Online sign-up

Sign-up belongs to a photo job. Open the job and switch to the Online sign-up tab.

1. 1Create groups Parents pick their child's group when signing up. Without a group the form does not open.
2. 2Flip the switch Pixalo saves right away and creates the link for parents and the link for the school.
3. 3Check form and deadline Decide which consents are asked and until when sign-up is open.
4. Share the link By email to the school, as a poster or as a parent letter with QR code.

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1. 1Notice: children are waiting in the group without assignment. Assign now takes you straight there.
2. 2Key figures: Registered, Withdrawn, To review and Deadline. View sign-ups right below opens the list.
3. 3Link for parents: open, copy or create a new one.
4. 4Form and deadline: which consents apply and until when.
5. 5For the institution: a separate link to a printable list.
6. 6Poster and parent letter: QR code, template, PDF, email and printing.

Parents need no account and no access code. They open the link, fill in the form and confirm by email. That is all.

With Edit form you decide what parents are asked. The consent texts are legally fixed and versioned. You only decide whether a consent is required, optional or not asked.

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1. 1Consents: Required, Optional or Not asked for each item.
2. 2Rule: at least one type of photo must be possible.
3. 3Own questions: text, hint, question type, required and order.
4. 4Add question: up to five questions.

Consent	What you can set
Individual portrait	Required or optional. Optional means parents can sign their child up for the group photo only.
Online gallery	Always required. Without the gallery there is neither access nor an order.
Group / class photo	Required, optional or not asked. Without the individual portrait it is fixed to required.
Internal use	Optional or not asked. Notice board or yearbook of the school. An additional purpose may never be forced.

No child without a photo

If individual portrait and group photo are both optional, parents must choose at least one. Pixalo checks this in the form and again on the server.

Under Own questions you ask what you need for planning. For example a sibling photo or a preferred background. The answers appear in the list and in the CSV export.

Under Sign-up open until you pick the last day. When you change the date, Save appears next to it.

• The chosen day still counts, in every time zone until the end of the day.
• Empty means no deadline. Remove deadline clears the field.
• After the deadline, or with the switch off, parents see a notice that sign-up is closed.

The form shows your shop name, the name of the school and the date of picture day. It adapts to any phone.

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1. 1Your child: first name, last name and group. Add another child for siblings.
2. 2Consent: exactly the items you have set.
3. 3Further details: your own questions.
4. 4Your details: name, email and an optional reminder before the order deadline ends.

1. 1Submit the form Nothing is saved yet. Pixalo sends a confirmation link to the email address.
2. 2Confirm the link The link is valid for 7 days. After a typo, parents correct their details and send again.
3. Child signed up Only now is the child in your group. Parents get a confirmation with a personal link.

The address matters

The confirmed address later also receives the gallery access. If the child's group is missing, parents choose My class is not listed. You then assign the child yourself.

If you already imported a list of children, Pixalo creates no duplicates. It compares first name, last name and group, ignoring upper and lower case.

The View sign-ups button below the key figures opens the list. It shows every child with parent, every decision and the answers to your questions.

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1. 1Print and Export CSV.
2. 2Columns: child, parent, individual photo, group photo, internal and your questions.
3. 3Check email: someone else signed this child up.
4. 4Consent record (PDF) for this child.

When parents choose My class is not listed, Pixalo creates a holding group and parks the child there. Its name follows your studio language, for example No group yet in English or Ohne Gruppe in German. The tab shows a notice with Assign now.

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1. 1Holding group: this is where the children wait.
2. 2The child: select it and move it to the right group.

Move the children into their groups, one at a time or several at once. How it works is described under Move children. Once the group is empty, the notice disappears.

The head wants to know before picture day who is signed up and who must not be in the group photo. There is a separate link for that. Copy link for the school and send it on.

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1. 1Counters: signed-up children and children who must not be in the group photo.
2. 2Not in the group photo: right at the top, with name and group.
3. 3Per group: every child with individual photo and group photo.

Only what is needed

The list shows no email addresses and no access codes. Search engines do not find it. With Print list the head has it on paper on picture day.

Not all parents read emails. A poster on the door or a letter in the tray reaches everyone. Pixalo fills in link, QR code, picture day and deadline itself.

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1. 1Pick a template Poster online sign-up or Parent letter online sign-up, or your own template.
2. 2Design it if you like Design in the card designer opens the card designer. There you adjust colors, texts and logo.
3. PDF and printing Download PDF saves the template as a finished PDF. Send by email sends that PDF to an address you choose, such as the school. Print opens the print view.

Withdrawing must be as easy as consenting. That is why the confirmation email contains a personal link. It is valid for about 13 months. Parents need no account for it.

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1. 1Progress: Registered, picture day, gallery.
2. 2Your consent: withdraw optional items one by one.
3. 3Withdraw all consent: with a confirmation step. The child is then not photographed.

Photographers in your team see sign-up with the Events permission. They may only change it with a permission of its own.