2000 headquarters san francisco california key people manas chaliha vice president and general manager products photo sharing photo products owner district photo website www.snapfish.com snapfish is a web based photo sharing and photo printing service owned by district photo . snapfish is based in san francisco california . members can upload files for free and are given unlimited photo storage . contents 1 history 2 features 2.1 sharing 2.2 photo products 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit snapfish was launched in 1999 by business partners rajil kapoor bala parthasarathy 1 suneet wadhwa and shripati acharya . 2 ben nelson joined soon thereafter as corporate development operations lead to become cfo and later president . 3 in 2005 snapfish was bought by hp . 4 while hp did not disclose the acquisition sum a merrill lynch report estimated that hp may have paid between 300 and 400 million for snapfish while snapfish s revenue was less than 100 million . 2 snapfish co founder raj kapoor confirmed in a 2011 interview that the acquisition price was 300 million . 5 in 2004 snapfish opened a physical retail concept store in alexandria virginia but they later closed the retail store . 6 as of 2007 snapfish claimed to have 40 million members and to host 1 billion digital pictures . in august 2013 snapfish announced on their local websites and through a mailing to members that they were shutting down the service in the following countries belgium india the netherlands and spain . 7 they advised existing users to use pixum and photojaanic as a replacement service . in april 2015 hp reached an agreement to sell snapfish back to district photo . under the terms of the sale hp allowed the company to continue to use its printing services . 8 features edit most snapfish features are free . however if members want to download high resolution or original copies of their own uploaded images snapfish charges a per image fee for each download . from 26 january 2012 snapfish stopped charging members for downloading their pictures . 9 sharing edit snapfish members can share photo albums individual photos animated snapshows group rooms or snapfish products . members can share via email link url and to various other web services such as facebook blogger and myspace . like facebook and unlike flickr a snapfish account is required to view shared photos . an invitation sent from a member to view their photos on snapfish would require the recipient to create a snapfish account before viewing . snapfish offers a service called group rooms for sharing amongst many members . photo products edit snapfish collects revenue from personalized photo products such as prints photo books cards and mugs . snapfish members can personalize their products in several ways such as adding their photos and in some cases adding captions or designed templates . depending on the product snapfish usa supports retail pickup at meijer walgreens and cvs . see also edit snapfish lab a service of hp labs references edit bala parthasarathy co founder of snapfish joins canvera s board . february 16 2012 . archived from the original on 10 january 2013 . a b hp to acquire leading online photo service snapfish . silicon india . march 31 2005 . archived from the original on 10 january 2013 . snapfish management team . snapfish . april 2008 . archived from the original pdf on 10 january 2013 . hp to acquire leading online photo service snapfish . palo alto calif. hp . march 21 2005 . archived from the original on 10 january 2013 . gould jay dec 8 2011 . early role models inspired raj kapoor to co found snapfish before selling it for 300 million . archived from the original on 10 january 2013 . we ended up getting a 300 million offer for cash and a long term relationship with district photo . snapfish opens premier concept store brings online photo services to retail . hp . exclusive hp shuts photosharing & printing service snapfish in india & 3 other countries . robinson tony 21 april 2015 . hewlett packard to sell snapfish operation to district photo . bloomberg business . retrieved 31 august 2015 . snapfish help product pricing external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title snapfish & oldid 743700036 categories image hostingcompanies established in 2000companies based in san franciscophoto sharinginternet properties established in 2000online companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais portugu s edit links 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