Photo Finale releases version 13, with SMS notifications, performance enhancements

GaryPageau ,

Photo Finale has updated Photo Finale web software to version 13, featuring dozens of new features. Among the highlights:

Photo Finale SMS notifications

SMS: Customers can now opt-in to receive a mobile notification via SMS when their order is ready for in-store pickup or has been shipped.

  • Now, faster: Platform enhancements, CDN, static asset servers, HTTP 2.0, etc.
  • View wholesale costs: Photo Finale has added wholesale price information for third-party products to reports and to product detail screens in myLab.
  • Product builder updates: When creating a product, users can now hover over a thumbnail to see it larger, filter by images used, and see how many times each photo has been used in a project.
  • Bigger upload size: When users upload photos, they still have three resolutions to choose from, but they have renamed them for clarity and increased the two non-original sizes that get uploaded.
  • Added support for customer entry of a store loyalty/rewards card on the Checkout Promotions page. Loyalty card numbers can be retrieved via the Photo Finale API only.
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  • The Payment page in the Checkout workflow will now automatically select the first payment option for the customer by default.
  • Added Google Analytics tracking of terms used on the /search page.
  • Improved API retry success by utilizing a different API domain for each retry request, thereby ensuring a new connection is established and increasing the likelihood of it being served by a different server in our API cluster.

 

 

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Gary Pageau is principal of InfoCircle LLC, continuing his marketing communications career. InfoCircle LLC is a marketing and communications consulting firm, specializing in business-to-business markets. For nearly 25 years, he was with PMA International, serving most recently as Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives. His primary responsibilities included overseeing the Association’s editorial department, marketing research unit, education and corporate relations department.