What's New

Features:

Gallery Analytics

We are excited to announce you can now view who has logged into shared client galleries! This allows you to keep track of who and when client galleries are viewed. Go to a gallery overview page to check it out.

Gallery Shipping

We’ve removed gallery shipping from the base product print pricing. This also allows your clients to select the shipping speed they prefer and pay directly when ordering their gallery products!

Global Editing of Contracts

You can now edit your contracts in a singular place versus when you are creating a package. We have found this will streamline many workflows for many photographers. We appreciate your feedback!

Fixes:

• Minor fixes to the Gallery watermark system
• Minor fixes to archiving Jobs
• Minor fixes to downloading to a PDF download
• Fixed “Cammy” not saying hello to you!
• Fixed payment schedules inaccuracies 
• Fixed duplicating a client Booking Event and the impact on packages

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Features:

We have a new help chat that will deliver Picsello news, help you get in touch with us even faster, and guide new photographers get started with Picsello. You are likely already seeing and using this update in your communications with our Customer Success team!

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where emails coming into Picsello were missing an id mapping the communication to your job
• Fixed an issue with Booking Events related to when a client selects offline payment

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Fixes:

• We saw some errors in which a watermark didn’t meet certain requirements, we added some validation to help prevent that from happening

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue related to adding a gallery watermark when “enter” was pressed

Fixes:

• Fixed a minor problem in payment schedules
• Removed a help article link that didn’t take you anywhere

Fixes:

• Solved galleries being marked “expired” when a job is moved to “complete”
• Adjusted some confusing language on invoices

Features:

Lead/Job page redesign with filters

We’ve released an important update to help you better manage your leads and jobs. With the new table views, you can archive, complete, and filter leads/jobs as you see fit. We’ve also added sorting so you can focus on the most relevant information at the right time.

Other additions:

• For a better user experience, your clients can now favorite photos right from the lightbox carousel instead of having to click out of it
• To better support your needs, we’ve added some new backend features that help Customer Success with responding to questions and diagnosing issues to get you back to running your business through Picsello

Fixes:

• Uploading galleries by folder was not working on Safari
• Pagination refactor and fix across the app
• Due date of booking proposals on invoice
• Spring cleaning starts early with lots of other little bug fixes

Fixes:

• Some backend improvements to how we sync promotion codes for you to use
• Minor bugfix to client booking and some internal developer tool tweaks

Features:

• We are excited to now offer the ability to apply promo codes to your Picsello subscription. Marketing will be working on lots of great offers throughout the year for when you need to sign-up or renew your subscription.

Fixes:

• Added error monitoring for the JavaScript code that we use on the application

Fixes:

• A few fixes to the gallery expiration date, setting your super important watermark and more

Features:

Announcing a new, friendlier, and easier-to-use dashboard! We noticed the dashboard was hindering rather than helping you and all our other Picsello photographers so we took a step back and redesigned the experience from the ground up. We have so many more improvements planned through this year to help you run your business as smoothly as possible.

Other features:

• Create a new client or find your existing clients when creating a standalone gallery
• Upload multiple folders at the same time within the gallery.
• We have added a lot more options to client booking. You can customize your booking events with hidden time slots or breaks. You can now edit them after they have been created and improvements to filtering and sorting.

Fixes:

• Show all enabled photography types when creating/editing a questionnaire

Fixes:

• Clients are unable to checkout when they hit a certain scenario
• Improving the stability of the platform with some bug fixes

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Features:

• New photographers will now be able to see a welcome modal the first three times they login to help them become familiar with Picsello

Fixes:

• A quick fix to apply taxes to photographers who need to collect tax on gallery sales

Features:

Improved Feature: We’ve simplified how you manage the photography types you offer and how you manage your packages within each. Now you can enable/disable photography types, view your packages by category, and duplicate them to save time. You’re also able to hide and show what packages you want offered on your Public Profile. Archived a package on accident or want to see what you offered last year? Take a look at the archive section with packages.

Other changes:

• Another batch of self-guided walkthroughs for new photographers to Picsello

Fixes:

• Within client booking, you now have the flexibility to leverage a payment schedule if one exists in your package; now you can decide to bill in two or three invoices vs. just one

Features

Improved Feature: Gallery proofing 2.0 is here! Creating a proofing gallery is now more streamlined within a job or as a standalone gallery. In addition to those improvements, you’re now able to add more than one gallery per job. Looking at you, sports and school photographers.

Here are some smaller features:

• We’ve added a plethora of new self-guided, Picsello account walkthroughs for anyone  just setting up their account 
• Also for new users: you can now input your instagram handle so Picsello  can follow and support you and your business + a field to ask where you signed up from to better support future photographers
• Added three “next up cards” to highlight new features that have been added

Fixes:

• Changed how global gallery settings expirations dates are calculated; it was much simpler to calculate based on gallery creation date versus shoot date
• Your calendar no longer dances around as photos upload
• Added a fresh coat of paint to some of the current features, you’ll see some new button styles and improved UX throughout
• Added the ability to dismiss next up cards that are added from our admin panel
• Minor copy tweaks to the Smart Profit Calculator™