What is Pre-Release?

Pre-Release is a gallery setting that lets you collect visitors' email addresses prior to a gallery being made active. When viewing a gallery in Pre-Release mode, your clients are taken to a registration page to capture their email address so you can easily notify them when the gallery is ready. If you add a Linked Contact to a Pre-Release gallery, you can give them access to the gallery before it's released.

This article goes over how to:

Turn on Pre-Release

Give a Linked Contact gallery access while in Pre-Release

Schedule a gallery's release from Pre-Release mode automatically

Release a gallery from Pre-Release manually and email registered guests

Release a gallery from Pre-Release mode manually and NOT tell guests that the gallery is live

Turn on Pre-Release

1.  Go to Photos > Galleries
   
   
2.  Click Actions > Settings on the specific gallery you wish to work with
   
   
3.  In the General tab select Pre-Released in the Gallery Access section

Give a Linked Contact gallery access while in Pre-Release

1.  Set the gallery to Pre-Released
   
   
2.  Assign a Linked Contact to the gallery
   • If you want the Linked Contact to be able to hide and/or label photos, set an Access Code and enable those features when adding the Linked Contact
     
     
3. Click Share Gallery and select Email (Linked Contact)
   
   
4. The email shown will provide the Linked Contact with their private link 

The Linked Contact will have full access to the gallery by using this URL, but all other visitors will see the registration page.

Schedule a gallery's release from Pre-Release mode automatically

On this date, the gallery will automatically become live for viewing. Gallery visitors will not be notified that the gallery is live. If you'd like to notify the clients who've registered that the gallery is live, you'll want to set up an Email Campaign.

1.  Go to Photos > Galleries
   
   
2.  Go to Actions > Settings on the specific gallery
   
   
3.  Set a "Release Date” that is in the future
   
   

Release a gallery from Pre-Release manually and email registered guests

1.  Go to Photos > Galleries > Actions > Release Gallery
   
   
2.  Select Release Gallery and Email Visitors
   
   
3.  Customize your message (or select a template) and click Release
   
   

Release a gallery from Pre-Release mode manually and NOT tell guests that the gallery is live

1.  Go to Photos > Galleries > Actions > Release Gallery
   
   
2.  Select Release Gallery Without Emailing Visitors