What are all of the Gallery Settings?

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You can customize the settings for each of your galleries by clicking into the Gallery Settings. Here you can customize both your Brand settings for the gallery and the overall Settings for the gallery. 

Remember that you can always save a gallery's settings as a Gallery Preset by clicking on Save these settings as a Preset in the top right.

Settings Tab

These settings are related to the status of the gallery, who can access it, downloading and purchasing, and more. 

General

Shoot Date The date of the event or photoshoot. By default, this is the date of your upload.
Order Due Date The Order Due Date is a way to encourage clients to get their orders in quickly. Use this date in email templates and email campaigns sent to gallery visitors to remind them that their ordering period is ending.Gallery visitors are still able to place orders once the Order Due Date passes.
Gallery Expiration Date At 11:59 pm, on this date (in your studio's time zone), the gallery will expire and become inactive.
Gallery Language Choose a language for text inside the client gallery.
Allow Social Sharing Show or hide social share options and enter text that will accompany the photos when a visitor shares on social media.
Allow Black & White Filtering Allow clients to view and order black & white versions of the gallery photos.
Show Filenames Enable filename visibility in the gallery. If enabled, file names show when a photo is clicked.
Homepage Link Set the website to which visitors will be sent when they click the Website link in the About tab of the gallery.
Add Music Playlist If you have a music plan, choose a playlist and select whether music automatically plays when entering the gallery.

Access & Privacy

Gallery Status  
Active Makes the gallery live and viewable.
Inactive Makes the gallery not live and not viewable.
Pre-Released Allows you to collect visitor email addresses before the gallery is active. Learn more about Pre-Release
Release Date & Release Message (optional) A gallery set to Pre-Released will automatically be released (made live for viewing) on this date.
Gallery Access  
Public Public galleries show on your ShootProof Portfolio Website. In a Public gallery, the brand name link in the top left corner of the gallery goes to ShootProof Portfolio Website. 
Private  Private galleries do not show on your  ShootProof Portfolio Website. In a Private gallery, the brand name link in the top left corner of the gallery does not go ShootProof Portfolio Website and instead goes to the Photos section of the gallery. 
Password-protect Only visitors with the password will be permitted to enter the gallery.
Email Required Require all visitors to enter their email addresses to enter the gallery. This allows you to track visitor activity.
Learn more about Gallery Visitor Activity
Custom Link Create a customized URL for the gallery.

Free Digitals

Allow your clients to download images from the gallery. You can take advantage of download rules that we've created for you or customize the digital rules for your clients here. You can add a custom print release to each rule you create. Learn more about all of the Free Digitals options here!

Gallery Free Digitals rules that are set on the Gallery level are available to all visitors to the gallery unless you use a PIN to limit access.
(Hidden albums will not have access to gallery-level rules.) 
Linked Contact Linked Contacts can have their own special set of rules for free digitals.
(Keep in mind, the Linked Contact also has access to the free digitals that are set on the gallery level.)
Album Set rules on each album you have created in the gallery. Gallery visitors will have access to album-level free digitals in addition to the gallery-level rules.

Shopping Cart/Store

This section allows you to add a shopping cart to your gallery and set additional options.

Enable Shopping Cart Click this on to enable sales through your gallery. Once this is turned on, you will see additional settings options for selling through the gallery. 
Price Sheet Assign a price sheet to your gallery. 
Learn more about price sheets
Minimum Order Amount (Optional) Set an optional minimum order amount. Clients will be prevented from placing an order if the total does not reach this amount.
Allow Cropping Lets clients crop the photos when ordering. The crop can still be changed before the order is submitted to the lab. 
Enable Store Shows the Store tab in the gallery, which allows clients to shop by product first and then select the photo.
Enable Abandoned Cart Email Sends automatic reminder emails to clients with items in their carts 24 hours after their last gallery activity. Learn more about the Abandoned Cart Email
Show “Buy All” Button Gives clients the option to add all photos as a particular item to the shopping cart. 
Offer Packages Only Only shows packages in the gallery and hides a la carte items. 
Allow Client to Pay Later Allow the option to skip payment at checkout.
Allow Client to Comment on Items in Cart Allows clients to add comments to individual items in the Shopping Cart.
Delivery Options
 
Allow Pick-Up only Clients will not be charged for shipping. Use this option if clients will be picking up their orders from you.
Allow Ship-to-Client only Your client will be charged for the order shipping fee. 
Allow Client to Choose Pick-Up or Shipping Clients can choose to pick up their orders (no shipping charge will be applied) or have their orders shipped to them (shipping will be charged to them).
Optional Message Shown at Checkout This text will be shown in the shopping cart, as well as on the order confirmation email. 
Deliver a Print Release Toggle on this option to deliver a print release with your PAID digital download established within your price sheets. This is delivered as a PDF when your client receives his/her purchased digital files.

*If you plan to accept credit card payments, be sure that you have a payment processor in place. Without a payment processor, clients can create orders without payment. Learn more about payment processors.

Advanced

Hide the “All Photos” album Hide the All Photos album from your clients. Use this option when you only wish for visitors to see photos you’ve sorted into albums.
Hide Album Photo Count Keep the number of images in an album hidden in the gallery. 
Add to Category Choose the category this gallery will be in on your ShootProof Portfolio Website.
Learn more about gallery categories
Automatically Send Gallery to Archive after Expiration Automatically archive this gallery after it expires.
See archiving pricing
Send Email Campaign Choose an Email Campaign to send gallery visitors.
Learn more about email campaigns
Set Album Cover Images automatically Selects a photo from each album to be the cover image during upload. You can always change the cover photo later.
Hide Albums within Gallery* Hide all of the albums in the gallery. You should ONLY use this setting if you are going to send direct album links to your client(s).
Learn more about hiding albums
*Contact Support to activate this feature.
EXIF Search Label* *Contact Support to activate this feature.
Learn more

 

Branding Tab

Configure the visual settings for your gallery here. The gallery cover photo and photos in the gallery will be used in the previews so you can see what your clients will see. 

Intro Page

View the gallery intro page with a live preview using the gallery's cover image.

Toggle on Preview Layout Animations to see the preview of the intro page showing the animations as the page loads. 

Typography & Colors

Theme Choose from your existing brand themes or make changes on the page to make a custom theme for the gallery. 
Mode Select Light for a white background and Dark for a black background.
Colors The Primary color is displayed in the gallery heading, while the Secondary color is used in notifications and the marketing banner.
Font Select a font for the gallery headings.

Layout

User Banner Image Shows cover image as a banner image in galleries and albums.
Direction Select a vertical or horizontal arrangement for photos in the gallery.
Image Size Select between Large, Medium, and Small-sized images in the gallery.
Image Spacing Select between Large, Medium, and Small spaces between the images in the gallery.

Intro Message

Choose to welcome visitors with a text or video message. These messages will display as visitors enter the gallery. Learn more about Gallery Intro Messages.

Marketing Banner

Toggle on Enable Marketing Banner to add banner that shows at the top of the gallery. Learn more about Marketing Banners.