Why Shotter takes 0% commission

Most gallery platforms built for photographers make money the same way: a small monthly fee to list your work, and then a commission on every sale, often somewhere between 10 and 20%. The free or cheap tier is the hook, the commission is where the platform actually makes money. Shotter doesn't do that, and it's worth explaining exactly what replaces it instead of just saying "cheaper."

The two models, plainly

A commission model scales its take with your success: the more you sell, the more the platform earns, whether or not it did more work. A flat-fee model charges for the platform itself — storage, upload, client checkout — as a fixed monthly cost, and stays out of what your clients pay you.

Shotter is flat-fee: Starter is €19/mo with 50GB included, Pro is €39/mo with 250GB, and Studio is €79/mo with 1024GB. Each carries metered overage instead of a forced tier upgrade if you go past your allowance. Every plan carries the same commission: 0%, always.

Where the money actually goes

When a client unlocks a gallery, that payment goes straight to your own connected Mollie account — Shotter never touches it. Standard Mollie transaction fees are the only deduction, the same fees you'd pay taking that payment directly. Your Shotter plan fee is billed separately, on its own schedule, and has nothing to do with how much you sold that month.

If you're already paying for S3, R2, B2, or Wasabi, Bring your own storage is €29/mo flat: point Shotter at the bucket you already pay for, and there's no separate storage allowance or overage from Shotter on top of it.

The requirement, stated honestly

Mollie Connect requires a registered business in every country it supports — a KVK number in the Netherlands, and the equivalent elsewhere. Shotter has no second payout rail, so that requirement is Shotter's too: without one you can hold an account, but you can't sell galleries. The upside of having exactly one rail is that the zero-commission promise above has no asterisk on it — every sale goes straight to your own account.