Feature Updates

📸 Candy’s 12 Days of Christmas: Day 12 – Photo Booth Mode! 🎄🎉

Candy

December 25, 2024

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Hello, my festive photographers!

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Candy here, and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate.

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We’ve arrived at the 12th Day of Christmas, and I’m thrilled to unwrap our biggest new feature of 2024—Photo Booth Mode in the Capture & Upload App!

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The new NowCandid Capture & Upload App Version that includes Photo Booth Mode will be going live at the end of December,... this very month!

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Let’s get into the holiday spirit and explore everything this mode has to offer. 🎁

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What Is Photo Booth Mode? 🤶

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Photo Booth Mode is a brand-new option inside our Capture & Upload App—you’ll see a shiny new “Photo Booth” button once you log in to an Event and create a Folder (after the update of course).

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Give that Photo Booth button a tap, and voilà: your iPad turns into a photo booth station where guests can snap fun pictures with minimal hassle!

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Multiple Camera Options: Tether a Nikon, Sony, or Canon camera, or use your iPad’s front-facing camera, depending on your particular photo booth setup.
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Solid Internet Connection Required: The app downloads any custom overlays or backgrounds you’ve set on the web dashboard, and live-uploading images of course requires an internet connection, so stable Wi-Fi or LTE is essential!

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It’s perfect for holiday parties, corporate shindigs, weddings, or any event where a lighthearted photo booth can bring on the smiles!

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The Photo Booth Flow ⏱️

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Here’s how Photo Booth Mode keeps your guests engaged:

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Tap to Begin Screen: A dimmed live view awaits guests to tap and start. Once they do, the booth will let them know to get ready for three photos.
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Three Countdown Shots: Each shot has a 3-second countdown followed by a short preview of the taken pic after each shot. If your event uses a Bottom Banner Overlay or Full Frame Overlay, it shows up in the live view, so no one ends up hidden behind the graphics!
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Instant Delivery & Overlays: In Events using the QuicPics Program, each photo is sent via MMS with the overlay art included! And with every NowCandid Program, a gallery link is delivered where retail site users can download images and order photo products.

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Guests can hop in, pose, and receive fun, branded photos—no fuss required! 🎉

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On-Device Backgrounds & Filters 🎨

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Before finalizing those memorable pics, guests can personalize them right on the device:

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Background Selection: If you’ve uploaded custom backgrounds on the web dashboard, the app fetches them before the booth session. Guests can pick from these in addition to several default backgrounds, great for holiday vibes or brand-specific themes.
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‍Filter Options: Classic filters like Noir, Sepia, Clarendon, and others let participants get creative.
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‍Reshoot Button: Not happy with the shot? Guests can “Reshoot” and start the session over at any time.

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This ensures a lively, interactive experience that encourages guests to come back for more snaps. ⛄

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Positive ID vs. Face Matching 🧐

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After styling, the next step depends on your event’s workflow:

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For Face Matching Events: Guests are guided to tap the faces they see on-screen, and then can enter contact info for each face! If this is their first or only reference photo for the Event, it will also match them to shots taken outside the Photo Booth!
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For Positive ID Events: A simpler approach: participants just type in their contact info and send off the images! Easy peasy.

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Either way, photos head straight to their phones via QuicPics (if you’re using that Program) and will always land in their personal gallery. 🔔

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Seamless Integration with NowCandid 💖

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Photo Booth Mode plugs right into your existing NowCandid features:

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Selfie Check-In & LiveLoop: Photo booth images appear in your LiveLoop feed if you’re displaying one at the event. Selfie Check-Ins can still match participants to their booth photos too if they don't self-identify during their photo booth session!
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QuicPics & PartyPics: The images upload instantly, letting your guests receive them right away via MMS (with QuicPics), or find them in their personal gallery for easy purchase or free download (with every Program).

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It’s the same NowCandid ecosystem you know—just dressed up in a festive booth format! 🎄

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Requirements & Limitations 🎅

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A few notes to keep in mind:

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Camera Orientation:
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- Nikon supports horizontal and vertical live view.
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- Sony/Canon currently only support horizontal orientation for tethered cameras.
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iPad-Only for Now:
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- Photo Booth Mode works on iPad in vertical orientation, not on iPhone or Windows.
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No Built-In Printing:
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- If you need on-site prints, consider setting up your own print station with a computer and a printer! Use quic.pics/portal to access your Event images, and then download images with or without overlays to print them on-site.
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We Value Feedback:
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- Missing something? Let us know! Your input shapes our next updates.

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Why Photo Booth Mode Is a Holiday Treat 🎁

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Interactive & Fun: Guests love choosing backgrounds, filters, and overlays, making the booth a memorable attraction.
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Fully Integrated: Works seamlessly with QuicPics, PartyPics, LiveLoop, Face Matching, and more.
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Revenue & Engagement Boost: Branded overlays, holiday backgrounds, or sponsor tie-ins can lead to higher sales and delighted clients.

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This mode is a surefire way to add a dash of cheer to any event—holiday-themed or otherwise! ✨

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That’s all for now, folks.

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We hope Photo Booth Mode adds a dash of magic to your season and beyond.

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And thank you for following along with our 12 Days of Christmas!

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Enjoy this new feature, and as always, keep capturing the moments that matter most.

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Reminder: The new NowCandid Capture & Upload App Version that includes Photo Booth Mode will be going live at the end of December, this month!

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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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📸 Candy’s 12 Days of Christmas: Day 12 – Photo Booth Mode! 🎄🎉

Hello, my festive photographers!

What Is Photo Booth Mode? 🤶

The Photo Booth Flow ⏱️

On-Device Backgrounds & Filters 🎨

Positive ID vs. Face Matching 🧐

Seamless Integration with NowCandid 💖

Requirements & Limitations 🎅

Why Photo Booth Mode Is a Holiday Treat 🎁

That’s all for now, folks.

And thank you for following along with our 12 Days of Christmas!

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