“Can a photographer-first gallery platform become the merchant-of-record print storefront that captures the sale, tax, and payout layer for the global professional photography industry?”
Founded by photographer Nirit and technologist Amir as a way to share event photos with parents at a dance recital. Grew into a professional gallery-delivery SaaS with an embedded print store network of 30+ global labs. Pic-Time acts as merchant of record by default (collecting payments, remitting sales tax, paying out photographer profits), with an optional pass-through mode where photographers use their own PayPal/Stripe/Square gateway. Recent evolution centers on AI (gallery search, album designer, image filter) and the Pic-Time 2.0 shop redesign to drive higher print-sales conversion.
Pic-Time integrates with Studio Ninja.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 3 layers in Pic-Time's stack: Payments / PSP (PayPal, Stripe and Square); Accounting (Studio Ninja); Tax (TaxJar).
Pic-Time was founded by Nirit Grinfeld and Amir Grinfeld and is founded in 2014, headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.
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