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 🍬

‍