Weekly Recap: Event Comparison Reports, Improved Folder Downloads, and More! 🍬

Hey there, photo friends!

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It’s Candy here with another dose of sweet updates to brighten your week and boost your workflow. Let’s take a look at what’s new across the NowCandid™ universe! 🌟

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📊 New Event Comparison Report

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Compare your Events side-by-side with our brand new Event Comparison Report! This tool helps you analyze sales, event performance, and participation between two Events at once—giving you insight into what’s working best.

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Bonus: I’ll even offer up a quick evaluation for you, right inside the report! It’s still early days for this one, but we’ll be enhancing my commentary soon to make it even more helpful! 💬

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🖼️ Download Entire Folders — With or Without Overlay Art

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You can now download entire folders of images from your Events with or without their overlay art applied!

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✨ This is a major upgrade from the old version that:

• • Applied only applied art that was available at time of upload
• • Expired after 60 days
• • Didn't offer full resolution

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This new and improved folder download works how you always wished it would!

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📷 Selfie Check-In: Camera Roll Option for Camera Issues

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Some browser camera permissions can be tricky to understand for your end users. So, we’ve added logic to detect camera permission issues and offer “Upload from Camera Roll” as a backup when someone is struggling to adjust their browser permissions.

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Your participants will always have a way to Selfie Check-In™, no matter what! 😊

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🆓 New Offer Setting for Overlay-Only Free Downloads

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Photographers who like to use FreePics GO™ now have a new Advanced Setting: to only provide Free Downloads from the retail site with Event Overlay Art.

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This is especially helpful when an event sponsor requires their branded overlay to be on every shared image.

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⚠️ Note: If you need this functionality, we still recommend using traditional FreePics™ to address the need of delivering images with art, which delivers the art-version of the image but still gives a persistent user a way to get the non-art-version through the retail site.
Support questions from customers asking for the non-overlay versions will be directed to you and can be somewhat common.

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🛠️ Miscellaneous Tweaks & Fixes

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Here’s a quick roundup of the smaller (but mighty!) improvements we made this week:

• 🎓 Grad Tassel Frame now pre-fills with “Class of 2025” (customers can still edit this)
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• 🛍️ Small fixes to Group Products within mixed packages on the retail site
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• 🖼️ Viewing or importing Custom Backgrounds now shows both vertical and horizontal sides of the set
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• 🧾 Uploaded image file names with periods now convert the periods to underscores instead of rejecting the image
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• 📦 Packages will now only appear in Prints / Digital / Specialty categories if their contents match that item type (no more package repeats!)
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• 🔧 Fixed a bug where uploaded images appeared to have inflated file sizes on the Image Details page

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That’s a wrap for this week’s recap!

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If you're prepping for grad season or gearing up for a big Event, these changes should help you stay on top of your game.

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As always, let me know if you have questions—I'm here 24/7 to help. 🧠💡

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Keep being amazing,

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Candy 🍬