Using the shop effectively requires a time commitment from the studio to properly apply as much detail and customization as possible. While studios can get setup quickly, the shop provides more value to studios the more customized it is.
This module will help with understanding and the setup of these Blueprint sections:
Shopping Cart - customize your shop; manage discount codes and forms.
My Designs - your studio catalog; design templates, products and services to sell.
Prices Sheets - add templates, products, and services to sell from a mix of suppliers.
📢 These are the required "set pieces" to create a Job in Blueprint.
In each section, you'll need to have the following completed before moving on:
Shopping Cart
Create a cart template to use with an upcoming job.
Create a test print discount code to create and submit a $0 order. *
Create a custom form to collect additional pre-order data before checkout. *
My Designs
Create custom products, options, and backgrounds. *
Create custom designs to give (ID Cards) and sell (Trader Cards). *
Price Sheets
Create a price sheet for use with an upcoming job. *
📝 Consider the following:
Are you planning on using an extraction (green screen) workflow?
Are you needing to create any custom designs for giving or selling?
Are you offering any studio-fulfilled services like retouching?
You may be able to skip sections, depending on what your job's needs are. For example, if the answer to any of the points above is no, then you can likely skip those items entirely.
Plan ahead for any upcoming job and the set pieces needed to maximize efficiency.
Start
Shopping Cart
Creating a cart template
Cart templates enable studios to quickly apply or switch important settings like branding, messaging, watermarks, order rates, delivery methods and other shop mechanisms.
Creating a test print discount code
Create a discount code to test all of the planned custom products for sale. It's strongly recommended to validate all custom products with the lab and get "print approval" before accepting orders.
❗ It's a painful process to correct + resubmit bad high-volume customer orders.
Creating a custom form
Collect additional pre-order data from customers before checkout. With that data, studios can assign pre-orders to subjects - even going as far as updating your existing subject data with the collected order data or using it to create a brand-new subject.
❗A custom form is required for pre-ordering workflows.
My Designs
Creating custom products, options and backgrounds
Build custom designed products or services for the studio's catalog to give or sell, such as:
Trader Cards
ID Cards
Memory Mates
Personalized Prints
Image Options (Retouching, Blemish Removal, etc.)
Order Options (Acknowledgements, Shipping Rates, Packaging Options, etc.)
📢 Custom designs are made in My Designs, with fulfillment set by the price sheet.
Price Sheets
Creating a new price sheet
A price sheet controls the overall presentation of the products and services for sale, including some additional features like:
Build offers to entice customers to spend more.
Control fulfillment of custom designs, prints, products, and services.
Attach discount codes to auto-create on certain purchase orders.
Setup return of completed image services back to the job.
What's next?
Import and Organize
With the necessary set pieces created, it's time to bring them together to create a job - where studios import and organize data and images.
💡 Think of Jobs as folders with all subjects, images, and orders for a photoshoot.
This is where the real work gets done, like:
Uploading and organizing subject data.
Exporting photoshoot materials like Barcodes, QR Codes, Photog Reports, etc.
Preparing workstations for template printing and tethered capture. *
Sorting, reviewing, and editing images. *
Exporting client materials like Admin CDs, PSPA, PowerSchool, Yearbook CDs, etc.
Managing and releasing orders for fulfillment.
📝 Note: *Only with Smart Workflow.
Looking ahead, the next high-level items to cross off the list are:
Create a job - bring the set pieces created earlier together for a photoshoot.
Import data - upload any subject data or images available for a photoshoot.
Organize data - merge and group subject data to prepare for a photoshoot.