Snapfish is a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service currently owned by Hewlett-Packard. Members can upload files for free, and are given unlimited photo storage. Members must place a paid order with Snapfish within a year or their files are deleted.
History
Snapfish was launched in April 2000 by entrepreneurs Rajil Kapoor, Suneet Wadhwa, Shripati Acharya, and Bala Parthasarathy. In 2005, Snapfish was bought by HP.
As of 2007, Snapfish claims to have 40 million members and to host 1 billion digital pictures.
In June 2008, Snapfish stopped its image hosting service, which means images stored on Snapfish can no longer be linked to other websites.
Snapfish is based in San Francisco, California. In 2004, Snapfish opened a physical retail store in Alexandria, Virginia, but they are not currently maintaining the retail stores.
Features
Snapfish offers free membership with unlimited photo storage. Members can use their uploaded photos to share and to create photo products. If no order is placed within in an year, the stored files are deleted. Snapfish allows members to download low resolution copies of the images they uploaded for free. However, if members want to download high resolution or original copies of their own uploaded images, Snapfish charges a per-image fee for each download.
Sharing
Snapfish members can share photo albums, individual photos, animated Snapshows, Group Rooms or Snapfish products. Members can share via email, link URL, and to various other web services such as Facebook, Blogger and MySpace. Like Facebook and unlike Flickr, a Snapfish account is required to view shared photos. An invitation sent from a member to view their photos on Snapfish would require the recipient to create a Snapfish account before viewing. However, the sharer is also given an option to allow guest access which provides a "view as guest" option to the recipient.
Snapfish offers a service called Group rooms for sharing amongst many members.
Photo products
Snapfish profits from their personalized photo products such as prints, photo books, cards and mugs. Snapfish members can personalize their products in several ways such as adding their photos and, in some cases, adding captions or designed templates. Depending on the product, Snapfish USA supports retail pickup at Meijer, Walgreens, Longs, Staples, Walmart and BI-LO.
International support
Snapfish has 22 international sites and photos in a single account can be seen across the various sites.
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Ireland
- Spain
- Portugal
- Italy
- France
- Belgium
- Germany
- India
- Austria
- Norway
- Denmark
- Netherlands
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- China
- Singapore
- Japan
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