Fine Art America Review for New Print On Demand Sellers

In this post, we go through what you need to know as a beginner seller to make an informed decision whether to sell your art with Fine Art America (FAA) or not.

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What is Fine Art America

Fine Art America has been in business since 2007. It is an online marketplace, where artists come to sell their original art, images, and photography.

You can reach a global audience through this marketplace and have your storefront where only your product will be displayed.

How Fine Art America Works

Fine Art America provides a marketplace for creators to showcase their designs on different products.

Every creator will also have a storefront, where only their art will be displayed (not others).

As a creator, you will have the opportunity to upload your designs to hundreds of different print-on-demand products.

This is what they state on their website:

Fine Art America fulfills each order on behalf of the artists – taking care of the printing, framing, matting, packaging, shipping, collecting payments from the buyers, and sending profits to the artists.

Each product is manufactured at one of our 16 global production facilities and delivered “ready-to-hang” with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Good to Know Before Uploading Your Work

Design File Types Fine Art America Accepts

• JPEG
• sRGB or Adobe RGB color space
• Files must be 25 MB or smaller in size.

Design File Types Fine Art America doesn’t Accept

• TIF
• GIF
• CMYK color space
• ProPhoto color space

Who is Fine Art America for

Fine Art America is meant for people who create original art. Independent artists, photographers, painters, illustrators, and so on, but this platform also welcomes people who own or work at galleries to create online portfolios and to sell different print-on-demand products from wall decor to home decor to apparel.

Mey’s video about Fine Art America. She teaches creative people to sell their art online. You can follow her channel.

How do you get paid on Fine Art America?

When people buy art, artists get the commission they set up while uploading their designs to Fine Art America.

Fine Art America has a 30-day return policy.

This means that a buyer can return their order for a full refund within 30 days after the date of purchase.

This is why payments to creators will be made after that 30-day window.

Payments will be sent out on the 15th of each month for all sales before the 15th of the previous month.

For example, on November 15th, will be sent out payments for all orders that were placed on or before October 15th.

Payments

• Payments made by check will take 5 – 10 business days to arrive.
• Payments made by PayPal will arrive before the end of the day on the 15th.

Memberships and Fees on Fine Art America

On Fine Art America creators can list 25 items for free.

To list more items will require a small membership fee of $30/year.

Payment methods FAA accepts are:

• Visa
• Mastercard
• American Express

Amount of Products Fine Art America has

Fine Art America has hundreds of products you can customize with your designs.

The Company has products in these categories:

Wall Art

Highland Cow by Grant Glendinning on FineArtAmerica.com

Wall Art

• Framed prints
• Canvas Prints
• Art Prints
• Posters
• Metal Prints
• Acrylic Prints
• Wood Prints
• Tapestries

Home Decor

Source: FineArtAmerica.com

Home Decor

• Throw pillows
• Fleece Blankets
• Duvet Covers
• Shower curtains
• Bath Towels
• Coffee mugs
• Holiday Ornaments

Lifestyle

Source: FineArtAmerica.com

Lifestyle

• Tote Bags
• Weekender Tote Bags
• Zip Pouches
• Beach Towels
• Yoga Mats

Tech

• Iphone phone cases
• Samsung Galaxy phone cases

Stationery

• Greeting cards
• Spiral Notebooks
• Stickers

Apparel

• Shirts
• Baby onesies
• Face masks

Special Products on Fine Art America

FineArtAmerica is focused on wall art and home decor. In my opinion, their most interesting product is the yoga mat.

Product Pricing

To see base cost without artist margin, you can go to Redbubble -> Account settings

-> Product pricing and set MarkUp to 0% to see the base cost of products.

Good to know

You can create discounts for your work, but these coupon codes can be used only to buy specific artwork made by you. The coupon code will not work sitewide.

Shipping Times and Pricing

It will take 2 – 8 business days for Fine Art America to print and prepare the product before shipping.

Fine Art America ships worldwide. They have 14+ facilities in five different countries.

• United States
• Canada
• United Kingdom
• Europe
• Australia

They use UPS and FedEx.

Integrations

This one hit me with surprise. Fine ArtA merica has integration with Shopify!

Wait! There is more…

Learn more about other possible sales channels.

Help & Resources

The company has a good FAQ section on its Website.

They also have a Discussion forum.

Ease of use

Using a platform is easy once you learn to navigate it.

Sign up & Set up

You will need to navigate to the menu and click SELL.

A new window will be open, and that looks like this

The company wants to verify you with your phone number.

Upload

Here is a video I found that will walk you through the uploading process on Fine Art America

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Free and easy signup
• A lot of products, especially in the wall art category
• Upload 25 listings for free
• Ease to use & upload
• Has a marketplace with buyers
• You get a storefront, where you can send your potential clients

Cons

• Sign-up requires phone verification
• Limit on how much you can upload unless you get a yearly membership which is $30/year
• You will need to also drive your traffic

Who is Fine Art America Best for

Fine Art America is best for creative people. The platform seems to be the best option for artists and photographers.

If you already have photos and images why not give this platform a shot?

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