Feature Requests

It would be really helpful if we could upload our images directly to the Amazon S3 Bucket then Sytist processes them from there.

For example, right now I am uploading over 13,000 images which is a lot of space and bandwidth to be paying for on my hosting site every year, for that short space of time they get processed and moved to S3 anyway.

Love the new ordering system BTW Tim :-)

Lee that is not possible, sytist needs to process first in order to make everything including encryption code , and it would be the same amount of resources used if not more.

Would it be possible to have an option for customers to enter multiple passcodes, so they can view all their children’s images at one time?

Accept bitcoin lightning for payment please. I really need this feature specially working with international school oversea

Maybe this would help you :
https://developers.opennode.com/docs

I'd love to be able to collect a deposit on services (Selling physical products, product downloads or services.) the same way we can on the booking calendar option.

I'd also love for the checkbox to have the "Check this box if this option is required." because it helps to have a simple way for clients to visibly agree to a statement/term before purchasing.

I'd like the "message added to order" to show up in the shopping cart before they checkout and not just on the placed order. Or give the option for a brief description.

A simpler Cart/Invoice view when purchasing a collection that DOES NOT require cropping.

Hi Costa,

To answer your cropping question, do not put dimensions in your print sizes and or select do not allow crop in each print size. see photo.  To your other request Tim just completely redesigned the collection section to accommodate all the school photographers requests for this feature.

Hello Vance,

Yes, I saw the new Sytist feature on the demo version and I like it a lot.
But do you know if the cart & invoice are also simplified?

My request is to display the thumbnail once for the entire collection instead the same thumbnail for each product in the collection.
I'm not sure if my request is clear. Let me know if I should clarify this.

Thanks for the reply
Costa

Hi, Have you tried "Do not show products that are in the collection"  in the collection? Do not no if that will solve your problem. Tim will not answer here 90% of the time, so first ask a question in the regular forum, Like "Is there a way to only list a single pose collection and not display the actual products in the cart".  There are no other simplified cart or invoices to my knowlage.

AI Search Capabilities.  We do large events and  I would love if there was a way for our customers to quickly locate there kid In blocks.  Is there a way to add this or a program to add to it if we hosted.

Would love the ability to edit a pre-register form to add in more fields.

Certain jobs we only require a name/email/phone number,

But other jobs we require specifically "student name" and their postal address etc. 

I would love to see the next update include the option to make add's charge shipping.   I have several digital only collections - but offer add on in the form of prints.  If a customer purchases the digital package and adds on prints and they do so AFTER my closing date for free shipping.... It wont charge them shipping at checkout as the main collection is digital only. 

Is this possible.

For the next update - would it be possible to include grabbing the stats and sales for ALL galleries within a section.  Currently you have to grab the stats and sales for each gallery.... I would love if this could be one tickbox to collate all sales from all galleries within that section.

For the pre-registration page (AKA store page)- can their be some more design functionality within that page eg currently all questions end up on one side of the webpage - is there no way to just have a form centred(and no photo on the left side).     I dont use this function of sytist as the interface for customers is not great looking if you are just grabbing pre-register information.  Perhaps a new section called Registration would be great..... instead of creating a store page.    I actually grab registrations through a link to a jotform - entirely because this page setup is not "pretty" at all.  Also the export of the page to a csv looks messy and requires some "tidy up".  Jotforms integrates with google sheets and requires no tidy up. Any chance to have a look into that at all so I dont have to rely on jotforms ???

Is it possible to do a few videos/manual to show how to integrate things on your website  such as social posts/ a chatbot etc.  Rather than having to research and figure it out using coding.  

Is there a way to add an expense to EACH collection / product/ package.  So a report can be run with each centre/school etc in regards to expenses for print.  This would also need to be included on any add on options (a space to type in the expense amount for the add on option).   

I have several base collections and know how much they are to print - but no where to allocate that other than going through each order 1 by 1 and adding the expense... so I just dont bother and use my accounting program for expenses for the week.... but would like to see this as an option .

On the PreOrder page at checkout - is there any chance for the option to add more fields here and then be able to swap the way they display -eg change the order in how they appear.   There is only space for 5 additional questions.

UPDATE : dont worry - apparently - 5 extra fields come up when you have used these up... I havent tried it yet though

It would be great to be able to dictate how often cron emails are sent by hours instead of days. 

prevent a customer from adding 2 downloads or other things to their cart

I second the " on/off" button to view daily and monthly earnings from admin area....

I know we can make new admins - but you need to turn off orders/stats for this to turn off those sales figures.  If we have staff members working for us - this is info I dont want them to see.

Hi Tim,

I would like to see the following:

1. Have the pre-registration email field extend across the mobile screen, currently its is too short.

2. I'd like to be able to mass label customers. And be able to label an order and not just a person.

3. Your new feature where customers can not order the same file in a download is creating an issue for those who use green screen. Customers sometimes buy the same file with a different backdrop. Can we make this a toggle switch instead of a permanent feature?

4. The ability to put in expenses when creating an item or package and have the expense totalled up when viewing the order. This would automate expenses instead of having to manually enter the expense per order.

5. The ability to move multiple galleries to a different category. This would help with seasonal events once they are done they can be moved to a category name "Past Events"

Thanks,
Bruce

I would like to be able to batch-delete coupons.  I currently have 6 pages of them,  .. it is tedious to delete one by one.. it would be good if they could be deleted like old shopping carts ( after 30.60.90 days etc ).  Thanks.

Feature Request: Please add the option to make Early Bird specials to activate automatically for galleries.  

Would be AWESOME if we could have Collection Options included when exporting orders :) 

You can add an expiration date when creating the coupons.

would love to see passkey or faceid biometic logins

I would really like to see Sytist offer a way for clients to purchase just their favorites from a gallery to make it easier for them to order and streamline the purchase process. For example, purchase instant downloads of all favorites at once, or 5x7's of all favorites at once, etc. 

I often have galleries with 150-200 images and clients will favorite 30-40 images. Having a "buy all favorites" often would really help them out and speed up the checkout process. A lot of my clients have been complaining that they have to manually go back through 30-40 favorites to then order them individually.

You can with Buy Alls. 

Implement Imagemagick-library instead of, or next to, GD library

GD washes out photos which are in another color profile than sRGB. I know that GD has an other bug that resized photos lose their meta/iptc/exif-data, where imagick keeps them. Is it possible in a future update to switch to imagick, or have Sytist owners the possibility to choose between GD and IM? In my case where clients can order digital resized photos for publications, all data are lost. IPTC like title, description and copyright are important to keep...

I know that imagick isn't available on every server, so I understand why GD is used. But in most servers it's implemented nowadays.

On the open orders page it would be amazing to be able to filter those by gallery. 

I'm aware that you can view the orders just for one particular gallery by going through the gallery, then sales stats. But once you open one order, it takes you back to the open orders page, and then need to go through the whole process again. 

Being able to filter the order by gallery would enable us to process our orders in Sytist, rather than having to export, which is more cumbersome :-)

I'd like to have the capability to automate more SMS messages like the automated email currently available.  For example, I could absolutely use the ability to send SMS messages for these email notifications:

Order Email

Order Shipped Email

Gallery Owner Email

A lot of customers aren't receiving the automated email notifications for these since they're being marked as spam/junk. Having the ability to automate these as SMS messages would eliminate a lot of the manual follow up I'm doing today to make sure clients know their galleries have been published, orders have been shipped, etc.

In a future update, it would be nice to have an option in the 'Account Requirements' section to force the admin(s) to approve accounts individually. This would help prevent bots or bad actors from creating accounts without some form of moderation from an admin. Thanks.

Block disposable Emails

I find that image thiefs often use disposeable email addresses such as protonmail.com - I dont have time to manually block/approve accounts so would it be possible to automatically block such addresses

I love the new QR code feature for individual photos. I would like to have the same capability to generate a QR directly for a gallery and be able to print it along with the gallery access code for my sessions that involve multiple people but do not require individual photo passcodes.

Would love to see a feature to allow user-specified fields to capture when a new account is created.

Would also love to be able to add a specified number of download credits into an account automatically upon registration ("Register and get a free download credit!")...

A second appointment reminder for the same day. So basically the one we have and an additional appointment reminder.

The coupons are, as I understand them, global in nature and apply to entire order. However, I would really like the ability to create a coupon for a specific service or store/product item.

Feature Request: 

Would be great to be able to add our own Automated emails (even better if they can be set by gallery or section). 

Purpose: To be able to have additional automated emails which can be triggered by certain events. Eg, so if someone places an order from one of my pre-paid class photo galleries, an additional email will send out with information about photo days and times etc. Or, if someone orders sports photos, to trigger an email to send with information specific to those photos.

The addition of a 'copy to clipboard' function for the shipping address on the 'viewOrder' page would be helpful when shipping orders. This would remove the step of selecting the necessary data and eliminate the possibility of over and under selecting data.

A suggested sample image attached.

With the increase in hacking in recent years/months it seems necessary to add a 2 FA or MFA when logging in to the admin. Having a user name and password isn't sufficient anymore. 

I've had a few customers requesting being able to use Afterpay and Laybuy for their photo payments :-) 

Would be great to be able to offer these :-)

I am using the new QR code functionality.   Would like to be able to email/text only folks that have images in their gallery and not email people with no images in gallery.   Currently there are 4 options.   I need option "People who have pre-registered".  To be "People who have pre-registered with an image in gallery".  Also "People who have NOT purchased" to be "People who have NOT purchased with an image in Gallery".   Maybe it is supposed to work/be this way, but just had someone reach out to me that their was no photos in their gallery that I had blasted out when gallery when live... In the school photo biz all people register etc, but if a kiddo is sick / no show then we don't have a photo of them.   We look stupid if we send them emails/texts and they have no photos..

Would be fun to have Folders in Green Screen Backgrounds so we can have different categories - I could set up per sport, per colour or per anything I want. Thanks.

If you use Square. Afterpay is buit it with it.

I would like to have a Twilio text message option that goes along with the Gallery Owner Email. As it is, I don't have an easy way to send an SMS once a gallery has been published with the gallery access code, etc.