Feature Requests

Bruce you can already auto archive digital orders.

Yes I know, I just like to assign them to folders marked DOWNLOADED AND COMPLETE and NOT YET DOWNLOADED or NEED RETOUCHING. Being able to select just digital orders would allow me to put them in folders away from the print orders and can deal with them another time. But having to scroll down and check mark digital orders can be time consuming when dealing with so many orders.

Hi Tim, 

Would it be possible to implement a way for Sytist to sync with our Google Calendar so that if there is already something on Google Calendar, Systist will block out that time?  Or possible even just an auto-sync feature would be a great option to start with.  

Thanks! 

There is a one way link from sytist to add a booking to your google calendar, but there is no synchronisation.  I can imagine that would be a nightmare to code.

Adding booking to Google Calendar

When viewing a booking in the calendar, there is a Add to Google Calendar link. This will open a new tab with your Google Calendar add event dialog populated with the booking information. From there, you can make any adjustments and save. 

When you click that link, it will show a Google Calendar icon next to the booking entry. Note, this does not mean you actually saved it, just means you clicked it. So be sure you save in your Google Calendar.

This is not a full integration with Google Calendar, this is a convenient way to add the event to your calendar. So this means if you make any changes or cancel the booking in either calendar, it won't update the other. 

Probably would be a nightmare and maybe not even possible because it would have to somehow reverse engineer Google calendar to make sure that you're not already scheduled for another appointment.  Just trying to figure out how to use the booking feature without my clients thinking I'm available, when I'm not.  We have a very active life and our schedule can be all over the place at times. 

GREETINGS from Oz!

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a bulk coupon upload from a Excel file. 

I create custom coupons for each family (siblings only get 10% off) using their passcode and have to do it one at a time.

Dropping a CSV would be neato!

Instruction on intergration with EnTagged would be fabulous...

I believe I posted this in the wrong forum--  I have three requests related to reports

Lastly is there a way to get a report of open carts?  We are trying to categorize our accounts as visited, open carts, and customers? Having an export of the open carts would also allow us to market to them when they have multiple open carts across collections with out Bombarding them with separate emails for each cart.

Taken from another thread from 2019 ( that I also upvoted ):

I would like to see a drag and drop feature when clients are purchasing from packages and products. Clients would be able to select their products and drag their selected photo into that product.

Thanks.

Ability to add additional drop down menus in the top menu, for example "Services" in the main top menu, then when you hover over that, "Seniors", "Families", "Weddings", etc under that services menu.

Tim - 

I'm starting to do a number of dance studios lately with sales being done in post. Meaning, I go to a studio, take a shot of a dancer, come back and upload every image from the day - good bad or indifferent.  Then the parents go onto the site and select which photos they want of their child and submit the order.  Approximately 30 days after the shoot, I process all the orders from that studio.  

I noticed that all the information that I want is in the database, but I'm terrible with Left Joins, Inner Joins, Unions, etc.  

I'm looking for the possibility of creating a report based on the gallery that can spit out an excel file (or the like) with the customer's name, the photo they ordered (file name), qty, and photo size.  Ideally, not showing the package, but what's in the package.  Then this could be used to bulk upload into Miller's Lab for production by simply mapping the fields. 

Even if you don't write a report for everyone, could you possibly help me with the SQL query (gladly pay you for your time)?  Unfortunately, I just don't know your table layouts very well.

This is where I'm at so far, but I'd love to scale back the query to just what's needed somehow:

It looks like I can get a complete report including orders that I may have already fulfilled manually with:

LINES TERMINATED BY 'n';

I was wondering if there is a way to batch up load Customer accounts from a csv.  Also is there a way to assign sub galleries to an account.  I know you can assign Galleries to an account but the sub galleries are not an option.  I have to log in as them and enter the password to associate it for them.  For some reason our customers are having difficulty using the passcode option to find their gallery.  Also if I use the same passcode on the sub gallery for a sibling only one gallery comes up.  None of the other show up unless I look for the sub gallery click on it and then enter the password.

I guess I am looking for a quick way to batch create customers and associate them to all of their sub galleries.

Wondering if there is a way to have people reschedule themselves that I am not aware of. If not, I would love to have it be a feature, where users get a link that allows them to move their appt. 

  In my senior photography world, seniors are moving appointments all the time.  My work around is to create a "reschedule" booking link, and they can create a new booking that says "bonnie rescheduled to here" 

Mobile view for Admin side. Can't tell you how often I'm out and about and someone inquiries about their account and trying to navigate the site as is us no bueno.

Would love to see the ability to set individual expiration dates for sub galleries.  Thanks!

update the integration with paypal which can now be used to pay in 3-4 installments

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/pay-lat...

It already does, PayPal checkout.

Tim,
When I post limited bookings for an event, I have 100s of people on the site at the same time. Is there a way to time out the booking for 5 minutes so my clients have time to put there information in before someone else grabs it. For example like when you buy concert tickets? My clients are losing their booking even if they were first to click. Or I am getting double bookings.  Thanks for your consideration.

Thank you Tim!! This is now fixed (at least for what I wanted) in the latest 4.5 update.

Tim - 

Can you roll in my ical export feature that I wrote for you a while back?  I'd really like to export the calendar entries into my iPhone and Mac directly....

So far, I'm using my code just on my instance via an update script that makes some in-line changes to a few of your files upon upgrades but I'd really love to see this for everyone else.

I would love to see after you fulfill an order it would date and time stamp it for you.   So when you are looking back at your archived you know the exact date you fulfilled the order or moved it to another folder.  

- being able to enter a cost for an event / gallery, now you can enter a cost only on a single order.

- being able to move an entire event to s3, now you have to select all the photos and in each sub-gallery.

- being able to choose whether the "OTHER" product should be seen as a "download" or as a "print" with the aim of enabling or not entering the shipping address. at this moment "OTHER" is set as "PRINT" AND IT CANNOT BE CHANGE

I really like what  you did with 4.5 enabling gallery invites to now include passwords for passcode photos. Are there any plans in the works for doing the same for our preferred method- passworded sub-galleries? Right now we use merge tags in mailchimp to achieve this but it would be nice to be able to follow these up with expiry emails right from Sytist. 

We upload low res files and retrieve the full res from our back up and we automate this action in powershell with the csv product export generated by sytist. In 3 separate scripts manually inputted each time I download the orders, I generate the file names, retrieve the filelist from the backup and put in corresponding folders and rename the files in each folder by the order number. Would there be a way to code these actions to be triggered by sytist every time a new order was received? 

So you'd still have sub-folders, but instead of clicking into them, the contents of them are displayed as a series of 'sections'. 

This would be more applicable to a wedding gallery where there are sections of the day - bride prep, ceremony, drinks etc.

This option would work particularly well with Exclusive Mode where the menu items would effectively jump to the point where that section starts.   

I have two requests.  On Album design can we get a stroke or thin border around the image?    See the attached photo. That's two page spreads on an ALBUM REVIEW PAGE but it's not showing clients where the edge of the page is!

The second request... can you add a way to give spacing to the OPTIONS in a given item? So for my senior photography booking, I have options, and the all show up in the invoice like this, and I would LOVE some spacing between each item!

DOWNLOAD ZIP NAMING

Please consider the following:

Give us some control over the zip folder naming.  While the function works well the folder naming makes the process look somewhat messy on the customer end.

Example - these are the folders the client gets with the current gallery I'm delivering:

Robin--Sarah-Photographers-Gaye---Roger-Anniversary-07-07-23-23-07-19-19-09_09_57
   Robin--Sarah-Photographers-Gaye---Roger-Anniversary-07-07-23-23-07-19-19-09_09_57
      
It doesn't look great when the client gets this on their machine.  The folder date and times are not necessary at all.   I'm not sure why there is a folder-within-a-folder with the same name either.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to set the download zip name myself so it just looks more professional when the client receives it.

^^^ Very good point, also maybe an option to override or control the size of the zip folders? I believe the new limit is 4gb? While great and all, some point are having issues where is just spins and spins and it make take up to 5-20 minutes to process considering there internet/computer speeds, etc. And like Robin mentioned, it's just not a "professional" look when someone says hey I can't get this to work. And you know it's nothing on your end and there's nothing you can do about it, other than say well it works on my end, try again.

The 'Assign Fee Download' feature is nicely implemented.

Could it be expanded so that it's possible for the assigned-to person to download all of the images from the gallery and not just the current sub-gallery?

Maybe it already exists and I just haven't found it, but I would love to be able to batch export Redemption codes for Download Credits and Coupons to a .csv file.  Currently we create batches of Download credit codes with random digits added and have to copy/paste individually from the created master list to excel/sheets in order to print onto cards given to customers (usually when they order prints on-site so that they can instant download their images).

You can export coupons when clicking a batch name you created. There is currently not an option to export download credit codes.

Ability to nickname IP addresses.  Obviously, IPs change and some are always changing -- but some stay the same for a while.  Would be great to be able to see a nickname instead of or in addition to an IP address in the access logs.

Upload original photo option
In admin, within an order, the function to download the photos ordered in the original is very convenient when you have many orders to manage, it avoids going to look for them inside our hard disks.
 But this only works if the original files have been uploaded to the hosting, which is possible only in the case of events with few photos, schools, etc.
 In the case of weekly sporting events this is impossible due to the high number of photos and gb to upload and to pay for hosting space
 This forces you to resize and watermark locally and upload sityst only the already reduced images.
 It would be very useful to have a function similar to that of S3, which if enabled looks for the original files of the order, at a URL of one of our NAS connected via LAN or remotely with the various credentials.
 When uploading the original photos you want:
 1) don't upload them
 2) upload them to hosting
 3) upload them to S3
 4) do not load them but connect them to private hosting ( nas )

problem is that if i have a coupon out that it is taking it off the deposit, Would like to see the deposit exempt from all coupons. The coupon would be taken off the final invoice and not the deposit.

after 2 days of going crazy to setup cron with no success with my hosting, i tried (as suggested on this forum) the external service https://cron-job.org/ it took 30 seconds and everything worked.

log in with google

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Being able to have a free numeric field or a calendar, where you can choose us from when to cancel.  Now you can't cancel beyond 60 days, I would like to cancel those beyond 2 years and keep the others

Please add the labels feature to Buy Alls, just like in the Product Base and Collections.

As a volume photographer, I'm always trying to think of new ways to streamline my process.  I've seen some posts here and there regarding the use of Entagged (which is great).  

However, Sytist could essentially do almost the same thing without any hardware.  

If there was a way for a photographer to pull up a list of all pre-orders for a certain gallery in a mobile-friendly way (simple search box for name) then display a QR (the info in the QR is sort of irrelevant, but it could be customizable) -- then the photographer could just pop a screen shot of their phone (with QR displayed) before shooting the player.  Dump those screen shots into the mix with the actual T&I photos, run a barcode reading app (LRBarcodes for Lightroom) on the full set (screenshots + actual photos), and then propagate the QR data into the EXIF of the subsequent photos.  Obviously, it would require that the phone time and the camera time align.  I

I had already used a version of this process prior to buying Sytist, and I've thought about writing a script to just pull the order data out of Sytist and push it into a user-friendly interface on my phone.  However, I sometimes have walk-ups and it'd be great to be able to refresh everything in real time in the field as new orders come in.

discounts scheduled on the calendar

Add option to have Bookings auto archive in Order menu. Same thing that was added for download only orders but for bookings please.

I would really like the coding for returns put in the options field of my client bookings. 

with bold code:  and a few returns and some lines with no return code to show the difference.

Has anyone tried to integrate AI search into Sytist?   
I think it would tremendously help my Event site convert visitors to buyers if they could more easily find their photos.   We can get 250,000+ photos each year over a 10-day span. 

I know I can use AI to tag the photos... but how would I integrate that into a search inside sytist...?
 

A questionnaire for clients - similar to sending contract and invoice. Would be even better if we could schedule it to send a certain date or x number of days before their session.

Hi I would love to be able to export my unregistered users. I had a time. Where I wasn’t forcing people to create accounts and I’d like to export those people and put them in an Excel spreadsheet.

The ability to easily retry all failed uploads without having to start again and to have ignore duplicates ticked as default

Secondly - the ability to re-order galleries by drag and drop (this would be huge) - in that you spot a gallery is in the wrong place and you can just drag it over another folder to get it in the right place 

It would be great if download credits were transferable through the users.  I want parents to be able to buy download credits and then transfer them to a student's account for use.  Kinda like buying tokens at an arcade.  Mom pays for them, then gives them to the kid so he/she doesn't nag her constantly when they want to use one.