Based on feedback we’ve gotten from our customers, wanting more control over email notification to users, we’ve built in an easy way for people to send files directly to a specific user of a PixtaSynapse account.

In the past, email notifications would have to the account holder and any users they delegated to received messages.   This was sort of a shotgun blast of emails excluding no one.  We’ve refined this so that now customers can upload files, and notes, to a specific user within the account group.  Sending notifications specifically to those who need to receive the file.

Assuming that you’ve already setup some users of PixtaSynapse within your account,  here’s how to enable this feature:

Sign-in to your PixtaSynapse account and goto users.

Click on Account Settings -> Users

Click the checkbox: “Visible on the public upload page?”

Enable visibility for a user Dropbox

Click on the “update” button.

Now when someone goes to your Dropbox to send you files, on the 2nd step/pane, they’ll see a pop-up menu of all visible users you’ve enabled.   When your customer selects a user to send to, they will be sending an email notification to that user when the file transfer is complete.  The owner of the PixtaSynapse account will also receive an email as a carbon copy.

How to send a file to a specific employee at your company

Why is this useful?

Because, now, the specific user of your account will receive the notification first.  For example,  when people upload files for GiantPicture, they send then to Josh, who is the Production Manager.  Since the file is now being sent directly to Josh,  he will receive an email right after the file arrives, as well as the account holder (as a backup).

The backup is helpful if a customer sends a file directly to Josh who happens to be out-of-the-office, or on vacation not reading email.  Since PixtaSynase automatically delivers upload notification email to the account holder as well, you’ll still have a chain of response to act on the inbound file, without files dropping into the ether.

Today we updated our old, tired, PDF renderer.  Our new renderer is really fast, color accurate and renders very nice looking thumbnails.  It’s a nice improvement in both speed and quality.

My daughter’s elementary school has grades from kindergarten to 5th grade. Yesterday I picked my daughter up from school. While there I overheard a group of boys talking to one another about networks, and access points. They had me at network.

I moved a bit closer to eavesdrop: One boy said to the others, “you need to have the access point setup in a common area, our is a G type and we keep it in our living room.” He was waving his hands at one of the boys has he talked almost yelling with excitement, “The signal goes through the walls and it gets weaker you need to be as close as possible.” Another boy rattled off, “sometimes I get a great wireless signal from one of my neighbors house that not encrypted it’s pretty fast.” They started walking away, sheese.

These kids were smart and having fun playing with technology. They’re growing up in a world surrounded by mobile phones, networks and instant information. They don’t fear it, rather they embrace especially if it’s easy to use and serves their purpose of having fun; it’s impressive.

Even us kids that have left 5th grade far in our wake want technology to be easy to use. At Pixta we work hard to ease the complex technical details of:  securely transferring a file, workflow and web-based purchasing.

You don’t need to know the details of an engine to drive a car, nor should you need to know about complexities of FTP, different OS’s, security protocols, virus protection etc.

Our job is to make technology easy to use so you can get your business done as efficiently as possible.