1. Solution home
  2. How-To's
  3. Planning Phase
Open navigation

Class or Team Photo Only Jobs (with a Names List)

Overview

This article explains how to efficiently and securely set ensuring parents only see their own kids' photos. We'll focus on the proofing job workflow.

1. Create your job 

Select the type Class Photo Only. For a sports job, select the respective sports type.  

2. Upload a names list 

Upload a names list with student data, including Teacher/Class (UK), Grade/Homeroom teacher (US), or the sports team name in the group field.

Sample School Names List:
Sample Sports Names List:
Table of students sorted by class and teacher.
Table of athletes sorted by group 
3. Set up your job settings
  1. Add a price profile.
    • Your price profile should only contain group photo prints. Please specify the availability of the prints in this price profile for group photos only.Group photo pricing screen showing two print sizes with prices, fees, and profit.
      Price Profile step with “Group Photos Only” selected in dropdown.
  2. Set up your job coupon.

    Coupon setup screen with a 10% discount and June 23, 2024 deadline selected.

    •  If the job should be shipped to the school/league, select Batch Shipping and set your Batch Deadline
  3. Batch shipping setup with manual processing selected and deadline.

  4. Add your Archiving date.

    Archiving settings screen with deadline set and auto-archiving disabled.

  5. Add your Communication Profile. The target group is Potential Buyers with photos available.

    Communication profile step with a 2-week coupon profile selected from the dropdown.

  6. Save the Settings.

    Save settings button

4. Generate your QR Cards
  1. Head to the QR cards tab in your job. Under the QR cards settings (Edit QR card layout), scroll down to the Advanced Settings. There, select one QR card per page.

    QR card generation screen showing 15 cards ready with a 10% discount and an arrow pointing to “Edit QR card layout.”

    Advanced settings panel with “Output format” dropdown set to 1 QR card per page.

  2. Click Save.
  3. Generate and download your QR cards.
5. Convert the QR card PDF to a zip file with JPGs

We recommend using Adobe PDF Converter or any other tool that offers this functionality.  

Once you have converted the PDF, extract all the files from the zip file and delete the cover page. You will only need the QR card images.

PDF to JPG conversion screen with an arrow pointing to the “Convert to JPG” button.

Folder view showing multiple JPG files generated from a QR card PDF, each with a similar preview.

6. Upload the QR Card JPGs in Photo Management
  1. Upload the JPGs to Photo Management. We recommend using the EasyUpload tool for faster uploads.
  2. Upload the JPGs to the Individuals section.

    EasyUpload screen with multiple image files queued and an arrow pointing to the “Upload All” button.

7. Activate the access codes
  1. Once all images have been uploaded, and you have verified that all QR card images show the green QR icon, click the Activate access codes button.
    QR code verification screen with green-highlighted images and an arrow pointing to the “Activate access codes” button.
  2. In a second step, resort your photos based on the names list, and sort the images by the group scheme.

    Access code setup screen with options for name list sorting, folder grouping, and a button to activate access codes.

    The system will now automatically create albums for each class/group/team, and will also sort the individual QR cards into their respective albums. This process may take a couple of minutes, depending on the number of images you uploaded. Once done, you can delete the now empty upload album.

    Photo management screen showing watermark setting, upload steps, and a list of albums with photo counts.

  3. If you click into one of the created albums, you will notice that there's now one individual gallery for each subject that shows the hidden QR photo. 

8. Picture Day
  • If you have parent contact details, there is no need for you to take any QR cards to the photo shoot. Instead, bring simple sheets where you have written down the individual team, class, or group names. For each group, write the name clearly on a sheet, then take a picture of this name sheet before capturing the group images. This will help in organizing and identifying the images later.
  • If you don't have contact details available, bring the QR cards for all subjects and have the teacher / coaches hand them out to the subjects after the shoot. There is no need to photograph them.
9.  After Picture Day
  1. Upload the group photos into the group section of each corresponding album

    Photo overview screen showing 1 group photo, 3 individual access codes, and individual photo details.

  2. Switch the job to Selling. 

Your customers can now purchase the group picture(s) in their preferred size. 

Photo product page showing a group photo preview and print options.

The Takeaway

The Job set-up for Group/Class/Team Photos Only jobs differs slightly from the regular workflow. By following all listed steps, you and also your customers will have a smooth picture day and shopping experience.

Was this article helpful?

That’s Great!

Thank you for your feedback

Sorry! We couldn't be helpful

Thank you for your feedback

Let us know how can we improve this article!

Select at least one of the reasons
CAPTCHA verification is required.

Feedback sent

We appreciate your effort and will try to fix the article