Clicking "Gallery Settings" while in a gallery will enable you to change the settings for this particular gallery. Here are some details about what each of these different options will do:
- GENERAL
- Active: Makes the gallery live and viewable
- Inactive: Gallery is not live and is not viewable
- Pre-Released: Allows you to collect visitor email addresses before the gallery is active.
- Gallery Access
- Shoot Date: the date of the event or photo shoot
- Expiration Date: at 11:59pm on this date in your studio's time zone, the gallery will become inactive
- Custom Gallery Link: create a customized URL for the gallery
- Release Date: a gallery set to Inactive / Pre-Released will automatically be released (made live for viewing) on this date
- LAYOUT
- Intro Page Layout: choose the way your gallery will look when a client first visits
- Photo Pages: select how you’d like photos to be displayed in the gallery
- GALLERY
- Color Set: choose a theme & logo (learn more)
- Language: choose a language for text inside the client gallery
- Show Filenames: turn filename visibility on or off in the gallery
- Add Music Playlist: if you have music set up in your account, choose a song list and select whether music automatically plays (or not) when entering the gallery
- Allow Social Sharing: show or hide social share options, and enter sample text that will accompany the photos when a visitor shares on social media
- Black & White Filtering: allow clients to view and order black & white versions of the gallery photos
- ACCESS & PRIVACY
- Gallery Access: designate the gallery as public or private
- Password-protect: only visitors with the password will be permitted to enter the gallery
- Require Visitors to Enter an Email Address: require all visitors to enter their email addresses to enter the gallery. (This allows you to track visitor activity!)
- FREE DIGITALS (learn more about all of the Free Digitals options here!)
- Gallery: Free Digitals permissions that are set on the Gallery level are available to all visitors to the gallery unless you use a PIN to limit access.
- Linked Contact: Linked Contacts can have their own special set of permissions for free digitals. However, the Linked Contact also has access to the free digitals that are set on the gallery level.
- Album: Set permissions 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 permissions.
- SHOPPING CART
- Allow pick-up only: Clients will not be charged for shipping
- Allow ship-to-client only: Shipping fee will apply if you’ve set up shipping options and rates on the price sheet
- 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 apply if you’ve set up shipping rates on the price sheet)
- If you have a price sheet created, you can enable the shopping cart. This allows visitors to place orders within the gallery. *If you wish to collect credit card payments at checkout, be sure you’ve selected a payment gateway!
- Price Sheet: assign a price list to the gallery. The items on this price sheet will be available (at the prices you set!) for visitors to purchase.
- Minimum Order Amount: set an optional minimum order amount. Customers will not be able to place an order if the total does not reach this amount.
- Delivery Options:
- Pay Later: Allow the option to skip payment at checkout (i.e., client will pay in cash or by check outside of ShootProof)
- Show “Buy All” Button: Gives clients the option to add all photos to the shopping cart at once
- Allow Cropping: allow clients to crop photos in the shopping cart
- Optional Message Shown at Checkout: This text will be shown in the shopping cart
- Deliver a Print Release: Toggle on this option to deliver a print release with your PAID digital download established within your price sheets. Use the text field to craft your print release to be delivered as a PDF when your client receives his/her purchased digital files.
- STUDIO INFO
- Homepage Link: Set the website to which visitors will be sent when they click the “Website” link in the Info tab of the gallery
- Visitor Information: Enter important text that you’d like visitors and customers to see when they click on the “Info” tab inside the gallery.
- ADVANCED
- Hide 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 albums within gallery: this setting will hide the albums within the gallery from each other. You can read more about how this works here. You should ONLY use this setting if you are going to send a direct Album link to your client(s).
- This setting must be activated within your account by Support. Please reach out to support@shootproof.com with your request and any questions you may have about how to properly use this setting. Using the Hide Albums option improperly can result in gallery functionality issue.
- Add to Category: choose the category this gallery should live in (learn more)
- Automatically Archive: automatically archive this gallery after it expires (see pricing)
- Send Automated Emails: choose a set of Automated Emails to send gallery visitors
- Set Album Cover Images Automatically: ShootProof can select a photo from each album to be the cover image during upload. (You can always choose a different photo later).