Question 1

What is Archefy?

Accepted Answer

Archefy is the home for your photos. You gather your memories into archives, make albums from the ones you love, and turn them into physical products: books, wall art, calendars, mugs, phone cases, and more. We print them in the US, and they arrive at your door.

Question 2

Do I need any design experience?

Accepted Answer

Not at all. Select your photos and choose Make album, and Archefy lays out every page for you, or start from a design and just add your photos. Whenever you want more control, the editor lets you crop, add text and stickers, and try a look.

Question 3

What can I make with Archefy?

Accepted Answer

Books and magazines, photo prints and posters, canvas, framed, metal, and acrylic wall art, calendars and notebooks, mugs and tumblers, cushions, blankets, and bedding, phone and tablet cases, and more. Open a photo or album in the editor and choose Make it into… to see every product it fits.

Question 4

What are photos, albums, and archives?

Accepted Answer

A photo is one picture, with any text, stickers, or look you add. An album is a set of pages with a cover, made from your photos. A sticker is a cutout you make from a photo. An archive holds them all: one for a trip, a year, or a family, shared with whoever you choose. The same photo or album can sit in more than one archive.

Question 5

How much does Archefy cost?

Accepted Answer

Making albums and designing are always free: there is no subscription and no design fee. You only pay when you order a finished product, and the price depends on what you choose to make.

Question 6

How can I pay?

Accepted Answer

Archefy accepts major credit and debit cards. Prices are in US dollars, and payments are processed securely by Stripe.

Question 7

Where do you ship, and how long does it take?

Accepted Answer

Orders are printed in the US and shipped to addresses across the country. Because every product is made to order, the delivery estimate depends on what you make, and you will see it at checkout before you pay.

Question 8

Can I keep editing after I order?

Accepted Answer

Yes. An order prints the version you reviewed before paying, so edits made afterward, by you or anyone you share with, apply only to new orders. To print the new version, use Order again; to print the version you ordered once more, use Reprint as before.

Question 9

Can family and friends add their photos too?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Share an archive with the people who were there, and by default everyone you share it with can add their own photos and edit what is in it, your photos and albums included, one person at a time. Archefy shows who edited each one last, and the person who created the archive can limit editing to the people they choose.

Question 10

Who can see the photos I upload?

Accepted Answer

Only you, unless you share them. Photos in a shared archive are visible to the people you share it with. If you belong to a space with other people, such as a family space, its admins can also see the archives you keep private in it. We never sell your photos and we never use them for advertising.

Question 11

What if something is changed or deleted by mistake?

Accepted Answer

The owner of a photo, album, or sticker can restore an earlier version from Version history. Photos, albums, and stickers you delete wait in Recently deleted for 30 days, so you can bring them back. And if someone else removes your photo, album, or sticker from the last archive it is in, or deletes that archive, it comes back to you, usually in your Personal archive, instead of being deleted.

Question 12

What do people receive when I share?

Accepted Answer

What you see. Sharing or saving a photo or album sends full-resolution images of its pages, with location and device details removed, and only the person who added a photo can share its original file. You can also create a link to a photo or album you made from your own photos: an album opens as pages people can flip through, you choose whether visitors can download the pages, and you can turn the link off at any time. Links always show the latest version and never share original photos.

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