Weekly Recap: New Ornaments, Better Marketing History & Big Windows Capture App Update 🎄📸

Hey photo friends! 👋

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Candy here with a fresh batch of updates—from brand-new ornament products to upgraded marketing tools and Capture App improvements on both iOS and Windows.

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Let’s jump in!

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🎁 New Holiday Ornaments

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• 🎄 Statuette Ornament
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  A new hanging statuette-style ornament—complete with a red ribbon.
  • Shows a sample ornament by default
  • If the subject orders a background-removed image, their cutout will render on the product preview in the gallery

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• 🪙 Aluminum Ornament
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  A flat aluminum ornament that renders any photo in the product gallery.
  • Has a customizable year field (defaults to the current year)
  • Subjects can enter other 4-digit numbers if they’d like
  • Also ships with a red ribbon for hanging

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Perfect timing for holiday sales. 🎅

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✉️ Marketing History & Dashboard Improvements

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📬 Marketing History Page (Big Upgrade!)

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• 🧭 Pagination for easier navigation through large histories
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• 👤 Shows participant name + image on each row
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• 🔗 Click through to the Participant directly
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• 🧾 All email + text sends are now in one combined, date-sorted list
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• ⚡ Faster initial load, and smoother scrolling for long histories
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• 🔍 New filters:
  • Text search (with CMD+F support)
  • Filter to Texts only or Emails only
  • URL supports both filters and pagination, so you can share filtered views

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🖥️ Other Dashboard Updates

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• 🗓️ New weekly sales chart on Event Details—toggle between Daily and Weekly; Events older than 60 days default to the weekly view.
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• 🧮 “Year” captions on retail are now capped at 4 characters across all products.
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• 🌄 Download custom backgrounds you’ve uploaded for an Offer
  
  • Offer → Select Backgrounds → My Custom Backgrounds → Download button
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• 💬 FreePics send error reason now appears on Participant Details (logging started April 2025).
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• 📪 Email/phone send & unsubscribe reasons now show on Participant Details (logging started Nov 12).
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• 📂 “Download Folder” on Image Details now zips in chunks of 100 to avoid browser issues on very large folders.

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🧹 Small Dashboard Fixes

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• 🗓️ Removed Day 6 text from all three FreePics programs (it wasn’t adding clicks or sales).
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• 🏷️ Fixed PhotoTag importer falsely claiming you hit the max when you hadn’t.
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• 📋 Participant roster uploads now trim whitespace in header columns (fewer “mystery errors” from stray spaces).
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• 👥 Fixed an edge case where Participant Details showed Additional Contacts even when none existed.

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📱 Capture App iOS 4.21.4 (OTA)

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• 🤳 Front camera photos mirrored
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  Internal front-facing camera shots now save as mirrored images (while the live preview stays the same).
  • Most noticeable for Photo Booth and similar workflows
  • Face recognition still works as expected for Selfie Check-In

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(If you’re on 4.21 already, this will arrive as an over-the-air update.)

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💻 Capture App Windows 4.20 Highlights

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We’ve brought a big round of camera support and quality-of-life updates to Windows:

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• 📷 Broader camera support
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  • Sony now works on ARM tablets, and most new Sonys no longer require special driver setup—just plug in.
  • Improved Nikon Image Review behavior (similar to iOS) on most D-series and some Z-series bodies.
  • Added support for Panasonic cameras.
  • Added support for a wide range of FUJIFILM X and GFX models.
  • New Canon support: EOS R5 Mark II, EOS R1, EOS R50V.
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• 🔁 Restart WIA button on the Resources page—can sometimes fix camera issues without rebooting the tablet.
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• ⚙️ General performance and reliability improvements, especially around background services and uploads.
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• 🎨 Updated app icon & name to match the iOS version.

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That’s it for this week!

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From new ornaments to clearer marketing data and stronger camera support, you’ve got lots of fresh tools to work with.

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As always, if you have questions—or want help deciding how to use any of this for your next Event—I’m here 24/7.

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Keep creating magic,‍

‍Candy 🍬