PrettyPostcard
A photo postcard business template. Customers upload a photo, pay, and you post it on the date they choose.
Make this your business
Tools to run the business
The template includes internal tools for posting cards and finding customers.
Marketing
Work through a ranked plan for finding customers.
Postbox
See every paid card waiting to be printed and posted.
Your first customer
Here's what a customer sees when they send a postcard.
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Sign in
With an email code. No password.
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Write the card
A photo, the place, a note, and the day it arrives.
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Pay $5 to post it
Or send it by email for free.
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Wait for it
It arrives on the day they picked.
Ask Spark for changes
Your template comes with the Spark agent. Ask for changes, and Spark will update your project.
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Make it for wedding guests to send the couple a card for their first anniversary.
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Charge $8 and add a handwritten note option.
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Sell posters as well as postcards.
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Let customers send a card to a friend instead of themselves.
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Most cards are sent in December. Want me to add a holiday design?
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Should I offer a pack of 12 cards that go out one a month?
What you don't have to pay for
These are usually separate subscriptions that someone has to connect. Spark includes them in one plan.
What you'd pay for separately
- Website builder and hosting
Separately: $39/mo - Order forms with photo uploads
Separately: $39/mo - Scheduled sends and automations Each card held until its date
Separately: $30/mo - Emails to customers Up to 500 contacts
Separately: $20/mo - Admin tools and a database One seat
Separately: $24/mo - A freelance developer to connect it all 10 hours a month at $30 an hour
Separately: $300/mo
Total Separately: $452/mo
With Spark Start for free
Each price is a typical small-business plan, billed monthly. Card fees apply either way.
Common questions
What does it cost?
Nothing to start, and you can publish on Spark's free plan at a spark.site address. Taking payments and using your own domain need a paid plan, from $25 a month. See pricing.
Do I get the original's customers or domain?
No, those stay with the original business, and you choose your own address.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Ask for changes in plain words.
Who can I ask before starting?
Email support@spark.site and we'll answer.
Start with PrettyPostcard
Here's what happens when you start.
- It opens in your account PrettyPostcard appears as a new project in Spark. New to Spark? You make an account first.
- Make it yours Ask Spark for your name, your look and your prices.
- Connect Stripe and publish Publish and your site goes live at its own address. Taking payments needs a paid plan.