Your dashboard, explained

Your dashboard is the home screen for everything tied to your account, whether you host events or add photos to other people's. Top to bottom: today's date, the party of the moment, this week's parties, the events you opened lately, and all your events.

Tap the Partyreel logo, top left, from anywhere in the app; on an album, the account menu has Dashboard.

The party of the moment

Once you host an event, one of them leads the page, drawn from its own photos: the one happening today, else the nearest within a month either way (tomorrow's comes before last night's), else the one you made last. An event without a date counts as happening on the days its photos land, and Add the date sits under its name.

• Before the day, it shows what guests need: who can get in, uploads open, and the code opened once. Invite opens the code to share, and Print puts it on paper. Until its first photo lands, the stage is lit by a color of its own and stands on the code itself, with how many times it's been opened and Settings' five steps under the name (Door, Uploads, First photos, Welcome and Code), each ticked as you finish it.
• On the day, its newest photos land on it as guests add them, with how many came in the last hour. People waiting at the door come first, with a button that lets them in.
• After it, the album's count and how many guests added to it, with Share the album.

Open takes you to the event itself.

This week

Every other party within a week of its date, before or after, each with the one thing it needs: people at the door, uploads to review, the code to print the day before, a password to set. When it needs nothing it says so, Ready for guests before the day and the album's count after.

Parties further off stay quiet. If someone's waiting at an older party's door, or uploads there wait for your review, its cover says so and the bell lists it.

Your events

Your events, with how many, holds every other event, laid out the way you like. The events you added photos to sit among them, and the party of the moment, standing above, isn't drawn a second time.

• An event you host shows its photo, or its date before it has one, with its name and when. A corner says it's live, and the other what waits: people at the door, uploads to review, or its one step while it's in this week.
• An event you added photos to is marked Guest and shows who's hosting it. It stays for as long as you have an upload there, even one still waiting for the host's review, and leaves with your last one. If the host closes the album to everyone, the cover locks and reads The host made this event private. Behind a password or another gate it shows no cover, and it still opens straight to the album: a gate stops newcomers, and you're already in. See find your uploads, and the events you added to.

From seven events, Recent sits above them: the four you opened last from here, newest first. Hide folds them to a line of small covers, and Show opens them again. From nine events, a search finds one by name.

Display holds every choice in one place: the Layout (Gallery, Table or List), the Order and its direction (Newest, Event date, Last opened, Name, In the album or Waiting), what to Show (whose events, when, and which year), Group by year, and the size of the Covers. The list adds how many items each album holds, and whether it's Open to new uploads or they're Paused; in the table, pressing a column's head sorts by it, and pressing it again turns it round. A number on the button counts what you've changed, a line under the heading says what's set, and Reset puts it all back. Your choices are kept for your account, so every device you sign in on opens the way you left it.

Under Show, the first row narrows by whose they are, each with its count: All, Hosting, Guest, or Deleted, the events you've deleted, each with a countdown until it clears for good and a Restore button. See hide, remove, and restore.

If you typed your email at an event before you confirmed it, a line above your events says how many photos are waiting for you, and Review goes through them one event at a time until you've decided what was yours. See find your uploads, and the events you added to.

Your storage

The small ring beside New event shows how much of your plan's storage you've used, and turns amber past 85 percent. Tap it for the details: your albums and Deleted drawn apart against your plan (what waits in Deleted counts until it leaves), how many photos or minutes of video the plan holds, Make room from Deleted and Empty Deleted. Need more? opens the plans; on Pro the same link reads Change plan and lists every Pro size, monthly and yearly, with yours marked. Pass holders find Renew Event Pass here, and once you've paid for anything, Manage billing opens the billing portal for the card on file, invoices, and cancelling.

The ring is one door to your plan, not the only one: the Plan card on your account page (Plan and storage in the account menu) carries Upgrade or Change plan, Manage billing, and Renew Event Pass too. See upgrade, downgrade, or cancel. What happens at 100 is in what happens when storage fills up.

The event limit

Beside the date, a line counts the events you host and names your plan: the free plan holds one event, each Event Pass adds one more, and Pro is unlimited. At the limit, New event still opens, and says what's holding the slot and the two ways forward: delete an event, or upgrade.

The bell and the account menu

The bell collects the few things that need a decision; see notifications and the emails Partyreel sends. Your avatar opens the account menu: Your profile, Plan and storage (the Plan card on your account page), Account, Back to site, Help center, the theme switch, and Sign out.