You are an artist and looking for an artist e-commerce site that allows you to sell your works without paying €29/month to Shopify, without coding a WordPress theme in 3 months, and without giving up 40% of your margin to a curatorial platform like Saatchi Art?
Artworks Digital is specifically designed for artists: painters, drawers, photographers, sculptors, ceramists. Everything that a general e-commerce site does not provide — curatorial note, structured CV, multilingual art-specific, schema.org VisualArtwork — is included as standard.
Why a dedicated art e-commerce site?
General sites (Shopify, Wix) are poorly suited
They are designed for standardized products: t-shirts, mugs, jewelry, electronics. The SEO of a Shopify site for an artist requires:
- Choosing a theme (often paid, €100-300)
- Configuring Stripe and taxation (3-5 days)
- Installing a multilingual app (Weglot, Langify: €19-99/month extra)
- Coding or paying a developer for schema.org VisualArtwork
- Building your own Google referencing (12-18 months to rank)
Estimated total cost for a pro Shopify site: €500-1,500 in the first year, without any SEO guarantee.
Art platforms (Saatchi, Singulart) take 30-40%
They offer a complete service, but their commission is heavy and their curation may refuse your work. You work for 60% of your price.
The Artworks Digital solution
You keep 82% of the sale price (18% commission including Stripe fees), your site is SEO-optimal without any technical work, multilingual included, and registration is instant without curatorial validation.
Technical stack under the hood
Your artist e-commerce site on Artworks Digital uses the best web bricks:
- Stripe Connect Express — secure payment and payout
- Schema.org VisualArtwork + Person + BreadcrumbList on each page
- Open Graph + Twitter Card automatic
- Sitemap XML dynamic including each individual work
- llms.txt for indexing by AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity)
- Multilingual Groq AI (FR→EN/JA/KO translation on the fly)
- Green hosting in France/EU (RGPD-compliant)
Use case: emerging artist, 0 current sales
Sophie, 34, figurative painter in Lyon. She has a dozen works in her studio, an Instagram (3K followers), and wants to sell online without investing in an expensive site.
Action plan on Artworks Digital:
- Day 1: registration, 8 works uploaded with price, bio 300 chars, approach 200 chars
- Day 2: Stripe Connect connection (5 minutes) + AI-generated curatorial note
- Days 3-30: each work is progressively indexed on Google
- Day 30+: 1st average sale on complete artists, 3-5 sales/month over 6 months
