Picaboo Yearbooks

While at first it all seems cool, later you are likely to regret the amount of time and effort it takes to create a yearbook. This is especially true if you make «personalized» pages with Picaboo Yearbooks as they will not allow you to re-​use your «personalized» pages into a new
book or combination of books. Don’t waste your time. Customer service is poor.

I created a yearbook for my sorority with Picaboo Yearbooks and everyone LOVED IT! Our college yearbook is getting smaller and smaller each year, so this is a great option for us. The software was easy to use and I loved all of the page templates and graphics I could choose from. We look forward to making this an annual project.

Ive worked on photobooks on Picaboo and yearbooks on Picaboo Yearbooks and both have been fantastic. Incredible customer support for every step of the way and the value was amazing. Delivery time was pretty fast too. No complaints. Id recommend it to anyone. Great experience.

Like the previous poster, I had a pretty lousy experience with Picaboo. Luckily, my co-​chair and I were tech savvy enough to overcome their gaps but I still would think twice and ask a lot of questions if using Picaboo. Essentially, they are a photo archiving company but they LOST our first upload of 500 photos. LOST! This caused us to have to go back to our parent community and ask for an emergency upload of any and all photos. It was a time waster as we ended up trying to then sort through several thousand images that were dumped in as response to the emergency loss. Oh by the way, if you are using Internet Explorer. You won’t find this stated anywhere but apparently their technology is not optimized for MS IE and you may get a rant from the customer service team about the evils of Microsoft. Sorry but completely inappropriate and if you don’t actually support a very common tech platform, you should state it. The order process itself should not have been that difficult, but don’t ask anyone from customer service to help. The guy I ended up speaking with made it much more difficult and actually it seemed that he had never walked anyone through the process before, especially around reconciling the online orders with the quantity of orders taken from, say, a printed order form. If you regularly shop online, you won’t have any problem. Stay away from customer service when ever possible. Also, of course they want you to pay in full up front which gives you little leverage when they mess it up. Finally, when we did get our order, the labelling was SO off it was ridiculous. The labels did not match the shipping manifest. For instance, we had 50 books labelled with one kid’s name; 68 books labelled with another kid’s name. They could not simply or easily pull simple reports that you would need to align your order and track for distribution. It was a real nightmare. There are many vendors out there. Generally, working on a yearbook or something of the sort is driven by volunteers. This stuff should be Gumby simple. I would seriously think twice.

Picaboo Yearbooks is an awesome free application that allows you to create and sell yearbooks and other photo books. With no minimum order and free ebooks what’s not to love?