Nine doors open.
One gallery holds them all.
Tonight the procession stops at your house. For nine nights before Christmas the block, or the parish, walks behind the peregrinos with candles, and this evening you are the one inside answering the litany through the closed door before you open it. Then you are ladling ponche, handing out aguinaldos, and holding the rope while the piñata swings. Everyone who walked has photos of your night and of the eight others, scattered across the neighbourhood WhatsApp group, the parish page and the phones of cousins who came for one night only. One QR code for the whole novena puts every house in a single gallery.
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The moments guests actually photograph at posadas
Why posadas work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Nine houses under one code
A posada is a novena, not a single party, and each night belongs to a different family. Set up one event for the whole nine nights with each host house as its own sub-event, so the procession's photos land in one gallery in order, from the first door to the last on Christmas Eve, without nine separate links going round the block.
The litany, recorded from both sides of the door
The heart of a posada is sung, not seen: the peregrinos outside asking for shelter, the household inside refusing, then relenting. Guests can leave voice notes of up to 60 seconds from the street and from the doorway, so the singing survives alongside the photos of it.
The abuela who taught everyone the song can hear it
Many families run their posada in the US with the grandmother who started the tradition still in Michoacán or Jalisco. Live Broadcast puts the procession arriving at your door on a private link with sound, so she hears her own verses sung back to her from a street she has never walked.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like: phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos, up to a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
Several days, one gallery
Multi-day celebrations get sub-events under one code, so the rehearsal, the ceremony and the brunch stay organised but reachable from a single link.
Voice messages
Guests record up to 60 seconds of audio right from the upload page: a blessing, a toast, a story. It is saved next to the photos in the same gallery.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
A private live broadcast is included with the Event Pass: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with sound, and keep the recording afterwards.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create one event for the novena the week before it starts and add a sub-event for each night, named for the family hosting it, so every house knows which night is theirs.
Print the code on the sheet with the litany verses, one per household, and tape a copy to the door of whichever house is hosting so the procession scans while it waits to be let in.
Guests upload from the street, the doorway and the yard as the night goes on. On the last night, put the slideshow on the host's TV and the novena plays back from the first door.
After Christmas Eve, download the originals and send the link to every family that hosted, so each has the whole nine nights and not just their own.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. Photos pass a quick AI check first; videos wait for a person.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from posadas
Print the QR code on the same sheet as the litany, because that sheet is already in every hand. Most posadas hand out the verses for pidiendo posada so the people outside and the people inside sing the right lines, and a small code in the corner means nobody has to look for it later. Ask the person leading the singing to say once, before the first verse, that photos go to the code, and the whole procession will do it while it stands in the street waiting for the door. Once the door opens everyone rushes for the ponche and the moment to explain has gone.
Give the piñata its own person. It is the one part of the night when every child is in one place and every adult is watching, and it is also the part where the good photos happen fast: the blindfold, the swing, the miss, the burst, the scramble for colación. Ask one guest to film it in short clips and upload each one straight away rather than one long video. The clips arrive in the gallery inside the 30 second limit and the family watching from Mexico on Live Broadcast can see the same scramble as it happens if you point the phone at the yard.
Decide in advance who hosts the last night, because the ninth posada on Christmas Eve runs straight into Nochebuena and is the night with the most people, the most food and the most relatives visiting from elsewhere. That is the night to put the slideshow on the TV and let the earlier eight nights play in the background while the tamales come out. Guests who see their own house on the screen upload the photos they forgot to send, and the host of that final night ends up with the complete novena in one place to pass on to the parish or the block.
Common questions about posadas
Each night is at a different house. Do we need nine events?
No. Create one event for the whole novena and add each night as a sub-event named for the host family. The code stays the same for all nine nights, so it can go on the litany sheets once and be printed on the door of whichever house is hosting. Every family's photos land in the same gallery, sorted by night, and the price is one Event Pass for the novena rather than one per house. If a parish runs the posadas, the parish can own the event and let each host family add their night's photos.
Half the procession is outside in the dark. Will the photos be any good?
Candlelit street photos are the ones people love most from a posada, and modern phones handle them better than most guests expect. What matters is that the photos get collected at all. Upload keeps the full-resolution original, so a good frame of the peregrinos under the porch light is not crushed into a WhatsApp forward. Ask guests to upload the singing as short video too, since the sound of the verses going back and forth through the door is what people play back the following year.
Can the grandparents in Mexico watch our posada?
Yes. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass and streams up to 90 minutes with audio on a private link to as many as 100 viewers, and they only need a phone browser to open it. Send them the link in the morning with the time the procession is due, and start it a few minutes before the singing begins so they hear the litany from the first verse. Point the phone at the door from inside, then carry it out to the yard for the piñata.
The parish organises our posadas. Who should own the event?
Whoever will still have the link in January. If the parish coordinator sets up the event, each host family can be given the same code for their night and the parish keeps the complete novena for the bulletin and for next year. If it is an informal block posada, the family hosting the first night usually creates it and shares the code in the group. Either way, there is one code for the nine nights, and the gallery is private to the people who hold it.
What does it cost for nine nights?
One Event Pass at $29, paid once for the whole novena, with each night as a sub-event under the same code. It covers unlimited uploads from everyone who walks with the procession, voice notes and short videos, the slideshow for the final night, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. Live Broadcast for the relatives in Mexico is included. There is no subscription and nothing to renew before next December, when you create a fresh event for the new year's posadas.
Every photo from posadas, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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