PodiumBase is a race-photo marketplace. Athletes find their photos by uploading a selfie, race directors recruit photographers for their events, and photographers get paid per event. One platform connects all three.

How do I find my race photos?

Find your race in the PodiumBase catalog, open its photo page, and upload one selfie — or search your bib number. Our matching engine returns the photos you appear in, usually in seconds.

Is my selfie and face data safe?

Your selfie is permanently deleted within 60 seconds of matching — we never store it. Face data is scoped to a single race and deleted when the event closes, and you can opt out of face matching anytime in your athlete settings. We never sell or rent biometric data.

How much does it cost?

Finding your photos is free; you only pay if you buy one, as a one-time license with no subscription. A single photo is $14.99 from a Pro photographer or $3.99 from a Community photographer.

How do race directors and photographers use PodiumBase?

Race directors post their event and recruit photographers (with a guaranteed floor or rep-only at $0); photographers opt into events, shoot, and get paid via Stripe — they keep 60% of every photo sale, and the race director earns 20% as a revenue share on top. Athletes get a personalized gallery of their own photos.

Pricing

What you see is what you pay.

No subscriptions, no hidden fees. Tax is shown at checkout, and every photo is a one-time purchase you keep.

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For athletes · buy your photos

Find yourself, then keep the shots.

Single photo

$14.99

Pro

One high-res photo, yours to keep.

Event pack

$24.99

Pro

Every shot of you from one photographer.

AllEventPass

$39.99

Best value

Every photo of you from every photographer at the event.

Single photo

$3.99

Community

A community-photographer shot of you.

Prices include tax where required · one-time purchase · no account fees · no auto-renew

Prints · shipped to your door

Put it on the wall.

Order any photo you own as a print or canvas. Shipped to your door, available on select events.

4 x 6 print

From

$7.99

8 x 10 print

From

$19.99

11 x 14 print

From

$29.99

Canvas 16 x 20

From

$59.99

Tax shown

The price covers tax where it is required, and any collected tax is itemized at checkout.

One-time purchase

No subscriptions, no auto-renew. You buy a photo once and keep it.

24-hour refunds

Bought the wrong shot or changed your mind? Start a refund within 24 hours.

Stripe-secured

Payments run on Stripe. PodiumBase never sees or stores your card details.

For photographers · what you keep

An honest split.

Per sale	Pro	Community
Single photo	$14.99	$3.99
You keep	60% · $8.99	60% · $2.39
Event pack	$24.99 · $14.99 kept	n/a
Payout	Stripe Connect	Stripe Connect

The platform’s share covers payment processing, hosting, face-and-bib matching, and fraud and dispute handling.

For race directors

You only pay when we bring you something.

A ladder of involvement: free photo coverage, host your registration, or earn club-driven signups.

01 · Photo coverage

Photo coverage

Free

We earn only when your runners buy photos. No fee to participate.

02 · Native registration

Host registration with us

$1 + 5%

Per signup, paid by the runner. Less than typical platforms, around 6% + $1, so you keep more of every entry.

03 · Club referrals

Club referrals

5% + club's share

Platform fee plus the club's negotiated share, only on registrations a local run club brings you. You pay nothing for signups you'd have gotten anyway.

The honest through-line: you only pay PodiumBase when we bring you registrations or host your checkout.

Custom or multi-event arrangements, talk to us

What people say

From both sides of the lens.

“The Monday after a race we used to get hundreds of where-are-my-photos emails. PodiumBase makes that number a rounding error.”

Race director

Regional road-race series

“Same-day delivery is what athletes remember. We rebuilt the post-race experience around it.”

Race director

Urban half-marathon

“Resumable uploads survived race-day Wi-Fi. Payouts cleared Monday without me chasing anything.”

Photographer

Brooklyn road series

Questions

The short answers

What is PodiumBase?: PodiumBase is a race-photo marketplace. Athletes find their photos by uploading a selfie, race directors recruit photographers for their events, and photographers get paid per event. One platform connects all three.
How do I find my race photos?: Find your race in the PodiumBase catalog, open its photo page, and upload one selfie — or search your bib number. Our matching engine returns the photos you appear in, usually in seconds.
Is my selfie and face data safe?: Your selfie is permanently deleted within 60 seconds of matching — we never store it. Face data is scoped to a single race and deleted when the event closes, and you can opt out of face matching anytime in your athlete settings. We never sell or rent biometric data.
How much does it cost?: Finding your photos is free; you only pay if you buy one, as a one-time license with no subscription. A single photo is $14.99 from a Pro photographer or $3.99 from a Community photographer.
How do race directors and photographers use PodiumBase?: Race directors post their event and recruit photographers (with a guaranteed floor or rep-only at $0); photographers opt into events, shoot, and get paid via Stripe — they keep 60% of every photo sale, and the race director earns 20% as a revenue share on top. Athletes get a personalized gallery of their own photos.

More for athletes: Find my race photos · Trust & safety

The details

Fine print, kept honest.

Payment processing

All payments on PodiumBase are processed by Stripe, Inc. Standard Stripe payment processing fees apply and are deducted by Stripe before the Stripe Connect distribution to the photographer and the Platform. Stripe’s terms govern the payment-processing relationship; see Section 7 of the Terms of Service for the cross-reference.

Photographer payouts

Photographers are paid out via Stripe Connect on Stripe’s standard payout schedule, typically T+2 business days for active accounts in good standing, though Stripe’s schedule governs the exact timing. Before any payouts can be issued, photographers must complete Stripe Connect onboarding, including identity verification and connecting a bank account, directly with Stripe. PodiumBase does not hold photographer funds; Stripe does, per Stripe’s Connected Account Agreement.

Taxes

Prices displayed to buyers include applicable sales tax or VAT where PodiumBase is required to collect under the buyer’s jurisdiction tax law. Where collection is required, the tax amount is itemized at checkout. Photographers are responsible for income reporting and any associated income, self-employment, or business taxes in their own jurisdiction.

Refunds

Refunds are governed by the Refund Policy. In summary: there is a 24-hour buyer self-service refund window from time of purchase, plus a discretionary dispute-resolution process for documented issues raised within 14 days. Purchases are also subject to the Terms of Service. The Refund Policy is authoritative; the summary here is informational.

Currency

All transactions on PodiumBase are denominated in U.S. dollars (USD) at launch. Buyers outside the U.S. will see their card issuer’s standard foreign-transaction fees and exchange rate applied at the time of charge; those fees are not assessed by PodiumBase. Multi-currency support is planned for a post-launch release.

Questions

Pricing or business-model questions: contact support@podiumbase.io or visit the Contact page.

Last revised June 13, 2026Terms of Service