Your delivery.Plus the photos everyone else took.
One box holding the work you hand over and, if you want it, what the room shot too — without the two ever getting confused.
Delivery isn't the problem — what delivery leaves out is
Handing files over is the solved part: some use a dedicated gallery, some a transfer link, some still a shared folder. They all work, and this page isn't here to tell you otherwise.
What none of those tools does is the part the client actually misses. You arrive with eighty chosen frames; a thousand were taken that day, and nine hundred of them sit on the phones of people your client sees at Christmas. The job is perfect and the day is still half missing.
The rest sits on the guests' phones, and your client will never see them together.
Guests shoot anyway — they may as well land where you can see them
A box comes with an address you can hand to the couple or print on a card at the tables. Whoever was there opens it on their phone and uploads what they have, with nothing to install and no sign-up: nobody is going to call you to ask how it works.
The day then arrives whole, in one place — your work on one side, what everyone else saw on the other. And it is the one thing in this category your competitors cannot add to a package: they deliver, they don't collect.
Guests open the link and upload from the browser: you provide support to nobody.
What shows up in that box is your call
The objection always lands here, and it's fair: whatever carries your name can't accept just anything. Guest contributions can be held for review and pass through you before appearing — you go through them one by one and decide, like any other edit.
And the box closes with a password. Not a curtain in front of the photos: until the password is right the server sends no image, not even the cover. You can give the client the protected address and the room one that only uploads.
A link that doesn't expire is a selling point, not a technical detail
Every photographer has taken the call: the client asking for the files two years on, because the link is dead and so is the drive. Every time it's half an hour of your time that nobody pays for.
Here the address has no countdown starting at delivery: whoever reopens it, reopens it, and the files are still the same. It's worth writing into the quote — clients understand it immediately, and almost nobody is offering it to them.
If the client has to choose, let them mark it
When the job includes a selection round, the client can star the photos they want inside the gallery instead of sending you a message with twelve numbers typed by hand. You get the list already made.
Whatever enters the box enters at the size it was shot at.
Frequently asked questions
- Do I have to let guests upload?
- No. A box works perfectly well as delivery alone: you switch guest collection on when it makes sense for that job, and leave it off otherwise.
- Do the guests' photos get mixed with mine?
- They stay contributions and pass through you before appearing: you go through them and decide one by one. What carries your name holds what you let in.
- Does the client need an account?
- No. They open the link and see the gallery in the browser. The account is yours, because you're the one running the box.
- Can I put a password on the delivery?
- Yes, and it isn't a curtain in front of the images: until the password is correct the server sends no file at all, not even the cover.
- Does the link expire?
- There's no countdown starting at delivery. A client coming back two years later opens the same address and finds the same files.
- Are the images compressed?
- No. They go in at the size they were shot at: that's the difference between an archive and a file forwarded three times through a chat.
Fifteen minutes on your workflow, not a demo
We look at how you deliver today and work out whether this piece fits at all. If it doesn't, I'll say so.