PixiCloud
Release Date: Monday September 10, 4:30PM
Version 1.1.29 (Automated Payments + Free Trials)

Features

  • Added free trial signup when signing up for an account
  • Added checkout page to allow signing up for automatic subscriptions
  • Added ability to change and view saved card information for payments
  • Added ability to upgrade plans and licenses
  • Alert users and give them 10 day grace period to resolve issues when invoice payment is declined
  • Allow restarting subscription for inactive accounts
  • Add users who sign up for free trials to Pixilated MailChimp list for onboarding emails
  • Handle going from Pro to Lite license by removing non-admin accounts from a company (for the purpose of starting a trial and upgrading to a Lite plan)
  • Send user registration instructions for their devices when adding a new device (same instructions displayed on device management page when creating a new device)

Fixes/Improvements

  • Attach photos to emails users send to themselves
  • Allow account deactivation, which gets deactivated when: subscription expires, the trial ends and the user does not upgrade, or payment for invoice fails and is not resolved within 10 days

PixiCloud
Release Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2:50 PM
Version 1.1.30

Fixes/Improvements

  • Direct users to “events” page instead of “device management” page when signing up
  • Put a link to register device when going to a gallery and there are no active devices
  • Add prompt on signup page when URL param “next=free-trial”

PixiCloud
Release Date: Monday, September 24, 1:45 PM
Version 1.1.31 (Green Screen)

Features

  • In the Event Settings add the ability to select between “Overlays Only” and “Green Screen” Mode
  • Automatically detect green screen background and overlay for PNG when uploading graphics and set them as such when green screen is enabled for an event
  • Do not allow the user to save green screen mode for an event unless green at least one green screen background is uploaded (same for overlays and “Overlay Only” mode)

Fixes/Improvements

  • Change the “Overlays” tab to “Photo Mode” tab

Pixi App
Release Date: Tuesday, September 25, 3:00 AM
Version 1.3.3

Features

  • Apply swipeable green screen effect in the photo for both external and built in camera in preview
  • Apply green screen effect in the final processed photo for both external and built in camera in preview
  • Apply green screen effect in liveview for the external camera using the first green screen background
  • When the green screen is enabled, show tolerance settings and apply to liveview in camera settings
  • Store whether or not the green screen is enabled
  • Show green screen background previews in the settings screen

Pixi App
Release Date: Thursday, September 27, 3:00 AM
Version 1.3.5

Features

  • Added chroma key slider for live preview separate from the final photo

Fixes/Improvements

  • Fixed issue with taking a picture with the device camera when green screen is enabled
  • Updated text and colors for green screen settings sliders
  • Fixed bug with offline queue not automatically clearing when the app starts
  • Fixed “Connect Camera” button not displaying when toggling external camera button
  • Fixed flash animation freezing during processing when using the built-in camera with green screen enabled

Pixi App
Release Date: Friday, September 28, 3:00AM
Version 1.3.6

Fixes/Improvements

  • fixed saving white backgrounds for photos with Huwei devices

Pixi App
Release Date: Tuesday, October 2, 3:00AM
Version 1.3.7

Fixes/Improvements

  • Use device camera for live preview when enabling green screen mode with an external camera
  • Temporarily disabled UI for setting live preview green screen settings (since we are only using live preview with the built-in camera for now)
  • Fix bug with the picture not saving/sending when taking green screen picture without overlay

PixiCloud
Release Date: Wednesday, October 3, 3:50PM
Version 1.1.32

Fixes/Improvements

  • When the green screen is enabled split dropzone into 2 for explicitly uploading background and overlay
  • Only show delete icon for uploading graphics on hover
  • Added download icon for graphics in event settings (also only show on hover)
  • Changed dropdown for selecting green screen mode to a checkbox
  • Updated UI for prompts when uploading graphics for events
  • Replaced ‘Preview’ button on photo mode page with ‘custom end screen’ button and changed the UI a little

PixiCloud
Release Date: Wednesday, October 17, 3:55PM
Version 1.1.33 (Stock Events)

Features

  • Added a field on Account Settings page for uploading, and previewing company logo
  • When a logo is uploaded for the first time, enable company logo for all stock events by default and apply the logo to graphics in all events
  • When new logo is uploaded over existing one, leave all settings for enabled/disabled logos for stock events as they are and just replace the old logo in all the graphics that were used before
  • When selecting a “stock” event in the event editor, display an “enable company logo” checkbox which, upon saving, will remove or add the company logo to graphics in the event if the logo is uploaded (disabled if no company logo is uploaded)
  • Added “edit name” button/functionality to event editor
  • Give user all the same customization functionality for stock events as custom events (when regenerating graphics in places such as uploading a new logo or disabling/enabling the use of the logo in the stock event do not override the user’s changes to the event)
  • Added “source” column in event select table for users that can filter between “custom” and “stock” events

Fixes/Improvements

  • Improved use of horizontal space and made UI more consistent for “photo mode” and “billboards” sections of the event editor
  • In “messaging” changed look of “connect MailChimp” button to be less distracting
  • Changed “select event” button to be more noticeable and fit in with other action buttons in event editor
  • Improved responsiveness of event editor and account settings pages on smaller screens
  • Sort events table by time event was created after sorting by “last selected” in descending order
  • Other minor updates to UI

Pixi App
Release Date: Tuesday, October 19, 3:00AM
Version 1.3.8

Features

  • In the event selection add separator for custom and prefab events

Fixes/Improvements

  • Fix getting stuck on “Api not connected” status when connecting to wifi on startup
  • Fix built-in camera not working while in offline mode
  • Fix inability to toggle to an external camera while in offline mod
  • Fix offline queue not initializing when starting the app

PixiCloud
Release Date: Wednesday, October 19, 10:35AM
Version 1.1.34

Fixes/Improvements

  • Add text to event settings to explain the functionality of each tab
  • Added link to FAQ in the navbar
  • Split up navbar
  • Adjust cropping of the company logo to ‘contain’ instead of ‘cover’ resizing method
  • Expand size at which navbar collapses

PixiCloud
Release Date: Wednesday, October 31, 9:40AM
Version 1.2.0 (Printing)

Features

  • Allow the user to enable/disable printing for their event
  • Disable checkbox if no printers have been added to their account
  • Add “Printers” section on “devices” page, with a prompt for how to connect printers
  • Allow the user to connect their Google account to their PixiCloud account
  • Add a “Sync” button for connecting to user’s Google account and fetching their printers connected to their Google account
  • Add printers table to display all of the user’s printers available through their Google account
  • Add instructions on how to add printers to user’s google Cloud Account
  • Allow users to add one or more of their printers to their devices (Pixis)
  • Allow users to remove applied printers from their devices
  • Allow users to change and save media size for their printer
  • Allow users to change and set the number of copies to print per printer
  • Allow the user to disconnect Google account from PixiCloud account

Fixes/Improvements

  • Other minor text and UI updates

Pixi App
Release Date: Thursday, November 1, 3:00AM
Version 1.4.0

Features

  • Added text in settings to display when printing is enabled
  • Add print button in the preview when printing is enabled
  • When pressing print button show print dialogue to agree to agree to terms and conditions
  • If email/text is enabled, when print dialogue appears, show buttons to allow the user to add text/email along with printing it
  • Store printed photos in an offline queue if in offline mode

PixiCloud
Release Date: Thursday, November 1, 2:00PM
Version 1.2.1

Fixes/Improvements

  • Fixed bug with being unable to add accounts to a company

PixiCloud
Release Date: November 15, 3:25PM
Version 1.3.0 (Dashboard)

Features

  • Added dashboard page for company accounts
  • My photos section
  • Link to gallery
  • Button for downloading all contact info across all devices for a company within a date range
  • Stats display for “Photos”, “Messages Delivered”, and “Contacts Added”
  • Filters for stats and time range for
  • Chart for displaying stats in a line graph over time
  • Created and optimized backend query for retrieving stats on a daily and hourly basis (including dates/times no photos were taken)
  • Multiline for displaying all “Photos”, “Messages Delivered”, and “Contacts Added”
  • Convert from UTC to local time for hourly times
  • Tooltip for displaying specific stats per date on hover
  • Legend for displaying a correlation of line colors on the graph
  • Display results for graph based on what is selected in time and device filter in the stats section
  • Events section
  • Button linking to create a new event
  • Button linking to select an event
  • Table displaying which events are active on which devices, and when they were last activated
  • If no devices are active, a button to add device
  • Button for managing devices linking to ‘Devices’ page
  • Account Section
  • Display how many printers are active and a button to link to manage printers
  • Display how many users are active and link to manage users
  • Display account email and company name for profile and link to update profile info
  • Blog Side bar listing the last 4 items on the blog on pixi.cloud
  • Place to upload and display a new brand logo
  • Welcome text at the top
  • Styled for responsive design on mobile
  • Replaced home page redirection from the gallery in the dashboard for company accounts to the dashboard
  • Replaced stock event logo with brand logo on the Profile page. Brand logo is used for displaying the logo of the company in emails sent to their customers

Fixes/Improvements

  • Renamed Account Settings page to “Profile” page
  • Moved stock event company logo upload to the events page
  • Moved “Profile”, “My Photos”, and “Dashboard” under “My Account” dropdown in the navbar
  • Updated styling of border width across all site to be smaller
  • Increased padding in some areas
  • Updated text in some areas
  • Handle maintaining the aspect ratio of logos in emails
  • Add bottom and right padding to logos in stock event graphics
  • pull non-square logos to bottom right for stock event graphics
  • Added email keyboard input for login and signup on mobile
  • Updated text for ui in registration modal
  • Updated text in photo emails
  • Probably other minor updates…

Pixi App
Release Date: November 20, 3:00AM
Version 1.4.1

Fixes/Improvements

  • Fix bug with crashing on startup when enabling offline mode for devices with many campaigns and photos

PixiCloud
Release Date: November 20, 12:30PM
Version 1.3.1

Fixes/Improvements

  • Add first and last name fields to the signup form
  • Allow users to access public gallery links without creating/logging into an account
  • Optimize page loads and API endpoints for users with many photos and events
  • Shrunk more border widths in UI to match the newer style