Hi everyone,

We’ve just released some updates to Photography Orders

• Accept credit cards with Authorize.net integration
• Enable or disable your clients from right clicking on your photos
• Let your clients send photos as e-cards
• Numerous bug fixes and small improvements in functionality

New customers will automatically receive the updated version. Existing customers can download the new version with the link you were sent when you first purchased Photography Orders!

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Luke

With the release of v1.4.1 of Photography Orders, we’re also announcing we’re bringing back our hosting plan.

While Photography Orders is simple software, it does some heavy lifting behind the scenes, especially when it’s uploading and resizing images.

Because of this, a lot of the hosting plans that Photography Orders used to work on, will no longer be able to support Photography Orders.

We’ve created a hosting plan that allows for unlimited photos and unlimited galleries so that you don’t have to worry about if Photography Orders will work on your web host. The hosting plan is finely tweaked for Photography Orders, and because we work with so many photographers, you won’t get support that makes you want to slap your head.

To ease the transition from your existing account to a Photography Orders hosting account, we’re offering free migrations – that is, we’ll get your site off your existing host, and set it up for you for no extra cost.

The introductory price is $30/month. You can cancel at any time, however if you leave in the first 12 months, you can’t take Photography Orders with you. After 12 months, the license is fully yours, the same as if you’d bought it outright.

Happy Snapping!

So it has been a while in the making, but I’m happy to announce the latest version of Photography Orders is now on sale.

Version 1.4.1 has been highly anticipated because of the added functionality of digital downloads.

I’d like to thank a number of beta testers who helped me out by rigorously testing the software.

Thanks all, and happy snapping.

Thank you to all who entered the competition to win the first copy of Photography Orders v1.4.1, which features selling digital downloads.

We had way more entries than we ever expected, and we’re excited for the upcoming release of v1.4.1.

We’ve chosen and contacted the winner and we’re waiting for a reply.

More details about v1.4.1 and who the winner was will follow!

Firstly, thank you to everyone who has helped give direction on our new Uservoice Forum, by voting on upcoming features. It’s great to have customers that are willing to help improve the product for everyone.

I’d like to make a quick announcement that based on the feedback, we’ve started development on the coupons feature. Photographers will be able to enter fixed price or percentage based discounts, that customers can claim when they are checking out.

The current plan is to release it in the next 2-4 weeks. Stay tuned…

Lately, improving Photography Orders has fallen to the wayside. As you might know, Photography Orders is a product that we’ve developed as a web design and development firm, VDP Websites. Lately, we’ve been very busy building websites for clients, and just haven’t had the time to devote to Photography Orders.

Not anymore! We’re hiring a developer who will be dedicated to improving Photography Orders.

What it means to you is that Photography Orders is going to get new features.

Your chance to get a say in what happens

As a photographer, you know better than most how we can improve Photography Orders. So we’ve setup a way for you to recommend and vote on features you’d like to see.

It’s easy, just go to http://photographyorders.uservoice.com and start voting!

We’re constantly trying to make Photography Orders a better product for photographers.

As part of that, we’ve just updated our install process to cut out a few steps and make it easier.

Instead of messing around updating files, there’s now an install script that does all the configuration for you.

Here’s a screenshot:

Configuration screen

We hope this new addition makes installation easier for our new customers.

We’re happy to announce we’ve just released version 1.4 of Photography Orders.

In 1.4 we wanted to give more options to how you display your Photography Business.

Themes

The biggest addition to Photography Orders are themes. We’ve redesigned Photography Orders and come up with three themes, black/dark, grey, and light. We’ve also made it so you can easily go in and modify the look and feel of Photography Orders.

We’re sure you’ll love this addition, and that you’ll have no problems matching Photography Orders to your existing branding.

Choose from 3 default themes, then customize them

By default, the selected theme ‘Royal Dark’.

Content Blocks

Another inclusion in this update is a feature that allows you to add notes. When your client first logs in, you can display content to them. Also, on each gallery, you can write notes that the client will see. In these blocks, you can promote specials, tell a story behind the gallery, put dates, etc.

Display notes to your customers

Minor features and fixes

We’ve also added support for tax, fixed quite a few bugs and made little enhancements here and there.

Available now

1.4 is now live and available for purchase. Existing customers can download v1.4 for free from their original download link, and can purchase a ticket from here for an upgrade service.

We hope you like v1.4, as always, leave your feedback in the forums.

We’re happy to announce we’ve just released version 1.3!

We have received a lot of customer feedback, and the goal in version 1.3 was to make Photography Orders more robust and expand its usefulness.

Here’s a list of what we’ve done.

Public Galleries

Public galleries was a hotly requested feature. Public galleries allow event photographers to create galleries without the need to create a client first.

Payment options, checkout and order processing

The major part of v1.3 was to move order processing from offsite (Paypal/Google Checkout), into Photography Orders. Now customers checkout in Photography Orders before being paying.

You can now offer more than one payment option at a time. We’ve added support for Moneybookers, which is an alternative to Paypal, especially for countries and currencies where Paypal doesn’t service. We’ve also added support for offline payment methods. You can choose to allow customers to pay offline/later.

Orders are now saved in Photography Orders. You can view orders you’ve received and update their status/comments, rather than just receiving an email with the order details.

Navigation and design improvements

• Prev/next buttons on the show photo page mean customers can now move forward and backward in a gallery without having to go back to the gallery
• Caching of photos means customers load photos once, and after that, they load instantly. This creates a much faster and nicer experience
• Watermarking can now be selectively used. Previously, you could only toggle the watermark for all photos. In 1.3, the watermark setting determines if a watermark will be placed on newly uploaded photos.
• Pagination of photos. Galleries are now split over several pages, with 32 photos per page. Previously, photos would all load on the one page
• Minor improvements to the interface.
• Go back buttons have been reworded and

We hope you like version 1.3. If you have any feedback, questions, praise or found bugs, please let us know in our forums.

Cheers,

Luke

We’re currently working on version 1.3 of Photography Orders. The goal for 1.3 was to flesh out a lot of the features, and expand the scope of what Photography Orders can do.

Better checkout and order processing

In v1.2, the checkout is handled either at Paypal or Google Checkout. In 1.3, the checkout is handled by Photography Orders, and the customer is then sent off to pay after completing the order on your site. Coupled with that, orders are now saved so you can process them from within Photography Orders.

We’re adding more payment options, including offline payment and Moneybookers.

Better gallery navigation for your customers

In 1.3 we’ve made some improvements to the customer interface including pagination, and the ability to go from one photo to the next without having to go back to the gallery overview. We’ve also added some aesthetic changes, for example, galleries now have a thumbnail of the first photo inside the gallery.

Public galleries

Event photographers will be able to upload galleries without the need to password protect them.

We’re looking forward to releasing v1.3 within the next couple of weeks. If any existing customers are interested in beta testing, shoot an email to info@photographyorders.com.