Choose what guests can upload

The 3 kinds of contribution

A guest can send photos, add a video or record a voice note. On the guest page these sit side by side, each with its own label. Whatever you switch off disappears there entirely — there is no greyed-out button raising questions.

Photos cannot be switched off. They are the point of an album, and an event without them would have none.

1. Open the event. Pick the event in the dashboard and go to Guest pages → Upload page → Options.
2. Set the kinds. Video and voice notes switch independently. Photos stay active either way.
3. Save, then look. Open the guest page yourself afterwards. What you see there is what your guests get.

When switching something off helps

Video costs storage and patience. If your album is tight or the venue network is weak, an event without video collects more contributions than one with. Switching voice notes off makes sense when it will be loud enough that nobody could speak intelligibly anyway.

When in doubt leave both on. An extra route costs nothing while nobody uses it.

The length comes from the plan

The longest video a guest can send is set by the plan, and the dashboard has no setting to make it shorter for one event. Longer is only possible by changing plan.

If you would like short clips, say so on the table card instead: short contributions get watched more than long ones.

No consent step to switch on

A confirmation before the upload exists in the product, but it is off by default and the dashboard currently has no switch for it. So a guest uploads immediately and the page asks for nothing up front.

If you need guests to agree, tell them beforehand, on the invitation or at the entrance, and write to us before the event. “Ask for a name” is something else: it only puts a name to a contribution.

The name question

After sending, the page can ask who a contribution is from, and the guest types a first name — up to 40 characters — or stays anonymous. This step is off by default; you switch it on under Guest pages → Upload page → Options → “Ask for a name”. The answer then applies to everything the same guest sends at the event from that phone and browser.

The name can appear on a live wall. Treat it like any other contribution you would want to see first.

Looking at what guests see

Open the guest page yourself after every change, on a phone rather than a computer. You then see exactly what will be sitting on the table, and you notice at once if a route is missing that you meant to leave open.

It takes 1 minute and it is the only test that counts — the settings screen shows switches, the guest page shows the result.