Feature Updates

Candy’s Weekly Recap: Exciting Updates to Boost Your NowCandid Experience! 📸🎉

Candy

October 11, 2024

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Hello, my wonderful photography friends!

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Candy here, back with another Weekly Recap to keep you in the loop on all the fantastic new features and improvements we've rolled out. 🌟

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We've got some real game-changers this week that I'm sure you'll love. So, grab a comfy seat and let's dive in! 🛋️

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Chip Board Now Included with All Print Orders 📦

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We're enhancing the quality of your clients' "unboxing" experience!

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• Protective Packaging: A small piece of Chip Board (aka Ship Board) is now included in all print envelopes.
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• Reduces Damage: Adds extra protection to prevent potential damage during shipment.
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• Professional Touch: Elevates the overall presentation of your delivered products.

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QuicPics & QuicPics GO Enhancements 🚀

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We've made some significant updates to QuicPics and QuicPics GO to make your life easier and your clients happier!

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• Bulk Downloads: Your QuicPics customers can now download all their images at once in medium resolution, instead of adding each one to the cart individually.
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• Renamed Product: When you're not selling high-resolution digital downloads in your QuicPics Offer, the Medium Res Download product will automatically rename to Free Download.
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• Avoid Mistakes: We've added an extra confirmation step when creating a QuicPics Event. This popup serves as a friendly reminder to double-check your selection before proceeding!

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Access to Selfie Check-In from All Images Gallery 📲

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Sometimes you have to (or want to) share the All Images Gallery with an Event Organizer or directly to a group of customers!

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Our Group-By-Face feature definitely makes navigating an entire All Images Gallery easier for customers, but it still can be tough to find that first image with their face to see the others.

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This new touch will give people visiting the All Images Gallery easy access to the Event's Selfie Check-In page (when the Event is a Face Matching Event) so that they can receive a link to their personal gallery!

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• Selfie Check-In Button: A new button is now available when visiting an Event's All Images Gallery.
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• Easy for Groups: When sharing the All Images Gallery link, participants can now Selfie Check-In and receive their personal gallery via text.
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• Automatic Removal: The button will disappear once the Event's face matching period has ended.

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Order History Enhancements 🛍️

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Some new quality of life improvements when it comes to your orders!

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• Detailed Order History: When previewing an Order from a participant's details page! Includes order contents and subtotal.
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• Participant Management Integration: An Order column has been added to the Participant Management page, so you can easily spot who has ordered and who has not.
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• Daily Order Counts: Hover over each day's column in the Event Management page's sales chart to see the order count for that hovered day!

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Import Backgrounds and Overlays from Past Events 🎨

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For those of you who use the same Overlay Art or Custom Backgrounds frequently - we've sped things up for you!

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• Quick Import: You can now easily import Backgrounds and Overlays from previous Events.
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• Auto Refresh: When uploading Overlays and Backgrounds, the interface now auto-refreshes, so you'll know when your art is done processing.
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• Ideal For: Photographers who frequently do repeat events or have standard branding elements.

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Capture App Version 4.5 Update (for iOS)📱

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We've made a small update to the iOS Capture App to start preserving image meta data after images have been uploaded!

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This will enable some pretty cool additions down the line, but for now there are still some new things you can do:

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• No More Stripping: Image metadata is no longer removed from uploaded image files when using the iOS Capture App.
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• Accessible Metadata: So, you can now view the metadata on the images you have downloaded from the Manage Images page!
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• Benefits:
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- Check image timestamps to check photographer productivity.
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- Review camera settings from past shoots for comparison.
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- Evaluate your own or your photographers' settings at the time a photo was taken.

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New Marketing Preview Page 📣

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A new page on the Web Dashboard that gives you a preview into the marketing campaign your customers will receive!
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• Unified Preview: While campaigns are mostly identical right now, this new page allows you to preview them all in one place.
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• Future Enhancements: Campaigns will become more unique to their respective markets over time.

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Minor Changes & Bug Fixes 🐞

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We're always working behind the scenes to improve your experience:

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• Bugs Squashed: A variety of issues have been resolved for smoother operation on both the Web Dashboard and the Retail Site.
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• UI Tweaks: New headers on Offers & Events pages for a more guided experience (especially for new users).
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• Clarity Improvements: Text adjustments across the dashboard and retail site to enhance clarity.
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• Resource Additions: New materials now accessible from the Resources page.

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We hope these updates make your NowCandid journey even more enjoyable and efficient!

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Your feedback is invaluable, so please don't hesitate to share your thoughts or questions.

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Cheers and sparkles,

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Candy 🍬

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.

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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Let’s get in touch

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Candy’s Weekly Recap: Exciting Updates to Boost Your NowCandid Experience! 📸🎉

Hello, my wonderful photography friends!

Chip Board Now Included with All Print Orders 📦

QuicPics & QuicPics GO Enhancements 🚀

Access to Selfie Check-In from All Images Gallery 📲

Order History Enhancements 🛍️

Import Backgrounds and Overlays from Past Events 🎨

Capture App Version 4.5 Update (for iOS)📱

New Marketing Preview Page 📣

Minor Changes & Bug Fixes 🐞

We hope these updates make your NowCandid journey even more enjoyable and efficient!

Related articles

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

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.

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