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We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 7 updates. Here are the highlights:

• Added new Metal Print Size (16x32) and new Frame option for Floating Gallery Wraps.
• Added an "Add New" shoot type button to contact Forms
• Added support contact information to the login page.
• Shoot Workflows correctly populate questionnaire links in Workflow emails.
• Room images can be uploaded to a VIPS gallery again.
• Fixed an issue where choosing zero shoot types, or skipping the shoot type selection, created a form with an empty shoot type dropdown.
• Fixed Images overlapping in a gallery slideshow.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!

We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 10 updates. Here are the highlights:

• Improved image quality for Gallery Covers by increasing the output size.
• Improved performance when creating Email Marketing Lists with large numbers of contacts.
• Fixed an issue causing new user brand domains to sometimes be assigned random strings instead of the brand name.
• Fixed an issue causing contracts added within a shoot on mobile to be saved as global contracts instead of being applied to the shoot.
• Fixed an issue causing contact photos to be missing when adding an existing contact to a lead.
• Fixed an issue causing new orders created via Quick Options to be set to a published state.
• Fixed an issue where irrelevant print options were shown for FPL lab items in the visualizer.
• Fixed an issue causing new emails not to be registered in the Placeholder Gallery after a page refresh.
• Fixed an issue causing an Email List count to display as 0 when saved as a draft.
• Fixed an issue causing images to not load after converting IPS Galleries to Proofing Galleries.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!

We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 8 updates. Here are the highlights:

• Fixed an issue causing Schedulers to intermittently not save properly.
• Made the auto-generated Client usernames consistent throughout the software.
• Made further improvements to the processing time for large CSV lists being imported into Email Marketing Campaigns/Lists.
• Fixed a weird interaction between Booking Proposals and Stripe that would incorrectly mark Orders as paid.
• Fixed an issue causing imported recipients from being properly applied to an Email Campaign List in some cases.
• Made it so two (or more) Contact Forms can co-exist on the same page and render correctly, instead of being semi-merged together.
• Fixed an issue causing Booking Proposal Templates to expire in 0 days.
• Contact Form details will now correctly include details from conditional fields.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!

We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 14 updates. Here are the highlights:

• In Zapier, we added two new fields when creating a New Lead: Lead Status and Inquiry Date. (Requires an update to version 2.1.0)
• You can no longer cancel or trash Contracts with signatures.
• In the package builder modal, image cropping will now display correctly. Also, when removing or changing the image, it will be reflected immediately.
• Importing Contacts via CSV has received significant speed increases.
• Fixed an issue causing a rounding error for sales tax in reports.
• Made some adjustments to how session persistence works or users getting logged out at random.
• Redesigned the discount distribution system for packages to better maintain the ratio of a discount to each item's contributions to the final overall package price, to avoid oddities with sales tax.
• Fixed an odd experience with adding items of quantity 0 and -1 to the card when ordering in the Shop.
• Fix for Booking Proposals sometimes getting duplicate URLs.
• Quick Buy thumbnails will now correctly use the image initially clicked on.
• Gallery expiration dates no longer shift by a day after being applied.
• Contact Form details attached to a Lead will now correctly include conditional fields.
• Updated the wording in the Expense modal to hide/show the tax.
• Fixed an issue causing curly braces inside of Email content to sometimes cause the email modal to not open properly.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!

We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 10 updates. Here are the highlights:

• On the Gallery list page, "Preview" and "Publish/Unpublish" menu options have been added to the ellipses menu.
• Applying Booking Proposal templates with an expiry of 0 days will no longer break the Booking Proposal.
• The "Contact" list, when composing an email, will now scroll when appropriate.
• Made further improvements in the reliability of Sprout Assistant Gallery reminders.
• Fixed an issue where the notion of 'Today' was off in some cases for Sprout Assistant reminders.
• The "Schedule Custom Date" workflow task type will now apply properly to Leads/Shoots.
• WHCC Lab tracking will no longer show duplicate tracking numbers.
• Fixed an issue using the 'Reorder' feature on line items within an Order.
• Detaching an Order from a Shoot will no longer break the "attachment" menu, allowing you to immediately reattach the Order.
• Fixed an issue causing Galleries with extremely high numbers of images (i.e. 13,0000) from loading properly.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!

We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 22 updates. Here are the highlights:

• If a Date includes a location, it will now be synced to Google Calendar when available.
• Fixed an issue causing Booking Proposal reminders to fire even if disabled.
• Deleting an Email to send a Questionnaire will no longer delete the Questionnaire and any associated responses.
• Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate Lead Close reasons on a Lead.
• The names of files selected for Packages will now display correctly on the backend of an Order.
• Abandoned Cart Orders that are manually published will now clear their abandoned status.
• The Quick Actions menu in a Lead or Shoot will now work as expected across all sub-pages (i.e. Emails, Dates)
• Adding multiple Shoot Types as filters when building a recipient list for Email Campaigns will no longer generate a security error.
• The Business Health reports will now show the correct formatting for various currencies.
• Fixed an issue causing curly braces in Email Signatures to cause some issues when processing the contents.
• The Portal Access emails will no longer be sent out twice.
• Editing a Shop within a Pricelist will now accurately indicate when you are in Automatic vs DIY mode.
• Trashed Questionnaires will no longer appear on the One Page.
• Fixed an issue where, in some cases, the [[shoot_type]] variable would be populated by the Shoot name instead.
• Expired Galleries will no longer be provided as replacement options within a Design Proof.
• When creating a new Scheduler within a Booking Page, it now correctly attaches to the Booking Page.
• Lead Referral Source on Contact Forms will now properly populate on the Lead created by the Form.
• Fixed a visual bug when creating a manual payment on an Invoice, causing the Shoot Date to appear as TBD.
• The Country List on Contact Forms will now sort alphabetically. In some cases, Bermuda would appear at the bottom.
• Fixed an issue causing CSRF tokens to sometimes be invalidated, leading to the appearance of being logged out.
• Accidentally hitting the save button twice in a Questionnaire/Contact Form will no longer result in duplicated fields.
• The [[next_date_*]] line of variables will now send out in the correct timezone consistently.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!

We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 15 updates. Here are the highlights:

• Added a dedicated button within a Gallery to remove images only from a set of favourites rather than deleting them completely from the Gallery.
• Fixed an issue causing intermittent image upload issues inside Designer Email Templates.
• Adjusted the New User registration flow to support all the same special characters that Cognito does for passwords.
• When directly uploading new files to an automatically fulfilled digital order download set, the images will correctly live update once uploading is complete.
• Corrected two typos present in the default text for the "Questionnaire Submitted" assistant email.
• The One Page button was added back in!
• Corrected an issue causing Reports to be inaccessible in some cases.
• Synced dates will no longer automatically include Client details as a note.
• Fixed an issue causing Emails generated by Workflows to not be editable in some cases.
• Fixed an issue causing unique URL generation for Booking Proposals to sometimes fail.
• Made some adjustments to response handling for both Stripe and Square.
• For the Additional User flow, we fixed an issue that happened when the default username was changed during the initial account confirmation step.
• Fixed an issue causing the wrong background to display in the Shop Preview while editing a pricelist.
• Lightly refactored Google Calendar syncing to speed it up.
• Fixed an issue causing some users to be unable to detach SSO from their account.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!

We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 7 updates. Here are the highlights:

• Added an 'age' column to the Schedulers page.
• More fixes for Capture Time sorting in Galleries.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause duplicate folders to appear when creating a Gallery using a Gallery Template with folders.
• Fixed an issue for inaccurate crop display for Pricelist images.
• Fixed an issue that would cause tasks from a Lead Workflow to persist once the Lead booked into a Shoot.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes a status change workflow task would leave an associated email stuck in TBD.
• Additional Users can now correctly use a Brand's Gmail outbound email sender when the sender was created by another User on the account.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!

We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 7 updates. Here are the highlights:

• Fixed an issue causing timelines to not live update.
• Closing a Lead will now allow you to specify a reason.
• You can once again add referral sources to a Lead.
• When initially attaching a Scheduler to a Date, clicking the 'Visit' button will now take you to the correct URL.
• The text in the Shop Header will now correctly adapt for Dark Mode Galleries.
• Passwords containing the dash character will no longer be considered invalid.
• Fixed an issue causing Zapier to not correctly pull Shoot Types from Sprout.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!

We’re always working hard to make Sprout better for you. Every week, our team is fully focused on enhancing the experience for you and your business.

We’ve dedicated ourselves to building the best all-in-one business tool for photographers, and we’re not slowing down. We’re always improving because we care about your success.

This week, we’ve made 8 updates. Here are the highlights:

• Added a notes field to Contacts.
• Google Calendars syncing will now include the phone number as additional event data where appropriate.
• Fixed an issue causing the timeline to not live update for changes to Tasks (i.e. rescheduling).
• Updated reports to default to 2026.
• Corrected an issue that would cause Status changes on Shoots to sometimes fail when a lot of workflows were being triggered.
• Fixed a weird interaction between PayPal and auto-signing for Contracts.
• Fixed an issue causing visibility issues for Visualizers in some places in Sprout.
• Fixed an issue causing Credits on the frontend of a Gallery from not being clickable.

As always, thank you for being part of the Sprout community. We’re here to support you every step of the way!