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FOCL - Wedding Day Copilot

The wedding-day app: the Brief, timeline, people and your team.

Basics

How FOCL worksOne wedding at a time, built on the desktop and carried on your phone. What a wedding holds and which surface does what.Getting around on desktop and phoneWhat is in the desktop sidebar, what is in the phone's bottom bar, and how to get back to the Dashboard.The DashboardYour next wedding, today's tasks, upcoming weddings and season stats. How the cover photo and the weather strip work.

Weddings

Create a weddingTwo ways to start: upload the couple's paperwork and let FOCL fill the wedding in, or enter the names, date and venues yourself.Manage your weddingsThe Weddings list, filters and sorting. Where to rename a wedding or change its date and venues, and how to delete one.

The Brief

The BriefThe wedding's home page: its tabs, the Overview and its setup checklist, and how to reorder the Quick Access tiles on a phone.Family Photos vs. Shot ListFamily Photos is the posed-group list you tick off on the day. Shot List is your detail and creative shots in sections. How each one works.TimelineThe running order of the day with photo moments flagged. Add and import events, handle running late on the phone, and what happens when the date changes.Venues, weather and sunset timesAdd venues with a real address to get the map pin, weather and golden hour. Why the first venue matters, and how the Suntracker works.PDFs and sharing with your teamDownload the Wedding Brief, Family Photos and Timeline PDFs, and give a second shooter or editor access to a wedding.History: restore deleted shots and eventsHistory shows what changed and lets you restore deleted shots and timeline events. It is not a version history.Import from documentsThe three places FOCL reads paperwork: the timeline, the family photo list, and the New Wedding wizard. What file types work.

People & portal

PeopleThe roster of everyone you will photograph. Add or import people, mark VIPs and the wedding party, and fix placeholder names from an import.The Couple PortalA private link where the couple fills in people, family photos, timeline and vendors. Nothing reaches your brief until you approve it.Your teamPut a second shooter, assistant or editor into specific weddings. Seats, roles, inviting, and what it looks like when you are on someone else's team.

On the day

Using FOCL without signalOpen the app while you still have signal and every wedding is saved to the phone. What works offline, what does not, and the one limit to know.Get the Brief on your phoneInstall the FOCL app and sign in with the same email. Everything is already there. Nothing to export or transfer.

Account

Account settingsYour name and studio name, profile photo, couple portal display name, appearance, temperature units, notifications, data export, account deletion, and password reset.Plans, billing and the Free planOne FOCL subscription covers the wedding-day app and your galleries: Free, Essentials, Studio or Pro. What Free limits in the app, and where to manage or cancel.Connect ChatGPT or Claude to FOCLSettings → Integrations lets an outside AI assistant read and edit your weddings. How to connect each one, and the limits to know first.Get help from a personSettings → Support is the Support Center. How to file a request, what the statuses mean, and where the reply arrives.Tours and tutorialsNew accounts see a welcome walkthrough, an install prompt and pointers in the Brief. They cannot be replayed, with one exception.

FAQ

Frequently asked questionsLocked weddings, passwords, cancelling, missing weather or sunset times, duplicating a wedding, undoing edits, the shot list PDF, and rejected portal items.