Art.industries vs Artlogic

Where Artlogic fits

Artlogic is a deeply established platform used by 5,500+ galleries, with a mature website offering and a long-running consultant ecosystem. Galleries already on it for five-plus years know the workflow well; the migration cost in trained staff and templated sites is real.

Where artists, galleries, and collectors pick Art.industries

Teams switch when per-employee renewals outpace the team, when deals and commerce still live in separate tools, or when opening RSVPs still live in Eventbrite. Artlogic handles gallery deals well; commerce often means another CMS or sync hop, and collector self-service often means Artlogic Collector as a separate product. Art.industries keeps both on one record: viewing rooms and pipeline for coordinated sales, storefront checkout and Website Studio for self-serve commerce, Stripe-direct payments, a built-in collector client portal for invoices and installment pay, and built-in events and ticketing on your public site. Multi-location tracking lives on the same status graph as availability and sales, not a separate tab to reconcile. Artists selling editions, galleries running fairs, and collectors tracking loans hit the same wall. Art.industries prices per workspace and keeps one record per work across invoices, rooms, and site.

Four tools, or one record

Most art businesses run archival software for inventory, a site builder for their public face, a commerce platform for checkout, and Eventbrite (or similar) for opening RSVPs and ticket sales. Four systems means four copies of price, availability, edition counts, and guest lists.

Art.industries unifies archival depth, website publishing, storefront commerce, and events and ticketing on one live record—no Eventbrite embed or spreadsheet reconciliation after every opening. The sections below compare a specific product on deals, commerce, and collector experience, not which single dimension they happen to excel at.

Simple tiers: pay for what you use, subscription only

Art.industries has three workspace plans (Core, Advanced, and Max), not a stack of paid modules. Inventory, CRM, viewing rooms, pipeline, consignments, Website Studio, storefront checkout, email campaigns, and events are included in the tier you pick. You are not buying a Gallery Management module, a Marketing module, and a Website module separately, and you are not stacking Shopify-style apps so inventory talks to the cart.

You pay for what you use: start on free Core for the full deals stack; upgrade to Advanced when you need public commerce on your domain; choose Max when unlimited capacity is simpler than counting seats. Optional capacity applies only when you outgrow included works, workspace members, artists, or email sends, spelled out in the pricing simulator, not buried in a renewal call.

We do not take a percentage of your sales or add a platform fee on top of Stripe. Invoices and storefront checkout run on your Stripe account; funds settle to you. Your bill from us is the subscription fee for the tier you chose; nothing else on each transaction.

Deals and commerce: what each platform actually covers

Art businesses 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, deal-focused CRMs handle private sales 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.

Switching from Artlogic

Export your works and contacts from Artlogic to CSV, then run the Art.industries import: it suggests a column mapping with AI, you adjust it, and a validation preview runs before anything is committed. Inventory records, contact records, and inventory numbers map cleanly; viewing rooms and website templates are rebuilt in Website Studio rather than copied. Most teams complete the operational migration in 2-3 weeks while the old system stays read-only.

Pricing: per employee vs per workspace

Artlogic Essential starts at $205/month for a single employee, and each additional employee raises the bill at every tier. Art.industries Core is free with no card, and Advanced is $30/month for the whole workspace, whatever the headcount. Put your real team size into both quotes and compare against the pricing matrix before renewal.

Multi-location: location fields vs the core graph

Artlogic handles locations seriously: Location records, bulk updates, QR stock checks (beta), and location history on the Location/Shipping tab.

Art.industries marks each move on the work's Status timeline: link Address records for storage, fair booths, and lender venues; filter `/works` by location; batch-update fair returns without overwriting history. The same row drives availability, consignments, exhibitions, and invoices, not a separate module to sync with sales.

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.

Many art-business 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.