emails.
- WooCommerce HPOS (custom order tables) compatibility.
- Full disclosure of the data sent to Printcart — see "External services" above, the "Data sent to Printcart" panel on the plugin's Help & About screen, and the suggested text the plugin adds under Tools > Privacy.
- Uninstall removes every option and user preference the plugin creates, on single sites and multisite alike.