More New Updates & Thanks

By now, you’ve probably seen the new NextProof control panel design. This weekend, we also added to additional updates.
Improved customer order emails
We’re now sending HTML emails to your customers after they place an order. The emails are much easier to read and include better details on their purchases.
Gallery and image sharing options
Visitors to your galleries [...]

Holiday Sales Winners Announced

It’s time to announce the winners of our NextProof holiday sales contest. We were blown away by the amount of sales our users made over the holidays.
The following 3 photographers are being awarded some awesome prizes:
Highest Gross Sales: Hilary Helton (Helton Photography)
Hilary Helton is a Las Vegas portrait and wedding photographer. We love the baby [...]

We Have a New Office

Just thought we’d give you all a peek at our new digs.
BIG Folio & NextProof Office Tour from BIG Folio on Vimeo.
If you’re ever in the area, be sure to stop in for a visit. Make sure to call ahead, because we might be up on the mountain.

Custom Themes and the Holiday Guide are Here

In case you didn’t receive our email update, we’re conducting a great holiday promotion. We’ve put together a holiday page filled with tips, videos, and more. It’s all designed to help you boost your sales this holiday season.
Not only that, but we’re giving away some prizes to the photographers with the most sales and best [...]

Free Site with New Pro Plan: 1 Day Only

If you’re not a NextProof user, today is a great day to become one. Over at BIG Folio, we just released a new standard site with great NextProof integration.
We’re giving the site away free for the next 24 hours to anyone who signs up for a NextProof Pro or Max plan. We’re even extending the [...]

B/W and Sepia Options Now Live

We just rolled out a nifty little update for your galleries. When creating a new gallery, you can now include Black & White and Sepia options in the gallery.

When this is checked, the gallery will give visitors these options for any image/product. They’ll also get a nice little AJAX preview when selecting an option. You [...]

We Have a NextProof Facebook Group

I was going to install some forum software on the site–to facilitate discussion and share upcoming gallery themes. Instead, I’ve decided to create a Facebook group (for the time being at least).
If you’re a Facebook user, join our group.

My profile is here as well.

Max Plan Price Reduced and a Peek at What’s on the Horizon

We just reduced the Max plan to $99 a month. If you’re a Pro plan user and running out of space for high-res files, now’s a great time to upgrade.
Also, we’re getting very close to releasing some big updates. Most notably, custom gallery theming and international currency support are on the horizon.
Sneak peak: custom theming
Custom [...]

FTP Status

We just pushed out a small but handy update for FTP uploading. After uploading images via FTP and then adding them to a gallery, you’ll now get a status message.

The status will tell you that the FTP import is either “Pending” (i.e. it’s queued up in the background) or “Processing” (i.e. images are being added [...]

Email Address Change

Recently, we’ve been having issues with order notifications getting delayed (primarily by @yahoo.com addresses). Currently, emails sent from the NextProof system come from nextproof@bigfolio.com and this seems to be part of the issue.
This week we’ll be changing the FROM address. Any emails from NextProof (order notifications, billing notices, etc.) will begin coming from system@nextproof.com.
We’ve taken [...]