2022: The Year You Beat Inflation with Instaproofs
Inflation is a current reality, and a current pain point, for most of the world.
Photographers are feeling it—increased prices in film and film services, travel costs, slower and more expensive shipping—the list goes on.
At Instaproofs, we have worked creatively and tirelessly to keep our prices exactly the same for the last several years, and to continually increase the value of our packages, month after month.
What does that mean for you?
Simple.
You’re not spending a cent more than years past, and you’re getting more for your money than ever before. When you choose Instaproofs, you’re winning.
2022 was a HUGE year for Instaproofs.
Many of our upgrades happened behind the scenes, keeping your operating experience smooth and effective! We also rolled out a host of new and improved tools—how many have you already tried out?
Booking and Questionnaires
Standalone Questionnaires appeared on the scene, and exist completely outside the booking process.
Photographers who wish to gather details from clients AFTER booking can now do that, with scheduled questionnaires.
During the booking process, a custom message can now be displayed when the deposit + online payment method has been selected.
Booking Services now offers SESSION GIFT CARDS!
Session bookings can now be paused, and updates to session fees, dates, and more can be made even after the session has been booked.
A follow up email can be set up, to be sent two days after a session has taken place.
A LIST VIEW option has been added to multi-spot sessions. This view provides a simple list layout of names, dates, times, etc.
An Excel export of multi-spot sessions has been added, displaying all details (full questionnaire results, names, dates, payment amounts, etc.) for all of the spots within a session.
Theme Editor
The theme editor now includes customizable options for Category Grids, including aspect ratio, spacing, borders, corner roundness, and a toggle for displaying/hiding the image count within the category.
Customizable options are also available for Product Guides, including aspect ratio, spacing, borders, and corner roundness.
Galleries
Gallery visitors now have the guidance of a help system. At their first sign-in to a gallery, visitors are met with pop-ups that help them find favorites, download options, and more!
Sales banners now include customizable titles and descriptions, and those banners can also be displayed within the message grids. Communicating sales has never been simpler!
Additionally, Gallery Announcements were created, so non-sale related messages can be displayed to gallery visitors. Session specials, promo codes, order deadlines, etc. are now easily communicated to ALL gallery visitors!
A new setting was added: Photographers can pre-check the opt-in checkbox on the login screen.
Photographers can now enter and view their galleries AFTER they’ve expired!
Gallery visitors can now sort and label their favorite images with a new labeling system.
Instaproofs now has a Greeting Card Editor, available for use on all galleries!
Admin
The reporting area leveled-up with new charts, showing more statistical information. For instance, yearly/monthly combined totals are now displayed, as well as separate Invoicing and Booking totals.
New categories can now be created within the Photo List screen!
Photographers can now view, add and edit keywords on each photo.
Bulk Email functionality gained new filters, which allow photographers to send emails to specific groups of people (for instance, all of your visitors who previously placed an order)
Rule-of-thirds gridlines have been added to the fulfillment cropping interface.
The administrative interface now gives the photographer the ability to hide and un-hide photos (previously, this was limited to being done through the galleries themselves).
A new CSV/spreadsheet report has been added: this displays every item found within all of the orders for an entire gallery.
A third email option was added to scheduled sales, which goes out two days before the sale ends.
Subscription plans
The majority of our subscriptions were given more space, at no additional cost.
Our lower plans had their gallery limits removed.
Phone support has been added to our Creative Plan.
Here’s to you in 2022. We’ve loved every minute of serving you.
We can’t wait to see what’s possible in 2023!
How can we help? Our support team is always eager to provide kind, quick assistance!
We also have a FREE 21 day trial for new customers—give us a try.