Hey photo friends! 👋

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This week’s updates include something many of you have been waiting for: the first public release of the Capture App on Android. Alongside that launch, we’ve also improved PhotoRoster workflows, tightened up retail safeguards, and rolled out several capture app fixes across platforms.

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Let’s take a look.

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🤖 Capture App Now Available on Android (Beta)

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The first Android version of the Capture App (v5.0.1) is now available on Google Play.

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IMPORTANT: This is very new! So it's in BETA at the moment. Meaning, if you want to use Android, we encourage you to try a test Event at your home or office and make sure your flow works with your particular equipment! If you run into any issues, let us know right away!

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This release brings feature parity with the iOS app (with the exception of Photo Booth Mode and AirPrint, which currently are not planned for Android):

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📷 Supports all of our capture workflows
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⚡ Same improved upload system introduced in iOS v5
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🔁 Camera-triggered auto-launch support
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🎨 Android themed icon support
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📱 Edge-to-edge Android UI support

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If you’ve been wanting to run Capture on Android devices, the foundation is now here!

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📱 Capture App Improvements

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iOS – Version 5.0.1 (OTA)

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A few fixes and small usability improvements landed this week:

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🔎 Participant not found message when scanning cards‍

• Instead of defaulting to the first participant, the app now clearly shows when a scan doesn’t match anyone.

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📊 Image gallery stats now update correctly during uploads.

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📂 TKO popup now dismisses properly when setting a folder as TKO.

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🖥 Windows Capture App – Version 4.21

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⚡ New image upload API improves upload speed and reduces device resource usage
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📡 Better behavior when signing into events with no connectivity
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📂 Event selector now shows only active events when offline, matching iOS behavior

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🏷️ Workflow Improvements

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📥 Download PhotoTags directly from the PhotoTags page‍

• This makes it simple to reuse or share tags between events.

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📂 PhotoRoster uploads increased‍

• Individual image uploads now support up to 5,000 images at once (previously 1,000).

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🎨 Candy Image Studio Reliability Fix

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Candy Image Studio uploads now behave more consistently.

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Edited images will now reliably appear in all the same places as the original image, including:

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• All galleries
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• QuicPics texts
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• Personal galleries

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Previously, images only appeared if they happened to match faces or were manually assigned.

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🛍️ Retail Improvements

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A couple improvements help prevent confusing edge cases for customers:

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👥 Group products now properly enforce group images‍

• If someone tries selecting a non-group image for a group product, they’ll now see a clear error message.

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🌍 New international shipping notice‍

• For non-US shipping addresses, customers now see a helpful reminder that customs or import fees may be charged by their country in addition to international shipping fees.

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🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

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Some smaller UI improvements landed this week:

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✨ Toggle switches now animate smoothly instead of appearing choppy.

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That’s the week!

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The Android Capture App launch is a big step toward expanding device flexibility, and the PhotoTag downloads and PhotoRoster improvements should make event setup a little easier as well.

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See you next week,

Candy 🍬

Hey photo friends! 👋

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This week’s update is a big one. The new Capture App v5 for iOS has officially landed with major performance improvements, a refreshed UI, and some helpful workflow upgrades.

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On top of that, Candy Culler just got significantly faster, retail got a couple new themes, and several tools across the Dashboard have been refined.

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Let’s jump in.

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📱 Capture App v5 (iOS) — Major Upgrade

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Capture App Version 5 brings a full UI refresh, major performance improvements, and several new quality-of-life tools for shooting events.

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⚡ v5: Faster Uploads & Better Performance

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A brand-new upload system significantly improves efficiency:

• 📤 Uploads can be up to ~20–30% faster
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• 📦 Payload size reduced by ~25% thanks to image transfer improvements
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• 🔋 Lower CPU, battery, and memory usage during uploads
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• 📷 Much better memory usage with tethered cameras
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• 🧠 Improved overall memory performance across the app

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These improvements should make long shooting sessions feel noticeably smoother.

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🖼️ v5: New Image Gallery & Filters

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The in-app gallery has been redesigned with better filtering and navigation:

• Image name search
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• Uploaded / Unuploaded status
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• Roll filtering
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• Event filtering

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Filters are easy to remove with a single tap, similar to the Dashboard experience.

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🔁 v5: Duplicate Photo Warning

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The Capture App can now warn you about duplicate images during a shoot:

• Works only within the current session
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• Does not upload or save duplicate data
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• Can be disabled from the Resources page if desired

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This works independently from the Dashboard’s Candy Culler duplicate detection, giving you duplicate awareness both during capture and afterward.

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🧰 v5: New Event Overview Info

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The event overview page now includes helpful connection details:

• 📡 Carrier name
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• 📶 Cellular generation (if available)
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• 📶 Current Wi-Fi network

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This can help troubleshoot upload issues while shooting events.

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🎨 v5: Photo Booth Background Packs

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Photo Booth now supports downloadable background packs:

• 🎄 Christmas
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• 🎃 Halloween
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• More to come!

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The default pack is now a downloadable set as well, which keeps the main app much smaller and makes OTA updates faster.

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🔧 v5: Additional Capture App Improvements

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🌍 International phone numbers supported in Positive ID (were already supported in Tap-A-Face)
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🧍 Full vertical images now fit on iPhone screens
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🔄 Update checks run automatically when refreshing events
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📧 Tap-a-Face email validation now matches Check-In pages
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🔄 Upload status updates immediately after each upload
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📲 Tablets can now use portrait orientation throughout the app

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✨ v5: Complete UI Refresh

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Version 5 introduces a polished new interface:

• Modern sheet-based UI
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• Improved dark mode styling
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• Larger login and event selection screens
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• Updated phone number input interface
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• New image details sheet
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• Cleaner image gallery layout

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Overall, the app feels faster, cleaner, and more modern.

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🧠 Candy Culler: Now 5× Faster

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Candy Culler processing has been dramatically upgraded.

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⚡ Up to 5× more images can now be processed at once, bringing it in line with Jersey Jotter throughput.

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This means faster detection for:

• Duplicates
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• Blurry photos
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• Exposure issues
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• Closed eyes
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• Other culling checks

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🍬 Candy Improvements

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Candy continues getting faster and smarter:

• ⚡ Faster Candy responses
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• 🔎 Faster Candy Navigation results
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• 🧠 Improved event search for newly created events
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• 🎛️ Refreshed Mini Candy UI

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Pro tip: Press CMD + A / CTRL + A to toggle Mini Candy.

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🧾 Dashboard Improvements

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Several useful refinements were made to the Dashboard:

• 📊 Fixed Faces Report chart showing empty data
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• 🧾 QR Code generator downloads now export at 1024px
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• 📑 Scan card PDFs now sort duplicate participants exactly like the Capture App
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• 🎨 Offer editor popups for adding products and packages are now wider with product category tabs
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• 📊 Event order list diamond-press counts now include quantities correctly
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• 🧭 QR Creator and Image Tester now appear in Sidebar Find

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🎨 New Retail Themes

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Candy's Note: We hope you enjoy the pupper pics!

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🍵 Matcha Theme – a clean green storefront (great for spring or St. Patrick’s Day)

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🍠 Ube Theme – a bold purple theme

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Bonus: Retail UI styling also received improvements for tabs, checkboxes, and order tracking.

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📳 Haptics for Mobile Retail & Check-In

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Mobile users will now feel subtle feedback interactions when using the site:

• Tap feedback
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• Success feedback (add to cart, order placed)
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• Error feedback

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This makes mobile ordering and check-in feel much more responsive, alive, and engaging!

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🤳 Selfie Check-In Improvements

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The Selfie Check-In site received improvements to the local face recognition model, making it more reliable and stable on more devices.

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💰 QuicPics Adjustment

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Good news for high-volume QuicPics users:

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Selfie Check-Ins and PhotoRoster reference images no longer count as billable images.

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That means QuicPics events that use those workflows will be slightly cheaper overall.

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📥 Easier Downloads on iPhone

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On iOS Chrome: Press-and-hold image downloads now open the iOS Share menu, making it much easier to save images. (iOS Safari already supported this behavior.)

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🌐 New QuicPics Landing Page

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The Quic.Pics site now has a proper landing page instead of only a login screen in case end customers stumble across it somehow.

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Hopefully this helps it seem more legit while still remaining relatively white-label for your photographers out there!

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That’s the week!

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Capture App v5 is a big upgrade, and combined with the faster Candy Culler and several Dashboard improvements, the entire workflow from capture → cull → sell just got smoother.

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See you next week,

Candy 🍬

Hey photo friends! 👋

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This week is packed with tools you’ll probably use right away: big upgrades to Candy Image Studio, a brand-new Participant Search across all events, and a fun but practical QR Creator.

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Let’s dive in.

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🎨 Candy Image Studio: More Control, More Power

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We’ve made some meaningful upgrades to Candy Image Studio:

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👁️ Choose whether to mark the original image invisible‍

• Previously, edits always hid the original. Now it’s your call.

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🗂️ Multiple edits can coexist‍

• Uploading multiple AI edits of the same image no longer overwrites previous ones.

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🧠 New safety agent‍

• Automatically checks for edits involving race/ethnicity/skin tone changes or nudity to keep things appropriate.

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🖼️ Generate 2K or 4K outputs‍

• 4K is recommended for images with text.

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⚡ Image Lightbox Integration‍

• Click “Candy Image Studio” directly from an image lightbox to preload it into the Studio.
• You can optionally mark the original invisible, and it keeps all participant associations intact for the new image (just like cutouts).

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🔎 New: Participant Search Across All Events

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You can now search participants across your entire account:

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• Search by name or contact info
• Access via Tools & More, Sidebar Search bar, or "/participants" directly in the URL
• Supports Candy navigation

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Huge time-saver when you can’t remember or don't know which event someone was in.

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🔳 New Tool: QR Creator

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Found under Tools & More, the new QR Creator lets you:

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• Paste in any link (event, check-in, retail, etc.)
• Customize shape and colors
• Generate something nicer than a plain black-and-white square
• Download the new, cuter QR code!

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Simple, but useful for signage, flyers, and booths.

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📱 Mobile Dashboard Improvements

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🔄 Swipe down to refresh any page (no app update needed, just refresh)

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↔️ Swipe left/right in image lightboxes to move between images (desktop users already have arrow keys)

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🍬 Overall improved Candy experience on mobile

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🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

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📂 PhotoRoster upload limit increased to 10,000 members

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🏷️ PhotoTag assignment via Edit Folder fixed (won’t remove all tags unless you choose “None”)

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👤 Create Participant button re-enabled (shows warning if event is older than 60 days; roster import still disabled for older events)

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⚡ Faster event list search for accounts with many events

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🖼️ Event cover photo now visually anchors the Event Details & Tags pages

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🧾 Fixed overlay import not working properly

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🔔 Fixed toast notifications appearing behind popups

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🌾 Candy Culler Duplicate detection improvement‍

• When using “Duplicates Only” in Candy Culler, duplicates now appear side-by-side for easier reviewing.

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🛍️ Retail Improvements

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📄 Fixed pagination buttons requiring page jump to function

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🏈 Improved Jersey Jotter search speed/performance

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🌀 LiveLoop Fixes

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🛠️ Fixed certain events stopping after running for awhile

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📢 Fixed not being able to upload advertisements

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💸 Shipping Update

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📦 5×7 Statuette shipping cost reduced thanks to a new shipping method for that product‍

• From $7.25 → $3.25 (about 55% lower)

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That’s the week!

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Bigger AI editing control, faster participant lookup, custom QR codes, and a lighter shipping cost on 5×7 Statuettes.

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Keep creating magic,

Candy 🍬