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Weekly Recap: Profile Logos, Faster Packages, and a Revamped Event Management Portal

Weekly Recap: Profile Logos, Faster Packages, and a Revamped Event Management Portal

Hey photo friends! 👋

This week’s updates are all about cleaner branding, smoother selling, and better visibility across your workflows—from a new profile/business logo system to big package configurator performance improvements, plus a long-awaited refresh of the Event Management Portal (EMP) ahead of grad season.

Let’s jump in. 💫

🖥️ Dashboard Updates

📣 Client Outreach: Texts now require a URL

Client Outreach SMS messages now require a URL to be included—helping ensure every text has a clear destination and call-to-action.

🧾 Reports: “Participants” terminology restored for accuracy

The Events Report, Compare Report, and Faces Report now use Participants instead of Contacts.
Reminder: a Contact is someone with info; a Participant is a contact with at least one image in their gallery. This avoids deflating stats with unmarketable contacts.

🧰 Candy Culler usability win

  • Added a Download Image button to the Image Details lightbox on the Candy Culler page.

🖼️ Better controls in Participant lightboxes

  • Added a visibility toggle to the Image Details lightbox on the Participant Details page.

🔍 New Event List filters

The Event List page now includes quick filters for:

  • Background Removal events
  • JerseyJotter events
  • Candy Culler events

🖼️ Offer background minimum lowered

You can now set your Offer background selection minimum to 5 (previously 20).

🚚 New flat-rate shipping option

Added $2.50 flat-rate shipping as an available shipping option.

📱 Mobile Dashboard

  • Fixed an issue where Friday weekly sales notifications were not sending.

🏷️ New: Profile / Business Logos (Branding Upgrade)

You can now assign a business/profile logo—upload to your profile icon on the dashboard as a 650×650 image and automatically cropped to a circle.

Where it appears:

  • Dashboard profile page + navigation
  • Retail contact popup above your business name
  • Receipt emails, web receipt preview, and the web receipt download page
  • Event Management Portal (EMP) header beside your business name
  • Private Image Download Gallery (PIDG) header
  • Public Event Tag List page header

More placements are planned in the future—this is the first step toward a more consistent, professional brand presence everywhere your customers interact with you.

🏷️ Event Tag List Page

  • Improved UI for a cleaner, easier experience.

🔒 Private Image Download Gallery (PIDG)

  • Improved UI
  • Added a note to the landing popup regarding released images

🛍️ Retail Improvements (Big Week for Packages + Rendering)

🖼️ Captions render earlier for key products

Graduation Plaque and Titled Luxe Prints now render custom captions earlier in the process, rather than waiting until the captions step.

📦 Package configurator upgrades

The package configurator received several improvements:

  • Added pagination to the All Gallery tab in the “Next Package Item Image Picker” step
  • Added a “Discard package progress?” popup when backing out after configuring at least one item to prevent accidental loss of progress
  • Fixed an edge-case crash on mobile when configuring large packages in offers with 3D items
  • Overall package configurating is now much more performant

🧩 Z-Crop improvements

Several improvements were made to ZCrop images to improve behavior and consistency.

🏷️ Group photo refresh fix

Fixed user-added dynamic gallery group photos showing as not group after refresh.

🎨 Background order consistency

Custom offer background order now matches the order in the offer details editor—drag and drop reordering on the dashboard offer editor.

📸 Capture App (iOS & Android OTA): 5.4.3 + 5.4.4

  • 5.4.3: Fixed a crash when toggling a Group Photo without any service
  • 5.4.4: Fixed a keypad popup issue on very large screens (like 13” iPad) where opt-in/cancel buttons were being cropped out

🧾 Event Management Portal (EMP) — Major Refresh (quic.pics/portal)

Quick reminder: the Event Management Portal (EMP) is a mini-dashboard on quic.pics that uses the Capture App login—so you can do “dashboard-like” tasks without downloading an app or using a full account login. It hasn’t been talked about much lately, but this week it got a big refresh in preparation for grad season.

What’s new:

  • Improved security
  • Tons of UI changes and a new dark-only theme
  • Event list page now includes a search bar
  • Event list page updated to “Live on Capture App” (instead of “Active”)
  • Event list page shows attributes like the main Dashboard + adds an Event Number column
  • Header now shows business name and logo
  • Fixed a crash on the Marketing History page
  • Added text/email filter on Marketing History
  • Images now use lightboxes with arrow key navigation
  • Participant Details now shows Additional Contacts
  • Participant Details now shows Invisible images

That’s the week! 💫

Between profile/business logos, a smoother package configurator, better report accuracy, and the EMP glow-up for grad season, this update should help you move faster, look more professional, and reduce friction across the whole customer experience.

Keep creating magic,
— The NowCandid Team 🍬

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  • 😊 Retail face boxes aligned on very small desktop viewports.

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Thanks for reading—and happy shooting!

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Less friction, clearer signals, and stronger protection—so you can spend more time shooting and selling.

Keep being amazing,
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