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How it works
From the invitation to the morning after
One link and one QR code do the collecting. These are the ten steps a host and their guests actually take, written out with the numbers that apply.
For hosts
Name the collection, and the address your guests use comes with itFour screens stand between an empty account and a link you can put on a table. This is what each one asks, what it refuses, and the single choice you cannot make up your mind about later.
Choose a package on the event you have, not the one you fearOne price, paid once, for one collection. Four packages differ on exactly four things — how much arrives, whether video counts, how long it stays online, and what you can take off the site. Here is how to pick between them in a minute.- Four stands on one sheet, and the five things that make them scanThe QR code is the part of this that does the work, and it is also the part most likely to be printed badly. Here is what comes out of the dashboard, what it takes to make it readable on a lit table, and what to do for the guest who cannot scan at all.
Download the collection before its own closing dateThe photographs belong to you, and the site holds them for a stated period rather than forever. This is how the download works, what arrives, and the order of operations on the morning after.
For guests
Scan the card, give a name, send the photographsTwenty seconds from a locked phone to a file in somebody's collection. There is nothing to install, nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay, and this page walks through the whole thing — including what to do when the venue's signal is the problem.
The written line, the filmed wish, the voice messageA photograph tells the host what happened. A message tells them what somebody thought about it. Here is what the guestbook holds, how long each kind of message can be, and where the words end up.
One private gallery, newest first, open to nobody elseThe shared page is where an evening becomes a collection: every photograph that arrives, in the order it arrived, behind an address that is not in any search index. Here is what it shows, what you can do with it, and the switches that decide whether you can see it at all.
On the night
The room screen, from a second address with a token in itA slideshow runs off its own address, oldest first, with no controls on screen and a pace you set before the guests arrive. Twelve looks, three timings, and four keys for whoever ends up at the laptop.
Reading the collection while it is still arrivingOne switch decides whether a photograph reaches the room the minute it lands or after somebody has looked at it. This is what each of the five outcomes does to the file, and how to work through a pile of three hundred in ten minutes.
Seven states, one closing date, and a week of warningNothing about a collection ends by surprise. It moves through states a guest can read on the page, it tells you the deletion date before it is set, and the files leave on a day printed on your dashboard from the first.