A private gallery is only seen by the customers you choose. Depending on the functions you turn on, the customer can view your work (Showcase), mark favorites (Favorites), download photos (Download), buy them (Sales) or watch them as a presentation (Slideshow). You can combine several.
Create the gallery
Go to Client Galleries / Galleries and click New gallery › Create gallery. The wizard has three steps.
1. General information: name (in your website's languages), menu option / parent gallery, content (Photographs or Videos) and function. You must choose at least one: Favorites, Download and Sales can be combined with each other; Showcase and Slideshow cannot be combined with the others. You can also turn on AI (Faces and Texts, smart search for the customer; see Enable AI and view processed photos) and add tags.
2. Permissions: for a private gallery choose Selected customers and say who it is for. The other options are Public and All customers.
3. Functions: it only appears depending on what you chose (with Showcase the wizard ends at Permissions; with Slideshow it asks for the music). The fields shown are those for Sales: Tariff Management and Sales settings. Click Finish.
Then upload the photos from the Photos tab: see Upload, order and organise photos in subgalleries.
What each function does
Showcase: the customer only sees the photos.
Favorites: the customer marks favorites with the heart. See Create a selection gallery.
Download: the customer downloads the photos. See Create a digital download gallery.
Sales: the customer buys the photos. See Create and edit a digital sales gallery.
Slideshow: full-screen presentation of the photos. See Create a slideshow gallery.
Edit the gallery
Open the gallery from the list. Its tabs are: Photos, Sub-galleries, General, Orders, Functions, Text and Appearance. Depending on the functions, some tabs don't appear: a Slideshow gallery has no Orders or Functions.
General: information, permissions, additional form, screenshot protection, automatic deactivation and AI.
Functions: selection and download settings, tariff management, sales settings, and the gallery's own payment and shipping methods.
Appearance: cover, thumbnails and photos. See Gallery cover.
Duplicate a gallery
In the list, use the three dots of its row and choose Duplicate galleries, then confirm. The copy is called “Copy of…” and includes the structure (subgalleries with their names and features), but not the photos.
Create galleries from a template
Go to New gallery › Gallery from template, choose the template and the menu option and click create. Templates are managed in Client Galleries / Tools / Gallery templates and created from the three dots of a gallery.
Send the gallery to the customer
In the gallery click Send (top right): by email, WhatsApp, social networks or copy the link. See Send login details to a customer.