Good things happened this week. The email composer got easier to use, galleries running Square stores got some important fixes, and we published a new guide for artists who just got the good news. Here's what's new.
Galleries: Sending Emails Just Got Simpler
Writing emails to your artists used to mean typing merge tags by hand — things like {{ARTIST_NAME}} or {{IMAGES_INFO}}. One typo and the whole thing breaks. Not anymore.
Merge tags are now clickable. Just click the tag you want and it drops right into your email at the cursor. No copying, no pasting, no typos.
- Click a merge tag label in the email composer and it inserts itself instantly
- Works wherever your cursor is in the message
- Eliminates the most common cause of broken personalization in gallery emails
Next time you're drafting a broadcast to your artists, open the email composer and give the new click-to-insert tags a try. It's a small change that saves real frustration.
Galleries Using Square: Several Fixes Worth Knowing About
If your gallery uses Square to sell artwork at shows, this week brought a handful of fixes that address real problems people ran into.
- Artist names now appear in Square item titles. This means staff and buyers can search by artist name in your Square terminal and actually find the work. Before, items were titled without the artist name, so search came up empty.
- Sold-out pieces now mark themselves automatically. When a piece sells, Square will flag it as sold out so it can't be purchased again by mistake. Inventory quantities are now tracked properly too.
- Show names now appear correctly in Square sales reports. Your show will show up as a reporting category in Square, making it much easier to pull clean sales data after the event.
If you run a Square-connected show on EntryThingy, these improvements are already live. Log into your gallery account and check your next show setup to make sure everything looks right.
Artists: A New Guide for After You Get In
Getting accepted is exciting. It's also a little overwhelming. What do you do next? What do you bring? What should you expect?
We published a new blog post this week to answer exactly those questions: What to Do After Getting Accepted Into a Juried Art Show.
It covers:
- What to read and confirm right after you get your acceptance email
- How to prepare your work for the show
- What to bring on the day
- Common mistakes to avoid
If you've got a show coming up — or you're waiting on decisions and want to be ready — give it a read.
That's the week. As always, if something isn't working the way you expect, reach out through the help center and we'll take a look.