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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*(retail theme: liquorice - watermarks: off)*

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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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*(retail theme: marshmallow - watermarks: off)*

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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 🍬

Scanner Identification Now Available in Our Microsoft Store App

Feature Updates

December 1, 2022

Scanner Identification Now Available in Our Microsoft Store App

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We have a new update now available for the Now Candid Microsoft Store App! This update has several quality of life changes and logging improvements, but the main change is that Scanner Identification has finally been implemented!

Scanner Identification is a system that positively IDs images to your customers using, as the name implies, a scanner to scan a customer’s QR card.

When setting up your event you can generate these QR cards (more on that later) that your customers can scan with their phone to input their contact information. From there, the info & QR code are linked. Any time a QR code is scanned by the photographer that starts a session, and all subsequent photos taken will be matched to that contact info until another QR code is scanned.

At this time, Scanner Identification will only be usable with Sports Pics Now and Portraits Now. During event creation, when one of those two programs have been selected, you’ll choose either the “Tap A Face & Selfie Registration” option, or the “Scanner Identification” option. Once Scanner Identification has been selected and the event created, you’ll be able to input how many QR cards you need and a PDF will be generated with that many cards.

You’ll want to print out the PDF on perforated paper such as this 4 up card paper found on Amazon to more easily distribute cards without manually cutting all the paper.

The Scanner Identification workflow does require an LTE tablet! It’s required both as a device to connect your scanner to and as a way to upload your images live at the event so that guests can have links to buy their images moments after their session ends! Since facial recognition is not being used, galleries will be sent even more quickly and with 100% of the images taken during the session.

If you happen to have a very poor internet connection at your event, bringing the tablet and camera to a location with a strong internet connection after the event will send up all the images at that time! Paired to the data you scanned with it at the time of taking the image.

How Bruce H. Used GradPics Now to Increase Sales

Success Stories

April 21, 2022

How Bruce H. Used GradPics Now to Increase Sales

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Bruce Heflin utilized Now Candid’s Grad Pics Now, with Selfie Check-In at a recent graduation, so far racking up roughly $2600 in total sales in less than two weeks.

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Heflin had covered this Nursing College’s graduation in previous years, generating roughly $200 in sales each year. The sales had been so dismal the administrator would provide gas money to keep Bruce coming back. This year was a different story, Heflin has managed to increase his sales by roughly 1200% with the help of Grad Pics Now’s Selfie Check-In Workflow & automated marketing campaigns.

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Here's How He Did It:‍

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1. Used Selfie Check-In to collect correct & current contact data

2. Sent automated marketing messages during the event

3. Bruce had about $200 in sales by the time he reached home an hour or so after the event (he didn't have to go back to the office!)

4. He used a mix of GPN Price Levels 1 & 3

5. He had a total profit margin of roughly 75% across the College’s ceremonies after accounting for the 85% margin for digital downloads.

6. We’re excited to see people discovering the effectiveness of Now Candid’s systems in action when executed properly with quality photography!

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We recently caught up with Bruce to get a better idea of how he started incorporating Now Candid's tools into his existing photography business. Watch the video below to hear from Bruce.

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Success Stories

April 18, 2022

Drive Sales Using Party Pics Now

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“We had a very successful Father/Daughter dance. The assistant principal was shocked at how organized and fast the pictures were this year. She also said that she didn't think dads would buy photos online. I told her that with my system, they will (this was our first year covering this event). Last year, dads had to pay with a paper order form, and many of them left the dance without taking photos because the line was so long. This year, we used Now Candid’s Party Pics Now, with Tap-A-Face. And when dads entered a phone number, we asked them to put mom's cell phone number in.” - Eric Miller

(screenshot of the event report taken before $2,100 was reached)

In one week, this event has done over $2,100 in sales and has ~$13.65 in sales per father’s face tapped.
Father/Daughter pairs were shot with a sparkling golden backdrop for most photos.
Price Level 11 (the most expensive PPN price level) was used for this event. Accounting for the 85% margin digital downloads and Price Level 11's 80% margin on physical products: Miller’s total profit margin was 82% of all sales and shipping.

No additional fees, charges, or unexpected costs makes for easy and instant accounting, and funds were deposited to his account within the week

Overall, this event was a homerun for MillerFoto and a great example of how effective Now Candid’s systems can be when you shoot quality photography and book quality events.

Thanks for sharing, Eric!

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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

Scanner Identification Now Available in Our Microsoft Store App

How Bruce H. Used GradPics Now to Increase Sales

Bruce Heflin utilized Now Candid’s Grad Pics Now, with Selfie Check-In at a recent graduation, so far racking up roughly $2600 in total sales in less than two weeks.

Here's How He Did It:‍

We recently caught up with Bruce to get a better idea of how he started incorporating Now Candid's tools into his existing photography business. Watch the video below to hear from Bruce.

Drive Sales Using Party Pics Now

Let’s get in touch

How to customize formatting for each rich text

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