The studio issue · No. 40
Client picks go straight into Lightroom, and pop-ups sell a weekend of minis
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This week a client's picks went straight into Lightroom: press Open in Lightroom and the plug-in for Lightroom Classic gathers their frames from your RAWs into one collection.
Pop-ups put Christmas minis or a pre-wedding weekend on one page that takes the booking and the payment. Clients can lock their galleries with a PIN of their own, and your logo now plays over every film.
On the cover · Leads
Pop-ups: one page for a short run of sessions
Under Leads, publish one page for Christmas minis or a pre-wedding weekend. Clients pick a session and time, pay on your own Stripe, and arrive booked, with the invoice paid and the shoot scheduled.
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Client picks go straight into Lightroom
On a client's selection, press Open in Lightroom: the plug-in for Lightroom Classic gathers their picked frames from your RAWs into one collection. Or drop green-labelled sidecars into the RAW folder.
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Clients can lock any gallery with their own PIN
After confirming their booking email, a client can lock any of their galleries with a 4–8 digit PIN. Anyone else holding the link sees only the title until the PIN is entered.
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Your logo now goes on the film too
A gallery's logo now sits over each film as it plays and is burned into the download. Guest galleries get the logo-on-photos panel, with a photo showing exactly where it lands.
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Galleries
Every Guest Gallery gets a page of its own
Guest Gallery and Guest Upload Gallery now have their own pages under Clients. Open an event to add photos, attach the client, select and delete, view full screen, or open the client's gallery.
Open it in bckendIQ →Print a QR card in your logo and colour
Design each event's QR in its own tab: four styles, your logo in the middle, your colour through the code. Download a table card in A6, A5 or A4, or the bare code.
Open it in bckendIQ →Gallery links now preview as one of the photos
Send a guest gallery link on WhatsApp or Messenger and it shows one of the event's photos with the event's name. Every gallery card is now light enough for WhatsApp to display.
Open it in bckendIQ →See each guest's phone, views and saves
Click a guest in the guest book to see how many photos of them were found, how often they opened their page, what they saved, and a WhatsApp button with their link typed in.
Open it in bckendIQ →Clients can send a second selection
Clients can change their picks and send again, and you hear about it. A set they've asked changes on stays in their gallery, greyed, with “Add more changes”.
Open it in bckendIQ →Guest uploads go faster and survive a reload
When guests send to a Guest Upload Gallery, small files go first, more move at once on a good line, and a half-sent video picks up where it stopped.
Open it in bckendIQ →Your own previews no longer count as the client's
Opening a client's gallery link yourself no longer counts as the client opening or saving it, and a project's Client tab now shows the notes your client left in their gallery.
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Clients
One client link: the whole gallery, booking underneath
Your client's link now opens every event, film and album in one place, with their timeline, payments and paperwork below, still behind the code sent to their booking email.
Open it in bckendIQ →Record a payment from the client's Invoice tab
Each agreed payment is now a row on the client's Invoice tab. Press Record payment, choose how they paid and the day it arrived, and the receipt is emailed.
Open it in bckendIQ →Add a rehearsal dinner or engagement shoot to bookings
On a booking's Dates tab, add any other day with its own name and time, and give the save-the-date an hour. Signed clients see exactly what changed.
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Bookings
Google Meet or Zoom in one click
Connect Google Meet or Zoom with one button, or paste one link to use for every video call. Confirmation emails now carry the join link.
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Performance
New hires' paperwork arrives already 90% filled in
The offer letter, NDA, handbook and payroll form open as the page staff will read, prefilled with your company's answers. Click any sentence to edit; a sent job lands your hire on their welcome pack.
Open it in bckendIQ →Promote someone in one step, with a career history
Each person on Staff now opens on their own page. Change job, access level and pay together, record it as a promotion, and it joins their career history.
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Marketing
Your marketing emails now wear your studio's footer
Add buttons, socials, a contact line and WhatsApp to the footer of every campaign and sequence. You can also duplicate a campaign or sequence, and Contacts shows each client's phone and WhatsApp.
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Projects
Tidier project board, and a Timeline without end
Empty board stages fold into thin strips, cards are two lines with first names, late jobs read “4 days late”, and the Timeline scrolls back and forward without a wall.
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Dashboard
The top bar shows your studio and its setup
The top bar now shows your studio's name and logo and switches studios. Beside the bell, a Setup ring shows how far setup has got and links to each missing step.
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Website
A new homepage, and a clearer price page
The homepage now follows one wedding from enquiry to gallery, every page gains photos and film, and Pricing sets the apps a studio juggles beside one bckendIQ, yearly first.
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Leads
Smaller fixes across bookings and forms
A ₦25.99 million booking now saves at its real total. Every phone number is stored one dialable way, the follow-up Send stays reachable in the iPhone app, and every page shares one width.
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