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How Pixture Works

Pixture is software for running a photobooth business. Before you set anything up, it helps to know the handful of words the rest of these docs use and how the pieces connect. This page covers them in the order you meet them. For any other word, see the Glossary.

How Pixture fits together. At your venue, the booth: a computer running the Pix Desktop App, with a camera, a printer and a touchscreen, where a guest runs a photo session and leaves with a print and a QR code. Online at pixture.io, the dashboard: booths, Pix Design (templates, UI projects, microsite), events, payments and devices, and the gallery, transactions and health. The dashboard sends designs and prices to the booth, the booth sends back photos, sessions and status, and the guest scans the QR code to open their share page on their phone.

The Three Places​

Everything in Pixture happens in one of three places:

  1. At your venue, the booth: the photobooth guests stand in, with a computer, a camera, a printer and a screen.
  2. Online at pixture.io, the dashboard: where you set up booths, design what guests see, set prices and read your numbers. You can use it from any browser, including your phone.
  3. On the guest's phone, the share page: where each guest downloads their photos after scanning the QR code on the booth.

The dashboard and the booth stay in sync over the internet. Change a price or a design in the dashboard and the booth picks it up by itself; take a photo at the booth and it appears in the dashboard.

At Your Venue​

Booth. The photobooth guests use: a computer with a touchscreen, a camera and usually a printer, in whatever cabinet, box or stand you built or bought, where guests take photos of themselves and walk away with prints and digital copies. Each booth also has its own page in the dashboard (below), so "booth" means the same thing in both places.

Computer. The Mac or Windows PC inside the booth. One computer runs one booth. Pixture's paid plan, Pix Pro, is bought per computer; the dashboard also calls a computer a device.

Pix Desktop App. The Pixture app you install on the booth computer. It runs the screens guests touch, drives the camera and printer, and talks to the dashboard. See Install the Pix Desktop App.

Camera and printer. A camera body on USB, or a webcam, and a photo printer. See Supported Cameras and Supported Printers.

Photo session. One guest's (or group's) turn at the booth: start, pay, pick a template, take the photos, choose a filter, then print and share. Sessions are what the dashboard counts and what you charge for.

Operator menu. The booth's hidden staff menu, opened by tapping the top-right corner twice. Camera, printer and payment hardware settings live there, locked with a Menu PIN. See Operator Menu.

In the Dashboard​

Dashboard. Pixture's web app at pixture.io, where you run the business. See Know Your Way Around the Dashboard.

The booth's page. Every booth has a page in the dashboard, under Booths, with its templates, screen design, prices, settings and history. You connect the booth's computer to it once, with a 6-digit pairing code, and from then on everything you set there reaches that booth. See Pair Your First Booth.

Pix Design. The design studio inside the dashboard. It holds everything guests see:

  • Template: the print layout, a design with photo slots that the guest's photos are placed into. It becomes the printed photo and the picture on the share page. Made in the Template Editor.
  • UI project: the booth's screen design, every screen the guest touches, from the Start screen to Sharing. Made in the UI Editor.
  • Microsite: the look of the guest's share page, your logo, colours and buttons.
  • Filters and overlays: colour looks guests can choose, and artwork drawn over GIFs and videos.

Event. A dated job, such as a wedding or a launch, with its own booths, templates, look and prices, and an album for your client. See Events.

Payment gateway. Your own merchant account (DOKU in Indonesia, Stripe elsewhere) that lets guests pay at the booth. Pixture never holds the money. See Create a Payment Gateway.

Devices. The page where you put Pix Pro on your computers. See Plans & Pricing.

On the Guest's Phone​

Share page. The page that opens when a guest scans the QR code on the booth's Sharing screen. It holds their finished photo, the single shots, the GIF and the live photo, each with a download button. Microsite is the name for the share page's design, which you set in Pix Design.

Album. For events: one public page with every photo from the event, for your client to share with their guests.

Words That Sound Alike​

These wordsThe difference
Booth, photoboothThe same thing: the machine guests use at your venue. Its settings live on the booth's page in the dashboard
Computer, deviceThe same thing: the PC inside a booth. The Devices page calls it a device
Template, UI projectA template is what gets printed; a UI project is what the screen shows
Share page, microsite, albumThe share page is one guest's photos; the microsite is how every share page looks; the album is every photo of an event
Pixture, PixPixture is the company and the dashboard; Pix names its products: Pix Desktop App, Pix Design, Pix Pro, Pix Starter, Pix AI

Where Things Are Set​

You want to changeWhere
Prices, packages, which templates a booth offersDashboard, the booth's page
What the print looks likeDashboard, Pix Design > Template Editor
What the booth screens look likeDashboard, Pix Design > UI Editor
What the guest's share page looks likeDashboard, Pix Design > Microsite
Camera exposure, printer, coin or card readerAt the booth, operator menu
Pix Pro on a computerDashboard, Devices

Next Steps​

  • Getting Started, the fifteen-minute path to your first photo session
  • Use Cases, how Pixture fits a self-service booth, event rentals, a multi-booth studio or a pop-up
  • Glossary, every other word, A to Z