How it works
One sign.
One scan.
One minute.
The whole product is a five-stage loop. Here it is end to end — including what happens when the wifi dies, the camera unplugs, or someone turns up without a phone.
Ten minutes of setup
Create the event in your dashboard, set how long photos should stay live, upload your overlay, and print the sign. Plug the camera into the laptop and take one test shot to check the look. That's the whole preparation.
- Retention: how many days the photos stay up before they delete themselves
- Your overlay is applied to every frame automatically
- The sign prints to A4 with the event's QR already on it
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Event setup in the dashboard
Admin screen: new-event form with retention setting and overlay upload, beside a preview of the printable A4 sign.
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The queue check-in
Split image: an A4 sign on a stand at the head of a queue, and a phone showing the check-in form (name, email) mid-completion.
Guests check themselves in
One static QR on the sign — the same one all night. Guests scan it while they're already waiting, put in a name and email, and get a five-character code plus a QR on their own phone.
Nothing is printed per guest. Nothing runs out. Nobody has to keep a card number and a photo in sync.
Scan, greet by name, shoot
The operator scans the guest's phone. Their name appears in large type on the laptop — which means your photographer greets a stranger by name, every time. Every frame from that moment binds to that guest automatically.
- Groups: scan several guests into one session and everyone gets the photos
- Dead phone: search the queue by name instead
- No form at all: a walk-up code they can redeem later
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Operator live screen
Dark operator UI: guest name huge in condensed caps, five-character code beneath, amber "Done — send photos" button, queue rail on the left.
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Look applied on the way out
Before/after pair of the same portrait: flat camera JPEG on the left, developed with warm look and corner overlay on the right.
Your look, on every frame
Exposure, white balance, contrast and saturation from your saved preset, plus your overlay, applied identically to every photo. A pop-up studio is fixed lighting — one calibrated look genuinely suits every frame.
The original file is never modified. The look is applied on the way out, so a bad preset is fixable after the fact.
In their inbox, about a minute later
Tap Done and the photos upload and email themselves. The guest gets a link to their own photo page with full-size downloads — and a delete button that genuinely deletes.
The link goes to the address that guest typed at check-in, and nowhere else. We don't publish a gallery, and we don't share the list with anyone.
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Delivery email and photo page
Phone showing the branded delivery email, and behind it the photo page with photos as white-bordered prints.
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Send log after the event
Admin send log: rows of guests with sent/bounced status, a plain-language bounce reason and a Resend button.
See exactly who got what
A send log with every guest, delivery status, and plain-language reasons when something bounced — usually a typo in an email typed at speed. One button resends.
Then the retention clock runs down and the photos delete themselves, on the schedule you chose.
The honest part
When things go wrong
Every event has a moment. Here's what each one actually does — because this is the section we'd want to read.
- The venue wifi dies. Capture, develop and binding all keep working on the laptop. Uploads and emails queue and send themselves when the connection returns.
- The camera unplugs. An unmissable red status appears with plain-language fix hints. Nothing already captured is lost.
- A guest's phone is dead. Search the queue by name and claim them that way.
- Someone never checked in. Use the walk-up button — they get a code to redeem for their photos later.
- Two stations, same guest. The queue is shared and locked, so the second station sees "being photographed at station 1" rather than double-booking them.
- A frame fails to develop. It's marked and retryable, and the original is always kept.
Try the loop yourself
Free with your own camera and your own team — the fastest way to know whether this fits your event.
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