====== Client Dashboard ======

Every gallery has a client dashboard: a separate page you send to the client
where they can manage their own gallery. It saves you being the middleman for
photo removals and hosting renewals.

===== What clients can do =====

  * **View the gallery** as their guests see it
  * **Request photo removals** — flag a photo they want taken down
  * **Change the gallery PIN**
  * **Renew hosting** when the gallery approaches expiry

===== How clients get in =====

The dashboard is reached by a single long link containing a unique key. There
is no username, no password, and no login screen. The client opens the link
and they're in.

This is deliberate — clients open it on a phone, months later, without having
to remember anything.

> ⚠️ **The link is the key.** Anyone who has it can open the dashboard,
> change the PIN, and submit removal requests. Treat it the way you'd treat a
> password.

==== Sending it safely ====

  * Send it to the client directly — email or text to the person paying you
  * Send it **separately** from the guest gallery link, in its own message
  * Say plainly that it's private and shouldn't be forwarded

The failure mode to avoid is pasting the dashboard link into a group chat or
a wedding-party thread. Once it's in a group message it will get forwarded,
and every one of those people can then change the PIN.

> ⚠️ **Never print the dashboard link on signage or a QR code at the booth.**
> That's the guest gallery link. They are not interchangeable.

===== Photo removal requests =====

Clients flag photos they want removed rather than deleting them outright.

Requests come to you to action. That means an unhappy guest can't quietly
strip photos out of a gallery the client paid for, and you keep a record of
what was asked for.

When you get a removal request, handle it quickly. These are almost always
someone who's embarrassed about a photo, and every hour it stays up is worse
for them. Same-day is a reasonable standard to hold yourself to.

===== Changing the PIN =====

Clients can change the gallery PIN from the dashboard.

If a client changes it mid-event, guests who already have the old PIN will be
locked out. Ask clients not to change it while the event is running.

===== Renewing hosting =====

Galleries expire one year after the event and can be renewed for **$15 per
year, per gallery**. Clients can renew from the dashboard themselves without
going through you.

Send the dashboard link with your final delivery, and mention the one-year
window in the same message. A client who knows about expiry a year ahead will
either renew or download everything. A client who finds out afterward will be
upset with you regardless of who was