bckendiq.com
Editors
by the
hour
Not by the day.
'1h over' past eight.
A sent invoice
takes a
discount
Nothing they saw
moves.
1
Inbox.
Who's waiting
on you.
Reword
the proof
email
Approved?
Say thanks
With your
review link.
Hiring:
one sheet a job
Four documents per hire.
No. 38 · 18 Sep 2026
In this issue
- 01
On the cover · Projects
Book an editor by the hour, not the day.
Give one editor 2 hours for one couple, 5 for another and 1 for a third, all on one day. The Timeline shows hours free, and says '1h over' past eight.
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On the cover · Leads
One Inbox that shows who is waiting on you.
Leads › Inbox sorts every conversation into Needs a reply, Waiting on them and Done, and says what each couple asked. WhatsApp opens on your own phone with the message typed.
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On the cover · Galleries
Reword the proof email before it goes.
Send to client for approval now opens the letter first: change the subject, headline, message and button. If the couple has no email on file, it tells you instead of skipping silently.
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On the cover · Automation
Approval now earns a thank-you with your review link.
Final galleries stop asking couples to choose photos and ask for approval instead. When they approve, they get the thank-you you wrote in Automations, with your Google review link.
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On the cover · Financials
A sent invoice can take a discount or add-on.
Edit invoice now has the builder's full + Add menu: package, add-on, custom line, discount or code. Re-opening a sent invoice never shifts a figure the couple was already sent.
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On the cover · Performance
Hiring: one sheet per job, four documents per hire.
Each job is one sheet — offer terms, 'Your job' and KPIs — saved with one button. New hires get four documents, and the Handbook ends with a chapter on their own job.
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Settings
See the exact menu each access level gets.
Settings › Permissions shows a live preview of the menu a level will see, one switch per section. Renaming a level no longer changes its access, and the page fits a phone.
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Leads
The conversation is a tab beside the invoice.
On a lead, the invoice and the conversation are two tabs, so the booking sits at the top. An orange dot shows when the couple wrote last.
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Projects
Fix or take back a comment you posted.
Your own comments on a task now have Edit and Delete, and an edit shows '· edited'. Photos, videos and voice notes in a thread open in a full-screen viewer you can swipe.
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Bookings
Connect your calendar without a developer.
Meeting links no longer ask for keys from a Google Cloud console; connecting is a button. The editor explains how each booking gets its own call link and how busy days are blocked.
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Galleries
Thumbnails appear the moment an upload lands.
A fresh wedding upload now shows its thumbnails straight away, not minutes later. A single film delivery shows the name you typed, not IMG_7863.mov.
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Dashboard
Put bckendIQ on your phone's home screen.
Open bckendIQ on a phone and a sheet shows the exact taps to add it to your home screen. In the installed app, nothing sits under the clock any more.
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Projects
Big project boards scroll smoothly on a phone.
Each job's row shows one line of thumbnails, then '+N', instead of a whole 3,000-photo proof. Card titles use the full width, and the phone Gantt shows whose job each tile is.
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Marketing
Marketing fits a phone, and lead bank filters faster.
The lead bank's six pickers fold into one Filters menu beside search. Every Marketing tab and dialog now fits an iPhone, and a new sequence opens straight in its editor.
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Dashboard
A shorter menu and quieter page titles.
The Studios section is gone; its rows moved to Leads, Projects and Settings. Page explanations sit behind a small '?', and the bell scrolls back through every notification.
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Website
The website now says what bckendIQ does.
bckendiq.com walks one client from enquiry to delivered gallery, in plain words. A chat answers questions from the FAQ, and Book a call opens our onboarding calendar.