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Planning Phase Checklist

We're thrilled to have you on board with GotPhoto, and we're here to ensure your photo jobs run seamlessly!

To help you get started, we've put together a handy checklist of tasks to set up your upcoming photo jobs. The tasks on this page are all related to the Planning Phase of your job (i.e. pre-Picture Day). 

Before you get started, make sure you've created price profile and communication profile you'd like to apply to this job. Once you create profiles and packages in your account, you can then use them for all future jobs!

The links below will lead you through the various steps for setting up your photo job.  Steps beginning with "Prepay" are relevant for Prepay jobs only
⚠ Please note: Prepay is currently only available to North American customers. 

Job Settings

  1. Create a Photo Job  
  2. Set Up Customer Registration
  3. Choose Your Access and Tagging Method
  4. Upload Student Data into Your Photo Job 
  5. Enable Favorite Photo Selection (Optional — Use this for yearbook photo selection!)
  6. Prepay: Customize Your Prepay Settings
  7. Add a Price Profile (Prepay price profiles are covered in Prepay settings)
  8. Create a Job Coupon (Optional — But a big sales booster!)
  9. Choose Your Shipping Method 
  10. If you've decided to use batch shipping → Set Up Batch Shipping 
  11. Set an Archiving Date
  12. Add a Communication Profile 
  13. Adjust Your Advanced Job Settings
  14. Prepay: Change Job Status to "Prepay"Check out this article to learn how to change a job's status.
  15. Prepay: Once you are ready to start receiving prepay orders, you need to notify your customers. If you are using a communication profile, this process will be automated. But if you don't have customer contact information, you'll need to coordinate communication with the organization.

Using a tagging method that doesn't involve QR cards (Like Entagged or SpotMyPhotos)? Skip this section.

Creating QR Cards

  1. Generate QR Cards 
  2. Advanced: Editing Your QR Card Layout 
  3. Generate a Barcode List
  4. Doing a dance job? Check out this workflow to see different options for shooting subjects in multiple costumes.

Advanced Users

For those looking to take their work to the next level, check out these advanced settings and options to fine-tune your work:

  1. Advanced: Add an SMS or Email to a Communication Profile
  2. Advanced: Create a Siblings Package
  3. Advanced: Change or Disable Photo Effects
  4. Advanced: Set Up GotPhoto's Green Screen Feature
  5. Advanced: Adding Upselling Options — Click the links below to read more about upselling opportunities:
    1. Upselling: Additional Poses Per Product Package
    2. Upselling: Discounted Prints with "Download All" Purchases
    3. Upselling: Downloads with Package Purchase
    4. Upselling: Mandatory Product Packages



Ready for the next phase? Click here to move on to the Picture Day Phase Checklist!

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