What clients see

Goal: a brief, non-authoritative overview of the client delivery experience, so you know what you're sending before you share it.

This page is an overview, not a full reference for the client side of FrameCourier. It exists so companies can see, at a glance, what their clients will encounter.

Getting in: client login

A client doesn't sign up on their own. You invite a client user by email from Clients → [Client] → Client Users; they receive an invite email with a link (valid for 14 days) to set up their own password. See Client users & invites for the full invite flow.

Galleries and video collections

Once logged in, a client only sees galleries and video collections that belong to their client record and have been published — anything still in Draft is invisible to them, exactly as if it didn't exist yet. See Publish & client access and Publish & downloads.

For a gallery, the top of the page shows any cover hero image and welcome message you've set — a banner and a short intro above the photo grid.

Downloads

If downloads are enabled, clients can download individual photos or videos, or use Download All to get a zip of an entire gallery. If you've disabled downloads for a gallery or collection, download buttons simply don't appear for the client — see Downloads & zipping.

Proofing photos

On a gallery, clients can star favorite photos and leave comments directly on individual photos as part of proofing — useful for collecting selections before a final edit. See Photo proofing for the full picture.

Commenting on videos

On a video's page, clients can leave a comment at an exact moment in playback — the video pauses and captures the timestamp when they focus the comment box, so feedback like "fix the color here" is tied to the exact frame it's about. See Timestamped comments.

Sharing their own links

From a gallery's page, a client can also create their own shortlinks under a Share This Gallery section — useful if they want to forward a preview to someone else without giving out their own login. These behave like any other shortlink (their own expiry, password, and download options) and clients can only delete links they created themselves. See Public shortlinks.

If you'd rather not give someone a login at all, a shortlink you create yourself covers most of the same ground — viewing, downloading, and (for photos) proofing — without requiring an account. See Public shortlinks.

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