The album mostly runs itself. Your event page keeps one line at the top: Ready for guests from the moment you make the event, with the next thing worth doing beside it, sharing your code first, then the first photos and the welcome. It ticks itself from the event, and Settings walks the same steps in order. Once you're confident in your settings, dismiss the line and it stays gone for that event.
This is the longer list, for the day itself: the handful of things worth doing before and during the event, in order. Ticks stay on this device, so you can come back to the list on the day.
Decide who can get in Public lets in anyone with the link or the code, which suits most parties. If the link might travel further than your guests, make it Private and pick its gate: A password you print on the invitation, You let each person in from your phone, or Your invite list . See who can see your event .
Decide whether to review uploads For a wedding or anything shown on a screen in the room, turn on Review uploads before they appear so nothing goes public before you've seen it. For a casual party, leave it off and let the album fill live. See review uploads before they appear .
Print the QR code, big Download the SVG from the share dialog and print it at least the size of a coaster; bigger for a sign across a room. Keep the white border around it. See print your QR, or put it on a screen .
Test it as a guest Scan the printed code with your own phone, then open the link in a private browser window (signed in, you'd pass every door and not see what a guest sees). Add one photo and check it lands. That first scan also ticks the code on your event's checklist. If you let each person in, your test visit waits at the door: let it in from Guests , and you've tried both sides. Do this before anything is laminated.
Put it where people already look Table cards, the bar, the welcome sign, the back of the program, the bathroom mirror. Two or three places beat one big poster.
Put the reel on a screen If there's a TV or projector in the room, sign in on the laptop that drives it, open the reel from your event page, and press Play on a screen . The room watches the album fill, with the code in the corner. See play the reel on a screen .
Tell everyone once, early A line in the program or a single announcement is enough. Something like: "Scan the code on your table to add your photos to our album. No app to install, just your camera." Copy the event link too, for the group chat. See send the event link .
Seed the album Add a few photos yourself before guests arrive. An empty album asks people to go first; one with five photos in it invites them, and two are enough to start the highlight reel. See add your own photos .
Glance at Review, and the door, during the event If you turned review on, open Review on your phone every hour or so and tap Approve all . If you let each person in, the Guests card says who's waiting at the door, and Let in opens the album for them right where they stand. The bell on your dashboard counts both.
Close uploads when it's over Days later, once the last photos have trickled in, turn off Accepting uploads . The album becomes a keepsake page, and the reel is still one tap away on its cover. To keep it to the people who were there, make it Private with Only people already in : every guest keeps their way in, and nobody new joins. See share the album after the event .
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The troubleshooting guides cover the usual snags: the QR won't scan , an upload won't finish , and the messages guests might see . If you're stuck, send us a note ; every note gets a reply, usually within a day.
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