Art Storefronts Alternatives: 7 Website Options for Artists

Whichever platform you pick, the goal is the same. Your work should live on your own domain, on a site that lets collectors buy it. Art Storefronts is one way to get there, and plenty of artists look at other options before they commit or when they are ready to switch.

This guide lays out seven alternatives and what each one is built around, using what each company publishes on its own website as of October 16, 2026. We make Brakebee, which is the first entry, and we describe the other platforms neutrally from their own sites. If you are still weighing Art Storefronts itself, start with our <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/art-storefronts-review">Art Storefronts review</a> and our guide to <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/art-storefronts-pricing">Art Storefronts pricing</a>.

Four questions sort these platforms quickly:

Brakebee is an online art marketplace and selling platform for working artists, with its own print lab in Phoenix. Brakebee Custom Sites is its done-for-you website service. A Brakebee team designs a private site around your brand, builds it on the Brakebee platform and puts it on your own domain. A first draft usually arrives in four to seven days, and you approve it before it goes live.1

Cart, checkout and your live catalog go live with the site, and the same catalog can appear on the Brakebee marketplace and other channels through connectors.1 For fulfillment, artists can choose among three options: Brakebee prints and ships canvas and aluminum metal prints from its Phoenix lab, artists can ship orders themselves, or they can use a third-party fulfillment partner. Image protection, AI search setup, Social Central, events, articles and a wholesale add-on come with the platform.1,2 Pricing is published on the <a href="https://brakebee.com/custom-sites#pricing">Custom Sites pricing section</a>.

FASO builds websites for artists and offers FASO Storefronts for selling visual art. It pairs its sites with art marketing resources such as a marketing guidebook, email campaigns and the BoldBrush art contest and promotion program, and it offers a Squarespace-based option for artists who prefer that builder.3

Pixpa is a portfolio website builder for photographers, artists and designers.4 If you are reading a Pixpa review or weighing Pixpa alternatives, the core of the platform is simple to describe. It combines a portfolio site, client galleries, an online store and a blog in one account.

You start from more than 200 designer-made templates and edit them in a visual editor with layout controls on every block, plus custom CSS and HTML for anything the interface does not cover.4 Its client galleries let you share a password-protected set of images with an expiry date, collect favorites and comments, and sell prints from the gallery with automated fulfillment.4 The store sells prints, products, services and digital files from a branded checkout on your own domain, with Stripe and PayPal paying you directly.4 Pixpa offers a free trial, 24/7 live chat support and an optional service where a Pixpa designer builds the site from your brief.4

Pixpa leans toward photographers who deliver client galleries, though artists use it for portfolios and print sales as well. If you are comparing Pixpa alternatives, Squarespace and Wix are the closest do-it-yourself builders on this list, and Brakebee Custom Sites suits artists who want the site designed for them with a marketplace attached.

Squarespace is a general website builder with templates, an AI website builder, portfolio and ecommerce features, email campaigns and domain registration.5 Artists build and maintain the site themselves.

Squarespace also has a page aimed at working artists. It describes customizable gallery layouts for pieces and commissions, an online shop for prints, originals and digital downloads, invoices and contracts for custom work, and email, social and search tools for promoting exhibitions and new work.9 Squarespace offers website templates for artists and Blueprint AI, which generates a starting site on desktop.9 For prints, it mentions print-on-demand integrations, and orders and shipping are managed from your account.9 Each piece is listed by hand, so artists who also sell on marketplaces or at fairs keep those listings in step themselves. It suits artists who enjoy designing and running the site on their own. For a full walkthrough, including how to pick a template and set up selling, read our guide to <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/squarespace-for-artists">Squarespace for artists</a>.

Shopify is a commerce platform for stores of every kind. It offers themes, domains, point of sale for in-person sales, social and marketplace selling, and a large app store for adding features such as print fulfillment.6

Wix is a website builder with more than 2,000 templates, built-in AI tools, custom domains, online portfolios and ecommerce.7 Like Squarespace, it is a do-it-yourself builder.

Artwork Archive is art inventory software for artists, collectors and organizations.8,10 If you are reading an Artwork Archive review, keep in mind that the platform is built around managing your body of work, with selling tools layered on top. You catalog each piece with images, details, pricing, provenance and exhibition history, then filter by status, medium, location or price.10

From that inventory it generates portfolios, consignment sheets, price lists, labels, inventory reports and certificates of authenticity.10 A searchable Public Profile works as an online portfolio connected to your inventory, and Private Viewing Rooms let you share curated selections with collectors, curators and galleries.10 The business tools include a sales pipeline, contact management, invoices with payment processing, income and expense tracking, schedules and reminders, and edition tracking for prints.10 Web integrations let you embed your public profile in a website and sync that site with your inventory.10 It offers a free 14-day trial and live demos.10

Many artists pair Artwork Archive with a separate selling website, using it as the record of where every piece is, what is on consignment and what sold. Artists who sell at art fairs can also use its sales records to see which pieces moved at each event.

If you like building and want full control, a do-it-yourself builder such as Squarespace, Wix or Pixpa will suit you. If you want art-specific marketing resources, FASO and Art Storefronts both center on that. If your main need is tracking inventory, Artwork Archive fills that role. If you want a site designed for you on your own domain, connected to a marketplace and flexible fulfillment, take a look at Brakebee Custom Sites. Our guide to <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/best-website-builder-for-artists">website builders for artists</a> goes deeper on the builders, and <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/art-storefronts-vs-brakebee">Art Storefronts vs Brakebee</a> compares those two head to head.

Some artists want help with more than the website. Brakebee Managed Lines is a partnership in which Brakebee runs more of the selling side for you, including marketplaces, marketing and wholesale, while you keep making the work. See <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/whats-included-in-managed-lines">what is included in Managed Lines</a> or start with a <a href="https://brakebee.com/help/contact?category=selling&subject=Managed+Lines+partnership+inquiry&message=Hi+Brakebee+team%2C+I%27m+interested+in+partnering+with+Brakebee+on+a+managed+line.%0A%0AA+little+about+my+work%3A%0A%0AKind+of+art%3A%0AMy+website+or+Brakebee+profile%3A%0AArt+fairs+I+do%3A%0AWhere+I+sell+now%3A%0AProduct+types+I+make%3A%0A%0AThanks%21">Managed Lines partnership inquiry</a>.

1 Source: Brakebee Custom Sites page, brakebee.com/custom-sites, as published on 10/16/2026. 2 Source: Brakebee Print on Demand and Makers pages, brakebee.com/print-on-demand and brakebee.com/makers, as published on 10/15/2026. 3 Source: FASO homepage, faso.com, as published on 10/16/2026. 4 Source: Pixpa homepage, pixpa.com, as published on 10/16/2026. 5 Source: Squarespace homepage, squarespace.com, as published on 10/16/2026. 6 Source: Shopify homepage, shopify.com, as published on 10/16/2026. 7 Source: Wix homepage, wix.com, as published on 10/16/2026. 8 Source: Artwork Archive homepage, artworkarchive.com, as published on 10/16/2026. 9 Source: Squarespace for Artists page, squarespace.com/solutions/creative-services/artists, as published on 10/16/2026. 10 Source: Artwork Archive for Artists page, artworkarchive.com/artists, as published on 10/16/2026.

Top 5 Art Storefronts Alternatives for Artists in 2026

Looking for Art Storefronts alternatives? Compare seven website options for artists by who builds the site, how you sell, how orders get fulfilled and what marketing help comes with it.

Art Storefronts Alternatives: 7 Options for Artists in 2026

Looking for Art Storefronts alternatives? Compare Brakebee Custom Sites, Shopify, Big Cartel, Squarespace, and Etsy for artists.

Ask a room of artists which website builder they use and you will hear six or seven different answers. Some want a portfolio that looks like a gallery wall. Others need a shop that takes orders while they are packing for the next art fair. The right builder depends on what your website has to do for your business.

This guide compares six platforms artists use most: Brakebee, Shopify, Art Storefronts, Squarespace, Wix and Big Cartel. Every fact comes from what each company publishes on its own website, checked on October 14 and 15, 2026.¹–⁶

Brakebee is the one built around how working artists sell. A single catalog feeds your own website, a curated art marketplace, print-on-demand from a lab in Phoenix, and your sales at art fairs. Brakebee adds marketing tools on that same catalog, with Social Central for social media, email blasts and drips, an included CRM, and a done-for-you program called Managed Lines. Brakebee Custom Sites designs a private website for you, live in about a week.¹,²,³

What to look for in an artist website builder

Brakebee is designed for people who make their work by hand and sell it in more than one place. Everything runs on one catalog, so a piece you add once can appear on your website, in the Brakebee marketplace, at your art fair booth, at the print lab and in your marketing.²

Every free account includes a shop at yourname.brakebee.com with a catalog, product pages, an about page, collections, a blog, cart, checkout and a contact form, along with search titles, meta descriptions and share cards for each page.²,³ A website plan adds your own web address and more room to design the site.³

For artists who want a site designed for them, Brakebee Custom Sites builds a private design around your studio and sets it up on Brakebee with your shop, cart, checkout and catalog. A first draft usually arrives in four to seven days, launch takes about a week, and you approve the site before it goes live.¹ Custom sites add image protection, with right-click disabled and most screenshots showing a blank box, and Brakebee maps your old URLs so you keep the search authority you have already earned.¹ Custom Design is $500/year, and the one-time design fee is quoted per project, so you see the build cost before work begins.⁷

Accepted artists are listed together in the Brakebee marketplace, where buyers browse by category and style and can buy from several artists in one checkout. Acceptance turns on marketplace selling and the Verified Artist badge. The account is free, there is no monthly marketplace fee, and a marketplace sale carries a 15% commission with card processing included.²,³,⁸

Brakebee's lab in Phoenix prints your files. When a collector pays for a print, the lab prints, packs and ships it. When you need a stack for your booth, you can order a print run of the same file and have it shipped to you.³

You can browse events on Brakebee, apply with a reusable jury packet and artist personas, and take payment at the booth with Make a Sale, which accepts card, cash and other payments such as Venmo, Zelle or check.³

The same catalog can reach other places you sell. Square connects free, and add-on connectors cover Etsy, Shopify, Faire, Walmart, Wayfair, eBay and TikTok Shop. If you already run a Shopify store, the Shopify connector sends products from your Brakebee catalog to it, and Shopify orders come back into Brakebee with tracking sent back out.² The Wholesale Market add-on lets stores and galleries buy work you already have in stock, with your own wholesale prices, volume tiers and minimums.³

You can build your own setup from a free account and add only what you need, or choose an artist package that bundles a website, email, Leo AI credits and sales channels. Packages and their prices are listed on the <a href="https://brakebee.com/makers">Brakebee Makers page</a>, and catalog and CRM are included free in every option.⁸

Shopify is an all-in-one commerce platform for running an online store, taking payments and selling on social channels and in person from one dashboard. You can start from a template or generate a store from a prompt, and every store includes hosting and a myshopify.com address, or you can connect your own domain.⁴ Plans include selling on social channels, marketplaces and AI chats, point-of-sale tools for pop-ups and events, and thousands of apps, which is how most stores add print-on-demand.⁴ Shopify publishes its plan prices on its pricing page.

Shopify suits artists who want to set up and manage a store themselves. Brakebee's Shopify connector lets you keep a Shopify store and run it from the same catalog as everything else. Our <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/art-storefronts-vs-shopify">Art Storefronts vs Shopify comparison</a> goes deeper on Shopify for artists. If you'd rather have your Shopify store run for you, see <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/shopify-to-managed-lines">why artists are moving from Shopify to Brakebee Managed Lines</a>.

Art Storefronts is a website and marketing service for artists, photographers and print studios, and it says more than 12,000 of them use it.⁵ The first step is a short introductory call, and pricing is shared after that call. Its sites offer editable art-focused designs, one-click design switching and image security with watermarks. Art Storefronts runs its own fine art print fulfillment and adds a 365-day marketing plan, weekly workshops, a member community and an in-house marketing agency.⁵

Art Storefronts suits artists who want coaching and a team guiding their marketing. Brakebee covers the same ground on print fulfillment and done-for-you help through Managed Lines, and adds a curated marketplace and art fair tools on one catalog. See our <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/art-storefronts-vs-shopify">Art Storefronts vs Shopify comparison</a> for more detail.

Squarespace offers designer templates with a drag-and-drop editor, and every paid plan includes ecommerce with unlimited products, gift cards and checkout on your own domain.⁶ It connects to Printful for print-on-demand on any plan, syncs your product catalog to Facebook and Instagram, and supports in-person sales through its mobile app and Square in the US.⁶ Every site starts with a 14-day free trial, there is no free plan, and plan prices are published on its pricing page.⁶ For a full guide, see <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/squarespace-for-artists">Squarespace for artists</a>.

Pick a template with large image layouts, and use the gallery and product blocks to separate your portfolio from your shop. Add a newsletter block so visitors can join your list, and connect Printful if you want prints made on demand. Turn on abandoned cart recovery so buyers who leave checkout get a reminder.⁶

Squarespace suits artists who want a polished portfolio first and a shop alongside it. Brakebee offers the shop, the portfolio pages and a blog as well, and adds marketplace reach, its own print lab and art fair tools on the same catalog.

Wix lets you create a site for free with no credit card, using thousands of templates, a drag-and-drop editor or an AI builder that creates a site from a single prompt.⁹ Free sites use a wixsite.com address, and premium plans add your own domain and remove Wix branding. Ecommerce and payments start on the Core plan and above, each plan includes a marketing suite that grows with the tier, and premium plans come with a 14-day money-back guarantee and 24/7 customer care.⁹ Plan prices are published on its site.

Wix suits artists who enjoy designing pages themselves and want a wide choice of templates. Brakebee also starts free, and its free shop includes cart and checkout from day one, along with marketplace, print and art fair tools.

Big Cartel is a shop builder for independent makers. It offers a free plan with limited features and a free trial on its paid plan, with custom domains, physical and digital products, shipping labels, shop design customization and apps for print-on-demand.¹⁰ Its top plan adds abandoned cart recovery, scheduled product drops and password-protected products.¹⁰ Plan prices are published on its pricing page.

Big Cartel suits artists starting with a small catalog who want a simple shop. Brakebee's free shop covers the same starting point and grows into marketplace sales, print-on-demand, art fairs and marketing without moving platforms.

A website sells when people find it and come back. Here is what each platform publishes about its marketing tools.

Social Central. Connect your own social accounts and publish from the Brakebee dashboard. A free amount of posting is included, and the add-on covers more. Leo and Luca, Brakebee's AI helpers, work out when to post and create original content, and you choose what gets published.⁸

Email blasts and drips. A blast sends one email to your own list, written in the dashboard and sent when you choose. A drip sends a series on a schedule you set, which works well for welcoming a new collector or following up after a show.⁸ Your list lives in the CRM, which is included free with every account.⁸

Managed Lines. For artists who would rather hand off the online side completely, Managed Lines is Brakebee's done-for-you program. Brakebee builds your catalog, runs a hosted website, schedules posts through Social Central, lists your work across the Brakebee marketplace, Etsy, Faire, Wayfair, Walmart, eBay and TikTok Shop where it fits, sends regular emails and turns artwork into print-on-demand products when it makes sense.¹¹ Marketing in the program is organic, with social posting, email, marketplace listings and search-friendly product pages. Brakebee states plainly that it cannot promise sales and commits to doing the work consistently. You keep the copyright to your original work and keep selling at your in-person shows. Pricing and terms are shared when you apply.¹¹

If you are still deciding where to sell, our guide on <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/how-to-sell-art-online">how to sell art online</a> walks through every option.

Wix and Big Cartel offer free plans, Shopify and Squarespace start with free trials, and Art Storefronts begins with a call. Brakebee starts with a free account that already includes a shop with cart and checkout.

Getting started

Squarespace and Wix give you templates and editors to shape yourself, and Art Storefronts gives you art-focused designs to edit. Brakebee gives you a free shop, a website plan, or a private custom design built for you in about a week.

Design

Shopify, Squarespace, Wix and Big Cartel sell from your own site. Brakebee sells from your site and a curated art marketplace on the same catalog.

Selling

Shopify, Squarespace and Big Cartel add print-on-demand through apps or integrations, and Art Storefronts runs its own fulfillment. Brakebee prints, packs and ships from its own lab in Phoenix.

Printing

Each platform includes email or marketing tools, and Art Storefronts adds coaching and an agency. Brakebee offers Social Central, email blasts and drips, an included CRM and done-for-you marketing through Managed Lines.

Marketing

Shopify and Squarespace offer point-of-sale tools. Brakebee covers the whole show, from finding events and applying with a saved jury packet to taking payment at the booth.

Art fairs

Shopify, Squarespace, Wix and Big Cartel publish plan prices, and Art Storefronts shares pricing after a call. Brakebee publishes its packages, its marketplace commission and its Custom Design pricing.

Pricing transparency

Every platform here can put your art online. If you want one catalog behind your website, a curated art marketplace, print-on-demand, art fair sales and marketing, Brakebee brings them together, and you can start with a free account today. For more on the print side, see our guide to <a href="https://brakebee.com/articles/best-print-on-demand-for-artists">print-on-demand for artists</a>.

¹ Brakebee, Custom Sites page: private design, shop and checkout, timeline, approval before launch, image protection, URL mapping. brakebee.com/custom-sites, confirmed Oct 14, 2026.

² Brakebee, Makers page: one catalog, free shop, marketplace and Verified Artist badge, connectors including Shopify order sync. brakebee.com/makers, confirmed Oct 14, 2026.

³ Brakebee, Features page: shop contents and SEO fields, website plan, marketplace, print-on-demand and print runs, art fair tools and Make a Sale, Wholesale Market. brakebee.com/makers/features, confirmed Oct 14, 2026.

⁴ Shopify, pricing page: platform overview, templates and prompt-built stores, hosting, social, marketplace and AI chat selling, point of sale, apps, email marketing, B2B catalogs, published plan prices. shopify.com, accessed Oct 14, 2026.

⁵ Art Storefronts, homepage and pricing page: member count, introductory call, designs, image security, fulfillment, CRM, email automation, marketing plan, workshops, community, agency. artstorefronts.com, accessed Oct 14, 2026.

⁶ Squarespace, pricing page: templates and editor, ecommerce on paid plans, Printful, point of sale, Facebook and Instagram sync, contacts panel, newsletter blocks, abandoned cart recovery, Mailchimp, free trial, published plan prices. squarespace.com, accessed Oct 15, 2026.

⁷ <a href="https://brakebee.com/custom-sites">Source: Website published prices as of 10/14/2026</a>

⁸ Brakebee, Makers page: free account, 15% marketplace commission with card processing included, no monthly marketplace fee, Social Central, email blasts and drips, CRM included, artist packages. <a href="https://brakebee.com/makers">Source: Website published prices as of 10/14/2026</a>

⁹ Wix, plans page: free plan with no card, templates, AI site builder, wixsite.com address, premium plan features, ecommerce on Core and above, marketing suites, money-back guarantee, customer care, published plan prices. wix.com, accessed Oct 15, 2026.

¹⁰ Big Cartel, pricing page: free limited plan, free trial, custom domains, products, shipping labels, design customization, print-on-demand apps, abandoned carts, product drops, Zapier, published plan prices. bigcartel.com, accessed Oct 15, 2026.

¹¹ Brakebee, Managed Lines page: program scope, marketplaces, organic marketing, no sales guarantee, ownership, pricing at application. brakebee.com/managed-lines, confirmed Oct 14, 2026.

Facts about other platforms reflect their websites on the date accessed and may change.

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