AREAL MEDIA, SINCE 2004
The software house behind SUNPICS.125 million images later.
Founded in 2004 in Braga, Portugal. We build one product for the photography and printing market, and we answer the helpdesk ourselves.
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United KingdomTHE COMPANY
Founded in 2004. One market, one product.
Areal Media works in the photography and printing market. Every day the team improves our software, SUNPICS, and looks after the helpdesk experience of every partner running on it.
In professional photography we set out to be a supplier of online IT solutions and services. We are strongly committed to customer satisfaction, and to adding value to what our clients and partners already do.
We get there through people: specialists in strategic consultancy, graphic design and programming, working side by side on the same product.
We intend to keep growing, and to keep generating satisfaction for the customers and business partners we already have.
Do you know how our customers rate our support tickets?
Client satisfaction rating 4.98 out of 5 stars
Based on 2,672 client reviews
THE SOFTWARE
Every printable product, configured once.
SUNPICS creates and customises photobooks, calendars, photos, gifts, prints, canvas, cards, posters, multicanvas and more.
Create and configure your products with everything they need, from the first page size to the last option in the catalogue.
Your customers work in the most powerful online editor on the market, in the browser, with the whole catalogue in front of them.
Simple, practical and more effective, with all the settings the job actually needs.
SUNPICS 3D
Turn the pages before you order.
The #1 easy-to-use photo commerce software with 3D preview. Customers flip through a photobook on the platform as if they were holding the album, and order completion rises by up to 70%.
- ✓Navigation that is intuitive and smooth.
- ✓Detailed page views with impressive clarity.
- ✓Multiple themes and background music options.
- ✓An experience worth sharing with friends and family.
MULTIPLATFORM
Your customers order from wherever they are.
With our software your customers can create designs and place orders from anywhere. SUNPICS has an excellent conversion rate, which is indispensable for any photo commerce business.
Android and Apple iOS.
Windows, Mac and Linux.
IN NUMBERS
What the platform has handled so far.
Counted across every client store running on SUNPICS, from single studios to national labs.
More than 90 print businesses run on SUNPICS.Our developers and designers work across a wide range of print businesses, and we are proud of how varied that work is. Our clients sell holiday photo books, calendars, business cards, greeting cards and much more.
THE A-TEAM
Fourteen people build and support SUNPICS.
Programming, design, strategic consultancy and helpdesk, working from the same office in Braga.
Pedro VelosoCEO | Founder
Hugo MarquesCIO | Founder
Alexandre BarreirosCTO | Team Leader
Sofia VelosoMarketing Manager
Filipa AraújoExecutive Assistant
André FeioFull Stack Developer
Emerson OliveiraFull Stack Developer
Samuel CostaFull Stack Developer
Ricardo FernandesWooCommerce Developer
Vítor TeixeiraWooCommerce Developer
Nuno CunhaHelpdesk | WordPress Developer
Tiago MoreiraHelpdesk
Sérgio CruzTester | Developer
Luís AraújoConsultantTESTIMONIALS
What our partners say, in their words.
Seven clients, from Portugal to Australia. One of them has been with us since 2011.
Sunpics responded to the great specificities of Floricolor products and simplified the entire ordering process.
Tiago YuCEO, Floricolor (Portugal)
QUALITY POLICY
A standard we can be held to.
AREAL MEDIA - Software Development, Co, strives to provide services of excellence, with the goal of permanently satisfying its clients and stakeholders and meeting legal requirements. Every person in the company is expected to commit to continuous customer satisfaction.
- Continuously improve the quality of the management system by setting periodic goals.
- Develop and improve the range of services and products.
- Improve the performance of our processes.
- Satisfy clients and stakeholders.
- Guarantee the resources the organization requires.
The quality management system applies to the activities developed by Areal Media, namely software development on a web platform, and the implementation and management of IT solutions for professional photographers and labs. Areal Media holds the Inovadora COTEC 2025 certification and the Scoring TOP 5% 2025 seal.
CONTACT
Braga, five minutes from the train station.
We would like to hear about your photo-finishing business and where you want to take it online. Write to us and the team in Braga will answer.
Our office is in the city of Braga, near the train station. Five minutes by car from there, and perhaps three for a crow. The gas station is the landmark.
- Phone
- +351 253 181 150Call to the Portuguese national landline network.
- info@arealmedia.com
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