We ship features continuously, and it is easy for a genuinely useful one to go unnoticed if you are not actively watching the changelog. Here are four of the more significant additions to FrameCourier recently, each aimed at a specific, common friction point in running a photo or video studio.
Client asset upload links: getting files from clients without a login
Every studio eventually runs into the same small problem: someone needs to send you a file, a logo, a brand guide, a reference document, and they do not have a portal account and should not need one. A venue coordinator, a second shooter, someone on the client's marketing team. FrameCourier's client upload link solves this directly. From any client's page, you can enable a permanent, no-login upload link, share it as a URL or a scannable QR code, and anyone with the link can drag and drop files straight into that client's Client Assets, no account required.
The person on the other end enters their name once, uploads as many files as they need at up to 35GB each, and can add a short description to each one. Everything they send lands in your Client Assets list automatically categorized, tagged with who sent it, and you get a notification the moment a batch comes in. If a link ever goes to the wrong person, regenerating it breaks the old one immediately without affecting anything else.
Contracts now cover the paper fallback too
FrameCourier's contract builder already generated agreements, collected e-signatures through a branded signing link, and exported PDFs. The more recent addition closes a gap that comes up more often than you'd expect: not every signer wants to sign on a screen. The signing link now offers a Download PDF to print and sign by hand option directly alongside the e-signature flow, so a client who prefers pen and paper is never blocked.
If a contract does get signed on paper, you can record that on the contract's edit page with a Mark signed on paper action, which freezes the agreed terms exactly the way an e-signature does and lets you attach a scanned copy for your records. Either path, digital or paper, ends up in the same place: a contract with a clear signed status and a document you can produce on demand.
Time tracking that rolls up by client, project, and person
If you manage even a small team, knowing where hours actually went is harder than it should be without a dedicated system. FrameCourier now includes time tracking built directly into tasks: anyone on your team can log hours against a task with an optional note, and every entry is kept individually rather than collapsed into a single running total, so you always have a real log of when work happened.
That logged time rolls up automatically everywhere it is useful: a project's total hours broken down by team member, a client's total across every task tied to them, and a dedicated Time Report that totals hours by client, project, or person over any date range, exportable to CSV. If a task is visible to a client, they see the total hours logged without the internal detail of who logged what, keeping the reporting client-appropriate without extra setup on your part.
Client news monitoring, with AI doing the reading
Staying aware of what is happening with a client's business, a new location opening, a local award, a leadership change, has traditionally meant remembering to go search for it yourself, which in practice means it rarely happens consistently. FrameCourier now monitors Google News automatically for each client's business name and location, refreshing overnight and surfacing the most recent relevant headlines right on their client page. It is entirely internal; nothing here is ever shown to the client or appears in their portal.
Pin a headline that actually matters and it survives the nightly refresh instead of scrolling away, and FrameCourier queues a short AI summary of what the headline is likely about so you do not have to click through everything to get the gist. Pinned headlines and their summaries also feed directly into project-level Ask Milo, so you can ask Milo what is going on with a client in the news without leaving the project you are working in. New clients are monitored automatically from the moment you add them, as long as they have a city and state on file.
How FrameCourier Can Help
All four of these are available now: turn on client upload links from any client's page, enable Contracts from Settings if you haven't already, start logging time on any task, and let Client News monitoring run automatically for every client you add. No credit card required to start.