Feature Updates

Big News: Explore the New NowCandid Retail Site Features! 🌟

Candy

August 21, 2024

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Hey there, awesome photographers!

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Candy here, and I’m so excited to share some incredible updates that are live on the NowCandid retail site.

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We’ve been hard at work making your clients' shopping experience smoother, faster, and more enjoyable. Let’s dive into the fantastic new features that are sure to elevate client satisfaction and boost your sales! 📸✨

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Seamless Third-Party Logins 🔐

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We know how important it is for your customers to have quick and easy access to their galleries and order history. That’s why we’ve introduced third-party login options!

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Now, your clients can save their galleries and order history by logging in with their preferred platform—X/Twitter, Google, Apple, or Facebook. It’s all about convenience and keeping their memories just a click away!

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Sleek and Modern UI 🎨

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The NowCandid retail site has undergone a major facelift! Our new interface is clean, modern, and minimalist, with a step-by-step ordering process that makes purchasing photos easier than ever.

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The site was built mobile-first to ensure the ideal mobile phone experience, recognizing that mobile traffic has become a huge chunk of retail web traffic in recent years, especially with the effectiveness of SMS marketing that NowCandid provides.

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Whether your customers are browsing on a computer or mobile device, the improved look ensures a seamless and enjoyable experience.

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Instant Product Rendering 🖼️

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Curious about how your clients' photos will look on different products? We’ve got you covered! As soon as they select a photo, it instantly renders on most products in our gallery. Plus, when adding certain products to their cart, customers can choose different colors and art styles, and input text fields—all of which will render as they make their choices.

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This means your clients can see exactly how their image will appear on prints, canvases, and more as they peruse the product list and customize their orders. This visual preview is sure to enhance their shopping experience!

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AI Background Generator for BGR Images 🤖🎨

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Get creative with your background-removed (BGR) images using our new AI Background Generator! Now, your end customers can type in text prompts to generate fun and unique backgrounds for their photos.

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Whether they want a beach scene, a starry night, or something entirely imaginative, the AI will bring their vision to life. The possibilities are endless and sure to delight your clients!

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Retouch All Switch ✨

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We know your clients want their photos to look their best, so we’ve added a “Retouch All” switch during checkout. With just a flip, they can apply light retouching to everything in their cart.

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This retouching includes slight blemish reduction, smoothing of complexion, red-eye removal, teeth whitening, and eye brightening. It’s the perfect way to ensure their prints are picture-perfect! While also generating you additional revenue.

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Diamond Gloss Upsell 💎

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Looking to add a little extra shine to your clients' prints? Our new Diamond Gloss upsell option lets them do just that!

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For a few extra dollars, they can add a glossy coating to their prints, giving them a luxurious, high-quality finish that they’ll love.

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In the future, we will be adding more unique print upsells, stay tuned!

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Improved Express Checkout 🚀

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Time is precious, and we want to make checking out as fast as possible for your photo subjects! With our improved express checkout UI, they can now breeze through their purchase with Apple Pay.

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And we’re not stopping there—Google Pay and PayPal express checkout options are coming soon, with more to follow in the future!

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Other Exciting Features 🌟

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We’ve packed in even more updates to enhance your clients' experience:

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Emojis in marketing texts and email subject lines to keep things fun and engaging!
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Automatic name pre-fill (when name is available) on applicable products for a personalized touch.
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New, sleek designs for Selfie Check-In and Scan Card Check-In web pages.
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Improved URL and shareability with our new primary retail URL: www.quic.pics
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The Photo Synthesis gallery allows customers to view all their images from past events in one place via their account settings.
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Nicer-looking receipts and custom sender addresses (your-business-name@quic.pics) for a polished presentation.
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Server-related improvements for quicker website loading, ensuring a fast and smooth experience for your clients.
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These changes are designed to improve client satisfaction and increase your sales totals. We’re beyond excited about these enhancements, and we know your customers will love them!

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As always, if you have any questions or need help navigating these new features, we’re here to assist you.

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Thank you for being part of the NowCandid community!

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Cheers and sparkles,

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Candy 🍬

Feature Updates

March 7, 2023

New Reporting Feature

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Recently, we rolled out a much-needed reporting tool for our NowCandid™ users!

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Two new reporting tools that will be able to give you a macro view into your business’s performance, as well as a lot of helpful data and analytics on your events!

Tool #1, the Sales Report:

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This report focuses on reporting all your sales within a date range! It’s filterable by which NowCandid™ program you’re using as well and can report your sales by day or your sales by month. Once you have your date range, filters, and date format set, you’ll get a reactive bar graph as well as a series of totals and averages for your sales performance within that date range! This report is great for quickly getting an idea of your overall income and margin.

Tool #2, the Events Report:

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This second report is where you can really dig into your various metrics. Instead of reporting on all sales during a date range, when you choose a date range, you’re selecting all the events that have a Start Date within that date range. Those events and their totals will be what’s included in this report! So residual sales on older events would not be included like they would be in the Sales Report. After you choose a date range, this report can also be filtered by NowCandid™ program!

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You can also choose whether to include $0 sale test events you may have made, so that you don’t drag down your averages on this report. If there are any non-$0 sale events you don’t want included, you can click the checkbox by the event to remove it from your total and averages as well! And lastly, once the information you are interested in is being displayed to you, you can export the data to preserve as a spreadsheet on your own device.

With several ways to look at your business’s performance, we believe these tools will be a great benefit to our users and help them make the most of their account with NowCandid™.

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Our users will no longer have to guess or run a separate spreadsheet to understand their business’ performance or their overall margins.

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Let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

Branding

March 3, 2023

Backprinting: The newest feature to promote your brand

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With NowCandid, we stress how we try to make everything as white-label as possible.

This week, we've officially implemented a new feature that promotes your brand and drives sales in yet another way: Backprinting! Going forward, your business name, your contact info and the retail support email address will be on the back of all standard print products ordered (with the ability to include your business logo coming soon). Plus, the back of the print includes a unique QR code that when scanned, directs back to that person's individual gallery from that event (even if scanned 10 years from now) so they can buy more prints and increase your residual sales long term! With this change, all NowCandid users will now be delivering an even higher quality product, promoting their brands more effectively than ever, booking more business, and bringing in more residual sales as the years go on.

We hope you are as excited as we are!

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Note: your business name will replace NowCandid in the example image.

How One Night Led to $15,000 in Social Photography Sales

Success Stories

December 12, 2022

How One Night Led to $15,000 in Social Photography Sales

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Amy Lombardo, and her photography group recently sent several photographers to a military ball and at the time of writing this article, had over $15,000 in sales! To accomplish this, Amy used Now Candid’s Party Pics Now program & Tap A Face workflow with 4 photographers at the event. Several of these photographers worked photo stations with backdrops Amy provided (gray backgrounds with flags bordering the background) while other photographers roamed the party taking posed photos of the guests.

$15,000 is a lot of sales for one social event already, but it is especially impressive when you consider the fact that this was Amy’s first Now Candid event.

Amy Lombardo had this advice for those considering using Now Candid for their next event: “Keep it simple and trust the process. … When planning my first Now Candid event, I was advised to not overcomplicate things and to not get hung up on some of the more minor details. Following through with how the system is intended to work turned out very well for us!”

Thanks for trusting the process Amy! We wish you many successful events to come. To see Amy’s entire video testimonial, click the play button below.

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Big News: Explore the New NowCandid Retail Site Features! 🌟

Hey there, awesome photographers!

Seamless Third-Party Logins 🔐

Sleek and Modern UI 🎨

Instant Product Rendering 🖼️

AI Background Generator for BGR Images 🤖🎨

Retouch All Switch ✨

Diamond Gloss Upsell 💎

Improved Express Checkout 🚀

Other Exciting Features 🌟

As always, if you have any questions or need help navigating these new features, we’re here to assist you.

Related articles

New Reporting Feature

Recently, we rolled out a much-needed reporting tool for our NowCandid™ users!

Tool #1, the Sales Report:

Tool #2, the Events Report:

With several ways to look at your business’s performance, we believe these tools will be a great benefit to our users and help them make the most of their account with NowCandid™.

Backprinting: The newest feature to promote your brand

How One Night Led to $15,000 in Social Photography Sales

Let’s get in touch

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text