Switching from Pic-Time to CoreHue
Pic-Time is known for beautiful galleries and automated print sales. CoreHue delivers galleries too, and ties them to booking, contracts and invoices. The whole client experience sits under one brand.
The honest headline first: CoreHue has no print store. If sales automation is central to your income, read the last section on this page before you go any further.
What things are called
| In Pic-Time | In CoreHue | The difference |
|---|---|---|
| Gallery | Gallery | Same word, same idea |
| Folder inside a gallery | Chapter | Same idea. Every gallery starts with one called Featured, and a chapter can carry a description that shows above its photos |
| Favorites | Collections | Clients star photos into named lists and send them to you. You can also create a list yourself, addressed to one email, with a limit and a brief |
| Theme, gallery design | Layout tab | 14 cover layouts, 14 typography sets, 9 color sets and two grid controls. You see each change as you make it |
| Gallery password, email registration | Gallery password, Email registration | Same two gates. CoreHue adds Client access, a second private password for the person the photos belong to |
| Slideshow | Slideshow | In CoreHue it plays the chapter being viewed, not the whole gallery |
| Digital download | Downloads | You choose which sizes clients get, turn downloads off for individual chapters, and a four-digit PIN is on by default |
| Store, sales automation | Nothing | CoreHue has no print store, cart, lab integration or sales campaigns |
| Client's email campaigns | Messages and reminders | Real conversations and automatic chasing, not marketing sequences |
What to bring across
Your galleries. Download the originals from the galleries you still need, then create a new gallery and upload them. Export as JPEG: CoreHue accepts JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and GIF, up to 50 MB a photo. Folders become chapters, so upload one chapter at a time and the structure comes with you.
Move what's live. Leave the rest.
Your clients. There's no spreadsheet import. Add the ones you're actively working with in Contacts, and let everyone else arrive as they book, send an inquiry or fill in an intake form.
Your prices. Enter them once as Items. Invoice lines take their names from that catalogue.
Your wording. Contract text goes into a contract template with variables in place of the blanks. Questionnaires get rebuilt in the questionnaire builder.
Set these up first
- Business name, logo and details in Settings → Business.
- Your default currency in Settings → Profile. It's permanent.
- Connect Stripe, so clients can pay by card.
- One booking service, with a real price.
- Your availability, and Google Calendar.
Your first week
Day 1. Finish setup and the five things above. Take the tour of the app.
Day 2. Rebuild one recent gallery: upload, split into chapters, then design it and set the cover's focal point.
Day 3. Work through its Settings tabs: Sharing, Access, Downloads and Collections. Decide now whether the download PIN stays on, because it is on until you turn it off.
Day 4. Publish it, share it with yourself, and open the link in a private window to see the client's view.
Day 5. Set up your invoicing: adapt a contract template, add your Items, and send yourself an invoice you actually pay.
Then. Deliver your next job through CoreHue from the start.
What Pic-Time does that CoreHue doesn't
Print sales. There is no store, no cart, no lab integration and no sales automation in CoreHue. Clients can't buy anything from a gallery.
What CoreHue gives you instead is the invoice side. When someone wants prints, you raise an invoice and order through your own lab. That works, and it's more work than an automated store.
If print revenue matters to you, keep a dedicated print-sales tool alongside CoreHue rather than expecting one to replace the other. See What CoreHue doesn't do.