Weekly Recap: Collapsible Sidebar, QR Code Printouts & RCS Text Preview ✨📱

Hey photo friends! 👋

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Candy here with another round of NowCandid updates! This week brings a more flexible Dashboard sidebar, easier QR code sharing, a new price level reference page, and a preview of cleaner-looking RCS messaging.

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🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

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📌 Collapsible Sidebar on desktop‍

• You can now collapse the Dashboard Sidebar to give yourself more room. Click the edge of the Sidebar to toggle it, or use CTRL/CMD+B or CTRL/CMD+S.

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🎓 “Class of 2026” background pack added‍

• Available now in the Offer Creator.

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🖼️ Participant Details fix‍

• Invisible BGR images now appear where expected.

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📅 Event Calendar fix‍

• Hidden Events no longer appear on the Event Calendar.

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⚡ Better performance for large Events‍

• Event Participants and Manage Images pages now behave better with several thousand participants or images, including faster initial loading, longer timeouts, and clearer loading feedback.

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📊 Default Price Levels Overview is now built into the Dashboard‍

• The old overview Google sheet is now a proper Dashboard page that automatically updates when Default Price Levels change.
• It also has a nicer UI, provides a downloadable spreadsheet, and
• View it here: https://app.nowcandid.com/offers/price-level-overview

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🔳 QR Creator Upgrade: Printable QR Code Cards

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🖨️ Download a PDF sheet of QR code cards‍

• The NowCandid QR Code Generator can now create a printable PDF sheet with customizable text.

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Great for:

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🎓 Placing QR cards on graduation chairs for Selfie Check-In

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🏈 Handing out QR cards at sports events linking to an All Images Gallery

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📸 Creating polished cards for check-in links, retail links, or any URL you want to share

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💬 RCS Messaging Preview

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We’re testing RCS messaging for some texts.

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📱 Texts can appear as coming from “FreePics” instead of a phone number

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📷 Uses a generic camera-style logo to keep things white-labeled

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✅ Helps messages look cleaner and easier to find

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🛡️ May help reduce spam filtering in some cases

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Currently, RCS is available for:

• Dashboard 2FA texts
• Find Me Portal texts

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We’ll likely explore rolling this out to marketing texts after grad season.

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🛍️ Retail Updates

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💸 Slash-through pricing improved‍

• Slash-through amounts now use week 3 pricing when applicable, or à la carte pricing if that is higher.
• So now, we've ensured your customer is always seeing the maximum amount of Discount being provided! Automatically.

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📦 Personal Gallery Download slash-through price‍

• Even though Personal Gallery Download is technically a package, it can now show a slash-through price based on the individual download product in your Event, when available.

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🖼️ Better package performance with BGR images‍

• Selecting and editing BGR images inside packages should feel faster.

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🧼 Cleaner BGR timing on retail

• ‍Images going through background removal will no longer appear on the retail site before the BGR process is finished.
• This helps keep galleries clearer for shoppers! Especially during grad season, when high BGR volume can occasionally slow processing down.

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🧩 Favorites Gallery download fix‍

• Fixed an edge case where the Personal Image Gallery Download product could appear for Favorites Galleries even when Dynamic Personal Gallery Download was not enabled.

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🛠️ Small Fixes & Cleanup

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📅 Hidden Events no longer appear on the Event Calendar.

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🖼️ Invisible BGR images now display correctly on Participant Details.

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⚡ Large Events with thousands of participants or images should feel more stable and responsive.

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That’s the update for this week!

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From a cleaner Dashboard layout to printable QR cards and better retail pricing displays, these changes are all about making NowCandid easier to use in real-world event workflows.

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Keep creating magic,‍

Candy 🍬