October so far is all about the booth.

A new event page

• Board view: See every order in columns by status. Sort a column oldest or newest first, select all, and move orders along. Made a mistake? Hit Undo.

• Keyboard shortcuts: Press ? to see them.

• Your screen stays awake while an event is live, and the page catches up after a dropped connection.

• Print fills the page: When you print an order, Vixie can fill the rest of the page with other waiting orders.

Customer pickup screen

Open Pickup screen from a live event's menu and put it on a tablet or second screen. Ready orders show big with the customer's first name. A chime plays when an order is ready.

A better event report

The report now shows what you made, your pace, how this event compares to your others, your busiest hour, your best seller, and the wait time. Refunded and cancelled orders no longer count, and hours use your local time. Download the orders as a CSV or a PDF. Multi-day events are shown day by day.

Print quality and privacy

• Low-resolution warning: Customers see a hint when their photo would print blurry. Want to stop those photos completely? Turn it on in Settings, under Media & Privacy.

• Automatic photo cleanup: Choose how long to keep customer photos in Settings, under Media & Privacy. Order records stay. Only the photos go.

Smaller things

• Add a Message for customers to an event. It shows on the first screen of your live event page.

• Upcoming events warn you early if your plan won't let them go live.

• Help & feedback now lives in the sidebar, with video tutorials.

• Order emails list subtotal, discount, tax, and shipping on separate lines.

• Shopify orders arrive already paid, so there's nothing to mark.

• Photo uploads keep working when a customer's internet provider blocks our photo storage.

The big one this month: text.

Custom text, everywhere

Your customer can now write on their magnet in your Vixie store, at live events, and in your Shopify store. They tap the photo, type, and tap Done. The text shows in the cart and prints on the finished magnet.

• 17 fonts, including new serifs, light faces, and formal scripts like Allura and Great Vibes.

• Outline and shadow can be used together, and there's a Transparency setting.

Photo editing

• Brightness, contrast, and saturation: Three new sliders in the Filter tab. What the customer sees is what prints.

• The cart shows the finished design: crop, filter, frame, and text, not the raw upload.

• Replace a photo without starting over, and tap any photo at review to edit or remove it.

At the booth

• Mark paid in bulk: At cash events, select unpaid orders and mark them all paid at once.

• Order age in the queue: The time shows how long since the customer ordered, and stops at pickup.

Printing

• Problem magnets are flagged: If a magnet fails to process, the queue and order page now say so. Reprocess Magnets redoes only the broken ones.

• Sharper prints: We retuned how photos are prepared for print.

• Pressing Generate Print twice no longer makes two batches, and empty spots on a page no longer print cut lines.

Also

• Annual plans are now on Shopify billing too, with 2 months free.

• Error pages now look like Vixie, and an event's error page lets the customer re-enter the event code.

August was a big one. Here's what's new.

Discount codes

You asked, so here they are. Go to Settings, then Discounts, and click New code. Choose a percentage or an amount off. You can add a minimum order, a usage limit, and start and end dates. Customers enter the code at checkout in your Vixie store and at live events. Shopify stores keep using Shopify's own discount codes.

More ways to make a magnet personal

• Remove background: Your customer can cut themselves out of a photo in the Magnet Customizer. It works on iPhone photos too.

• Sticker outline: Add a thin, medium, or thick outline around the cut-out, in any colour.

• Background colours: Pick from a palette or choose your own colour, next to your own background images.

• Bulk orders: One photo, printed many times. Turn on Bulk order when uploading, and one crop fills the whole pack.

Live events

• Magnets per guest: Hosting a wedding or a party? Set how many magnets each guest gets. Guests see how many they have left, even if they switch phones. You can also let guests buy extras once they've used theirs.

• Card-only events: A new Online payment mode, for events where you don't take cash.

Printing

• Borderless magnets: Print to the edge of the photo, with no border or text. They pack tighter, so a 2.5" square fits 12 to a Letter page instead of 6.

• Order numbers on the page: Each magnet's order number prints next to it, so mixed pages are easy to sort.

Your store in more languages

The Magnet Customizer, your Vixie store, and your live event pages now come in Spanish, French, Canadian French, German, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Polish. On Shopify it follows your store's language on its own. For your Vixie store and events, turn languages on in Settings, under Languages. The text you write yourself stays as you wrote it.

Smaller things

• Customers can tick a box to let you use their photo on social media, and another for your news and offers. You'll see their answer on the order.

• Carts show tax before checkout.

• If a customer's page reloads mid-edit at an event, their photo and crop come back.

• Galleries can be set to Required on a product.

Here's what we shipped in July.

Live events

• More than one product per order: Customers can now add several products to one order at your event and pay once. Each line can have its own number of copies.

• Edit an event after you create it: Change the name, location, payment mode, products, or date. Closed events stay locked.

• A new event page: Start, End, and View Report sit in one bar at the top. You'll also see a status badge, a running timer, and a bigger QR section to download or print.

• Your logo on your QR codes: Event QR codes now carry your logo in the middle. No logo? You get a plain QR.

Selling

• Annual plans, 2 months free: Pay yearly and save 17%. Switch to Annual in Settings, under Billing.

• Shopify stores can take payments at events: If you sell on Shopify, you can now connect Square, Stripe, SumUp, or PayPal for your live events.

• Clearer receipts: Checkout now lists each product on its own line, with tax and shipping shown separately.

• A home for your Vixie store: Your store now has its own page in the menu. Set how you fulfill orders there: pickup, shipping, or both. Closed your store by mistake? You can restore it within 30 days.

Smaller things

• Orders and each channel tab now show how many orders need you.

• An inch/mm switch in Print Studio and Edit Measurements.

• The Shopify widget now reads more ways of writing a size, like 2" x 2" or 2×2.

• The crop your customer sees now matches what prints, even with custom measurements.

Vixie is now on the Shopify App Store. Your customers personalize photo magnets right on your product page, and the orders land in Vixie ready to print.

• On your product page: The Magnet Customizer opens on the product. The customer uploads a photo, crops it, and adds it to the cart.

• Checkout stays in Shopify: Customers pay through your usual Shopify checkout.

• Orders land in Vixie: Paid orders show up in your print queue, ready to print.

• Products stay in sync: Your products and stock stay in sync between Vixie and Shopify.

Find Vixie on the Shopify App Store: https://apps.shopify.com/vixie-photo-magnets-buttons

Your customers can now pay with Venmo.

Venmo runs on top of PayPal, so setup is quick. Connect PayPal in Settings, under Payments. Then, in your PayPal account, turn on “Save PayPal and Venmo payment methods”. Venmo then shows up at checkout on its own.

Venmo appears for customers in the US paying in USD. That is a Venmo limit.

New to this? Open Settings and look for the Watch now videos on the PayPal card. They walk you through each step.

You can now sell more than one magnet size from a single product.

• One product, multiple sizes: Set up a single product that sells more than one size. No more building a separate product for each one.

• Each size, its own price: Give every size its own packs and prices. A small magnet can cost less than a big one.

• Customers pick their size: The size picker shows up on your live event pages and your Shopify store. When the customer picks a size, the crop follows that shape.

• Mixed sizes on one sheet: The Print Studio fits different sizes onto the same sheet, so you waste less paper.

Not every customer brings a photo.

Now you can offer ready-made designs in your store. Your customers pick one they like and order it. Good for walk-ups who want something quick, and for online orders too.

More ways to take a payment, at the booth or online.

You can now connect PayPal and SumUp. They join Square and Stripe, so you have four ways to get paid. Connect one in Settings, under Payments.