New version of Photo Kiosk is available now - v7.0. In addition to the release, we have reworked our website, so you are welcome to learn more about new version here:

http://photokiosk.aurigma.com/

Note, now we brand it under the name of Pixlpark rather than Aurigma. Pixlpark is used for our products created for photo print business, while Aurigma is used for our file upload SDKs.

Let's see what Pixlpark Photo Kiosk offers comparing to the previous versions.

Payment workflow support

The common issue is how to organize payment process on the kiosk. Now Photo Kiosk offers the following approach:

1. When the user places the order, Photo Kiosk displays the Order ID.
2. To proceed with the order, the user prints a receipt with the Order ID or writes it down.
3. Then the user goes to the cashier and gives him/her this Order ID.
4. To confirm the payment, the cashier uses special Payment Confirmation Tool (supplied with Photo Kiosk) to get a Confirmation Code.
5. The user enters the Confirmation Code to the Photo Kiosk to confirm that the order is paid.

This workflow can be used for instant print or CD/DVD burning features. 

Flexible price configuration

Now you can configure prices more flexible. In particular:

• You can set the minimum accepted price (the order won't be accepted unless the user orders items for this price or higher). 
• You can configure a sales tax.
• You can set different prices for instant and minilab print.
• You can set different prices for different quanitities (volume discounts).
• You can configure additional services, e.g. additional image processing, etc. 

Improved Photo Order Process

We have improved the photo order process:

• If the photo is too small to be printed with a specific size, Photo Kiosk will warn the user.
• If an image is not JPEG, Photo Kiosk can automatically convert it to JPEG.
• If a photo aspect ratio does not match to a print size, the user can select a print area.

Advanced Order Management for Minilabs

In addition to old Order Manager feature which allowed renaming photos in the order to contain the order details (file and folder names), now Photo Kiosk has additional options:

• Generate human-readable HTML document with the order details.
• Generate DPOF file for each order to print photos in minilabs automatically (for those minilabs which support DPOF).

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Feel free to download the new version and check out new features yourself: 

http://photokiosk.aurigma.com/Try.aspx

If you are interested to upgrade or have any other questions, feel free to email at info@pixlpark.com. 

Today we released new version of Photo Kiosk. The new Photo Kiosk brings several significant features.

Almost all of us were in the situation when you were on vacation far away from your home and your flash card in your camera was full. The only solution would be to burn images from the card to a disk. Now Photo Kiosk supports this feature, you can let your customers to insert a flash card to a kiosk and burn images to CD/DVD disk.

Also Photo Kiosk supports fulfilling orders on a photo printer connected to your kiosk. You just specify a printer name in settings of Photo Kiosk and you have ready to use photo solution.

The full list of improvements can be found on the What's new page.

We released the first version of Photo Kiosk more than a year ago. A lot of people took an interest in this software; we got numerous requests and references for the Photo Kiosk. Thank you all who contacted us and gave feedback. It is always very important to know what functionality you need and what to add into a product to meet your requirements.

We position our software as a solution allowing photo retailers to get orders from clients in “full automatic mode”. It means that customers do not need someone to order prints, they do it by themselves. As different photo retailers have different process to fulfill printing orders and different requirements for the software serving prints ordering, we put feature requests all together and choose the most important ones. After the first version we decided to advance Photo Kiosk in the following directions:

1. Make it easier in configuring and administrating.
2. Add some important for photo retailers features.
3. Make it more stable and fast.

And here is what we did in new Photo Kiosk:

• Support of Bluetooth to receive photos. Yes, everybody knows that cameras on cell phones become better and better. And some of clients want to print photos made from phones. Almost every phone has Bluetooth today, everybody uses headsets. Thus the most convenient way to get photos from phones is to get them via Bluetooth. Now Photo Kiosk is ready to do it.
• Possibility to make color corrections of photos before order them: brightness, contrast, and auto fix.
• Easy configurable crop.
• Customization of Photo Kiosk interface. Now you can customize user interface of the kiosk in accordance to your firm style, or display some advertising if you need.
• Red-eye removal tool in the Photo Kiosk. Now your customers can remove red-eye effect on their photos before order them.
• New Photo Kiosk became faster. Now it loads photos from devices and edit them extremely fast.
• ...and some other improvements.

Here are some screenshots of new Photo Kiosk: