Find out what’s new at Arcadina in 2024
During this year we have worked hard to offer you a series of new, more up-to-date services in line with the new times and several improvements to our most veteran business solutions. In case you haven’t heard about all of them or if you want to take advantage of these days of less work to update your online business, today we want to present you again the new features of Arcadina in 2024.
Create online contracts, link galleries to your Booking reservations, offer undated session bookings, include Google reviews on your website and many more new features of Arcadina in 2024 are what we are going to present to you today in this compilation article.
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Contenido
- What’s new for Arcadina in 2024?
- Get to know in detail all the improvements and new services of Arcadina
- Get up to speed for the new year with Arcadina’s news in 2024
- Arcadina goes with you
What’s new for Arcadina in 2024?
As we have been telling you before, there are many new features of Arcadina in 2024 and today we want to take advantage of this last post of the year to take stock and show you a detailed summary of the most interesting improvements and new services that you will be able to use with us.
These slower days are ideal to review your photography business, see where you have got it right this year, what your weaknesses have been and try to remedy them as much as possible. And one of the tasks you can do is to leave your digital photography business ready to start 2025 with a lot of strength and all kinds of services and amenities that we are sure your customers will appreciate considerably.
Summary of Arcadina’s most important developments
- You can now create contracts online for your customers to sign digitally.
- Create galleries linked to the booked sessions.
- Synchronise your Booking bookings with your regular calendar.
- Notify your clients of their bookings and add information of interest about their photo shoots in the email.
- Offer on your website the possibility of making an undated reservation.
- Create templates for galleries and sub-galleries to use in your business section.
- Set more precise dates in your booking calendar.
- New Send buttons are now available on the dashboard to streamline communications with customers.
- Create discounts according to the type of photo shoot.
- Connect your website to Google’s review page.
- Easily duplicate session types in Booking.
- Duplicate galleries and sub-galleries on your website and business area.
- Booking and Negocio already operate independently.
- Improve the user experience of your customers by uploading different photos in your mobile and desktop version in different sections of your website.
- Apply Booking discounts on both the price of the session and the price of the booking.
- Create additional forms in Booking.
- Create different campaigns within one type of photo shoot in your booking calendar.
- Customers will be able to search for their photos in an image gallery thanks to the AI-enabled selfie search.
Other interesting developments launched in 2024
- View the list of images of a customer’s order and filter the information according to format.
- Customise a special freight price on your business area packs.
- We have updated the information in the legal texts to bring them into line with current GDPR legislation.
- You have 3 new social networks available to include in your website.
- Customers who use AI to search for their images will also be able to buy the photos directly.
- Customers will be able to access a payment link to MercadoPago.
- Customise where you want your customers to search in your business area.
Check out all the news from Arcadina in 2024 in the following article in our help section.
And if you have not yet set up a digital business with us, you can now try all our services free of charge for 14 days and with no commitment fees.
Get to know in detail all the improvements and new services of Arcadina
As we know that there are quite a few of the new features of Arcadina in 2024 that we have just presented to you, we will now group them by type of service and explain the most important ones in a more detailed and organised way so that it will be easier for you to implement them your photography website.
Create Digital Contracts and protect your photography business
Let’s start with the latest novelty we have launched, and no wonder, because all customers who have contracted the Booking plan can now create their digital contracts with the help of a series of templates endorsed by professional organisations so that their customers can sign them digitally.
This is undoubtedly the best way to protect your digital photography business from possible misunderstandings with clients. In addition, it will allow you to save a lot of work time, automate processes, have all your clients’ information stored in the same place and offer them a much more convenient and professional service.
If you want to know all the details of this new service that is revolutionising many colleagues and have all the steps to use it at hand, don’t miss the following article of our help.
>> You can now create and send contracts to your clients from Arcadina!
Improve Booking service and get more session bookings
Within the Booking Calendar service there are quite a few improvements and updates that we have launched this year. Booking is one of our newest core services and many clients are delighted with the ability for their own clients to book their photo shoots online.
As this is a relatively recent service, we have received several suggestions from you to improve this useful service and these are the improvements we have launched this year.
Booking improvements in 2024
- Create galleries using the corresponding templates, and link them directly to the booked sessions.
- Synchronise the photo sessions booked by your clients directly from the website with your regular calendar.
- When notifying a customer by email that a booking has been made, you have the option to include the description of the type of session booked in the message.
- In your Booking section you can already give your clients the option to book a photo shoot without a specific date.
- By setting specific dates in your Booking calendar, you will be able to select the time more precisely, and when you save, a warning message will be displayed with the days and times indicated.
- You can duplicate a session type in several ways, which will save you a lot of time.
- In the session types you can apply discounts on both the total price of the session and on the booking price.
- In Booking, for certain types of photo stories that require more detailed information, you can now create and assign an additional form to collect specific data.
- In cases such as Communion photos, where you can offer different variants of the same style of session with different prices or variations in the number of photos, you can now present these options together in your Booking section. This new feature is called Campaigns.
See all these improvements in the following help articles.
Shop and customer area with new functionalities
First of all, we would like to point out that as of May 2024 you can now use booking and business (private galleries and online shop) independently of each other. In the following article, you will find all the functionalities you need to take into account.
>> Sales – Management Panel Menu
Improvements to public and private galleries
Before you could offer discounts to your clients according to client type, formats and galleries. Now you can also do it according to the type of session.
Duplicate galleries and sub-galleries on your website and in your business area faster. And set up gallery and sub-gallery templates with all their attributes directly from your business area.
>> Shop and Cli Area. – Galleries
Improve the user experience by uploading a different background image for the mobile or desktop version of several pages of your website: Booking campaigns, menu pagespages, landing , blog, homepage, contact page and reviews.
If you enter a customer’s order in the panel, you will be able to consult the list of images that make up the order. Now you will also be able to filter this list by type of format.
When you create a pack in your business area, you can customise the special freight price or let it be calculated automatically for all the products in that pack.
>> Shop and Customer area – Formats – Packs
You can now offer your customers the option to pay via a payment link to MercadoPago.
>> Shop and Client Area – Payment Methods – Payment Link
Now in the public and private galleries, you will be able to customise where your customers will be able to search: in the titles and texts of the images, only in the texts of the images or only in the titles of the images.
>> Online Shop and Customer Area – Settings
Artificial intelligence in your galleries to make it easier for your customers to find photos
Thanks to the integration of Artificial Intelligence, your customers will be able to search for their images in a public or private gallery. And they will also have the option to buy the images at any time and directly.
>> Integrations – Artificial Intelligence for face and text recognition
>> Integrations – Use of AI in public and private galleries
Users will have the option to search for their photos from a selfie taken on both a mobile device and a PC thanks to AI integration.
>> Integrations – Selfie image search
Website and user experience
It is now much easier and faster to send communications to your customers from the Dashboard, either by email, WhatsApp, social networks or via a link. Find the new ‘Send’ buttons in the Galleries of your business area and in the Booking section.
>> Client area – Create a private gallery of: Sample, Selection, Direct Download or Sale
Connect your photography website to the Google Reviews page. This way, all the testimonials your customers have left on Google Reviews can be displayed directly in the Reviews section of your website.
Our websites are better prepared to comply with the current GDPR legislation. You can organise your legal texts in three different sections: legal notice, cookies and privacy policy.
You already have available 3 new social networks to include in your website: Bodas.net, Zankyou.es, Fotografos-de-Boda.net. And you also have the new Twitter icon updated. In the following article we explain where you can activate them.
Get up to speed for the new year with Arcadina’s news in 2024
As you can see, there are many new features of Arcadina in 2024 that you can test and implement during these days to start 2025 on the right foot. And now that you are organising your website and business for next year, don’t miss the following article of our blog where we give you many more tips and recommendations.
>> 12+1 strategies to help you succeed with your photography website in 2025
Keep the following help article handy as we will soon be launching What’s New 2025 to keep you up to date with all the improvements.
If you want to make a radical change in your life and in your photography business, choose Arcadina’s business solutions. They are specific for photography professionals.
On this occasion we would like to share with you an interview with photographer Ana Verónica Andrade.
And to finish with a question about Arcadina’s new products in 2024. Which one do you think is the most useful? We would love to read your opinion in the comments.
Arcadina goes with you
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