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Finishing options: glossy or matte, borders, mounting, gift wrap, on every print

A retailer put it simply: "I need a glossy and a matte 4×6, and matte costs more." Starting today, Picsha Prints, Picsha Retouch, and Picsha Posters let you offer exactly that, and anything else you finish a print with.

Any option, any choices, any price

Under each print product on your admin page there is now a Finishing options block. Add an option, name it, and list its choices. Each choice can carry an extra cost per print, or none:

  • Surface: Glossy, Matte (+$0.10), Lustre
  • Border: None, White border (+$0.05)
  • Mounting: Foam core (+$2.00), Gatorboard (+$3.00)
  • Gift wrapping: Gift wrapped (+$3.00)

A product can carry several options at once. An option that must be answered has a default choice, selected for the customer to start with, so an order can never arrive without one. An option that needn't be answered, like gift wrapping, is ticked Customer may leave this blank. And Copy these options to every other size puts the same set on all your products in one click.

What the customer sees

In Prints, the pickers sit under each size in the order builder. The customer chooses once per size for the whole order: all their 4×6s are matte, or all are glossy. The price on the size, the volume breaks, and the running total all update as they choose. In Retouch and Posters, each print row has its own pickers beside the copies, mounting, and frame choices.

The choice is spelled out on the order page, the confirmation email, the receipt, and your print list, so the counter and the customer agree on what was ordered.

Straight into Photogize Lab

Run Photogize Lab? The customer's choices arrive on the Lab order item, with the extra cost in the option's name, exactly as your kiosks have always sent them. Your Lab staff see "4x6 Glossy, Mounting: foam core (+$1.00)" where they expect to, and nothing changes on the production floor.

It's live now, and off until you add an option, so nothing changes on your storefront until you want it to. The details are in the help center: Picsha Prints: sizes, cropping, and lab-ready files and Retouch pricing.

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