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Managing customers

Your customers are the clients you deliver galleries to. They’re a separate kind of account from your team members — a customer only ever sees their own galleries, never your admin tools.

You manage them under Customers in the admin sidebar (workspace admins and team members can both manage customers).

  1. On Customers, click Add customer.
  2. Enter their email (required), and optionally a name, phone, and notes.
  3. Save. Tobren emails them an invite link, and shows you the same link to copy and share directly if you prefer.

The customer accepts by signing in — Google, Apple, or a password — as the invited address, then sees only the galleries you’ve shared with them. See Invites & status below for exactly what that looks like.

Customers are unlimited on every plan — add as many as you like. Your client roster never affects your bill; what’s metered is storage and egress. See Pricing & overages.

Click the edit (pencil) icon on a customer’s row to update their name, email, phone, notes, and billing / shipping addresses (with a “same as billing” shortcut). Addresses are used on their receipts.

  • A customer shows as Pending until they’ve signed in for the first time, then Active.
  • There’s no code to type. The invite link is matched to the address it was sent to, by whichever account is signed in when they open it:
    • Already signed in as that address (elsewhere in Tobren, say) — one click accepts.
    • No account yet for that address — sign in with Google, Apple, or a password, and the invitation is offered right after.
    • Signed in as someone else — the page shows both addresses and offers to sign out, so they can sign back in as the one invited.
  • If your workspace uses its own SMTP server (Custom sender email), the invite just arrives from your address instead of Tobren’s — nothing else about accepting it changes.
  • Use Resend invite on their row to send a fresh link if the first one was missed or expired.
  • The activity drilldown (the chevron on a row) shows that customer’s recent events — invites, gallery views, downloads, and purchases.

Click the trash icon on a customer’s row. A confirmation window opens and tells you exactly what will be affected before anything happens:

  • How many shoots and photos belong only to this customer, versus
  • How many shoots are shared with other customers (those are always left untouched).

By default, removing a customer:

  • Revokes their access immediately (they can no longer open any gallery).
  • Keeps all of their shoots and photos — nothing is deleted.
  • Preserves their order and payment history, always. Removing a customer never touches your billing records.

If you also want to clean up, tick “Also delete these shoots & photos” in the window. That deletes the shoots that belong only to this customer (their photos are removed; any shoot with completed purchases is archived to a PDF first) and frees those shoots against your plan’s active-shoot count. Shoots shared with other customers are never deleted. Leave the box unticked to keep everything.