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Welcome to Artshell: A Getting Started Guide

This introductory guide is designed to help you get familiar with Artshell and start organizing, managing, and showcasing your collection, gallery, or archive right away in a simple and effective way.

This article serves as a starting point: here you'll find all the links you need to set up your account and quickly access the main sections.

Step 1. Set up your profile

Before you start using Artshell, we recommend that you complete the initial setup of your account.

It only takes a few steps to prevent future slowdowns and ensure a smooth user experience.

Here's what we suggest you do:

1. Set up your basic information: complete your user profile, upload your logo, and configure any venues associated with your account.
2. Verify your email address: this is essential for sending communications. You can also add additional sender addresses if needed.
3. Add your Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions: these are essential for sending emails and newsletters, as well as for your online presence.
4. If you have a Premiere account, set permissions for your team under "Users and Roles."

Step 2. Start adding content to your account

Now you can start exploring and customizing your account. Begin by taking some time to explore the Artshell Dashboard and its main sections:

1. The Artshell Desk
2. The Artists Section
3. The Artworks Section
4. The Contacts section

Imported with support from the Artshell team

If you have a particularly large collection, we recommend using our Concierge Service: our team will assist you with importing large amounts of data. Click here to learn more about Artshell’s Concierge Service.

Or contact our team directly at sales@artshell.eu

Import on your own

If, on the other hand, you prefer to do this on your own, you can follow our guides on uploading data via Excel files:

• Importing Artworks
• Importing Contacts

Step 3. Get everything ready to send emails and newsletters

Artshell isn't just a digital archive—it also lets you send personalized, elegant, and professional messages to your Contacts.

Here's an example of a newsletter you can create:

• Newsletter Demo Edition

Before you begin, make sure you have correctly configured:

1. At least one verified email address.
2. Updated links to the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
3. DNS configuration to ensure optimal email delivery.
4. A newsletter sign-up form, if you'd like to collect new Contacts.

With Artshell, you can do so much more

Once you've set up your account and populated the database, you can start creating and sharing content.

Create an Insight

Insights in Artshell are like versatile, customizable web pages—a true digital whiteboard at your complete disposal. They are the ideal tool for presenting a project, publishing an in-depth article, telling the story of a work of art or an exhibition, or creating an artist’s portfolio.

Here are some examples of insights you could create, depending on your type of business:

• Example 1 - Digital Exhibition Catalog
• Example 2 - Opera Storytelling
• Example 3 - Artist Spotlight

To start creating your Insights, go to the section of the guide dedicated to Insights:

• Insight

or start by reading the introductory articles right away:

• Introduction to the Insights Section
• Create, edit, or delete an insight

Create an Event

Events on Artshell offer you a dedicated, unlimited space designed to showcase and organize every initiative of your business in the best possible way. They are the ideal tool for presenting an exhibition, announcing an opening, documenting a trade show, or sharing the schedule for a talk.

You can enhance your events with images, documents, and files, organize them using tags and lists for seamless management, and easily export them to Excel. Finally, share them with whoever you want: send them via email, generate a link to share in a chat, or post them on your social media channels.

Here are some examples of events you could create:

• Event with a selection of dates and time slots
• Invitation-only event
• Event with no date or time slot selection

To start creating your own events, go to the section of the guide dedicated to Insights:

• Events

or start by reading the introductory articles right away:

• Introduction to the Events section
• Create, edit, or delete an event

Export Your Artworks

With Artshell, you can export your Artworks and professionally, choosing from a variety of formats to suit your needs.

Whether you want to share a selection with a client, prepare a checklist for a trade show, or generate a presentation PDF, Artshell’s export tools let you create clear, elegant materials that are consistent with your visual identity.

You can export Artworks online links, email templates, or PDF files in various formats (portrait, landscape, or compact), as well as generate work checklists or print-ready labels. Each export can be customized by choosing which information to include—such as images, technical details, notes, or prices—and adapted to different presentation scenarios.

Check out some examples of exports you can create with Artshell:

• Link
• Email templates
• record in portrait orientation
• Checklist
• Tags

To get started, go to the section of the guide dedicated to exporting Artworks:

• Exporting and sharing artworks

Conclusions

This guide will walk you through your first steps in Artshell, but our software has much more to offer.

Explore all the features and start showcasing your collection today!

Need help? Our team is always available to assist you at support@artshell.eu.