Monday, October 7, 2013

New Videos Posted

Our team has been hard at work adding new video content to our YouTube channel ( http://youtube.com/studiocloud )  We are trying to create very short and specific informative videos.  The first two new videos are on creating and editing clients.  Please watch the blog or subscribe to the YouTube channel to keep up on the latest videos. 

Links to the videos are below.

Creating a New Client - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-MyaKUUzT4

Editing a Client - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLLTA4ZtsY

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Shutter Magazine Editor's Pick Video

Back in July we posted about StudioCloud be selected as an Editor's Pick for Shutter magazine.  You can read that post at http://blog.studiocloud.com/2013/07/studiocloud-selected-as-editors-pick.html  But now we bring you the brief video review that Shutter magazine did on StudioCloud.

You can view the video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmoZ39Ite2A


Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Fall Special (Save Over $350 Per Year)


StudioCloud is offering a limited time only, fall special promotion where you can get the EmployeeBoost, CloudAlerts, CloudForms, CloudProofing, and CloudBooking for only $60 per month. That's a savings of over $350 per year off of our regular pricing.

Act now and lock in your special pricing. This offer ends on Dec 31st, 2013.

To redeem this promotion please go to the following link and enter the promotion code of special101

* Please note that this offer is only available for new paying customers.

Friday, August 16, 2013

New AutoPay Feature

In the latest StudioCloud update, version 3.1.197, our team has released the latest integration feature with Merchant Warehouse called StudioCloud AutoPay.  This is available to any StudioCloud accounts that have a Merchant Warehouse account setup in StudioCloud.  This feature allows you to set a default credit card for your clients and then to have StudioCloud automatically process payments due on the payment due deadline.

We have put together a support article to help you get started with this new feature which is available here: http://app1.studiocloud.com/support/index.php?/article/AA-00676/0/

When StudioCloud AutoPay processes a payment your clients will receive a message.  Currently this message is not customizable.  It will contain the subject line "Your Payment To YOUR_BUSINESS_NAME" and a simple message of "A payment of $AMOUNT was successfully processed for invoice #INVOICE_NUMBER for CLIENT NAME on DATE"

You will also receive an email containing a summary of all of the payments that were processed each day.  It will contain a similar message for each payment but the text could be different if the payment was declined.

Also, if the payment is successful then StudioCloud will automatically convert the Payment Due to a Payment and transfer it to Bookkeeping.

Friday, July 12, 2013

New Routing Features


StudioCloud has recently released new routing features which are available in the latest major release. The new features let you do the following:

  • Map the driving directions for multiple clients at once
  • Map the driving directions for multiple on location appointments at once
  • Map the driving directions for multiple invoices at once

To learn how to use the new feature go to the following link. Map Route Tutorial

Thursday, July 11, 2013

StudioCloud Selected As Editors Pick


StudioCloud is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Shutter magazine as the Editor's Pick for Studio Management Software. Sign up for Shutter magazine to view the free magazine as well as video on StudioCloud.

Monday, June 24, 2013

StudioCloud Wins Hot One Award Again


StudioCloud is proud to announce that the PPA's Professional Photographer magazine has selected StudioCloud as the winner of its coveted 2013 Hot One Award for Best Studio Management Software and for Best Studio Management Mobile App. This will be the second year in a row that StudioCloud has won the Hot One Award for Best Studio Management Software category and the first year it has won the Best Studio Management Mobile App category.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

CloudForms In Open Beta


NOTE: The CloudForms has completed the open beta and customers can now subscribe to it.

StudioCloud is excited to announce that CloudForms is now in open beta for all StudioCloud users to use.

CloudForms includes the ability to create online questionnaires and/or customized website contact us forms. In addition, CloudForms also includes the ability to have contracts that are generated in StudioCloud to be esigned by a customer over email. The forms and contracts are also compatible with iPhones,  iPads, Android phones and tablets.

Here is an example of a wedding questionnaire
http://cloudforms.co/?scid=UIMNY0QK8H7LL6UF&fid=255

Here is an example of a contact us sample
http://cloudforms.co/?scid=UIMNY0QK8H7LL6UF&fid=256

Both of the above samples are included in the samples tab in the form manager. They are both customizable as well.

Here are the instructions on how create a questionnaire.
http://app1.studiocloud.com/support/index.php?/article/AA-00665/177/

Here are the instructions on how to have a contract esigned.
http://app1.studiocloud.com/support/index.php?/article/AA-00666/177/

Additional written and video tutorials will be available in the near future. In addition, the ability to embed a questionnaire / contact us form in a website will be available in the next minor release.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Request StudioCloud Marketing Materials

Due to an increase in requests for marketing materials we have attempted to streamline the process a little bit by creating a form on our website that you can use.  If you have an upcoming event, class, conference, or anything else, and you would like some marketing materials from StudioCloud then please let us know by using the form on our website.  The address for the form is below

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Retouchup.com Integration

Back in December we announced that StudioCloud had partnered with Retouchup.com to provide quality touchup to our customers.  So far we have had fantastic feedback from those users that have switched to Retouchup.com but we have had some feedback.  The feedback that we received is that our customers wanted to continue submitting touchup orders directly through StudioCloud.  So we have been working hard with Retouchup.com to switch our CloudTouchup interface over to the Retouchup.com service.  This integration was made available in the latest update.

To get started with your Retouchup.com account use the following steps:
  1. Login to the StudioCloud program, but make sure you have the latest update
  2. Go to the Cloud Services component
  3. Click on the Retouchup tab
    1. If you already have a Retouchup.com account then no problem.  Go ahead and skip to step 7.
  4. Click the Manage button
  5. Click the Create Account. First Retouch Free! button
  6. Fill out the form to setup your new Retouchup.com account
  7. Click the Retouchup API Key button
  8. Click the Get API Key button
  9. Enter your Retouchup.com username and password and click the Save button
    1. This will contact Retouchup.com directly to get your API Key and will put that key in the form for you
  10. Click the Save button
After you follow all of those steps your are ready to go.  To get started click the Retouchup Manager button and submit your first order.

Product Changes in the Invoice

With the most recent release of StudioCloud there were quite a few updates and changes to StudioCloud.  For a summary of the changes made please see the labs page http://labs.studiocloud.com/studiocloud-beta 

One of the changes that was made affects how the available products, services, and packages are displayed when creating or editing an invoice.  A screenshot is available below to give you an idea of what the new product list looks like.

As you can see in this screen shot there is no longer an option in the list to click on a header and view only the products, services, or packages but rather the default is to "View All Items" which means that products, services, and packages are displayed together.  To distinguish between products, services, and packages when you view them together a [P] has been put in front of product name and a [S] has been put in front of service name.  Packages do not include any notation in front of the name. 

You can change which products, services and packages are visible by changing the price list in the combo box at the bottom of the table.  By default "All Products/Services" are displayed.

At the top of the products table is a combo box that says "View All Items" by default.  If you want to view only products, services, or packages you can do that by changing what is selected in that combo box.

One last thing to make note of is that if you hover your mouse over an item in this list you will get more details including the full description in  a tooltip and you can also still search for a product, service, or package using the search box at the top.

All of these changes were made to accommodate the QTY field that has been added in to this table.  The QTY field is for the inventory management component and we will have more on this in a future post.

Friday, March 22, 2013

New Office Location













StudioCloud has moved to a new office location that better fits our fast growing needs. Our new business location is at the following address.

1411 W. 1250 S. Suite 330
Orem, Utah, 84058

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

StudioCloud App in Amazon App Store

We are very happy to announce that the StudioCloud Mobile Business Manager app is now available on the Amazon App Store for Android devices!  This means that you can now download it to your Kindle Fire or Kindle Fire HD.  You can find the app at the following link: http://www.amazon.com/DaVincis-Desk-Inc-StudioCloud-Business/dp/B00B5NWKTK/



The app is called "StudioCloud Business Manager HD".  For those that have non-Amazon Android devices this is the same app that is available on Google Play.  In addition, this is a completely new app and not an upgrade to the app previously available on the Amazon App Store.  As a result, you will need to uninstall the previous version and install this new app.

The app includes the following functionality:

  • Client Management
  • Prospective Client (leads) Management
  • Graphical Calendar
  • Graphical Scheduler
  • Agenda
  • Invoicing
  • Project and Task Management
  • Time Tracking
More functionality will be added in the future.  If you have need for specific functionality then please go to the following feature request forum: http://mystudiocloud.com/viewforum.php?f=25

If you would like to view the current status of the app including known bugs then please go to the following link http://labs.studiocloud.com/studiocloud-mobile

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

New CloudStorage Pricing


StudioCloud is pleased to announce a new tiered pricing for CloudStorage as well as a limited time offer of 1 GB free CloudStorage for all new and current StudioCloud accounts*. Below is the new CloudStorage pricing.

1 GB is $0.00 per GB per Month (It's Free)
2 GB to 10 GB is $0.25 per GB per Month
11 GB to 100 GB is $0.20 per GB per Month
100 GB to 1024 GB (1 TB) is $0.15 per GB per Month
Over 1024 GB (1 TB) is $0.10 per GB per Month

If you have a free StudioCloud account, the 1 GB of free CloudStorage has already been applied to your account. 

If you do not have a StudioCloud account, please sign up for an account by going to the following link. http://studiocloud.com/index-2.html

If you already have a StudioCloud account with CloudStorage you will need to do the following to get the latest pricing and free GB of CloudStorage.
  1. Update the StudioCloud desktop software to the lastest major version
  2. Login To The StudioCloud desktop software
  3. Go to Cloud Services
  4. Click on the "Your Subscription" tab
  5. Click on the "Manage Your Subscription" button
  6. Update your subscription to include the CloudStorage that you desire.

*If you have the CloudProofing add-on the 1 GB of CloudStorage was given to you when you subscribed to the CloudProofing. No additional CloudStorage space will be given to CloudProofing customers.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Imaging USA/WPPI Promotion

 

In celebration of the conferences happening, StudioCloud is offering the following promotion during the months of January, February, and March.

Sign up for a StudioCloud EmployeeBoost account using the code of GETITFREE and you will get the CloudBooking by StudioCloud added to your subscription for free.

To learn more about CloudBooking by StudioCloud please go to the following link. http://cloudbooking.net

To subscribe please go to the following link. https://studiocloud.com/register.html