From Phone To Print: Collage.com Gives Their Users A Direct Way To Make Beautiful Photo Gifts via Twilio MMS

From Phone To Print: Collage.com Gives Their Users A Direct Way To Make Beautiful Photo Gifts via Twilio MMS

The days of leather bound photo albums are all but gone. Now, people house their prized photos on hard drives, in iPhoto and online. Collage.com makes it easy for anyone to turn those photos into wallpaper, posters and other gifts in a simple web app.

A majority of the photos you publish to social networks are stored on your camera – which is almost always your phone. Collage.com wanted to give their users a direct and secure way to upload photos from their phone to their Collage.com account, without having to open an app or go to their computer. Using Twilio MMS, uploading a photo is as easy as sending a text.

“From customer feedback we know how difficult it can be for users – especially non-techincal ones – to organize and upload photos to yet another service,” said Craig Schroeder, Software Developer at Collage.com “We have seen a very positive response from those that use MMS to upload photos. We have fewer support requests from users that choose this method because they are so familiar with how to send picture messages.”

To get their photos from their phone to their account, all Collage.com users have to do is send a photo to Collage.com’s Twilio number and include a unique code that Collage.com provides. That’s it. From then on out, users can just send pictures to that same Twilio number to upload them to Collage.com.

Users have already uploaded over 41,000 images in the 2 months since Collage.com launched their MMS feature. While Craig admits the numbers aren’t astronomical, the feedback is something they’re taking seriously. “This medium opens up opportunities to interact with our users unlike anything else we have in place,” says Craig.