Pain:  Managing relationships with multiple external bureaus and sales channels has been very complicated for us, especially since we haven’t been able to develop effective and streamlined processes for updating content, managing inventory, and maintaining consistent metadata across all of our systems.

Pill:  Openstore

Description:  Openstore enables image agencies to efficiently manage multiple external bureaus and sales platforms by establishing a separate, centralized repository of images in Openstore and ensuring that updates are automatically reflected across all systems. Whether it's a change in metadata, an image being taken down, or a price update, the agency can easily maintain a fine-grained control over its assets and ensure consistency across all external sales channels.

Proof:  By improving the efficiency and accuracy of managing image sales across multiple third-party platforms, Openstore has enabled us to expand our sales activities into new markets without increasing headcount. It has automated and improved our export, metadata update, and synchronization processes, it has helped to reduce manual errors, improved rights tracking, and improved our potential scalability for future sales channel expansion. 

• Images in Openstore for sale in third party external system are put in export queue

• Images exported to third party system with OS unique id

• If third party systems updates image info, they sends XMP file with new updated image info/meta data

• Openstore info updater updates the image with new info

• External bureau sales images to their customers

This solution is currently in production with TT News Agency (https://tt.se/en/about-us/)