There's no second link to make. The address on the QR code, the one your guests scanned all night, is the album, and it keeps working for as long as the event exists.
Send the link again
- Dashboard
- Your event
- Share
Copy it and send it to the group chat, the family who couldn't come, anyone who'd like the photos. It opens to the album, where Select above the gallery lets anyone take photos home, past whatever gate you set: someone who wasn't there is a newcomer at it, so they need the password from you, your yes at the door, or their address on your invite list, and Only people already in keeps them out. It unfurls in messages as a card with the event's name (a plain card behind any gate but the password). Partyreel sends your guests no "album is ready" blast and has no way to export their addresses, so sharing is a message from you. See send the event link.
Make it a keepsake
Once the trickle of late photos stops, turn off Accepting uploads in settings. The page loses its upload button and guests see a quiet note that uploads are closed. Everything else stays: viewing, taking photos home, the guest list, and the highlight reel, still one tap from the album's cover. Anyone can still make a clip of it to keep. See turn off uploads and the highlight reel.
Decide who can open it
The door works the same after the event as during it:
- Public (the default): anyone with the link. The link is a long random address that search engines are asked not to index, so "anyone" means the people you send it to.
- Private, with a gate: a password you choose (good for an album you're posting somewhere semi-public), letting each person in, your invite list, or only people already in, which keeps the album to everyone who was there while nobody new joins. All on every plan, and everyone already in keeps their way in.
- Only me: only you. Guests with the link see a closed album. Useful while you curate, then open it again.
Curate before you share widely
Hide the misfires and the duplicates first; hidden photos never appear for guests and never make it into their downloads. Select mode makes the pass quick. See curate what shows up in your album.
A readable address for the thank-you card
A custom link like partyreel.com/e/maya-and-sam fits on a card in a way the permanent link doesn't. Any plan can set one in Share; see set a custom event link.