Client gallery feature enables you to deliver your work to your clients easily and safely. Your clients can view, share, mark favorites or download the images on any device. You can also sell your images using client galleries.
Standalone plans are available for Client Galleries. Know more.
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Album Presets
Album presets refer to the default settings that are automatically applied to each newly created album. You can manage settings like Visibility, Search options, Privacy settings, Layout settings, Favorite, Comment and Download options and much more from here and change them according to your preferences.
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Changes in the Album Presets will be applied only to the albums that are created after making the changes.
Albums and Galleries
- What is an Album: An Album is a group of galleries that you can share with anyone publicly or privately. Album will be your client. For example, if you have shot a wedding for a client, you can create an album for that client and include multiple galleries in it to cover and categorize all the events that you shot.
- Add an Album: You can easily add an album by clicking on the “Add Album” button on Albums page of your Client Gallery. Know more.
- Album Settings: Apart from the album preset settings, you can also manage the individual album settings like the event and expiry date, album login, privacy and other options. To know more, click here.
- Album Design and Layout: You can manage various options related to the styling and layout of your albums. This affects the presentation of your work to your clients.
- Album Privacy: You can choose to display your albums as Public or keep it as Private and enable Password protection for them. You can also enable the option to ask for name and email at login. Learn more.
- What is a Gallery: A gallery is where you will be uploading the different event images. There can be multiple galleries inside an album. Click on the links to see how to get ready with your image color profile and image size.
- Add a Gallery: You can easily add a gallery by clicking on the “Add Gallery” button inside any album. Click here to know more.
- Add Images to a Gallery: Adding images to a gallery is fairly simple. Click on the “Add Images” button on the top-right corner inside the gallery. Know more.
- Download Images as Owner: You can easily download the images that you have uploaded as owner from the studio. Click here to know how.
- Gallery Design: You can also manage the look and feel of the individual galleries inside an album.
Album Listing Page
In order to make it easier for your clients to access their albums, you can add an Album Listing Page to your website. They do not require the link and can navigate to their album through your website.
You can also choose to hide the albums that you do not want to display on the album listing page.
- Add Album Listing Page: You can add the album listing page to your website by clicking on the “Add to Website” button from here. To know more, click here.
- Sequencing Albums: On the albums listing page, the sequence of the albums can be changed. It is a simple drag-and-drop process. Click here to know more.
Master Login Page
Master Login Page is slightly different from the Album Listing Page. Here the albums will not be listed onto a page. Instead, the clients will login to their albums by entering the Album ID on the Master Login Page and if the album is password protected, they will have to enter the password in the next step.
- Add Master Login Page: You’ll have to add a link to your website’s menu and then inside the “Web Link” tab, enter ‘/site’ (without inverted commas) to add a master login page. Click here to know more.
Share Album and Album Reminders
- Share Album: You can easily share the Albums with your clients using the email sharing feature. You can also share important details like album password, download pin and other details in the email body. Click here to know more on how to share an album.
- View Invites: You can view all the invites history that you have sent to your clients. Also, you can edit them to resend. Learn more.
- Album Reminder: Once you have shared the album, you may also want to send a reminder to your client informing them about the album’s expiry. You can manage the album reminder content and the clients with whom you want to share the album reminder. Click here to know how.
Favorites and Comments
You can allow your clients to mark images as favorites and drop comments on them. These options can be changed from individual albums and also from Album presets. Please note that changing the options from album presets will be applied only on the albums that are created after the change.
- Favorites: Enable favorites to let your clients mark the images as favorites. You can also limit the number of favorites that they can add to their favorite list.
- Comments: Enabling comments will allow users to drop a comment on images.
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- You can also enable favorites and comments for galleries.
Downloads for Clients
You can allow the clients to download the images without paying by enabling the Download option. Also, you can customize various option like download pin, image sizes available for downloads, download permissions, download restrictions, etc. from here. Learn more about downloads.
- By limiting the favorites that clients can mark and selecting “Favorite Lists” only as download option, you can restrict the users to a limited number of downloads.
Album Login and Login Activity
- Album Login: Your clients will have to login with their name and email address to download, mark favorite, comment on the images or buy them.
- Login Activity: You can view your client’s login activity and details like name and email id, time and date of login, individual favorites and download activity. Know more.
- Favorites Activity: You can track all your clients’ favorites activity from here. Learn more.
- Downloads Activity: You can track all your clients’ downloads activity from here. Learn more.
- Orders Activity: You can track all your clients’ e-commerce / orders activity from here. Know more.
Sell Images using Client Gallery
You can sell your images in two ways using Pixpa’s Client Gallery feature. You can sell them as Prints wherein you can easily set-up print labs, pricing and shipment methods.
Secondly, you can also sell your images as Digital Downloads. Customers get a download link when they make a purchase.
- Fulfillment Methods: This is the process of completing and delivering the orders to the customers. Pixpa provides you with four different options for fulfilling the orders.
- Self Fulfillment: This is a manual process wherein you will be fulfilling the orders of the customers from receiving orders to printing and delivering. Click here to know more.
- Print Vendor Fulfillment: This is an automated process where you can choose to fulfil your orders using any lab of your choice. You’ll have to set up your Print Vendor for auto fulfillment of the orders. Know more.
- WHCC Lab Fulfillment: Pixpa has integrated White House Custom Colour (WHCC) lab that you can use for the fulfilment of your orders. Learn more.
- Digital Downloads: You can sell your images to your customers in digital form also wherein they get a download link to download images or albums in digital form when they make a successful order. You can also choose to approve the order. This way, the customers will only get the download link when you approve the order, even if they have made the payment. Know more.
- Add Price Lists: It is a list of Print products, Merchandise, Self-fulfillment products, and Digital download options. You need to create price lists and add items into it in order to let the clients purchase the images in different forms. Click here to know more.
- Price List Categories: You can categorize the items listed into the price lists using categories. These categories will be visible in the floating cart page that opens up while your customer proceeds to buy an image. Learn more.
- Discounts / Shipping / Taxes:
- Discounts: You can create Discount Coupons for your clients that they can use while making purchases. Click here to know more.
- Shipping: You can make changes to your address and add various shipping rates so that your clients get multiple options regarding the shipping method. Learn more.
- Taxes: You can create multiple tax rates country wise using this option. You can also select if the pricing of the product is inclusive of taxes or vice versa. Learn more.
- Checkout Options: You can manage options like Checkout page fields, Abandoned Carts, Store Policies, Order Success Message and Mail, etc. from here. Know more.
- Payment Methods: You can set up your payment methods to accept the payments from clients / customers from here. Supported payment methods are Stripe and PayPal. You can also accept offline payment methods. PayUMoney is also supported for Indian customers only. To know more regarding the payment methods, click here.
- Orders and Order Status: You can view all your client gallery orders from here. You can also see the details of the customer like name, address, email id, phone number, etc. If you want to download the order invoices, or export orders as CSV, the same can be done from here. Learn more on how to manage orders.
- Order Status: You can manage the status of the order from here. Know more.
- Payment Status: You can also manage the status of the payment for each order from here. Learn more.
- Order Fulfillment Status: Manage the order fulfilment status from here. Learn more.
Announcement Bar
Announcement bar can be used to highlight any message, offer or any other information to your clients. You can keep it same as your website or you can design it specifically for a particular album. To know more regarding the announcement bar, click here.
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