News

20 April

Received the first message from the USA:
”I wanted to let you know I received my print in excellent condition in New Jersey, USA. Thank you again it looks great!”

15 April

The Store is now up and running. Thanks for your patience.

8 April

Thanks for quite a few messages via email or Instagram. My expectation is to be able to relaunch the checkout 15th April or soon after. Please DM or email me if you’d like a message to let you know when it’s about to reopen. Sorry for the delay!

31 March

I added a small link to danhays.net on my old website, danhays.org, last week, and I’ve had more enquiries about when the store checkout will reopen after pausing to verify everything went well with the first wave of orders.

But there is another issue holding things up. The hosting platform, Squarespace, are taking time to verify my status in order to receive payouts from them, which takes 15 days or longer. This is a normal procedure, carried out with all new selling sites, which I should have been aware of before excitedly launching this website. Thinking about it, I can understand the need to thoroughly check my credentials (I’m guessing to counter fraud and other forms of illegality). But not expecting a delay, I missed this information in their guide amid the steep learning-curve of dozens of other pages about design, setting up the product, shipping prices, etc. - as well as connecting seamlessly to theprintspace’s creativehub - which all went well.

Payments need to be in place to ensure automated printing and shipping costs are covered, especially if I receive a substantial number of orders. Better safe than sorry.

I’ll post here when the store checkout is ready to relaunch, before publicising this website more widely a day or two later.

27 March

Received the first messgage from a buyer in the UK:
“Received the print today, Dan. Very happy with it, excellent quality paper and ink. Very well packaged. Will look amazing in our house. Thank you.”

My reply: “That’s so great to hear! Such a relief! Thanks for letting me know. I can feel confident to promote the print more now.”

24 March

Store temporariliy closed for testing

Orders already placed (thank you!) are in the process of being printed, packed and shipped.

Being a new venture (launched 21 March 2025) - with orders coming in quickly - I feel the need to verify that everything is working properly between myself, the web server (Squarespace) and the printer/shipper (theprintspace) - to check prints are smoothly ordered, packed and shipped over the next few days. I don’t have any particular concerns, but before I publicise the website more widely, it seems sensible to pause and check with the first wave of buyers that everything is as it should be on receiving their prints.

Normal service should hopefully resume soon. Thanks for your patience.