Taking our lab services on line - What's it really
cost?
There's a one-time fee to sign up with Fotowire, which
includes setting up your storefront and designing customer software in both
Windows and Mac versions. The currently listed one-time fee is $2,500 but
promotions have been offered at PMA trade shows or through buying groups.
There's a maintenance fee, based upon the volume of
business you do. That's pretty fair. If you do no business you pay nothing, do a
lot of business and pay more.
Fotowire currently charges 7%
of the internet transaction plus
.07 cents per MB transmitted.
Some labs may benefit from one of the flat-rate programs offered.
Fotowire says "It only takes us about 7 working days to get you
installed and running." It took us a little
longer because I was traveling away from the store during the time we set
up.
Our story so far:
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