Talk to us
Bring the argument you had about the team photograph
There is no form on this site, no trial to start and nothing to buy. What there is, is a conversation with the people building it, and the useful version starts from the specific fight your school has already had.
Bring one of these
The team photograph you could not use. Or the one you did use and then thought about afterwards. This is the single most common real problem in this band and it is the fastest way for us both to find out whether we are useful to you.
The yearbook adviser’s actual week. Not the job description — the week. Forty-minute periods, a gradebook, twenty-eight editors of varying reliability, and a print deadline. If a system does not survive contact with that, nothing else about it matters.
The parent who asked why their child was not in the gallery. How did you answer? If the answer took you three phone calls to assemble, that is the clearest case for changing anything.
Your roster’s date-of-birth field. How many are blank? It is an unglamorous question and in this band it is load-bearing, because a blank field behaves as under thirteen.
Three things we will say before you ask
One. Your public galleries will be partial, and we will not tell you or anybody else which students were held. If a communications office needs a complete set of faces, this is not that.
Two. Group photographs need every student in them to clear both gates, so a lot of team pictures will not publish. There is no crop-and-blur alternative on offer.
Three. Nothing can be bought today. Live payment is not turned on, so there is no checkout and no price anywhere.
Any of the three is a legitimate reason to stop, and stopping in the first ten minutes is a much better outcome than stopping in November.
What we would need, if it goes further
Your roster, with dates of birth. Everything in this band hangs off that field, which is why the first substantive step is a data conversation rather than a photography one.
Your publication permission as it actually reads. Whether it is an opt-in or an opt-out matters, because the system defaults closed and treats silence as no. If your form assumes yes unless a family objects, your paperwork and your system disagree about every family who never returned it.
Whoever runs the yearbook. Not to sell to them — to find out whether this survives a forty-minute period. Advisers are usually the sharpest critics of anything in this category, and that is useful to us.
About the conversation itself
Is there a trial?
Not a self-serve one. Setting this up against a real roster is work rather than a signup, and a demonstration that is not against your own data would tell you nothing about the only thing that matters in this band, which is where your line falls.
Can our students be in the conversation?
If you want them to be, and it is usually a good idea from the second conversation onwards -- they will find the things an adult reviewer will not. That is your judgement to make about your own students, not something we would ask for.
Do we have to decide anything at the end?
There is nothing to decide about money because there is nothing to buy. The only decision at the end of a first conversation is whether there is a second one.
We already have a yearbook company. Does this replace them?
Not necessarily, and the question is worth separating: the printing and the imagery are two different arrangements. What this changes is where the pictures live and what governs them before they reach a page. Who prints the book is a decision you can leave exactly where it is.
Where it happens
Through the platform’s own front door at homeroom.software, where a person at Stanley Studios picks it up. This site collects nothing from you: no form, no address to hand over before you can read anything.
What follows is a conversation rather than a sequence, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it. That is the actual state of the product, not a soft close.