CreatePhotoCalendars.com

CreatePhotoCalendars.com is a browser-based service for designing personalized photo calendars and ordering them in print. It is best suited to families, organizations, businesses, and creators who want customizable products without installing software, especially sellers who want marketplace fulfillment.

Overview

Founded in 2007 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, CreatePhotoCalendars.com combines online calendar design, print ordering, and a marketplace for personalized products. In addition to calendars, it offers photo books, gifts, cards, and merchandise. That wider catalog helps schools, nonprofits, fundraisers, and businesses produce several kinds of branded or commemorative items from one service, while calendars remain the platform’s central use case.

The service is entirely web-based. Most orders ship within 24–48 hours, according to the company, but customers must verify photos, dates, captions, and other details before purchasing. The terms disclaim warranties that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, so careful proofing and realistic expectations are important.

Key features

• Flexible calendar design: Multiple calendar formats and page layouts accommodate different display and gift needs. Users can choose backgrounds and fonts, add captions, text, clipart, and custom events, and customize photos.
• Visual editing: Drag-and-drop photo placement makes arranging images straightforward in a browser. Multiple photo-upload sources give users flexibility when collecting images from different locations.
• Print and bulk ordering: The platform supports printed orders and bulk purchases, which is useful for family groups, schools, organizations, and fundraising campaigns rather than only one-off gifts.
• Marketplace selling: Creators can sell calendars and other products through the marketplace with no upfront hosting fees. The company handles production, while product base costs apply and customers pay shipping. Revenue comes from a share of each order, making this more suitable for testing demand than for retaining every dollar of a sale.
• Payments and support: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, PayPal, Amazon Pay, checks, and money orders are accepted. Email support is offered Monday through Friday at [email protected].

Pricing

The Marketplace and seller service is free to use at no cost. There are no hosting fees, but product base costs apply, customers pay shipping, and the service earns revenue through a share of each order. This structure fits creators, influencers, businesses, nonprofits, and fundraisers that want to publish products without paying for a storefront in advance. It gives up margin on each sale and does not remove the cost of producing the item.

CreatePhotoCalendars.com also has a free plan, but the published seller terms are the clearest defined offering: there is no subscription charge for marketplace use. Buyers ordering printed products still pay the applicable product and shipping costs. Readers seeking a conventional desktop purchase model should note that the service no longer offers or supports an offline or desktop designer.

Platforms

CreatePhotoCalendars.com runs on the web. Designing, selling, and ordering therefore require an internet-connected browser; there is no supported offline or desktop application.

Who it's for

Families can use it for personalized keepsake calendars, while schools, nonprofits, organizations, and fundraisers can benefit from custom events, bulk ordering, and a broad product catalog. Creators, influencers, and businesses get a no-upfront-hosting route to marketplace sales, with production handled by the company. It is a poor fit for anyone who needs offline work, a desktop editor, or full control over fulfillment and sales margins.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Browser-based editing includes layouts, events, text, clipart, fonts, backgrounds, and photo customization.
• Free marketplace access avoids hosting fees and company-managed production reduces fulfillment work for sellers.
• Bulk ordering and multiple product types serve groups as well as individual customers.
• Most orders ship within 24–48 hours, and many payment methods are supported.

Cons

• No offline or desktop designer, so local-only workflows are not supported.
• Sellers pay product base costs, customers pay shipping, and the service takes a share of each order, reducing seller margin.
• Customers must catch errors in dates, photos, and captions themselves before ordering.
• The terms do not warrant uninterrupted, error-free, or secure service.

Alternatives

Photo Calendar Software is the broader category guide for comparing calendar-focused options.

Choose Saal Digital instead if you need Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, or web access, plus 10 GB of free storage; its free plan charges 12% commission on download revenue and 0% on photo products.

Pixum is an alternative for multi-platform photo-product ordering, including a small square photo book priced at 9.95 GBP once for 26 pages.

PhotoCal is a free, ad-free iPhone, iPad, and Mac option with no in-app purchases.

Hofmann suits readers seeking a paid, multi-platform photo-product service, with a 13.99 EUR one-time small hardcover album price.

Lulu Calendar Creator is another web-based, free-to-use calendar maker where printed copies are paid for when purchased.

Popsa is a mobile and web alternative offering square prints from 0.44 USD each, with 30-print minimums.

PhotobookShop Calendars is a paid multi-platform calendar service with a 19.95 USD one-time desk calendar option.

posterXXL is a paid multi-platform photo-printing alternative.

Verdict

Choose CreatePhotoCalendars.com if you want a web-based calendar designer that also supports print ordering, bulk purchases, and no-upfront-cost marketplace selling. Its strongest advantage is combining customization with company-managed production. Look elsewhere if offline or desktop design is essential, or if marketplace commissions, product costs, and customer-paid shipping leave too little margin.