Everything photographers ask most often about selling photos on GeoSnapShot.

Most of this is covered in short videos in Video Help — click the ? icon at the top right of your dashboard, or go to geosnapshot.com/help/videos. You need an account to watch them, and creating one is free — no subscription and no monthly fee.

No. GeoSnapShot is free to join, and there is no charge to upload photos you intend to sell. We only make money when you do.

You keep 70% of every sale (after tax and transaction fees), and GeoSnapShot keeps 30%.

Those costs come out of the sale before the split rather than after, which is deliberate — it means the fees are shared in the same proportion as the revenue, instead of falling entirely on you.

The price, and any discounts or photo packs, are set by whoever organises the event. If you create the event yourself, that is you — you set your own price.

Request a payout any time you have a balance, from Reports/Payments on your dashboard. There is no minimum. You can be paid by bank transfer or PayPal.

Payments are usually processed within 5 business days. Your first one can take longer, because we validate your account before the first payment goes out. Our article on photographer payouts has the full detail, including what to do if a payment hasn't arrived.

If you shoot events with children, some event organisers will require one. The process is different in every country, so check the rules where you live. It is worth having one regardless — it is often the difference between being allowed to shoot an event and not.

Yes. Always get the event organiser's permission before you attend. Most organisers say yes — their participants get photos and it costs the event nothing. We have a separate article with a template email you can send them.

JPEG. The file you upload is exactly the file the buyer downloads, so it needs to be good enough to print.

We recommend uploading photos at around 4MB each. That is a good size for people to download and to print from.

Yes, and it makes a real difference to sales. Splitting a run into "start line", "10km", "finish line" saves buyers trawling through hundreds of photos that aren't theirs.

Face recognition, bib number search and time search do the rest.

Your photos carry whatever date and time your camera was set to, and buyers can narrow their search to the minutes they were competing. A camera set to the wrong time makes your photos much harder to find, and harder to sell. Check it before every event.

Yes, automatically. You don't need to add your own.

Yes. You keep copyright and grant the buyer a personal use licence. If someone wants to use a photo for anything else, the enquiry comes to you.

Indefinitely, and you can delete them whenever you want. Keep your own copies regardless — the photos are yours.

We do, for anything to do with the platform. Our support team handles the gallery, downloads, login problems and payments made to GeoSnapShot, so you are not fielding technical questions.

What we cannot answer is anything only you or the event organiser knows — what was photographed, why someone doesn't appear in any photos, or a private gallery password. Our Help Centre sends buyers to the right place for each, so expect a few of those to reach you directly.

No, you can upload photos from any event. Sport sells best — people want a record of something they trained hard for and invested a lot of time in.

Yes. You can earn 5% of everything a photographer you refer sells. It comes out of GeoSnapShot's share, not theirs, so their earnings are unaffected.

The programme is by invitation and built for people who bring a lot of photographers to the platform rather than the occasional one. If that sounds like you, email [email protected] with a sense of how many photographers are in your network and the events they cover.

Email [email protected] with anything not covered here.