How-To5 min read13 August 2026

Everyone Gallery Link vs Face-Match Delivery: When to Use Which

Not every guest wants to register their face, and not every event needs private per-guest galleries. Picsora gives you both options on the same event - here's how to combine them well.

Not every guest wants to take a selfie

Face-match delivery - scan a QR code, take a selfie, get your private gallery - is the fastest way for most guests to get exactly their own photos and nothing else. But some guests skip it: an elderly relative who's uneasy with face registration, someone who just wants to scroll through everything from the event, or a guest who wants to grab photos of the whole group rather than only themselves. Picsora doesn't force everyone through the same door.

The Everyone Gallery Link

Alongside the personal, face-matched delivery, every event gets a second shareable link that shows the entire event's photos with no selfie or face match required at all.

  • Opens directly to the full event gallery - every uploaded photo, watermarked the same as face-matched delivery
  • No face registration step, so it works for guests who'd rather not register at all
  • Can be optionally PIN-protected, so it isn't a fully open link if you'd rather keep it to invited guests only
  • Shareable as its own link, separate from the personal QR/selfie flow

Face-match vs Everyone Gallery - the actual tradeoff

Neither one is strictly better - they solve different problems:

  • Face-match delivery: a private gallery containing only that guest's photos, takes a 10-second selfie to unlock, best when guests want to find themselves without scrolling through hundreds of other people's photos
  • Everyone Gallery Link: zero setup for the guest, shows every photo from the event, best for a shared family-album feel, group shares, or as a fallback for guests who skipped face registration

Pre-Join Notify: closing the loop for early guests

A common gap in any live event workflow: a guest registers their face at the venue before you've uploaded a single photo, then has no reason to check back later. Pre-Join Notify solves this automatically - guests who joined before photos were uploaded get flagged in your dashboard, and one click WhatsApp-notifies every one of them the moment photos are ready. No guest has to remember to come back, and you stop fielding 'are the photos up yet?' messages.

Combining all three for the smoothest event

A pattern that works well for most events: put the QR code out early so guests register their faces as they arrive, share the Everyone Gallery link (optionally PIN-protected) in the invitation or WhatsApp group as a no-friction backup for anyone who'd rather skip the selfie, then flip on Pre-Join Notify once your upload finishes so every early guest gets pinged automatically instead of having to ask.

Where to turn these on

Both the Everyone Gallery Link and Pre-Join Notify live in your event settings in the admin dashboard, alongside the event's main QR code and share link - no separate setup flow, and both apply to any event you create.

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