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NowCandid 101: PartyPics Now vs QuicPics

NowCandid 101: PartyPics Now vs QuicPics
Hey there, it's Candy, your guide to the world of NowCandid!

Today, in our NowCandid 101 series, we're exploring two popular programs: PartyPics Now and QuicPics. Let's start by shedding light on PartyPics Now and then see how QuicPics offers a different approach.

PartyPics Now: A Sales-Focused Approach

  • Sales-Driven Model: PartyPics Now is designed for photographers looking to monetize their photography at social events through selling digital and physical photo products. This program is ideal for events like proms, tailgates, dances, reunions, parties, and anything remotely social!

  • Earning Through Sales: The primary objective of PartyPics Now is to drive sales through the purchase of digital downloads and physical photo products. Typically, photographers will take the photos for free, and rely only on sales after-the-fact for their revenue.

  • No Additional Fees: One of the best parts about PartyPics Now is that there are no extra fees for each image uploaded. This aspect makes it a cost-effective option for photographers focusing on volume sales. We only make money when you make money, making it easy to make a profit.

QuicPics: A Service-Oriented Model

  • Direct Delivery Model: QuicPics differentiates itself by delivering digital images directly to the event participants via text and email. In this model, the photographer is typically paid a large lump sum upfront by the event organizer, providing the images to the subjects for "free" but still allowing the optional purchase of physical photo products.

  • Flexibility Across Events: While QuicPics is often associated with social events, its relatively generic and can be used for any Event where you are paid upfront! Sometimes photographers get paid upfront to photograph graduations or Santa photos or corporate headshots - any time you're getting paid upfront is a time to use QuicPics for its effective and impressive image delivery.

  • Fee Per Image Upload: QuicPics does however charge a small fee for each image uploaded. This fee structure supports the additional cost of image delivery via MMS. Fortunately, the large lump sum paid upfront typically outweighs these fees massively.

  • Contrast with PartyPics Now: Unlike PartyPics Now, where the focus is on post-event sales, QuicPics leans towards providing an immediate service, with the photographer compensated beforehand. The gallery in QuicPics events also does not feature watermarks, as the digital downloads are already provided to guests for free.

Wrapping It Up:

In summary, PartyPics Now is your go-to for a sales-driven approach, focusing on monetizing your photography skills at various social events.

On the other hand, QuicPics is about immediate service delivery, with the photographer being paid upfront and delivering digital images on the spot.

Each program has its unique benefits and caters to different event photography needs. Choosing the right one depends on your business model and event type.

Does a school not have the budget to hire you for a prom? Photograph it for free, and rely on sales to make your money.

Does an organizer not want you to sell your photos to the guests at a formal Event? Have them pay you upfront, and provide free, quick digital downloads to the attendees as a service.

As always, if you're unsure or need more guidance, I'm here to help!

Stay tuned for more NowCandid 101 to make your photography journey smoother and more profitable! 📸🌈

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Weekly Recap: Client Outreach, Better Renders & Faster Tools 🍬📣

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Hey photo friends! 👋

This week’s headline is a big one: Client Outreach is here. It’s a powerful new way to connect with your customers outside of event-based marketing—and it opens up a ton of new possibilities for growing your business.

We’ll keep this recap focused on what it does at a high level, and we’ll link out to a full deep-dive guide so you can see exactly how to use it.

📣 NEW: Client Outreach (SMS + Email)

Client Outreach is a brand-new messaging system that lets you send texts and emails outside of your event campaigns.

👉 Learn more here: www.nowcandid.com/blogs/big-news-introducing-client-outreach-sms-email

What it can do:

📩 Send one-off emails and texts to past customers

📊 Track engagement (opens, clicks, bounces, etc.)

📂 Build contact lists from:

  • Events (with or without matched images)
  • Uploaded spreadsheets
  • Or both combined

🤖 Candy-powered email creation

  • Candy can write and design your outreach emails for you—including subject lines—so you don’t have to mess with formatting or HTML.

Why it matters:

This unlocks a ton of real-world use cases, like:

  • Sending Selfie Check-In links after an event
  • Promoting future bookings to past customers
  • Sharing All Images Galleries for action/sports events
  • Notifying customers about new uploads (like group photos)
  • Sending surveys or follow-ups

💸 Pricing is simple:

  • $0.01 per 10 emails
  • $0.01 per SMS (per segment, and longer texts may be 2–4 segments)

This is one of the most powerful tools we’ve added in a while!

🛍️ Retail: Better Products & Previews

✨ The following products will now always have the SoftTouch finish

  • Premium Prints
  • Premium Plaques
  • Luxe Prints
  • Titled Luxe Prints (coming soon)

🖼️ Improved 2D & 3D renders (especially Luxe)

  • More accurate lighting and better overall presentation.

🎯 3D renders prioritized in store sheet

  • The first three supported products now show as 3D when available.
  • Premium products take priority, but Luxe can now appear too depending on your offer.

Faster, higher-quality background generation

  • Better results, quicker turnaround.

📝 Caption fields no longer require every line

  • Customers can fill what you want, skip what they don’t.

🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

🔎 Smarter search across events & reports

  • Partial matches now work helping you search your events when you can't remember their exact names.
  • E.g. “mustang prom” will let you find “Mustang High School Prom 2025”.

Faster reports & charts

  • Reports pages and dashboard landing load quicker and use fewer resources.

🎨 New “Green Screen” node in Candy Image Studio

  • Instantly convert backgrounds into a green screen for use with your other editing workflows.

🧾 More flexible Offer creation

  • You can now duplicate any existing Price Level when creating an Offer, not just your own or prebuilt ones.

💳 Accounts must now have ACH set up before creating events

  • This has been a point of confusion for some users for some time.
  • By simply requiring ACH info, we can avoid a lot of accounting confusion for photographers down the line!

💰 New “Payout Breakdown” on Order Details

  • Visual, color-coded breakdown of order totals for better clarity.

📱 Capture App 5.4.2 (iOS & Android)

🛠️ Fixed an issue where the background removal popup would reappear after confirming and exiting shooting mode.

That’s the week!

Client Outreach is the star of the show here—it gives you a whole new way to stay connected with your customers beyond the event itself.

Pair that with better product presentation and faster tools, and you’ve got a strong upgrade across the board.

More coming soon! 👀

Candy 🍬

Weekly Recap: Smarter Upload Errors, Better Luxe Renders & Invoice Fixes 🍬✨
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Weekly Recap: Smarter Upload Errors, Better Luxe Renders & Invoice Fixes 🍬✨

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Hey photo friends! 👋

This week’s updates are all about clearer feedback, smoother retail rendering, and a few helpful fixes across the Dashboard, Check-In, and Capture App.

🖼️ Retail: Better Luxe 3D Renders

A few important improvements landed for Luxe products on retail:

Luxe Prints 3D renders now work correctly for horizontal images

💡 Luxe render lighting improved so products look more natural and less over-bright

📱 Mobile cropping on 3D renders is much more stable and performant

  • Fixed an issue where gesture-based cropping could crash on mobile devices

If you’re selling Luxe products, this should make the preview experience feel more polished.

📤 Dashboard: Clearer Image Upload Errors

The Image Uploader now does a better job explaining what actually went wrong:

🚫 Oversized files now show the real reason

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📏 File size is now included in the error message

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🌐 Network issues now say “Network Error”

  • Much clearer than a generic upload failure

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  • The uploader will now retry up to 5 times before giving up

A small change, but a much better experience when uploads hit a snag.

🧾 Dashboard Fixes & Improvements

📄 Profile invoices fixed

  • Invoices from January onward should now load correctly
  • Invoices are also now easier to find through Sidebar Find and Candy navigation

👥 PhotoRosters wording updated

  • “Members” is now “Contacts” for better consistency across NowCandid

📊 Participant image counts fixed on the Event Participant List for certain Positive ID edge cases

🎨 Fixed an overlay importer edge case that could make Events appear twice in the list

🤳 Check-In Improvements

📋 Fixed the list of existing check-ins going off-screen for accounts with a lot of check-ins

✍️ Some check-in copy was updated for clarity

📱 Capture App 5.4.1 (iOS OTA)

🔒 Fixed PhotoBooth and Selfie Check-In Station close buttons not working on devices without a passcode set up

That’s the update for this week! Better Luxe previews, clearer upload feedback, and a handful of fixes to keep things running smoothly.

Keep creating magic,

Candy 🍬

Weekly Recap: Jersey Jotter Page, Smarter AI Edits & Android Improvements 🍬📸
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Weekly Recap: Jersey Jotter Page, Smarter AI Edits & Android Improvements 🍬📸

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Hey photo friends! 👋

This week brings a mix of sports-focused tools, AI editing upgrades, and performance improvements across the Dashboard and Capture App.

Let’s get into it.

🏈 New: Dedicated Jersey Jotter Page (Sports Events)

Jersey Jotter just got a big usability upgrade with its own dedicated page:

🔢 Search images by jersey number or color (just like retail search)

🎛️ Easily enable/disable number & color recognition

📊 View totals for detected numbers and colors

📍 Automatically appears for Sports events only

If you’re working high-volume sports, this should make organizing and finding images much faster.

Same filters your customers have come to expect, right in the Dashboard!

🎨 Candy Image Studio: Better Results + New Styles

Candy Image Studio continues to level up:

Improved edit quality across multiple nodes

🛡️ Smarter safety system for safer outputs

🖼️ Example thumbnails added to many nodes (so you know what to expect)

🆕 New AI Styles:

🧸 Chibi

🧍 3D Cartoon

🦸 Action Figure

Not sure when this one specifically would be helpful, but it's cool isn't it!

⚡ Dashboard Improvements

🚀 Faster overall performance across the Dashboard

🎬 Smoother transitions (faster, and some now morph instead of just fading)

🧹 Roster uploads now auto-clean whitespace
Prevents frustrating validation errors from accidental empty spaces in spreadsheets

🔎 Fixed “Find a Participant” link in Sidebar Find

🧪 Fixed false positives in Image Tester filename validation

🏷️ Data & Upload Improvements

📄 CORE spreadsheets now supported in roster and PhotoRoster uploads (for those working across CORE workflows)

🛠️ Marketing & Check-In Fixes

📩 Fixed duplicate text message edge cases

🤳 Fixed “Upload From Camera Roll” issue on Check-In

🤖 Capture App 5.4 (Android Improvements)

This update focuses on improving the Android experience:

📱 Immersive mode UI

  • Reduces accidental navigation and keeps the app more stable on devices like Samsung

🎨 Dark-themed native dialogs for alerts and messages

🔒 Orientation locked to vertical (matching iOS behavior)

App size reduced ~20% (faster downloads, less storage)

🔌 Fixed devices showing as generic “USB Camera Device” instead of model name

🔄 Fixed Over-The-Air updates not working on some devices

That’s the week!

A strong mix of sports workflow improvements, better AI editing tools, and faster, cleaner performance across the board.

See you next week,

Candy 🍬

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