Deliver your first gallery
From an empty account to a client with a link, in about ten minutes.
A gallery is the container you deliver to one client for one shoot. It holds the photos, the download rules, the print store and the stats. This walks through the whole path once — after this you'll do it in a couple of minutes.
1. Create the gallery
- Give it a title your client will recognise — “Sarah & Tom — Wedding” beats “Job 47”.
- Pick the client, or add them as you go. The gallery is linked to that contact, so it shows up on their profile later.
- Save. You land on the gallery's Media tab with nothing in it yet.
2. Upload the photos
Drag files straight onto the Media tab. If you haven't made any folders yet, one is created for you automatically, so you can drop first and organise later. Uploads run in the background — you can keep working, and you can close the tab once they've started transferring.
Upload full-resolution files. Web-sized previews are generated for you, and the originals are what your client gets when they download or order a print. Uploading pre-shrunk JPEGs costs you print quality you can't get back.
3. Set the access rules
Decide who can open the gallery and what they can do once they're in — a password, an email gate, whether downloads are allowed, and whether the gallery expires. Defaults are sensible, so you can skip this the first time and come back. See password vs email gate for which protection to use.
4. Publish and share
Publishing is a single switch on the Share tab, and it's the only thing that makes the gallery reachable. Until you flip it, the link 404s even with the password — which is what you want while you're still culling. Then copy the link, or send the built-in invite email so the delivery is branded and logged.
This trips people up: Share & access is where you publish and get the link. The password, email gate and expiry live in Settings → Access. Share links across to them so you don't have to remember which is which.
What to do next
- Connect Stripe so the gallery can sell prints and take invoice payments
- Set up your print store and choose what you sell
- Add your branding so galleries and emails look like you