Latest News from the Sprout Studio team
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Zapier update, plus 6 more updates

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Shared by Support • February 04, 2026

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!

Feature update
Product update
Improvement

Google date syncing pulls more information, plus 7 more updates

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Shared by Support • February 04, 2026

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!

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Product update
Improvement

We launched 2-factor authentication, plus 8 more updates

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Shared by Support • January 15, 2026

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 9 updates. Here are the highlights:

  • 2-factor authentication went live today
  • Version 1.9 of the Lightroom Plugin is now live. This newest version will require a new API key to authenticate with the plugin. Please see this help doc for more info.
  • Version 2.0.7 of Zapier is now live. This newest version will require a new APU key to authenticate with the plugin. Please see this help doc for more info.
  • Swapping Shoot Types will now properly honour the "Use Existing Users" selection.
  • Fixed an issue that would stop Stripe Invoices from showing paid, even though they were.
  • Fixed an issue with the new Client variables not populating correctly when sent through an Email Marketing campaign using an Email Marketing list.
  • Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause sent Emails to not correctly display as 'Sent' within Sprout.
  • Fixed an issue causing some Sprout Template Library assets from cloning properly.
  • Fixed some edge cases where certain Email content was causing the email modal to experience irregular behaviour.

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

Feature update
Product update
Improvement

Added new variables, plus 4 more updates

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Shared by Support • January 15, 2026

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 5 updates. Here are the highlights:

  • We added new variables!
  • Added the ability to sort Clients on a Lead/Shoot. However, the "Primary" Client will always be in the first position.
  • Made some general improvements to the zipping service for downloads.
  • Gallery download emails are now properly attached under the Lead/Shoot (when applicable).
  • Auto-submitted lab orders will properly skip items marked as "skipped".

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

Feature update
Product update
Improvement

Floating Gallery wraps are showing the correct crop, plus 2 more updates

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Shared by Support • December 10, 2025

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 3 updates. Here are the highlights:

  • Fixed some styling in the backend of a Booking Proposal when in "Book Manually" mode.
  • Floating Gallery Wraps now show the appropriate bleed while cropping.
  • The variable bar will now remain open after selecting a variable. Previously, it would collapse the bar.

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

Feature update
Product update
Improvement

Start looking into 2026 with new 2026 filter views plus 7 more updates

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Shared by Support • December 10, 2025

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 some issues manipulating favourited images using the right-click menu on the backend of a Gallery.
  • Identified and fixed an issue that was causing zip files not to generate when requested from the backend of an Order for self-fulfillment.
  • Fixed an issue causing Email Marketing views not to be recorded correctly.
  • Fixed some styling issues with the Brand Modal mock-up Gallery preview.
  • Fixed an issue with the Booking Proposal status overlay not properly reflecting the status of the Booking Proposal in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue causing Schedulers to not display all dates in a month in some cases.
  • Automatic Countersigning Contracts had a couple of small fixes related to Payment Schedules using a small deposit amount and not being countersigned automatically.
  • 2026 was added as a pre-existing date filter to Reports.

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

Feature update
Product update
Improvement

You can now reorder Milestones in Workflows plus 2 more updates

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Shared by Support • November 11, 2025

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 3 updates. Here are the highlights:

  • You can now reorder milestones in your Workflows by dragging them around.
  • Fixed an issue causing some notes not to open on line items in an Order.
  • Fixed an intermittent issue generating a Password/Key for accessing Galleries.

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

Feature update
Product update
Improvement

New Branded Help Docs and 8 more updates

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Shared by Support • November 04, 2025

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 9 updates. Here are the highlights:

  • Branded help docs are now live!
  • Black Friday has officially begun and is now live.
  • Fixed an issue causing the Hero Item Slider in the Shop and Pricing Guide from not displaying the image correctly in some cases.
  • Cleaned up the error messaging in the Email window, particularly when the subject or content is missing when trying to send the Email.
  • Numbers inside Payment Schedules will no longer round up or down.
  • Numbers in the Expense window will no longer round up to whole numbers.
  • FPL Framed Print's description was updated to be more accurate.
  • Fixed an issue causing one of the Startup Wizard steps to turn into a blank white page when tabbing through form fields.
  • Made a small adjustment to how reminders for submitting Gallery Favourites are calculated. It will now work on the time it was first created rather than when it was last submitted.

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

Feature update
Product update
Improvement

Added "Add New" buttons across the software and 8 more updates

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Shared by Support • October 22, 2025

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 9 updates. Here are the highlights:

  • Various "Add New" buttons have been added throughout Sprout to make it easier to create assets on the fly.
  • The counter-sign modal will no longer appear when being redirected from a Lead URL to a Shoot that's already been converted.
  • Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause expense values (i.e. subtotal) to display as "NaN".
  • Fixed an issue causing Workflows to not save correctly in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue causing some FPL products that should have been eligible for the Boutique Box from being considered ineligible.
  • Re-ordering the emails inside of an Email Campaign will no longer cause content issues.
  • Order line item notes now save, update and display correctly on the backend of an Order.
  • Renaming the default Shoot Type will no longer cause strange behaviour on Contact Forms.
  • "Meet Minimum Order" will no longer show as $0 on mobile when added in the finalize order step.

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

Feature update
Product update
Improvement

Improvements to your dashboard widgets and 4 more updates

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Shared by Support • September 30, 2025

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 5 updates. Here are the highlights:

  • Added better support for scenarios in which manually booking a Lead into a Shoot would exceed the account's shoot limit.
  • Fixed an issue causing the Weather widget on the dashboard to throw an error message.
  • Fixed an issue with the Show/Hide buttons in the Documents section of a Shoot. The count will now be accurate as well.
  • Re-added the save button to Bulk Emails after they have been sent, so they can be renamed.
  • Added some code to help keep widget settings in sync.

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