Olapic is very easy to use service that allows couples to gather pictures from their wedding guests. We work hard to make the site as intuitive, easy to use, and autonomous as possible. Organizing a wedding requires already a lot of work for us to come and make your life even harder!
So here is how you should set up your account to get started in 4 easy steps:
1) Register our site: www.olapic.com.
- You need to provide your name, email address, and wedding date (we’ll explain you later why we need it).
- Then it comes the moment to pay for the service. We are sure we can get you hundreds pictures from your guests, but if you don’t trust us, you can choose to “pay later”. Once you have reached a limit of pictures, you will need to pay our service fee to enjoy the full functionality of the site.
2) Validate
- Once you have registered, you will need to validate your email account. We will send you an email to your email address with a link in it you must click. If you have not received the email please check your spam folder, and if you find it there please mark the email as “not spam” and add our email address to your address book. Then follow the link by clicking on it or pasting it on a web browser.
3) Get started
- First thing you have to choose is your public page domain name. Couples get something like steffandtom.olapic.com. This page is the one that your guest will access to upload and see your wedding pictures. Choose wisely because you will not be able to change it!
- Then you need to choose your public page title. Again, something along the lines “Steff and Tom’s wedding”.
- You can (it’s optional) then enter the country and city you are celebrating your wedding.
- Confirm or change your wedding date.
- Choose your default language for your account, public page, and email communications.
Go on and setup your privacy settings:
- Decide if you want pictures uploaded by guests to be published automatically in your public page. We recommend making publishing automatic (guests want to see other people’s pictures), but you can uncheck the option to have full control on what pictures your guests will see.
- You can set up a password that will be requested to every visitor that goes to your public site.
All these options, with the exception of the domain name, can be changed from your profile settings at any time.
4) Uploading your guest contact information
Our communication tool makes it easy to ask your guests to bring their cameras to the wedding and to upload the pictures after the wedding. But we need you to provide your guest list contact information.
- You can use our email contact importer tool, or upload a csv file (excel) -use this file as an example.
- Or you can skip and upload them later.
- We strongly recommend to upload your contacts to keep track of who uploads pictures and to maximize the number of pictures collected. But you are, of course, free to communicate with your guests without Olapic.
It’s easy! Go ahead and register at olapic.com now!
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Our official press release
We launched a while ago, but we hadn’t published our press release yet…here it is!
New NYC-Based Website Olapic Allows Brides and Grooms Create Online Wedding Album from Guests’ Candid Photos
The new and totally unique website created by Columbia Business School students allows brides and grooms to collect all the candid digital photos taken at their wedding into one beautiful online album to share with friends and family. Olapic has reach over 200 weddings in more than 20 countries just with word of mouth.
New York City, February 16, 2010 — A new and totally unique website allows brides and grooms to collect all the candid digital photos taken at their wedding into one beautiful online album to share with friends and family.
Olapic was just launched by three Columbia Business School students. With no advertising or marketing budget, Olapic already has more than 200 weddings in at least 20 countries. Olapic is a photo sharing site like no other–it is the online solution to sharing high quality wedding photos. Guests simply upload the digital photos taken at any of the special bridal events, rehearsal dinner and the wedding itself, and then the couple can create a professional quality album that will be ready and delivered far sooner than the photos from the wedding photographer.
Even more, Olapic has strict privacy controls, so newlyweds can decide who can view the photos of their special day. What makes this site so popular and innovative is that it acts as one central “clearinghouse”–but attractive, organized and timely–of all of the guests’ candid photos that can be uploaded literally hours after the event. Instead of visiting dozens of Facebook pages or other online albums to see all of the pictures, guests can visit the couple’s Olapic page, upload their photos, and then view the finished album when everyone is done. Couples can transfer the photos to other platforms like Facebook and Picasa with just one click. It couldn’t be easier for the bride and groom to get started: open an Olapic account, create a contact list (optional but recommended), and after the wedding Olapic can send three non-spam emails to the guests asking them to upload their candid photos.
Olapic is also different in that it allows bulk downloads of high-resolution images as well as printing services to generate albums and prints. Fees are very reasonable as well: Olapic is free for up to 100 photos, after that it is $55 for the six-month online service package, $95 for a year of online service and cards, or the album account for $215.
Some client testimonials:
“Olapic was a very original wedding present our friends made us because it turned out to be excellent to collect all our pictures… I was not expecting that many!” said Jen and Jeff Smith of New York City.
“Olapic turned out to be great! We collected more than 500 pictures and we saw that our friends had a lot of fun! In the end we ordered thank you cards to send to our guests for making the happiest day of our lives so great” Sue and Miquel, Barcelona, Spain
For more information:
- Watch the one minute video explaining the concept: http://olapic.com/index.php?op=demo.
- Press inquiries please call Jose de Cabo at (917) 207-1542, email him at cabo@olapic.com or Skype him at jcabo80.
- Visit www.olapic.com.