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Product Announcements from Crafted Call.

Follow new launches, feature expansions, and product thinking for call for artists software, jury review, exhibitions, gallery websites, email marketing, artwork sales, and more.

Latest update
October 22, 2026
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Gallery teams
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Launches, expansions, quality
Crafted Call calls dashboard showing call statuses, submission counts, deadlines, and quick actions.

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Product announcement

See entry deadlines in the artist cart, drill into payouts, and upload iPhone HEIC photos

The cart shows each entry's deadline, an unpaid entry fee can be comped or invoiced, a payout opens into the transactions behind it, and one-tap surveys arrive after key moments. Photos taken on an iPhone upload and convert straight from the camera roll.

LaunchedArtists

See every entry's deadline right in the cart

Each entry in the cart shows the deadline of the call it belongs to, so an artist paying for several calls at once knows which one closes first. Free drafts left in an abandoned cart are released, so the artist can carry on with them.

LaunchedCall admins

Comp or invoice an abandoned entry fee

When an artist starts an entry but never pays the fee, you can now decide what happens: waive it and let the entry through, or send an invoice for it. Either way the entry stops sitting in limbo.

LaunchedGallery admins

Drill from a payout into the transactions behind it

Open any payout and see the individual sales, entry fees and refunds that make it up, so reconciling a bank deposit against Crafted Call no longer means matching totals by hand.

LaunchedEveryone

One-tap surveys after you submit or publish

After an artist submits an entry, or an organizer publishes a call, a single-question survey appears. One tap answers it and it never comes back for the same moment, so we hear how the experience went without interrupting it.

ExpandedGallery admins

Switch organizations faster

The organization switcher now scrolls, remembers your favorites, and puts the organizations you used most recently at the top. The collapsed admin sidebar also opens a hover flyout, so you can reach any section without expanding it.

QualityArtists

Upload iPhone photos straight from the camera roll

Photos taken on a recent iPhone are saved in HEIC format, and every HEIC variant converts after upload, so an artist can submit straight from the camera roll. Deadline reminder emails send on schedule, and jurors in a later round see only the entries that advanced to it.

Product announcement

Run your gallery in Australia and New Zealand, preview brand themes, and import your Mailchimp audience

Galleries in Australia and New Zealand can run on Crafted Call with GST-aware billing and local conventions. Brand themes show real previews built from your own brand, Mailchimp audiences import intact, and memberships fit galleries that collect dues elsewhere.

LaunchedGalleries in Australia & New Zealand

Crafted Call comes to Australia and New Zealand

Galleries in Australia can now run on Crafted Call end to end: GST is quoted and itemized on submission fees, receipts, and financial reports, you can record your ABN, and dates, times, and printed documents follow Australian conventions, from A4 paper to your local timezone. New Zealand organizations are welcome too, with pricing in New Zealand dollars alongside Australian dollars. Marketing email follows local consent law, with every opt-in kept on record.

LaunchedMarketing teams

Brand themes you can see before you choose

Brand themes now live in the marketing sidebar with real rendered previews built from your own logo, colors, and content, so choosing one is no longer a guess. Open any theme to preview it, apply or edit it right from the preview, and send yourself a test email in that theme before committing. The campaign editor now names the theme it is using, and a set of designer starter themes replaces the older starter collection.

LaunchedMarketing teams

Bring your Mailchimp audience with you

Import the export files Mailchimp gives you and your audience arrives intact: unsubscribed and bounced contacts stay unmailable, signup dates, addresses, and tags all come through, and you can tag everyone in an import and build a segment from that tag in one step. Import now lives where you would look for it, right on Audience & Segments.

ExpandedMembership admins

Memberships for dues you collect elsewhere

Membership standing is a real record rather than a badge. Add a member by hand, create tiers for dues collected outside Crafted Call, and see one consistent answer about who is a current member across the roster, person pages, and call eligibility. Member claim invitations resend clearly and give people invited before they created an account a clear path in.

ExpandedNew gallery admins

A clearer first week for new organizations

New organizations now choose their own starting path: import from another platform, start fresh, or have us set things up together. The getting-started checklist is rebuilt around publishing your first call, and connecting Stripe is only requested when you actually plan to charge for something.

ExpandedGallery admins

One email preview that tells the truth

Editing a notification template now shows a single preview of exactly what a recipient receives, including your unsaved draft, your real branding, and resolved sample details, with a toggle to check it in light and dark mode. Dark-mode legibility got a full pass, so footer text, links, and logos stay readable on every background.

ExpandedCall admins

Decision emails on your schedule

Decision emails can now be scheduled to go out automatically on the notification date you promised artists, instead of only sending immediately, and confirmations covering several works now read naturally.

QualityEveryone

Quality work across the whole platform

Alongside the new features, the weeks since mid-July carried steady polish across submissions, jurying, refunds, currency handling, accessibility, and email delivery, and every refinement now ships with an automated check that keeps it working exactly as designed.

Product announcement

Schedule recurring volunteer shifts, give every volunteer a home, and finish submissions faster

Gallery sitting becomes set-and-forget: schedule repeating volunteer shifts with a default person per role and let volunteers confirm from email. Every volunteer gets their own home in Crafted Call with availability, history and waivers.

LaunchedVolunteer coordinators

Schedule repeating volunteer shifts in one step

Create a repeating opportunity, like gallery sitting every Saturday, with an end date or a set number of dates. Assign a default volunteer per role and every date fills automatically; conflicts are flagged instead of double-booked, and you can hand any single date to someone else without touching the rest. You can also duplicate any existing opportunity and just change the date and time.

LaunchedVolunteer coordinators

Volunteers confirm or decline right from email

Assignment and reminder emails can now carry one-tap buttons: Yes, I'll be there and Can't make it. Confirmations update your roster instantly, declines respect your cancellation window, and a volunteer who can't make it can ask for coverage so someone else can claim the shift. Already-confirmed volunteers get a thank-you instead of being asked again, and organizations that prefer a lighter touch can turn the buttons off in settings.

LaunchedVolunteer coordinators

See volunteer coverage at a glance

The schedule calendar now shades dates that still need volunteers and dates that are fully staffed, with a legend. A needs-attention panel on the volunteer dashboard surfaces unfilled spots, published open hours nobody is covering, unconfirmed assignments, and pending approvals. When you create an opportunity, your organization's open hours appear as suggested time slots you can apply with a click.

LaunchedVolunteers & members

My Volunteering: a home for every volunteer

Volunteers who sign in now have their own Volunteering section: the next shift front and center on their dashboard with confirm and check-in built in, upcoming shifts across every organization they help, a full history with hour totals, and weekly availability they control. Availability powers matching in both directions: volunteers see opportunities that fit their schedule, and coordinators see who fits a shift before assigning it.

LaunchedGallery admins

Volunteer waivers, versioned and enforced

Organizations that need a liability waiver can publish one and require it. Volunteers are prompted to sign at signup, confirmation, or check-in, coordinators see who has signed the current version on the roster, and every signature is kept on record with the exact text that was signed. Off by default; organizations that never turn it on see no change.

ExpandedMarketing teams

Subject suggestions while you write campaigns

The campaign workspace now offers subject line suggestions drawn from your draft's actual content, written in a gallery-editorial voice with no clickbait. Use one with a click or keep typing; suggestions stay out of the way once you have a subject you like.

ExpandedArtists & call admins

A smoother finish for artwork submissions

Artists accept call agreements inline on the Review & Submit step instead of a separate step, and submission confirmation emails match how your call works, with or without jury review.

Product announcement

Build and send email campaigns in one workspace, sync memberships from Little Green Light, and edit calls safely together

A rebuilt campaign workspace takes a campaign from setup to send in one place, with version history and live send progress. Membership standing syncs from Little Green Light, your brand lives in one workspace, and two admins editing the same call never overwrite each other.

LaunchedMarketing teams

Build, review, and send campaigns in one workspace

The rebuilt campaign workspace brings setup, content, audience, preview, and send review together. Use version history to preview or restore an earlier draft, preview the finished email as a chosen recipient, and follow send progress after sending starts.

LaunchedCall admins

Invite an artist after a call closes

Invite one artist to submit after a call closes without reopening the call to everyone. Set the deadline and submission limit, then resend or revoke the private invitation from the call workspace.

LaunchedGallery admins

Manage your brand in one place

The new Brand & Identity workspace brings your logos, colors, typography, display name, tagline, and social links into one place. Preview how the current identity carries into public pages, emails, signup forms, and other gallery surfaces.

ExpandedMembership admins

Sync membership standing from Little Green Light

If Little Green Light is your membership record, choose how its fields map into Crafted Call and sync current membership standing for call eligibility and member pricing. A failed or partial sync does not lapse members.

ExpandedMembership admins

See membership standing and link the right records

People screens now show each person's current membership standing with its source and valid-through details. Admins can connect an unlinked member record to the right Crafted Call account without merging accounts or moving submissions, payments, or other records.

ExpandedCall admins

Recover safely from simultaneous call edits

When another admin saves the same call first, Crafted Call stops the older save instead of overwriting it. Compare the changed fields with your version, copy or download your edits, then keep editing or reload the current call.

Product announcement

Welcome galleries and artists outside the US, print labels on standard label sheets, and add video to your call pages

Crafted Call fits galleries and artists outside the US, with foreign tax IDs, international currencies, phone numbers and addresses. Exhibition labels print onto standard label sheets, your public call pages can carry a video, and blind jurying covers uploaded documents.

LaunchedInternational galleries and artists

Built for galleries and artists beyond the US

Crafted Call now fits organizations outside the United States. Record a foreign tax ID on an artist's file, see amounts formatted for currencies like the euro and Swiss franc, and enter international phone numbers and addresses, including US territories. Tax forms and reminders that only apply to US galleries stay out of your way.

LaunchedExhibition teams

Print labels straight onto label sheets

Match an exhibition label template to a standard label sheet, like the ones from Avery, and your labels lay out to that sheet's exact size and spacing. Print a calibration sheet first to line up your printer, and tell it which label to start on so you can reuse a partly-used sheet.

LaunchedGallery admins

Add a video to your call page

Show artists what your call is about with a video right on its public page, alongside the poster and the details.

LaunchedEvent organizers

Set up a recurring event once

Create an event that repeats across multiple sessions in a single setup, instead of building each date by hand.

ExpandedJury teams

Blind jurying now hides documents too

Redaction for blind jurying now covers uploaded documents, not just the written fields. CVs, statements, and other PDFs are automatically flattened and stripped of identifying details before jurors open them, and you can preview each one first.

ExpandedGallery admins

Hand Frida an image for a record

Attach an image to your chat with Frida and she can put it where it belongs: onto an artwork, a call, or a campaign, without leaving the conversation. Attach a floor plan and she can turn it into a draft gallery space for you to review. Frida does not read what is in a picture, so for a question about a screenshot give her a detail she can look up, such as an amount or a date.

ExpandedGallery admins

Customize the emails a single call sends

Override your gallery's default email templates for one specific call, and revert back to the default whenever you want.