Friday, February 29, 2008

Adobe Air 1.0

Adobe has officially released The Adobe® AIR™ runtime 1.0. This means that StudioCloud's Online Gallery is now compatible with the Leopard operating system. For any of you who have not been able to try out the Online Gallery due to this compatibility issue please let us know and we can extend your trial. Other minor bugs have also been resolved due to this AIR release.

StudioCloud, It's Just That Easy!

Monday, February 25, 2008

Packages Have Arrived

We have listened to your requests for a better way to handle packages and it is now available.

Under Point of Sale you will see a tab that says Packages. Here you can create customized packages that you can offer to your customers from your Online Gallery and make invoicing simplified in your Basic/Professional Suite.

Your customers will be able to view a customized description (for example: how many poses they are allowed for each package) and also a detailed breakdown of what the package includes. Then when they select a package it will automatically populate what images are included in that package and they can select the images to go with each print in the package.

The packages will automatically be added to your “All Products” price list but make sure to add them to the other Price Lists you would like them included on.

We look forward to your feedback!

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

New PSG (Previously In-Studio Gallery) Features

You can now export contacts to csv – for mailing lists in the PSG. This use to only be in the Offline Reader.

You can also select payment options for albums in the online gallery. Select either credit card or in-studio accepted payments or both.

New Website & In-Studio Gallery Name Change

The name of the In-Studio Gallery has been changed to Proofing, Sales, & Gallery Manager (PSG). Also, make sure to check out the changes to our website at studiocloud.com. Here you can find the new information on our upcoming products and the pricing for those products. We welcome any feedback you may have!

Assign Colors To Sessions

You now have a larger selection of colors to choose from when scheduling appointments and can choose a default color to save for your session types. Go under the calendar and click on the tab session types offered by studio. Here it will allow you to choose a default color.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Export Contacts

At this time you can export your contacts for mailers, etc by using the Offline Reader. You can export in either CSV or XML. In the future you will be able to use StudioCloud CRM for doing targeted marketing mailer and email campaigns.

Online and In-Studio Gallery Updates

The new In-Studio gallery does the following:

1. Supports Ordered images when uploading
2. Redesigned publish page to get more space
3. You can now get a personalized studiocloud.net url for your online gallery. Go to
the support section of the In-Studio gallery to select your url.
4. You can open an album by double clicking on it. StudioCloud albums have the extension .scq

The new Online Gallery does the following:
1. Has a favorites tab/folder (can order directly from favorites)
2. Has shopping cart tab/folder
3. Has an improved look and feel

The new Online Gallery is only available on the studiocloud.net personalized url. The studiocloud.com/OnlineGallery.php url will no longer be used. Instead, customers can either select a personalized url or they will get an auto generated url which will be their login name.

Let us know if you have any questions. Also if you do not currently subscribe to the Online Gallery but would like to try out the new version, let us know and we will set you up with another trial run.