Zenfolio founded in 2006, provides everything you need to build your ultimate photography business. Create stunning online photo galleries and a professional portfolio website in minutes. Share, proof, and sell your photos and videos online with one powerful solution. Grow your business with integrated tools that assist with booking clients, marketing and photo culling.
Zenfolio (zenfolio.com) has 302 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 3.4 out of 5.
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zenfolio.com
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Internet & Software
Location
Redwood City, California
Listed on Five Star Index
2026
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Since the roll-out of their "archiving" platform, Zenfolio has really gone downhill. Service is below satisfactory. Galleries go missing, images take excessively long amounts of time to load, some images load sideways or upside down. Customer service is non-existent.
Terrible company, terrible customer service, terrible experience.
Response from ZenfolioJul 12, 2024
Thank you for taking the time to inform us of your recent experience. We're truly sorry for any inconvenience caused by our new archiving process. Your feedback is essential to us, and we understand the importance of preserving your work. We will carefully consider your suggestions for improvement. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out. We value your loyalty and hope to regain your trust in our platform.
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Aldo R.
Zenfolio is a data privacy and usability nightmare
I was a customer of Zenfolio for around 10 years. It was never the best gallery system, it was incredible slow but it was ok, not worth the struggle to reupload all photos to an other gallery service. And than Zenfolio implemented the nightmare called archiving. Galleries are disappearing from your file system and restoring them does not take a few hours, it takes weeks. Ignoring that a gallery where I have to wait 12 hours to see it is worthless to me. During the restoring process, the system had at one point put photos of other photographers in my galleries. Imagine - I had photos of other photographers in my galleries displaying children. What a data protection nightmare. And the customer service was as bad as the development.
Zenfolio has become such a disaster. I am glad that I have left, ended my subscription and have found an other gallery serrvice and I can only recommend everyone to follow my example. I do not see a future for Zenfolio after they have screwed up in such a colossal way.
Response from ZenfolioJul 12, 2024
Thank you for your feedback and for being a customer for nearly 10 years. We're pained to hear about your experience and the issues impacting your account recently. We understand how frustrating this must have been and apologize for the inconvenience and distress caused. Please know that Zenfolio is here to stay and committed to providing reliable services.
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Simon P.
Epsom Camera Club
I run my camera club’s website and until now things have been ok. Since archiving our galleries we have experienced all sorts of problems. I raised a ticket 5 days ago but have heard nothing. There is no way of contacting them apart from raising a ticket, not good customer service. It seems like our custom means nothing to them. I think it’s time to look for another website provider.
Ticket number 1208212
Response from ZenfolioJun 14, 2024
We sincerely regret the inconvenience you've encountered in this matter. Delivering exceptional customer service is paramount to us, and we apologize for falling short of your expectations on this occasion. Following our correspondence on the 2nd and 4th of June, I'm pleased to confirm that your case was successfully resolved by the 7th. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to the opportunity to continue supporting your business.
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Dave J.
Zenfolio is now utter bilge
Zenfolio is now utter bilge, dont touch it, please dont touch it. It's on it's last legs, with lies, obfuscation, deflection and ignorance.
60,000 photographs stored there over a decade of use, and now i cannot do anything quickly.
So yourself a favour, look elsewhere for a online photo storing service, as it was, and never will be again, Zenfolio
Response from ZenfolioJun 14, 2024
We're disheartened to hear about your negative experience with Zenfolio. Your feedback is incredibly important to us, and we're deeply sorry for the frustration and inconvenience you've encountered. We understand the significance of your decade-long collection of 60,000 photographs. I've requested more information to be able to review your account and the specific situation you are referring to.
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W. Austin C.
This service won't last another year
This service won't last another year. Bail, Bail, Bail!
A few years ago, they deleted 500k photos of mine with no way of getting them back after I forgot to update my credit card on file with a new expiration date. I took responsibility, got over it, and signed up with them again. Biggest mistake of my life.
Now, they are auto-archiving all my photos so that I can't even tell which ones are in which gallery. No thumbnails, no sensical way to unarchive them, no way to download them without at least 12 hours of waiting for it to even become viewable, let alone downloadable.
They are holding everyone's work hostage.
IF you are thinking about signing up with them, stop thinking and go find another service.
Search the web, and you will find that there is no more love for this company. They are on a path to dry up, fire everyone, and will only exist to extort the few customers who don't have the time and energy to get their photos downloaded, or have no other backups.
This review has no purpose, as I am sure Zenfolio won't last long enough for anyone to read it.
Response from ZenfolioJun 14, 2024
Thank you for the review and your concern. We are sorry that Zenfolio did not meet the needs of your business. With hundreds of thousands of satisfied photographers in our community, we continue to empower individuals to showcase your work, connect with clients, and grow your businesses.
Our commitment to providing an exceptional platform for photographers remains unwavering. We're continuously innovating and improving our services to ensure that you have the tools and support you need to succeed in your craft. From seamless website customization to secure image storage and effortless client proofing,
As we look to the future, we're excited about the possibilities that lie ahead. Zenfolio will remain a top platform for photographers worldwide.
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Sunny
It has become a terrible site. Absolutely useless
Agree with everyone about how horrible this site has become. I'm a user of many many years but what they have done is appalling. I'm leaving right now...
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Bob B.
The website's bandwidth is so slow
The websites bandwidth is so slow that a simple photo takes minutes to load- causing viewers to close out of the site.
Support is a never-ending black hole ending in CHAT that is never answered.
Trying to cancel account is impossible- nobody answers chat. But they efficiently charge your credit card... only aspect of the cr@ppy website that works.
Response from ZenfolioJun 14, 2024
Bob, We're truly sorry for the frustration you've experienced. We understand the importance of website performance and the impact it has on your visitors' experience. We'd like to troubleshoot the slowness issue you were seeing.
Regarding your support experience, we apologize that our chat was offline for an extended period of time. If you're still experiencing difficulties or if there's anything else we can assist you with, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team directly. Chat is back on and we are committed to resolving any issues you may be facing.
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YHE0
Reverse the archive blunder
I'm a customer for many years. Overnight they went from 5 stars to no stars due the damage caused by the terrible decision to start archiving galleries which creates grief for me and my customers. The restore process is terrible and slow if it works at all. Zenfolio should reverse this decision and go back to the way things were, while they still have customers.
Response from ZenfolioJun 14, 2024
While we understand your preference to revert to the previous system, we also aim to continuously evolve and enhance our platform based on user feedback and industry trends. We're committed to finding solutions that meet the needs of our customers while maintaining the integrity of our service.