Ferio

The Ferio image library, framed on a warm backdrop

An image library sold as a membership, built and run on Stripe.

Ferio is a subscription image library for designers. Every image is generated in house, then curated, named and rights cleared before it reaches the library. There is no cart and no inventory: the product is access, so we built the store as a members app. Plans are sold through Stripe Checkout and members manage them on their own in the Stripe Customer Portal, with no Shopify store behind it. Ferio is owned by a creative studio; Displace built the library, the studio behind it and the billing, and runs the whole system. We build stores on Shopify, and custom stores on Stripe or another payment provider when the business needs its own checkout.

IndustryDesign tools
Membership on Stripe
How Ferio works

A library is not a catalogue.

Nobody adds an image to a basket; members subscribe, browse and download within their plan.

Browsing the Ferio library

The store is the app.

Search, moodboards, team seats and downloads live in one place, and the plan decides what each member can do.

Joining Ferio
Ferio plans
Ferio features

Billing never needed a custom checkout.

Stripe Checkout sells the plans and the Customer Portal lets members upgrade, downgrade or cancel on their own.

"When the product is access, the storefront has to be the product itself. We built Ferio as an app first and a store second, and Stripe carries the money quietly underneath."

Displace

Studio note

Services

Product design
Members app
Curation studio
Moodboards
Team workspaces
Stripe Checkout
Customer Portal
Watermarked previews
Download allowances
Welcome flow
Transactional email
Hosting and monitoring

Features

Subscription plans
Monthly and yearly billing
Self serve plan changes
Google sign in
Curation queue
Moodboards
Team seats
Download caps

Results

  • Live on its own domain

    The library, the studio and billing run as one system, opening to members in stages.

  • Access enforced where it counts

    Watermarked previews and monthly download allowances are enforced by the database, not the interface.

  • Billing without a support desk

    Members buy, change and cancel plans on their own through Stripe.

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