One long table,
two languages, one gallery.
This page is for the family that books the long table at the cabane à sucre every March, and for the office that takes the whole team out for the day. The sugar shack is a full afternoon: the sleigh ride in, the plates of oreilles de crisse and eggs in syrup, the tire d'érable poured on the snow, the fiddle and the spoons. Half the table speaks French and half speaks English, the photos go into two different group chats, and the grandmother sees neither. One QR code at the table gives both halves one place to send them.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at sugar shack parties
Why sugar shack parties work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
French and English at the same table
The upload page opens in English, Español, Français, chosen from each guest's own phone setting, so the cousins from Trois-Rivières and the in-laws from Kingston each see the buttons in their own language and upload to the same gallery. Nobody has to translate the instructions across the table between courses.
Both group chats, one album
A cabane à sucre trip is photographed by everyone and shared with nobody outside their own chat. One code at the table means the tire d'érable video from the teenager and the sleigh photo from the grandfather land in the same place, and the grandmother who is in neither chat gets the link.
A headcount for the reservation
Sugar shacks book by the table and charge by the plate, so the organizer needs a real count before the deposit. Send each family or colleague a personal invite link, collect the replies and party sizes, and check people in as they climb off the sleigh.
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.
Guest pages in 3 languages
The upload page speaks English, Español, Français, chosen from the guest's phone settings, so a mixed-language crowd is never guessing what a button does.
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.
Guest list and RSVPs in the same place
Import your list, send each guest a personal invite link, collect replies and party sizes, and check people in at the door from your phone.
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.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event for the day and, for an office outing, name it for the team so the same code works on the bus, at the table and on the sugar bush walk.
Send the invite links a few weeks ahead to collect the count for the reservation. Put the QR code on a card at each end of the table and on the bus if there is one.
Guests upload through the meal and the taffy; the cabane usually has a signal even in the bush. Phones set to French get the page in French, phones set to English get it in English.
Download the originals the next week and send the gallery link to the grandparents and to the colleagues who missed the bus.
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 sugar shack parties
For a family outing, ask one person from each side to be the one who puts the code in their group chat, in their language, before the day. The tire d'érable is the moment everyone photographs and it lasts about a minute per round, so the code has to be known before the syrup hits the snow, not announced during it. Put a card with the code at each end of the long table so the French end and the English end both have one, and let the slideshow run on a phone propped against the syrup jug if the cabane has no screen. The kids will upload the most; the grandparents will look the most.
For an office outing, the sugar shack day is usually the one social event of the year that the whole team attends, and the photos go straight into the team channel and vanish. Create the event under the organizer's account, send the personal invite links to collect the count for the reservation, and turn on host review so a manager approves what goes in the shared gallery. Download the archive the following week for the internal newsletter and the careers page, and leave the gallery open for the colleagues who take their own families the weekend after.
Common questions about sugar shack parties
Half our group is francophone. Does the guest page work in French?
Yes. Guest pages are in English, Español, Français, and each guest gets the language their phone is set to, so a phone in French sees the upload page in French and a phone in English sees it in English, at the same table, uploading to the same gallery. The host dashboard is in English. There are also French marketing pages on the site at /fr if you want to send the organizer on the other side a link they can read.
Can the grandparents in Gaspé watch if they cannot make the trip?
Yes. A private live broadcast is included with every Event Pass: up to 90 minutes to as many as 100 viewers on one link, with sound. Start it for the tire d'érable or when the fiddle comes out, and the grandparents watch from a phone or a tablet with no app and no account. They see the finished gallery afterwards from the same link. A cabane in the bush can have a thin signal, so check the connection from the parking lot before the meal.
Can we use it to get a headcount for the reservation?
Yes. Import the family or the team as the guest list and each person gets a personal invite link. They reply with how many are coming, the replies and party sizes show in your dashboard, and you give the sugar shack a real number before the deposit is due. On the day, check people in from a phone as they arrive so you know who is still on the road before the sleigh leaves for the bush.
Everyone will be filming the taffy. Will the videos upload from the bush?
Short videos upload from the same page as photos, at original quality, and count toward the unlimited allowance with a 25 GB fair-use bound. Most cabanes are close enough to the road to have a usable signal at the table; the sugar bush walk may not, and a clip that stalls there is queued on the phone and goes up once it is back on the bus or at home with the page open. Nothing is lost by uploading later.
What does it cost for a table of forty?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once, and the price does not change with the size of the table. It covers unlimited uploads with a 25 GB fair-use bound, the guest list with replies and check-in, host review, the slideshow, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting, with the private broadcast included. Where Stripe offers it, checkout can show the total in Canadian dollars before you pay. There is no subscription.
Every photo from sugar shack parties, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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