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Share event photos with an album page

Upload photos per event, publish them on a dedicated album page and share one link or QR code with families — fast on every phone, without accounts or access requests.

Sharing photos after an event often happens through a Drive folder in an email. That works, but poorly: 15 MB originals on campsite Wi-Fi, "can I get access?" requests, and a browser that freezes the moment someone wants to download everything.

That's why every event in Buchung now has its own album page.

Creating and filling albums#

On your event you'll find Updates → Albums in the menu. With New album you create an album and drag your photos in — anywhere on the page.

  • JPG, PNG, HEIC and video, up to 1 GB per file.
  • Hundreds of photos a day is no problem. The upload keeps moving steadily; keep the page open until everything is uploaded, after that processing continues automatically.
  • If a file fails, you'll see it as a separate row and can retry it. Nothing disappears silently.

Inside the album you can then hide photos, pick a cover photo, sort by the moment a photo was taken, and download individual photos or a selection.

Publishing and sharing#

An album starts out as Hidden. Click Publish and the album gets a public page on your booking website. Via Share you copy the link or show a QR code.

The page is built to work for families without any explanation:

  • Fast on every phone. The page opens instantly, even with hundreds of photos and on slow Wi-Fi. Everyone gets the size that fits their screen — nobody downloads originals without asking for them.
  • Download everything with one button, as a single zip file.
  • No account needed. One long, unguessable link is the access. Hide the album, and the page is gone immediately.

And because these are often photos of children:

  • The page is not indexed by Google and shows no photos in link previews in, for example, WhatsApp.
  • Location data that cameras store in photos is never shown.

You can include the album link as a variable in your email templates. That way it goes into your standard email after the event, without having to paste a link per event.

See whether people are looking#

Per album you see the number of views and unique visitors over the past 30 days. So you know whether your album is reaching the families — without cookies or cookie banners on the page.

This is version one#

We're building the albums out over the summer based on your feedback. On the list, among other things: automatically adding your logo as a watermark on shared photos, cleaning up file names, and enhancing photos. If you're missing something or run into anything: let us know.