Overview
Businesses are the foundation of how Image Edits manages access. A Business controls who can do what, which team members can access shared work, and how users interact across Client, Editor, and Image Edits workflows.
The business model exists so teams do not need to share one login. Each team member can have their own user account while still working under the same Business.
Business Types
Client Businesses:
- Client Businesses are the most common type, consisting of photographers creating orders for content to be edited by Image Edits.
- Specific Client Business Features:
- Style preferences: Applied at the business level, this is a rich text area with images where you can input common style preferences for specific services. These can be selected during order creation to apply to the order notes.
- All team members can access and share these style preferences.
- Logo Management: This feature is in its early stages. You'll be able to upload logos of your relevant agency clients, which can be used for image watermarks and selected during floorplan order creation.
- Payment Systems:
- We've always offered per-order payments and monthly invoices, but we now have a new payment system via wallet/credit balance.
- Wallet Payment System: This is our recommended system for client businesses. Instead of paying per order, you can add credit to your wallet balance. This reduces multiple transactions and allows team members to use the business wallet balance when creating orders, eliminating the need for individual payments or company card use.
- Style preferences: Applied at the business level, this is a rich text area with images where you can input common style preferences for specific services. These can be selected during order creation to apply to the order notes.
Image Edits / Platform Business:
- Image Edits Platform Users can access internal operational features for support, billing, production, and platform management.
- These internal tools are not covered in detail in the user guides.
Editor Businesses:
- Editor businesses comprise editing teams that work on all jobs. These include both internal Image Edits teams (separated by style for organization and consistency) and third-party editors we rely on for typically cheaper services. Services using third-party editors will be indicated by tags on the service you're selecting.
- Editor Services:
- This system manages which editor businesses and users have the skill set for specific services.
- Editor businesses must be approved by Image Edits to perform specific services. We regularly verify teams to ensure consistent quality.
- This setup allows us to have extra control over third-party editing businesses we rely on.
- We plan to bring on more third-party teams for services we don't plan to build internally yet, such as agent portrait editing and full 3D modeling.
Future Business Types:
- Future workflows may support a Client's own customers, such as real estate agencies or agents that need access to delivered content.
- Those workflows are not part of the main Image Edits Client/Editor order flow yet.