Comparison
Art.industries vs ArtBinder
ArtBinder is the iPad-first sales tool, polished for fair-week presentation. Art.industries adds the rest of the gallery operating loop and a public site to the same record.
At a glance
| Capability | Art.industries | ArtBinder |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | YesPer-workspace, no per-seat tax | N/APricing-on-request beyond the headline |
| Free plan (no card) | YesCore, no card required | NoDemo only, no free tier |
| Artwork cataloguing | Yes | YesPremium (single tier) |
| Editions & print runs | YesEdition runs; commit on sale | YesEditions in inventory record |
| CRM with activity history | YesTimeline, custom fields | YesContact Manager |
| Private viewing rooms | YesPer-recipient grants, analytics; redacted when confidential | YesCurated Virtual Viewing Rooms |
| Real-time viewing room alerts | YesLive alerts on opens and artwork views | N/ANot advertised on pricing page |
| Stripe-direct payments | YesYour Stripe account; credit notes | N/ACredit Card Payments; processor not specified |
| Multi-currency invoicing | YesDeposits, instalments, refunds | YesCurrency Conversion at object level |
| Consignment splits + statements | YesMulti-party splits, sub-consignment, three-way; statements; confidential; portal | PartialConsignment forms; splits not detailed |
| Consignor portal | YesShare-link portal | PartialConsignment forms only |
| Sales pipeline / offer tracking | YesBoard, holds, offer emails | PartialSales workflow on iPad; no web pipeline advertised |
| Public website on own domain | YesWebsite Studio on custom domain | NoNo public-website builder advertised |
| Web storefront | YesCart, checkout; print-on-demand on Advanced | NoNo public storefront advertised |
| Built-in events & ticketing | YesFree RSVP, waitlist, paid tickets via Stripe on your site | NoNo events or ticketing advertised |
| Multilingual app & publishing | Yes7-language app; multilingual sites, rooms, and PDF exports | N/ANot advertised |
| Email campaigns + segments | YesBroadcasts, contact filter segments | NoEmail/messaging share only |
| AI workspace agent | YesPlaybooks, tool-calling actions | NoNot advertised |
| Collector client portal | YesInvoices, Stripe pay, rooms, owned works | PartialClient presentation on iPad |
| Native iPhone + iPad app | NoComing soon | YesMobile iOS App since 2010, offline access |
Source: www.artbinder.com (verified 2026-06-18).
Where ArtBinder fits
ArtBinder has been the iPad-first inventory and sales tool since 2010, with strong offline support and a polished presentation flow that fair teams trust. For galleries whose primary digital touchpoint is an iPad in a fair booth, the workflow is well-suited.
Where teams pick Art.industries
ArtBinder is strong on fair-week deals—presentation, rooms, and iPad sales—but stops before commerce: no public-website builder, no storefront checkout, no email-campaign tooling, and generic credit-card capture instead of Stripe-direct invoicing. Art.industries covers the deals loop you already trust ArtBinder for, then adds commerce and publishing on the same record—a native iOS app is not available yet but is coming soon.
Deals and commerce: what each platform actually covers
Galleries sell in two modes that most software conflates. Deals are coordinated private sales—viewing rooms, holds, negotiated offers, consignor splits, deposits, and invoices. Commerce is self-serve public checkout for editions, books, and multiples at fixed prices.
Art.industries runs both modes on shared inventory records: mark a work room-only, storefront-eligible, or both; either path updates availability when a sale closes. Many competitors skew toward one mode—gallery CRMs handle deals but force a second catalogue for the website; Shopify-style tools handle commerce but miss holds, consignments, and confidential rooms.
Use the matrix below to see which side each product actually covers, not which checkout widget they advertise.
Collector portals: one home instead of forwarded links
Collectors usually receive one-off links—a viewing room grant, an invoice payment email, a Stripe checkout URL—each minted and forwarded by staff. Art.industries gives every collector contact a branded client portal on one share link: open invoices with PDF download, pay balances and installments through your Stripe account, revisit shared viewing rooms, review owned works and shop orders, and open diligence documents—scoped to that contact only.
Most gallery CRMs stop at emailing payment links. Some sell a separate collector product (Artlogic Collector is a distinct module). The Collector client portal row in the matrix below shows who ships a persistent, self-service collector home inside the same workspace as invoicing and rooms.
FAQ
- Does Art.industries have an iOS app?
- Not yet. A native iPhone and iPad app is not available today but is coming soon. Until then, use the web app in Safari on iPad—it reads the same record the registrar edits on desktop.
- Can we keep ArtBinder for sales and use Art.industries for the rest?
- Most galleries find that running two products doubles the data-entry surface. The fair-week sales loop benefits more from one system that connects viewing rooms to invoices and the public site than two parallel ones.
- Does Art.industries take a percentage of sales?
- No. You connect your own Stripe account; funds settle directly to you. Stripe takes its standard processing fee.
- How do we migrate our existing data?
- CSV import for works and contacts with field mapping and a validation pass. Most teams finish the operational inventory migration in 2-3 weeks.
- Does Art.industries work in languages other than English?
- Yes. The app runs in seven languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese), and the same records publish multilingual public sites, viewing rooms, and PDF exports. If your collectors or your team work across languages, check this against any platform on your shortlist.
- How do we know the comparison is honest?
- Every competitor cell links to a public source on their own site, with the date we last verified the claim. Anything we cannot verify is marked N/A, never asserted.
See if Art.industries fits your practice
Start on free Core, import 30 works, send a viewing room, mint a collector portal link, and take a Stripe payment. If the operational loop works on a slice, the rest of your workspace will too.