Hello All,

We are pleased to announce the integration of Payoneer into GL.  Many of our members have expressed interest in Payoneer, as they have had issues with Moneybookers or PayPal in certain countries.  Payoneer is one of the best payment options available, so this new integration will surely be a positive for many of our members.

For current members, getting Payoneer payments set up is quick and easy:

Step 1: Navigate to your Account -- Profile Page.  Scroll to bottom of page and select Payoneer for "Payment Method".  Press Update.
Step 2: A GL representative will manually approve your payment method change request.
Step 3: Check back later.  When you see Payoneer as your payment method, select "Sign up with Payoneer".  If you do not have an account already, please sign up.  If you do, you will be prompted to login to your existing account.  Once you sign up or log in, you are fully set up to receive Payoneer payments!
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If you have any questions regarding our integration with Payoneer, please do not hesitate!

Yes...sales are a prerequisite to receiving funds. individuals with sales on GL will be able to get paid with a new payment method if they choose.  For those who have no sales or low sales, they can still select this payment method for when they do cross the $50 payment threshold.

It's clear that some of our members will not have incredibly high sales counts.  In this forum, we are classified as a "low earner" at the moment.  We understand this, and in relation to the top earners, we are a low earner.  But there are still thousands of members who choose to work with us, who are getting sales, and who are pleased with our customer support.   

Each week we payout plenty of money to our contributors, some more than others based on the desire for their work.  By giving 40-52%, and allowing for a wide range of pricing, some sellers are getting paid very frequently. 

This post was regarding a payment method option that we are providing our sellers with, not about the sales count of any of our members.  Having said that, we are still working diligently on the site behind the scenes. Other agencies certainly have higher sales counts right now, but they are paying pennies per license sold, and are constantly making changes to their businesses that adversely affect contributors, while padding the agency�s margins.  This is a constant slap in the face to contributors.  While it is taking us time to make significant change to GL, our intentions are to increase sales for our contributors, maintaining our slim margins, all while providing our contributors more control of how much they make per license sold.  When our ultimate plan comes to fruition and sales do increase, GL members will reap the benefits significantly more than they would at any other agency.

In these forums, every other post is titled "XYZ Agency Screwed me", "Disappointed with XYZ", "Down the Toilet", etc., so there is dissatisfaction with companies both large and small in the industry.  We are doing our best with the business we purchased. All we can do is continue with our internal plans and continue working hard on GL.  Adding a new payment method is one minor benefit for our current and future contributors.

After upload i am forced to click on each image title.
I have to click the title and i have to click "submit".
Takes about 10 seconds for 1 image.
click "submit" "submit" "submit" "submit" "submit"
No way 

No, $50 will remain the threshold.  We actually wanted to increase that when we took the site over, but upon feedback from members here, we decided to leave it at $50.

I have around 5000 image to upload.
After upload i am forced to click on each image title.
I have to click the title and i have to click "submit".
Takes about 10 seconds for 1 image.
Total 13 hours only click "submit" "submit" "submit" "submit" "submit"
No way 

yes, they have a upload limit and it is really pain for people with good quantity portfolio, they should remove it.

20 Uploads per day is the starting upload limit.  Send us a private message with your account information and we will increase the limit if we can.  Not every request is approved for internal purposes.  We are a small team that manually approves each image, ensure titles, descriptions, and tags are correct, as well as ensuring image quality.  So to allow each member to upload 5,000 images in a given day would cause a major backup and slowdown in approval times.

We can't ask a new or small agency to take in more than they can properly review.  Hasn't blind crowdsourcing been tried enough by now? It's a dead end.

The problem isn't the time it takes to review, it's the time it takes to upload.  Photographers trying to sell online (stock, or art) are being driven mad by tedious upload processes.  I could name a couple of 'art' sites where I signed up, then simply gave up after seeing the process to submit a single photo and make it available and discoverable.

How about a way to submit an entire portfolio at once, to be reviewed and accepted when and if time permits?  The agency could sample the work and decide if it was worth going in and reviewing the whole thing.  It could be submitted on media, or via a cloud share.   I don't mind waiting a few months for review.  I do mind spending hours mindlessly checking the same boxes, over and over, on web pages.

Thank you all for your opinions and ideas.  Some very strong points have been made, and we will internally discuss the uploading process/limits in more detail.  I think we should be able to come up with a solution that works for us internally, and for our contributors to make for a more seamless process.

Great to know, I hope you will improve the email system too, I have sent emails regarding limits few times but never heard back.

Sorry but when the new people took over sales stopped immediately I haven't had a sale in 12 months! With over 1500 images

I'll never reach payout and if I delete the account GL keep the cash.

It's a no win situation

[crickets chirping]

There's always hope.

emailed them several times, never got a reply, so much for improved contributor support. it was all blah blah and in the end nothing changes

When a business venture like this isn't making it, it's probably pretty hard to wind it down gracefully.  You can't just send out an email saying "I'm thinking about ending it, not sure yet, hope you stick around anyway" because that just worsens your situation.

My biggest fear throughout the whole microstock thing (which is mostly past history for me now) is that some shady site operator suddenly disappears, taking all my work with him - or quietly sells a few terabytes of imagery out the back door to raise some quick cash.   I doubt that will happen here because the new owner seemed reasonable enough.

We are working on a total revamp of our site, both in design and additional functionality and revenue sources.

We are looking at < 2 months for the new site to be live.  It's been a long process for us as the new owners, and it's tough that sales have dropped for many members, but I do find it important to stress that there are many members who have seen their sales grow significantly with us. 

Behind the scenes, we have been building the foundation for future growth.  We have invested a lot of money in our proprietary technology, and we will continue working on growing the business.  I'm sure it's difficult to be patient, but we are a very small team of dedicated individuals trying to do some big things.  When comparing to companies with billions of dollars in cash reserves and teams of developers, we are admittedly going to be slower to make major releases like the one we are working on, but we do have high expectations for the results.

What you should expect is a much better user experience, additional features for buyers to work efficiently in GL, and some new opportunities for additional revenue for sellers.