A lot of platforms are happy to look affordable at first—and expensive later.
We prefer the opposite.

NowCandid™ is built to support photographers long-term, which means our pricing is designed to be easy to understand, easy to plan around, and easier to live with as your volume grows. When you’re running real events—schools, sports, graduations, leagues—the last thing you need is a platform that nickel-and-dimes you for the core tools required to deliver and sell images.

The Simple Part: Two Fees, No Subscriptions

With NowCandid, your costs are straightforward:

• 5% e-commerce fee
• 3% payment processing fee

That’s it.

There’s no subscription fee and no onboarding fee, so you’re not paying monthly just to keep your account active—or paying extra just to get started.

The Important Part: No Surprise Add-Ons

Many platforms charge extra for the features that actually make your events run smoothly. NowCandid includes the tools high-volume photographers rely on without tacking on separate line items.

Here’s what you don’t pay extra for:

• No fees on sales tax collected
• No extra charge for background removal
• No extra charge for automatic exposure correction
• No extra charge for image storage
• No extra charge for automated SMS + email marketing tools
• No extra charge for white-labeling
• No extra charge for Face Matching™
• At least 20 years of image hosting included

That’s the difference between a platform that adds tools later and a platform that includes the tools up front.

Why This Matters for Real Photographers

When the platform includes the tools you actually need, two good things happen:

1) You keep more margin on every order

If your costs don’t balloon as you scale, more of every sale stays with you—without you having to raise prices just to cover software overhead.

2) Your workflow gets simpler

You don’t have to stitch together multiple services (and multiple bills) to accomplish basic event goals like:

• identifying subjects
• delivering galleries quickly
• protecting images
• marketing via text/email
• selling through a modern checkout

Those pieces are part of the core system—because they’re not “extras” in real event photography.

The Takeaway

NowCandid is built to support photographers—not squeeze them. Our pricing model is intentionally structured so that the platform remains sustainable for your business as you grow, and so that more of what you earn stays with you.

If you want a platform that’s designed for high-volume reality—and doesn’t charge extra for the essentials—NowCandid is built for you.

Pricing Disclaimer

Pricing, fees, and included features listed in this article are accurate as of the original publication date and may change over time. For the most current pricing and terms, please contact our team.

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Hey photo friends! 👋
This week’s updates bring a mix of AI editing power, cleaner review tools, and a small boost to retail conversion clarity—plus a helpful Android Capture App fix.

Let’s jump in. 💫

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🧠 Auto Editor (BETA)— AI Edit an Entire Event or Folder

We’re rolling out an Auto Editor (Beta) that can automatically AI-edit:

• • All images in an event, or
• • All images in a specific folder

Auto Editor is powered by Candy Image Studio (same nodes, same pricing), and edited images keep their existing matches—just like when you run Candy Image Studio on an event image.

Important notes:

• • You are billed per image edit.
• • This is a BETA feature—we recommend testing on yourself (or doing one-offs in Candy Image Studio) before relying on it for a real event.
• • Auto Editor can run up to 60 days after the event start date, similar to other event workflows.

Common use cases

• • Light face retouching
• • Fix subject lighting
• • Reduce glare on glasses
• • Remove alcohol
• • Add green screens

Fun use cases

• • Automatic glamour looks
• • Anime style
• • Chibi style
• • Anything you can build with a custom text node

Where to find it

• • On an Event page in the Dashboard sidebar, near JerseyJotter and Candy Culler‍
• • The folder selector will show whether you’re running an Event Edit or a Folder Edit‍
• • The Event List will show an Auto Editor attribute for events that used it (and includes an Auto Editor filter)
• • EMP also shows the Auto Editor attribute on its event list page

🎨 Candy Image Editor + Manage Images Improvements

A few upgrades landed that make AI editing and review smoother:

• • New node: Alcohol Remover is now available in Candy Image Editor.
• • Replace uploaded images more easily (non-event images): you can drag a new image onto the one you already uploaded to replace it, instead of starting over.
• • New “Preview Original” option on Manage Images lightbox for AI-edited images uploaded from Candy Image Studio
  • • You can also toggle this view using \.

• • Manage Images search is faster (image searching performance improved).

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📣 Client Outreach: URL No Longer Required for Texts

Client Outreach texts no longer require a URL, but the system will show a warning if you try to send one without a link.

One important reminder: the number Client Outreach texts send from is different than the number used for automated event marketing—so recipients may not have any message history for context when they receive it.

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🏷️ PhotoTags Page: Clearer Counts

The Event PhotoTags page now shows Contacts and Participants as separate columns for better clarity.

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🛍️ Retail: Pay Later Badges (more visible financing options)

Retail now shows Apple Pay Later and PayPal Pay Later badges on the store sheet for items $30 or more.

A few notes:

• • Pay Later options have always been available—this change just makes them more obvious to customers.
• • This UI may be temporary and could be removed at any time.

Reminders on existing Pay Later availability:

• • Klarna & Affirm are available through Apple Pay for orders $35+‍
• • Some credit cards offer Pay Later through Apple Pay (eligibility varies)
• • Klarna, Affirm, and Zip are available through Google Pay for orders $35+‍
• • PayPal Pay Later (Pay in 4) is available for $30+‍
• • PayPal Pay Later (Pay Monthly) is available for $49+

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🤖 Android Capture App 5.5: Duplicate Image Fix

The Capture App on Android (v5.5, Google Play) now fixes an issue where some cameras were sending duplicate images to the app.

That’s the week! 💫

Between the new Auto Editor (Beta), smoother “preview original” review flows, and clearer Pay Later messaging on retail, this update is all about saving time and helping customers convert with less friction.

Keep creating magic,
— The NowCandid Team 🍬

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Hey photo friends! 👋
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This week’s updates are all about cleaner branding, smoother selling, and better visibility across your workflows—from a new profile/business logo system to big package configurator performance improvements, plus a long-awaited refresh of the Event Management Portal (EMP) ahead of grad season.

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Let’s jump in. 💫

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🖥️ Dashboard Updates

📣 Client Outreach: Texts now require a URL

Client Outreach SMS messages now require a URL to be included—helping ensure every text has a clear destination and call-to-action.

🧾 Reports: “Participants” terminology restored for accuracy

The Events Report, Compare Report, and Faces Report now use Participants instead of Contacts.
Reminder: a Contact is someone with info; a Participant is a contact with at least one image in their gallery. This avoids deflating stats with unmarketable contacts.

🧰 Candy Culler usability win

• Added a Download Image button to the Image Details lightbox on the Candy Culler page.

🖼️ Better controls in Participant lightboxes

• Added a visibility toggle to the Image Details lightbox on the Participant Details page.

🔍 New Event List filters

The Event List page now includes quick filters for:

• Background Removal events
• JerseyJotter events
• Candy Culler events

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🖼️ Offer background minimum lowered

You can now set your Offer background selection minimum to 5 (previously 20).

🚚 New flat-rate shipping option

Added $2.50 flat-rate shipping as an available shipping option.

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📱 Mobile Dashboard

• Fixed an issue where Friday weekly sales notifications were not sending.

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🏷️ New: Profile / Business Logos (Branding Upgrade)

You can now assign a business/profile logo—upload to your profile icon on the dashboard as a 650×650 image and automatically cropped to a circle.

Where it appears:

• Dashboard profile page + navigation
• Retail contact popup above your business name
• Receipt emails, web receipt preview, and the web receipt download page
• Event Management Portal (EMP) header beside your business name
• Private Image Download Gallery (PIDG) header
• Public Event Tag List page header

More placements are planned in the future—this is the first step toward a more consistent, professional brand presence everywhere your customers interact with you.

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🏷️ Event Tag List Page

• Improved UI for a cleaner, easier experience.

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🔒 Private Image Download Gallery (PIDG)

• Improved UI
• Added a note to the landing popup regarding released images

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🛍️ Retail Improvements (Big Week for Packages + Rendering)

🖼️ Captions render earlier for key products

Graduation Plaque and Titled Luxe Prints now render custom captions earlier in the process, rather than waiting until the captions step.

📦 Package configurator upgrades

The package configurator received several improvements:

• Added pagination to the All Gallery tab in the “Next Package Item Image Picker” step
• Added a “Discard package progress?” popup when backing out after configuring at least one item to prevent accidental loss of progress
• Fixed an edge-case crash on mobile when configuring large packages in offers with 3D items
• Overall package configurating is now much more performant

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🧩 Z-Crop improvements

Several improvements were made to ZCrop images to improve behavior and consistency.

🏷️ Group photo refresh fix

Fixed user-added dynamic gallery group photos showing as not group after refresh.

🎨 Background order consistency

Custom offer background order now matches the order in the offer details editor—drag and drop reordering on the dashboard offer editor.

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📸 Capture App (iOS & Android OTA): 5.4.3 + 5.4.4

• 5.4.3: Fixed a crash when toggling a Group Photo without any service
• 5.4.4: Fixed a keypad popup issue on very large screens (like 13” iPad) where opt-in/cancel buttons were being cropped out

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🧾 Event Management Portal (EMP) — Major Refresh (quic.pics/portal)

Quick reminder: the Event Management Portal (EMP) is a mini-dashboard on quic.pics that uses the Capture App login—so you can do “dashboard-like” tasks without downloading an app or using a full account login. It hasn’t been talked about much lately, but this week it got a big refresh in preparation for grad season.

What’s new:

• Improved security
• Tons of UI changes and a new dark-only theme
• Event list page now includes a search bar
• Event list page updated to “Live on Capture App” (instead of “Active”)
• Event list page shows attributes like the main Dashboard + adds an Event Number column
• Header now shows business name and logo
• Fixed a crash on the Marketing History page
• Added text/email filter on Marketing History
• Images now use lightboxes with arrow key navigation
• Participant Details now shows Additional Contacts
• Participant Details now shows Invisible images

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That’s the week! 💫

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Between profile/business logos, a smoother package configurator, better report accuracy, and the EMP glow-up for grad season, this update should help you move faster, look more professional, and reduce friction across the whole customer experience.

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Keep creating magic,
— The NowCandid Team 🍬

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