YearbookFusion is a suite of tools that streamline the creation and production of yearbooks. The online and installed tools are designed to be rebranded and distributed to schools by publishers. Online and installed licenses are available.
New Features for 2015!
YearbookFusion 2014/2015 – Online Overview
The online package allows you to manage your yearbook ladder, flow panels, manage portraits, edit pages and collaborate in a team with the simplicity of visiting a website. No installed software is required!
Page Ladder
The new ‘ladder’ view gives you a bird’s eye view of your yearbook, allowing you to easily add, re-order and assign sections to your team. See who is working on what in real-time and manage progress by marking the status of individual sections.
Online Portrait Management
Importing your portraits from a PSPA CD has never been easier. Manage and correct information online, then automatically flow your portrait pages with a few clicks of a button.
Online Portrait Pages (Panel Flows)
Our new portrait wizard takes the heavy lifting out of panel design. Tweak your selection and design options, pick a template and instantly preview the results. Like the style? Re-use it again and again for your next design!
User Management
Design and collaborate as a team. Yearbook staff can assign sections to students or restrict access to features such as page re-ordering or deletion.
Other great new features!
YearbookFusion Overview
Business Advantages:
Download videos for offline use:
Videos demonstrating the use of YearbookFusion to a prospect school:
You can browse the gallery below or download all the screengrabs by clicking here.
Publishers can purchase remote storage licenses online by clicking here.
YearbookFusion is sold directly to publishers (printing companies and photo studios). Publishers allocate 1-year expiring licenses on a per school basis. We offer discounts for volume, smaller schools and in-house (as opposed to in-school) use.
Starting this fall, the YearbookFusion license purchasing method will be simplified to a new credit system. This will include a new set of tools to easily convert license types, perform cancellations and top-up your account via the online license manager (RepAdmin). Publishers will no longer need to pre-assess the exact number, size and type of schools requiring licenses, since allocations are deducted from a credit pool.
For existing publishers, your current license balance will be converted to the equivalent set credit rate. Complete details will be released in the coming month.
Note: LumaPix does not sell individual yearbook licenses directly to schools, nor do we provide printing services. If you are a member of a school or other organization in need of a software solution and possibly printing services, we can help match you with one of our existing yearbook publishing companies. For more info, please contact us by email at the address below, and provide information on your location and your printing service needs.
Ordering:
We recommend consulting our section on YearbookFusion Customization.
YearbookFusion communicates directly with your FTP server, allowing schools to submit finished projects directly to you.
The YearbookFusion order form includes the following fields. These will be used by all installed licenses of YearbookFusion that are associated with your RepID:
FotoFusion can communicate with your server to alert you of imminent and successful uploads. Click here to find out more about server pinging.
Rep Associations – Overview
Publishers (“reps”) can distribute their customized version of YearbookFusion by providing users with a ‘repID’ download link. This downloads a free trial of YearbookFusion, with a publisher’s branding and custom settings, and works on a Mac or PC. If the customer has purchased a license, then they can activate the software (convert it to a full license) immediately; if not, they can leave FotoFusion running in trial mode (e.g. for evaluation purposes).
The ‘repid’ download link places a branded/customized version of YearbookFusion on the user’s computer. The branding and customization settings are configured in Rep Admin – a self-serve online license administration tool provided by LumaPix (for Publisher use).
A customized install of YearbookFusion includes:
Free Trials:
Reps can choose to give out free trials of YearbookFusion to prospects before allocating a license to them. This is a useful sales tool as it allows prospects to evaluate the software prior to making a commitment.
YearbookFusion will by default run in free trial mode, which watermarks all output, disables saving projects, uploads and archiving support. Once a license is allocated and the software is activated, these limitations disappear. Reps also have the option of making their FotoFusion installations insist on activation at first run (e.g. their software can’t run as free trials).
Getting your Download Link:
To get this rep-specific link,
Tips on distributing YearbookFusion:
#1: Use your repID link:
Reps should NOT simply tell their prospects to download the software from the LumaPix website – they should tell prospects to download from their ‘repID’ download link. This tags the installer with Rep branding and custom settings. Use that link in your web site, email blasts, and other places where you instruct schools on downloading and installing their software.
#2: Don’t distribute older versions
In some cases, you may want to do a CD distribution of the software to prospects. This is OK if you keep your inventory levels as low as possible, but stock up and you’ll soon be distributing older versions of the software, as updates are released regularly. We recommend using the repID download link, which always installs the latest version of YearbookFusion.
#3: Activate users as soon as possible:
Until the software is activated, it runs in a limited trial mode which prevents local and cloud based saving. We recommend activating users as soon as possible, to prevent them not being able to save their work.
Customization Overview:
YearbookFusion is designed for ease of distribution to schools by publishers. It offers several opportunities for customization:
Form Downloads:
Branding:
The order form asks you to submit the following:
Templates:
Your customers (and only your customers) can access templates that you have asked LumaPix to publish. Templates can include:
Clip Art:
Custom a