Getting started
From photos to a live tour in one sitting.
Create a tour
Everything begins on the dashboard. The New Tour tile, labelled Create, opens a sheet headed Create a new tour. A Tour name is the only thing it insists on. The category, description, address, phone, email, website, booking link, client and capture date are all optional, and every one of them can be filled in later.
The photos are optional too. The sheet labels them 360 photos · optional, so you can make the tour now and bring the photos in from the editor instead. Choose them here and each photo becomes one point, placed on the map by its own GPS. Press Create tour, watch the bar, and the editor opens with the tour loaded. On a phone the tour is still made and the editing waits for a computer.
From then on the tour sits on the dashboard as a full-width card with its point count, Live or Private, and a row of buttons: Scouting, Editor and Front Desk, with Tour and Webpage under them. The pencil renames it and the bin moves it to the Archive.
The order of work
The workflow is always the same: - Plan the shoot in Scouting. - Shoot the points using the Capture app. - Import the photos into the Editor. - Place the points, group them, and draw your paths. - Set your destinations and share the tour. Our next lesson starts right at the beginning: Scouting.
How the plan becomes the tour
The planner app (Scouting) and the editor are linked, but they hold different things. The plan holds your numbered spots and notes; the editor holds the actual photos. When you import photos, each one becomes the next numbered point in the order the files come in, so check that it matches the planner's numbered list. Open the plan in a second window, read the name off row 1, and type it onto point 1 in the editor.
Adding 360 photos
StrollPoint works with any 360 camera that saves standard 360 photos. Put it on a pole, walk the property, and take a photo every 30 feet or so.
Photos that carry GPS place themselves on the map in walking order. GoPro Max and the GoPro 360 line have a receiver in the camera, so switching GPS on once in the camera settings is all it takes. Photos without GPS still import, you just drop them into place in the editor.
In this module
This module covers bringing photos into a tour and understanding what each point can do. We'll cover importing, leveraging camera GPS, placing photos manually, and configuring settings. By the end, your photos will be properly mapped with their correct names.
Viewing your tour
Every dashboard card has a Tour button. It opens the same tour your visitors see, on a phone it opens the mobile tour, on a computer the desktop tour. This is the fastest way to check your work exactly as a visitor would.
What StrollPoint is
StrollPoint lets you build interactive 360-degree photo tours of real places. Visitors can look around inside each photo and physically "walk" from spot to spot on a real map. You build these tours using photos you shoot yourself. Let's look at how all these pieces fit together.
The editor needs a computer
The editor is a desktop tool. On a phone the Editor button does not appear and tours cannot be opened for editing, that is deliberate, precision work like drawing paths and placing tags needs a mouse and a full screen. Viewing tours works everywhere.
The three places you work
You'll be working in three main places. "Scouting" is where you plan the shoot on a map. "Capture" is the checklist your photographer uses on their phone while walking the property. The "Editor" is where you actually build and publish the tour. Scouting and Capture are designed to run on a phone, but the Editor requires a computer.
Archive and restore
Deleting a tour never destroys it on the spot. The trash button moves the tour to the Archive at the bottom of your dashboard, where it waits for 30 days. During that window, Restore brings the tour back exactly as it was, on any device. Delete forever removes the tour and every one of its files immediately, and there is no way to undo that.
360°
The 360° chip, first of the three View chips in the center of the editor's header bar, gives the panorama the whole stage and hides the satellite map. The chip highlights to show it is the active view, and any split layout you had is cleared.
Click it whenever the photo is the job: setting opening views, brushing with Magic Erase, placing tags precisely, checking image adjustments. Nothing about your tour changes; this only controls what the editor shows you.
Some tools switch to it for you: opening the Opening View drawer turns the 360 on automatically if you were in Map view, because you cannot aim a camera you cannot see.
Three views
Three chips at the top of the editor control your view. "360°" hides the map so you can focus entirely on the photo. "Map" hides the photo so you can focus entirely on the property layout. "Split" puts them side-by-side. The editor always opens in Split view by default.
Split
The Split chip, in the View group at the top of the Build rail, shows the panorama and the satellite map at the same time. It opens them side by side: the map takes the left half of the stage and the 360 photo the right. The chip highlights to show it is the active view.
Press Split again while you are already in it and the two panes flip to stacked, the photo on the top half and the map on the bottom. Press once more and they go back to side by side. The chip's own icon previews the arrangement your next press will give, so you can see which way the flip goes before you make it, and its tooltip says the press flips the orientation. Leaving for 360° or Map and coming back opens side by side again.
Split is the default view: every editing session opens in it, with all your points fitted in the map frame, and the map re-sizes itself whenever the layout changes. Work in it for anything that pairs the photo with geography, like placing tags while checking their direction on the map, or reviewing connections. Stack the panes when the map needs the full width of the stage. Switching views never changes anything about the tour itself.
Walk while you build
The editor engine is the exact same engine the visitor uses. If you click a floor arrow inside the 360 photo, you will physically walk to the next point, and the satellite map will track your movement.
Map
The Map chip gives the satellite map the whole stage and hides the panorama. Any split layout is cleared and the chip highlights as active.
Click it for big-picture layout work: placing new points, dragging pins into position, drawing connections and paths, arranging areas, or auditing the whole route at once. Clicking a point pin still selects that point, so panels and drawers keep following your selection even with the photo hidden.
Tools that need the photo will bring it back: opening the Opening View drawer, for example, switches the 360 on automatically.
Collapse panel
The Collapse panel icon button in the right panel's header slides the entire right panel, the Points list with its areas, and any open Properties or History view, off screen so the panorama and map get the full width of the window.
Nothing closes or resets: the panel keeps its active tab, scroll position, and search text, and a small reopen tab appears pinned to the right edge of the screen so you can bring it back with one click.
Collapse it when you need every inch of stage: fine tag placement, opening-view passes on a laptop screen, or showing the tour to someone over your shoulder without the editing clutter.
The Points panel
The right panel is your point directory. "Points" lists every photo in the tour. "Properties" shows details for whatever point you currently have selected, and its History button lists that point's photo edits. You can search by name, or collapse the entire panel for a wider screen.
Show points panel
The reopen tab sits pinned to the right edge of the screen and is only visible while the right panel is collapsed. One click slides the panel back into place exactly as you left it, same tab, same scroll position, same search.
If you do not see it, the panel is already open; the tab exists only in the collapsed state, so there is never a moment where the panel is gone with no way back.
Between this tab and Collapse panel you can toggle the workspace between full-stage viewing and full editing as often as you like, with nothing lost either way.
Choose photos
Choose photos is the orange button in the Import Photos drawer. It opens your file picker for 360 photos straight off the camera: JPG only, one or many at once. It needs an open tour; without one the status below says to open one from the dashboard first. There are two outcomes. If you picked exactly one photo per captured point, the count matches and photos pair with points 1:1 in capture order, filling your existing points in: this path is immune to camera clock drift entirely. Any other count creates NEW points instead, one per photo, each placed on the map by the photo's own GPS, and always after a confirm dialog stating exactly how many new points will be created, so a mis-picked folder can never silently flood the tour.
Step by step: press the button, select the JPGs, watch the progress bar that appears top-center of the screen, then read the summary below this button. Photos without GPS still import; they wait in the "Needs placing" strip at the top of the Points menu, and a toast tells you how many are waiting.
Two guarantees worth knowing. An import never replaces an existing photo: points that already have one are left untouched and a toast says so, so to change a point's photo you use Replace Image on the point itself. And a photo's camera GPS and heading are stamped onto its matched point only when you have not hand-pinned that point's camera position; your hand placements always win.
Recommendation: shoot exactly one photo per point in walk order and import them all in one batch. That hits the exact-count path, the most reliable matcher there is.
Import Panos
To bring photos into a tour, go to the Build rail, under Setup, and click "Import Panos." Choose your JPEGs. Every photo you pick that is not already in the tour creates a brand new point. The system will ask you to confirm the number of points before creating them, always double-check this number!
Import status readout
The text under the button is the import's log and final report. It is hidden until an import starts, then narrates each stage: loading the tour manifest, reading photos with a running count, matching, and uploading. When the import finishes it summarizes the result: how many new points were placed by GPS, how many photos had no GPS and are waiting in "Needs placing", and any failures.
One line you must never ignore: a red warning that some photos FAILED to upload. Those points were created and hold their photo on this computer, but the photo never reached the cloud, so they will not work in tours. Fix them one point at a time: open the point, and in Properties press Replace Image and pick the same file; that uploads it again onto the same point.
Other messages you may see: "Selected files contained no JPGs" means the picker filtered out everything you chose (the importer only takes .jpg or .jpeg), and "No active tour" means you need to open a tour from the dashboard before importing.
Importing into a tour that already has points
If you accidentally import the exact same folder of photos twice, the editor will recognize them and skip them automatically. However, if you import a completely different folder by mistake, it will ask to create new points. Read the confirmation dialog carefully. If it looks wrong, hit Cancel, and nothing will be harmed.
Read the import report
When an import finishes, read the status text under the button. It tells you exactly how many points landed via GPS and how many need manual placing. Never ignore a red warning saying photos "failed to upload", that means the photo only exists locally on your computer and the public tour will be broken.
Academy
The Academy button opens the StrollPoint Academy in a new browser tab. The Academy is the complete reference for the editor: every control, every drawer, every workflow. Your editor tab stays open and untouched.
Click it any time. Because it opens in its own tab, you can keep the Academy side by side with the editor and follow a guide while you work.
For a faster, targeted route: hover any control in the editor for a moment and a small help card appears with a one-line explanation and an Open the guide link that jumps straight to that control's Academy section. Use the button for browsing and learning, use the hover cards when you want to know what one exact thing does.
Sync chip (Saved / Syncing…)
The sync chip is both a readout and a button. A green dot with Saved means everything you have done is stored in the cloud. A spinner with Syncing… means an upload is in flight. You rarely have to think about it: the editor automatically uploads your full tour state about 1.5 seconds after you stop making changes, so the chip lives on Saved almost all the time.
Click the chip to force a full sync immediately. This does more than the automatic save: it re-queues every point photo held on this machine for upload, marks the floor plan image for upload too, and pushes the tour state with no delay. The spinner stopping is the confirmation, there is no success message. If it fails you get a message starting with Sync failed and the reason. If no tour is open you get Nothing to sync, open a tour first.
When to use it: before closing the laptop, before moving to another machine, or after a big photo import when you want certainty that every image reached the cloud. It is also the recovery move if you suspect an upload was missed, because the forced push rebuilds the cloud copy from what is on your machine.
Sync, undo, redo and theme
The sync chip shows when a cloud sync is running. "Syncing" means it's uploading; "Saved" means it finished. You can press Ctrl+Z to undo your last move, or Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo it. Clicking the sync chip forces an immediate cloud save.
Undo
Undo steps your most recent edit back: moves, renames, deletions, connections, tags, paths, even Magic Erase image edits. The button is greyed out when there is nothing left to undo. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on Mac). The shortcut is ignored while you are typing in a text field, so it never eats your text editing.
Click once per step. The reversal applies everywhere at once: the map, the points list, tags, paths and the panorama all refresh, a small Undo confirmation appears, and the reverted state saves to the cloud on its own. If an undo brings a deleted point back, its photo re-downloads from the cloud in the background, so allow a moment before its panorama appears. Extra clicks while a step is still applying are ignored, so mashing the button is safe.
The editor keeps up to 120 edits of history per tour, and the history survives reloads because it is saved with the tour. To step back further, just keep clicking: each click reverses one more edit, all the way to the oldest recorded change.
What Undo takes back, and what it never does
Ctrl+Z (Undo) works for everyday edits: moving pins, renaming, drawing paths. But Undo cannot recover a deleted point, a layer deleted with its points, or a tour deleted forever from the Archive. Always read the confirmation boxes!
Redo
Redo steps forward again after an undo, re-applying the edit you just took back. It is greyed out whenever you are already at the newest edit. Keyboard: Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y (Cmd on Mac).
Click once per step. Like Undo, it refreshes every surface at once, shows a small Redo confirmation, and saves the result to the cloud automatically. Any photo swap that belongs to the edit, such as a Magic Erase result, is restored along with it; recent image edits come from a local cache so they reapply instantly, older ones fetch from the cloud.
Know the one rule: the redo path only survives until you make a new edit. The moment you change anything after undoing, the steps ahead of you are discarded for good. That makes undo and redo a safe way to compare before and after: undo to look at the old state, redo to keep the new one, as long as you touch nothing in between.
Light / dark theme
The theme button switches the editor between light and dark mode. The icon shows where you are headed: a moon while you are in light mode, a sun while you are in dark mode.
Click it and the whole editor recolors instantly. Your choice is remembered per browser on this machine, so the editor comes back in the same mode next visit. It does not follow your account to other computers.
This is editor chrome only: it never changes anything a visitor sees in the tour itself. Pick whichever mode suits your room and your eyes; dark mode is easier during long evening editing sessions, light mode tends to read better next to bright panoramas.
StrollPoint logo
The StrollPoint logo at the top left of the editor header is the way back to your dashboard, where every tour you own is listed. It navigates in the same tab, and hovering it says Back to your dashboard.
Nothing is asked on the way out and nothing is lost. The editor saves every change to the cloud on its own, about a second and a half after you stop working, and a delete saves the instant you confirm it. The sync chip in the header, sitting next to Undo and Redo, tells you where that stands: Saved means everything is up, Syncing… means a save is in flight. Wait for Saved if you want certainty before you leave.
Use it whenever you need something the editor does not do: Create New Tour, opening a different tour, or moving one to the Archive. Open this tour again from the dashboard and every edit is already there.
The editor header
The header spans the top of the screen. The StrollPoint logo on the far left takes you back to your dashboard (your work is always saved automatically, so leaving is safe). The middle holds your view controls and the Preview button. The right side holds your sync status, Undo/Redo buttons and theme toggle.
Account
Your account sits at the bottom of the left tools rail, pinned there, showing the email you are signed in as. Signed out, it shows a Sign in button instead, which starts Google sign-in.
Click it and the Account drawer opens on the left, the same as every other tool. A Signed in as card holds your email, and a Manage card holds two buttons: Account & billing takes you to your account page, and Sign out ends the session and reloads the editor. Back at the top of the drawer closes it.
Stay signed in while you edit. Cloud saves, publishing and photo uploads all need your signed-in account, because every tour lives in that account's cloud storage. If the rail ever shows Sign in while you are working, sign back in before making more changes so nothing stays stranded on one machine.
Import images
Import images is the navy button on the Import images to begin card that fills the pano pane whenever the point in view has no photo yet. It runs the photo-matching import: pick many 360 JPGs at once, straight off the camera's SD card, and each photo matches to a point you already have by capture time, with the GPS inside each photo used to correct camera clock drift. The rail's Import Panos is the other door, and that one turns each photo into its own new point.
Click it, select all the JPGs from the shoot in one go, and let the matching run. Re-selecting the WHOLE folder later is safe: photos already in the tour are recognized, by file name, point name, and capture time, and skipped, so only the new ones upload. Photos attach to their points automatically, and the card disappears as soon as the current point has an image. If you instead see a message telling you to open a tour first, there is no tour loaded yet.
Use it right after a phone scan, as the very first step of the build: one click, one big multi-select, and the whole tour fills in. The two buttons under it are for the narrower cases: one photo for one point, or Street View instead of a photo.
A point with no photo
A point without a photo is just a placeholder, it has a name and a spot on the map, but nothing to look at. The panorama pane gives you three ways to fix it: "Import images" to match a batch, "Add pano to this point" for a single file, or "Add Street View" to pull imagery directly from Google.
Add pano to this point
Add pano to this point fills only the point you are currently on. It opens the point's Properties panel on the right and immediately opens the image picker for that one point.
Click it, choose a single 360 JPEG, and it becomes this point's panorama. If the picker cannot open for any reason, a message directs you to the same control by hand: Properties on the right, then Add Image.
Reach for it when one point missed its photo in the bulk import, or when you reshot a single pano and want it on a specific spot. For a whole shoot, the Import images button above it is the right tool; this one is deliberately surgical.
Add Street View
Add Street View turns the empty point into a Google Street View point: instead of one of your photos, the point shows Street View imagery in the tour. Clicking it opens the Street View editor for the selected point inside its drawer.
A point must be selected first; if none is, you get Select a point first. In the editor that opens, set the Street View location for this spot and complete the setup; from then on the point plays Street View in the tour.
Use it for exterior spots you did not shoot yourself: street approaches, surrounding roads, places Google already covers. Your own panoramas always look better and stay under your control, so treat Street View as the gap-filler, not the default.
Academy
The Academy pill in the header opens the StrollPoint Academy in a new browser tab. The Academy is the complete reference for every StrollPoint surface: this dashboard, the editor, and the tour itself. Your dashboard stays open behind it, and opening the Academy never saves or changes anything.
Click Academy, then pick a guide from the Academy home page. You can also skip the button entirely: hover the key controls on this page, like the Create New Tour form and the buttons on each tour card, and a small help card appears with a one-line explanation and an Open the guide link that jumps straight to that control's section.
Use it any time you are unsure what a button does or what order to do things in. Getting Started is the right first read before you build your first tour.
Theme
The sun icon in the header switches the dashboard between light and dark mode. The change applies instantly and is remembered on this device, so the dashboard opens in your chosen mode on your next visit. The default is light.
Click once to switch, click again to switch back. There is nothing to save and nothing else changes.
The choice is stored in this browser only: sign in on another computer or phone and it starts in light mode until you flip it there too. Pick whichever is easier on your eyes; dark works well when you are building tours in low light.
Account
The person icon with your email address appears in the header once you are signed in. It opens the Account panel: on a computer the panel slides in from the left edge, on a phone it opens as a dialog. The panel shows the email you are signed in as and holds the Sign out button.
Click the button to open the panel. Close it with the round X or by clicking the dimmed page behind it. Opening and closing the panel changes nothing on its own.
Use it to confirm which account you are in before you build or delete anything. Your tours live in the account, not the device, so if the email shown is not the one you expect, sign out and sign back in with the right address before creating a tour.
The dashboard header and Account
The header gives you three quick controls: "Academy" opens the help library, the Theme icon toggles light/dark mode, and your email address opens the Account panel, showing your login info and the "Sign out" button.
Sign out
Sign out ends your StrollPoint session and returns you to the sign-in screen. It signs the whole account out, so other computers and phones where you were signed in drop back to their sign-in screens shortly afterward as well.
Open the Account panel from the person icon in the header, then press Sign out.
Your tours are stored in your account in the cloud, not on the device, so signing out never deletes or loses anything. Sign back in and everything is exactly where you left it. Do sign out on shared or public computers; on your own machines you can stay signed in indefinitely, the device keeps the session until you end it.
Close (Account panel)
The round X at the top of the Account panel closes it and returns you to the dashboard. The panel is display-only, so closing it never discards or changes anything.
Click the X, or click the dimmed page area behind the panel: both do the same thing.
Continue with Google
Continue with Google signs you in with your Google account instead of an email and password. It sends you to Google's account picker, and after you choose an account Google returns you straight to this dashboard, signed in. If anything goes wrong you get a "Google sign-in failed" message and stay on the sign-in screen.
Click the button, pick your Google account, and you land back here with your tours loaded. Signing in here signs this device into your one StrollPoint account; the same click on any other device opens the same tours.
This is the recommended way in if you use Google: nothing new to remember and nothing to type. One warning: the account is keyed to the Google address you pick. Always pick the same one, because a different address opens a different, empty account.
Sign in
This is your gateway. A single account holds every tour you build. Use "Continue with Google" for a seamless login without needing to remember a separate password. If using an email, type your email and password, then hit "Sign in". Only hit "Create account" the very first time. Be careful, a typo in your email when you hit "Create account" will create a brand new, empty account instead of opening your existing one.
Email (sign in)
The Email field is where you type your address for email sign-in. The same field feeds both buttons below it: Sign in uses it to find your existing account, Create account uses it to make a new one. Stray spaces are trimmed automatically.
Type the address, add your password below, then press the button that matches what you want to do.
Use the exact same address every time. Your tours are tied to the account, and StrollPoint treats every distinct address as a separate account, so a typo signs you into a brand-new empty dashboard instead of your tours.
Password
The Password field takes the password for email sign-in. What you type is hidden as dots. It is used by both buttons: for Sign in it must match your existing password, for Create account it becomes the new account's password.
Type it, then press the matching button. Your browser may offer to save it; that is safe on your own machine and saves typing next visit.
If sign-in keeps failing, read the "Sign-in failed" message: it carries the actual reason. A mistyped email fails the same way a wrong password does, so recheck both fields before trying again.
Sign in
Sign in checks the email and password above it and, on success, loads your dashboard with all your tours. This device then stays signed in until you sign out, even across browser restarts.
Fill both fields and press Sign in. On failure a "Sign-in failed" message appears with the reason and you stay on this screen; nothing locks out, just correct the fields and try again.
Use it every time after your account exists. If you originally signed up with Google, use Continue with Google instead: that account has no password to type here.
Opening StrollPoint the first time
StrollPoint runs entirely in your web browser, meaning there is absolutely nothing to download or install. Just open a browser on your computer, Google Chrome works best if you have it, and head over to strollpoint.com. Take a look at the top right corner of the page and click Studio. Sign in there if you already have an account, or create one the first time. Make sure to set up your account before diving into the rest of this course, because every tour you build will live right there. Once you are signed in, you land on your Dashboard, which holds all of your tours. As a quick note, the two phone apps we use in this course do not require their own separate accounts.
Create account
Create account makes a brand-new StrollPoint account from the email and password typed above. On success you see: "Account created. If email confirmation is on, check your inbox, then sign in." If a confirmation email arrives, confirm it and then sign in; if confirmations are off, you may land in your new dashboard signed in right away.
Type the email and the password you want, press Create account, and follow the message: confirm the email if one arrives in your inbox, then press Sign in with the same details if you are not already in.
You need this exactly once. After that, always use Sign in: pressing this again with the same address cannot create a second account. If you plan to sign in with Google anyway, skip this entirely and use Continue with Google.
New Tour
New Tour is the first tile in the row at the top of your dashboard, the one labelled Create. It opens the Create a new tour sheet, the start of every tour. No phone scan is involved: you name the tour, fill in as much of the place details as you want, choose your 360 photos, and press Create tour. Each photo becomes one point, and each photo's own GPS places that point on the map.
The photos are optional. Press Create tour with none chosen and you get an empty tour to fill from Import Panos in the editor, which is what the sheet tells you under the button: No photos chosen yet · you can create the tour now and import them in the editor. The Tour name is the one thing it will not go without.
The line under the bar says where it is up to: reading photo locations, creating the tour, uploading photos one at a time, saving. On a computer the editor then opens with the new tour loaded. On a phone the tour is still made and the line says the editor is desktop-only and waits for a computer. Everything except the photos can be changed afterwards, so do not stall on wording: the rest of the fields live in the Front Desk under About this tour.
If you already have the photos
The course flows in the exact order you will normally work: plan, shoot, build, and publish. However, some of you might be arriving with your photos already taken. If that sounds like you, I still recommend watching the scouting and capture modules, but you can technically jump right into Import and points to start building a tour straight from your photo folder without a pre-made plan. Just make sure to circle back to the scouting module before your next shoot, planning ahead is the easiest way to save yourself a ton of time on-site.
Group
Group is the third tile at the top of the dashboard, labelled Organize, beside New Tour and Setup Link. Its own line reads Tidy the list below. Drag tours into named groups, and drag anything to reorder. Press it, type a name, and a named group appears in your tour list. Drag tours onto it and they file inside; an empty one says Drag tours here.
The group's own row carries the rest of the job. The chevron collapses it, the pencil renames it, Remove takes the group away and leaves its tours in the list where the group stood, and Merge builds one layered tour out of the group while the originals stay untouched.
A group only arranges your dashboard. It changes nothing about the tours themselves, their links, or what a visitor sees, so there is no risk in making one to try it. Reach for it when one client has several properties, or when a long list has stopped being readable.
Groups on the dashboard
A group here is basically a folder to organize your tours (like for a client with multiple properties). Click "New Group", name it, and drag tours into it by grabbing the left-hand grip on their card. Removing a group folder just releases the tours back into your main list, it doesn't delete them.
Group row
Each group is a row with an arrow, its name, and a blue count of the tours inside. Click anywhere on the row to open or close it, and the dashboard remembers which groups you keep closed.
The pencil renames the group and Remove deletes only the folder itself; the tours inside return to your main list, exactly where the group stood.
Rename group
Press the pencil on a group row, type the new name, and the folder renames in place. Only the folder label changes; the tours inside keep their own names.
Remove group
Remove on a group row deletes the folder and nothing else. Every tour that was inside steps back out into your main list at the spot where the group stood. No tour is archived, changed, or touched in any way.
Drag to reorganize
Every tour card and every group row carries a small grip on its left edge. Drag a card by its grip to put your tours in whatever order you want, drop a card onto a group to file it inside, or drag it back out into the main list.
Groups move the same way: drag a group by the grip in its row and the whole folder, tours and all, slides to its new spot. The arrangement is saved to your account, so it is the same on every computer you sign into. Reordering needs a mouse, so it is a desktop feature; on a phone the arrangement still shows and groups still open and close.
Tour name
Tour name is the one required field in the dialog, up to 80 characters. It becomes the tour's name everywhere at once: the dashboard card, the editor header, and the welcome screen visitors see when they open the tour.
Type the name, then carry on with the rest of the form. If you press Create tour with the name blank, the status line under the form reads "Give the tour a name first." and nothing is created.
Use the property's real, public-facing name, for example the campground's actual name rather than an internal code. You can rename any time later with the pencil on the tour's card, and that rename updates everywhere the name appears.
Create New Tour and the name
Use "Create New Tour" when you have a shoot ready to go. The only mandatory field is the Tour Name. Type the real, public name of the property, this is exactly what visitors will see on the welcome screen.
Category
Category is the second field in the Create a new tour sheet, under Tour name. It is an optional one-line label for what kind of place this is. The sheet's own example is Family Campground · RV Park.
Visitors read it on the tour's About this tour page, the one the arrow under the banner opens. It sits in the small line above the tour name, beside the number of points. Leave it empty and that line carries the point count on its own.
Keep it to a few words, because it renders as a small line and not a sentence. You can write it or change it later in the Front Desk under About this tour, where it is the field called What kind of tour it is, so skipping it now costs nothing.
Description
Description is an optional few sentences about the place. Visitors read it in the tour's info panel, the about card behind the ⓘ on the tour, and it can appear on the welcome screen alongside the address and category.
Write two or three plain sentences: what the place is and what makes it worth the visit. Leave it empty and the info panel simply shows less.
Write for the visitor, not for yourself; this is public-facing copy. It is editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel, so a rough draft now is fine.
The info fields
Everything below the name is optional, but it's what visitors read in the tour's info panel. Keep it helpful: a short description, contact info, and the direct link for reservations. You can always change these later in the editor.
Address
Address is the property's street address, optional. It shows in the tour's info panel so visitors can find the place. The suggested format is Street, City, State ZIP.
Type it as you would on an envelope. It is stored as plain text exactly as typed, so check the spelling; there is no address lookup or validation.
Worth filling in for any real place tour, since the address is the detail visitors act on most. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
Phone
Phone is the place's contact number, optional. Visitors see it in the tour's info panel.
Type it in whatever format you want shown, for example (555) 555-5555. It is stored exactly as typed; there is no auto-formatting.
Use the number the place actually answers, the front desk or booking line, not a personal cell. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
Email (tour info)
This Email field is the place's public contact address, optional, shown to visitors in the tour's info panel. It has nothing to do with the account email you sign in with.
Type the address the place wants inquiries sent to, for example [email protected].
Skip it if the place prefers phone or the booking link. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
Website
Website is the place's main site, optional, shown in the tour's info panel.
Paste the full address including https://, for example https://example.com. It is stored exactly as typed.
Use the homepage here and save the reservations page for the Booking link field below; they are stored as separate entries. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
Booking link
Booking link is the direct reservations address, optional, shown in the tour's info panel alongside the website.
Paste the full URL of the booking or reservations page, not the homepage. It is stored exactly as typed.
For campgrounds and rentals this is the highest-value field in the form: a convinced visitor should have one obvious place to book. Fill it whenever a booking page exists. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
Client / owner
Client / owner is the name of the place the tour was shot for, optional. It is stored with the tour's info alongside the capture date.
Type the place name as you want it recorded.
Most useful when you shoot tours for more than one client and want each tour to carry its own attribution. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
Capture date
Capture date records when the photos were taken, optional. It is free text, not a calendar picker: "July 2026" is as valid as an exact day. It is stored with the tour's info.
Type the date at whatever precision you want to show.
Fill it in: tours age, and a recorded capture date tells everyone how current the views are. Note this is separate from the small grey date chip on the dashboard card, which is the day the tour was created in your account. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
Choose photos…
Choose photos… opens your file picker for the 360 photos that become the tour's points. Only JPEG files are accepted (.jpg or .jpeg); anything else you select is silently dropped from the list. Every accepted photo becomes exactly one point, named after its file name, and each photo's embedded GPS places its point on the map automatically.
Click Choose photos…, select all the photos for the tour in one pass, and confirm. The line under the button is your receipt: it changes to "12 photos ready · GPS will place each point". That count is the number that survived the JPEG filter, so if you picked 40 files and it says 32, eight were not JPEGs.
Picking again replaces the previous selection entirely, it does not add to it, so always select the full set in one go. Photos without GPS still import: they are flagged for hand placement on the map in the editor, and after the create finishes a message tells you exactly how many need placing.
Use full 360 equirectangular JPEGs straight from your 360 camera. Ordinary flat photos are not blocked, but they will look wrong wrapped around a sphere.
If you already have the photos
The course flows in the exact order you will normally work: plan, shoot, build, and publish. However, some of you might be arriving with your photos already taken. If that sounds like you, I still recommend watching the scouting and capture modules, but you can technically jump right into Import and points to start building a tour straight from your photo folder without a pre-made plan. Just make sure to circle back to the scouting module before your next shoot, planning ahead is the easiest way to save yourself a ton of time on-site.
Choose photos
Click "Choose photos" to select the JPEGs straight off your camera card. The system only accepts JPEGs; everything else is ignored. Each photo automatically becomes exactly one point in the tour. You can also skip this step and import photos later from inside the editor.
Upload progress
The thin bar and the status line under the form report the create as it runs. The stages in order: "Reading photo locations…" while GPS and timestamps are read from each photo (bar 0 to 15%), "Creating the tour…", "Uploading photos · 3 / 12…" while the photos upload (bar 15 to 90%), "Saving the tour…", then Done at 100% and the editor opens.
The "3 / 12" counter is photos processed so far out of the total. It advances even when an individual photo fails; failed uploads are totaled in a separate warning at the end so you know exactly how many did not make it.
The same status line also carries the validation nudges ("Give the tour a name first.", "Choose at least one 360 photo.") and the reason if the create fails. On failure the Create tour button unlocks again: fix the reported problem and press it again.
Create tour
Create tour runs the whole build: it reads each photo's GPS and timestamp, creates the tour in your account, uploads every photo four at a time, and saves the points. Points are numbered in the order the photos were taken, using each photo's timestamp, and named after the photo's file name; photos without a readable timestamp land at the front in the order you picked them. When it finishes on a computer the editor opens automatically with the new tour. On a phone the tour is created but the editor stays closed: the editor is desktop-only.
Fill the name, choose photos, press Create tour once. The button locks while the create runs so it cannot fire twice. Keep the tab open until the bar reaches 100%: closing the tab mid-create stops the uploads and leaves a partial tour.
Two end-of-run warnings to know. "had no GPS" means those points imported but sit unplaced until you position them on the map in the editor. "failed to upload" means those points exist without a photo; replace the photo from the editor. If the create fails outright, the status line shows the reason and the button unlocks for another try.
Create tour and the progress bar
Press "Create tour" to launch the build. The status line will tell you exactly what it's doing: reading locations, building the tour, and uploading photos. Once the progress bar hits 100%, the editor will open automatically. Keep this tab open until it finishes!
Close (Create a new tour)
The round X in the dialog header closes the Create a new tour dialog. Closing does not clear the form: the name, the info fields, and even the chosen photo list are all still there when you reopen it, as long as you have not reloaded the page.
Click the X to step back out to the dashboard. If a create is already running, closing the dialog only hides it: the build keeps running underneath, and only reloading or closing the tab actually stops it.
Use it freely to check something on the dashboard mid-form; nothing you typed is lost.
Closing the dialog
The round "X" closes the creation dialog without wiping your data. If you type a name and pick photos, but need to check something on your dashboard, just hit X. When you reopen it, your data will still be there.
Dimmed backdrop
The dark dimming behind an open panel is itself a click target. Clicking it closes the Account panel, the same as its round X.
One exception to know: with the Create a new tour dialog open, clicking the dim area clears the dimming but leaves the dialog itself open. Use that dialog's round X to actually close it.
Clicks on the dimmed area never reach the dashboard underneath; they only dismiss.
Tour
The navy Tour button opens the tour itself, the exact experience a visitor gets. It is device-aware: on a phone it opens the mobile tour, on a computer the desktop tour, chosen automatically.
Click it and the tour opens in a new tab, so the dashboard stays where it was. If your browser blocks the popup it opens in the same tab instead. If the tour has no captures yet, nothing opens and a message appears: "No captures in this tour yet · add captures first."
Use it to preview what a visitor experiences after every meaningful editing session. On a phone this is your whole toolkit by design: the editor is desktop-only, but the Tour button works everywhere.
Tour and Editor
Every card gives you five buttons, and two are the main ones. "Tour" opens the actual visitor experience, adapting to either mobile or desktop depending on what device you're using. "Editor" opens the builder, but note: you can only use the Editor on a computer. Drawing paths and placing tags simply requires a mouse and a full screen.
Editor
The orange Editor button opens the tour in the StrollPoint editor in a new tab. The map, the points, connections, tour info, and publishing all live there: the editor is where tours get built.
Click Editor and the editor opens with this tour loaded. If your browser blocks the popup it opens in the same tab instead.
The editor is desktop-only by design. On phones and small touch screens the button is hidden from the card entirely, and any editor entry attempted from a phone is refused with a message pointing you to a computer. The Tour button next to it is for viewing; this one is for building.
Leaving the editor and coming back tomorrow
There is no "Save" button. Every edit saves to the cloud as you make it, and the message strip confirms each one. When the strip has gone quiet you can safely close your browser tab. Tomorrow, just open the dashboard and hit Editor, everything will be exactly where you left it on any computer.
Rename tour
The pencil at the card's top right renames the tour. One rename here updates the name everywhere it appears: the dashboard card, the editor header, and the welcome screen visitors see.
Click the pencil, type the new name into the prompt, and press OK. Leaving it blank or unchanged cancels harmlessly. On success you get a confirmation and the card updates immediately.
This pencil is the intended home of renaming; do it here rather than hunting through the editor. If the rename fails, for example while offline, you get a "Rename failed" message and the old name stays.
Rename, archive, restore
Click the pencil to rename your tour (this updates it everywhere, including what the visitor sees). The trash icon doesn't delete your tour permanently; it moves it to the Archive at the bottom of the dashboard for 30 days. You can safely "Restore" it from there. "Delete forever" does exactly what it says, it wipes the tour completely and cannot be undone.
Move to Archive
The small trash icon at the card's top right moves the tour to the Archive, StrollPoint's 30-day soft delete. Nothing is destroyed: the tour disappears from the main list, appears in the Archive section at the bottom of the page, and can be restored from any device for 30 days.
Click the trash and confirm the "Move to the Archive?" prompt. The tour moves to the Archive with a fresh 30-day countdown. Cancel the prompt and nothing happens at all.
This is the correct way to clear finished or abandoned tours off the list. Permanent deletion is a separate, deliberate act inside the Archive (Delete forever), so a mistaken tap here never costs you a tour: scroll down and restore it.
Points chip
The orange chip on each card, for example "12 points", is the tour's point count: the number of walkable 360 positions. It is defined to match the editor's point list exactly, so travel waypoints (map-only path markers with no photo) are never counted.
The number comes from the tour's most recent save: every editor save stamps the real point count, and a tour created from photos starts at one point per photo. For old tours never saved from the editor, the dashboard falls back to the counts recorded when the walks were captured.
The dashboard re-reads the count whenever you return to this tab, so after an editor session, come back here and the chip reflects the saved state. If it looks stale, the editor is usually still syncing its latest save; give it a moment, then switch back to this tab again.
Live / Private chip
The second chip states the tour's visibility. Live (orange) means the tour is published: anyone with the tour link can open it, no sign-in needed. Private (grey) means the tour is unpublished and the link does not work for visitors; only you, signed in, can view it.
The chip is a readout, not a switch: clicking it does nothing. You change the state with the publish toggle in the editor's Share panel; the dashboard reports whatever is currently set, refreshing whenever you return to this tab.
Keep tours Private while you build, and flip to Live only when the tour is client-ready, because a Live tour can be in front of a customer at any moment. Glance at this chip before sending anyone a link.
Tour card chips
Beyond the points and Live/Private chips, a card can carry two more grey chips, both quick facts. Exterior or Interior is the environment of the tour's most recent recorded walk, so it only appears on tours that have walk recordings; tours built purely from photos show no environment chip. The short date, like "Jul 14", is the day the tour was created in your account, not the day the photos were shot.
All of these are readouts: clicking them does nothing. For a capture date that visitors actually see, use the Capture date field when creating the tour or the editor's Tour Info panel; the grey date chip is internal bookkeeping.
The dashboard and its cards
The dashboard is home to every tour you build, each represented by a full-width card. Underneath the tour's name are readouts: the orange chip tells you how many points are in the tour, matching the editor. The "Live" or "Private" chip tells you if the link is public. Always check this before sending a link to a client!
Archive
The Archive is the 30-day holding area for deleted tours. It appears at the bottom of the dashboard only when it holds at least one tour. Every archived tour sits here fully intact with two buttons: Restore and Delete forever.
The "days left" line under each name is the countdown: it starts at 30 the day you archive and shows how many whole days remain before the tour is permanently purged. At 0 days left the tour and its files are cleaned up for good.
The Archive is account-wide: a tour archived on your laptop shows in the Archive on every device you sign into. Treat the countdown as real. If a client might change their mind, restore before it ends; there is no recovery after the purge.
Restore
Restore moves an archived tour straight back to the main list with everything intact: points, photos, settings, publish state. There is no confirmation step because nothing about restoring is destructive.
Click Restore, the "Restored" confirmation appears, and the dashboard refreshes with the tour back among your tours. The old countdown is discarded: archive it again later and the clock starts fresh at 30 days.
Restore works from any device, any time within the 30-day window. If it fails you get a "Restore failed" message with the reason and the tour stays safely in the Archive; a failed restore loses nothing.
Delete forever
Delete forever permanently destroys an archived tour right now: every photo and file in storage, every capture record, and the tour itself. It does not wait for the 30-day countdown, and there is no undo and no trash behind the trash.
Click Delete forever and read the confirmation: "Permanently delete … and ALL its files right now? This cannot be undone." Confirm and on success you see "Permanently deleted". If any step fails you instead get a purge report listing exactly which steps succeeded and which failed, so nothing fails silently; run it again to finish the job.
Use it only when you are certain: test tours, duplicates, wrong-account uploads. For anything a client ever touched, prefer letting the 30-day clock run out instead; it costs nothing and preserves the option to restore. Never purge a tour whose link might still be in a customer's hands.
Merge a group into one tour
Merge is the teal button in a group row on your dashboard, beside the pencil that renames it and Remove. Press it and a brand new tour is created, named after the group, with one location per tour you merged. A tour that already has layers of its own keeps them together inside its location, and the doors between them come along. It needs at least two tours in the group, and it asks you to confirm the names before it starts.
It is a full independent copy. Every point name, folder, door, business, event and promotion comes across, and every photo is copied, which can take a few minutes while a pill counts them off. The originals stay exactly as they are, with their own cards and their own links, so editing the merged tour never changes them and editing them never changes it.
The tour is saved before the photos move, so a photo that will not copy leaves you one photo short rather than a tour with nothing in it, and the message names how many did not copy and which. The merged tour then becomes the group’s face on the dashboard, with the tours that made it folded underneath as Source tours. Merging is a computer job: on a phone the button is not there.
Merge a group into one tour
"Merge" combines every tour inside a group folder into one single, massive tour. This is perfect if you had to shoot a property across multiple sessions. The original tours stay completely untouched, Merge just creates a brand new master tour that combines them all as separate layers.
Setup Link
+ Setup Link creates a new tour and copies a link in one press. The tour appears on your dashboard immediately, named Awaiting setup, and the link goes to whoever is doing the groundwork, a property manager, an owner, a helper.
They open it straight into Scouting: they name the tour, set the address, and place every photo point, without ever seeing your dashboard. They cannot send links onward, and their link is bound to that one tour forever, opening it again simply reopens the same plan.
Your dashboard tells the story as they work: the container shows the address arriving, the points being planned, and the shoot being captured. When they name the tour, the container adopts the name. Once the editor has panoramas, the container becomes a normal tour card, keeping one small Scouting chip only while a shoot is still unfinished.
Setup Link
A "Setup Link" lets your client start the tour creation for you. You generate a link and send it to the property owner. They fill out the name, address, and details because they know the property best. While they do that, you'll see a card saying "Awaiting setup" on your dashboard. Once they finish, it automatically updates with the real name.
The video course
The course teaches StrollPoint end to end, in the order a real tour gets built. Planning a shoot, taking the photos, building the tour, and publishing it. Every tool in the product gets its own lesson.
Work through it in order the first time. After that, come back to any single lesson you need. Nothing is skipped and nothing is assumed.
What this course is
Welcome to the complete guide to StrollPoint. We are going to cover everything from end to end: planning your shoot, capturing the photos, building out the actual tour, and finally publishing it. We have dedicated a specific lesson to every single tool in the platform, so nothing is skipped or assumed. I recommend walking through it in order your first time, but after that, feel free to jump around and grab exactly the lesson you need.
Who can build a tour
You do not need a photography background. You do not need to know mapping or web work. If you can walk a property and use a browser, you can build a tour.
The work splits cleanly if you want it to. One person plans the shoot in Scouting and walks the property with a phone, another imports the photos and builds the tour in the editor, which needs a computer. One person doing all of it is just as normal.
Who this is for
You don't need to be a professional photographer, a web developer, or a mapping expert to do this. If you can walk around a property and use a basic web browser, you can build a great tour. You can easily split the work up, having one person handle the planning and shooting while someone else builds the tour, or you can tackle the whole process yourself.
How the course is arranged
There are eight modules. One, planning a shoot in Scouting. Two, walking the property and taking the photos. Three, importing them and working with points. Four, levels and property maps. Five, areas, colors and destinations. Six, paths and navigation. Seven, the eraser, Street View and tour features. Eight, publishing and what a visitor sees.
Each module stands on its own. If you already have your photos, start at module three.
How the course is organized
We have broken the course down into eight distinct modules. First is Orientation and Scouting, where you will plan your shoot. Next is Capture, which covers walking the property and taking the actual photos. Then we move into Import and points, where the tour gets built. After that, we cover Properties, levels and map overlays; Groups, colors, icons and destinations; Paths, navigation and opening views; and Magic Eraser, Street View and tour features. Finally, we wrap up with readiness, publishing and the finished tour. Each of these modules is designed to stand entirely on its own.
Messages under the header
The editor answers you in one place. A rounded message appears below the header, centered on the screen. It fades in, holds a few seconds, then leaves on its own. There is nothing to click and nothing to close.
A plain dark message is a receipt: it confirms what the editor did. A red message is a refusal or a failure, and it holds longer, up to twelve seconds. Only one message shows at a time and a new one replaces the last, so read every red one while it is on screen.
When a standing mode chip owns the top slot, such as the orange chip for Move Points, the message lane drops below it. The two never cover each other.
Toasts, the strip across the top
The editor communicates with you via a small, rounded message strip below the header. It appears, gives you a receipt or warning, and fades out automatically. Dark messages are receipts and notices. Red messages mean something failed, always read the red ones before they vanish!
Cloud status chip
The chip in the bottom right corner reports the cloud in detail. The chip in the header says Saved or Syncing. This one says what is happening.
A colored dot sits on its left. Orange is work in progress, green is finished, red is a problem. While an edit uploads it reads Saving to cloud, and when the edit lands it reads Saved with the size in KB. During an import it counts panoramas, four of nine, five of nine, and ends at Saved, all in cloud.
Sync now sits at the right end of the chip. Press it to push everything to the cloud at once. The chip dims a few seconds after a green result, and stays bright while anything is red.
The cloud status chip, bottom right
Upload details show at the top of the screen. During an import, a progress bar under the header counts the photos as they upload.
When the cloud chip turns red
Three red readings matter. Save failed names the reason after the words. Cloud copy unreachable says it is holding the save so nothing is overwritten. Asset upload failed counts the photos that did not land.
All three want the same thing from you. Press Sync now and watch the dot. Green means it went. Leave the tab open until it does, because closing the editor on a red chip loses that change.
Nothing to sync is not a failure. It means no tour is open. Open one from the dashboard first.
When the cloud chip turns red
The sync chip never turns red. If your session signs out, the editor stops on a "You are signed out of StrollPoint" screen. Your latest edit is kept in this browser: press "Sign in", open the tour again here, and it saves.
Collapse rail
The chevron at the right edge of the Build header is tooltipped Collapse rail. Click it and the rail folds away, and the stage gets the space. Use it when you need the full width for the map.
A narrow tab appears at the left edge of the screen, labeled Show tools. Click that tab and the rail comes back. Nothing about the tour changes either way.
This is separate from the Points panel on the right, which has its own Collapse panel button. Fold both away and a laptop screen has room to draw paths and align a map.
The Build rail
The left-hand rail, titled "Build", houses every tool you need, grouped by job. Setup handles imports and layers. Map handles overlays, zoom and Street View. Photo handles editing and patching. Navigation handles paths and points of interest. Click any tool, and a drawer opens over the rail. Hit "Back" at the top of the drawer to close it.
Collapsing the Build rail
Need more map space? Click the chevron at the top right of the Build header to fold the rail away. A narrow tab reading "Show tools" will appear on the edge, click it to bring the rail right back.
Empty panels
These lines are instructions, not errors. The Points list on a new tour reads No points yet · use Import Panos in the left rail to add your 360 photos, which is exactly where to go next. Properties with nothing selected reads Select a point to inspect, and one click on any row fills it.
The areas panel gives you the whole job in one line: No areas yet. Pick points with Select Points, give them a category, and add an area name to save them as an area. The Points of Interest list reads No pins yet. Pick an icon above, then click the photo.
When a panel looks broken, read its middle. The answer is written there.
Empty states, and what each one asks for
If a panel is empty, it will literally tell you what to do next. An empty Points list tells you to run an import. An empty Properties panel tells you to select a point. These aren't errors; they are instructions.
Keyboard shortcuts and Find any command
Press Shift and the question mark together and a sheet prints every shortcut, grouped under seven headings: View, Move around, Edit the point, Drawers, Map tools, Opening view, Everything else. A last area called More lists the rows that have no key.
Learn a handful first. 1, 2 and 3 switch the view. N and P step to the next and previous point, and holding Shift with them jumps ten at a time. Enter opens Properties for the point you have open, D flips the Destination switch, and Ctrl+S saves right now. Most drawers carry a letter of their own: E is Magic Erase, O is Opening View, R is Route Check, Q is Share, B is Tour Readiness.
Press Ctrl+K for the other route in. A box opens reading Type what you want to do. Type part of a tool name and press Enter on the row you want. With no match it reads Nothing matches that. The list is built from what is on screen, so a hidden tool never appears in it.
Keyboard shortcuts, the shortcut sheet and Find any command
Press Shift and the Question Mark key together to see the master list of keyboard shortcuts. Learn the basics: 1, 2, and 3 switch your view modes; N and P jump between points; D toggles Destination; and Ctrl+S forces a save. Alternatively, press Ctrl+K to open a search box and just type what tool you want.
The import bar
Every import puts a bar at the top center of the screen, floating above whatever you are doing. The left of the label names the job. The right of the label is the count: photos finished over photos picked, with an orange fill growing underneath to match.
Read the count, not the bar. The count tells you how much is left. When it finishes, the label reads done and the bar removes itself about four seconds later.
Do not close the tab while this bar is on screen.
The import bar and its count
When you run an import, a floating bar appears at the top of the screen showing your exact progress (e.g., "12 / 40"). Watch the numbers, not just the bar. Never close the tab while this is running!
The open drawer decides what you can edit
The editor keeps every placed thing locked until you open the drawer that owns it. Floor tags move only while Point Tags is open. Pins move only while Points of Interest is open. The logo moves only while Logo is open. Picking points on the map needs an area's settings or the New area pane.
This one rule explains most of the moments where a drag does nothing. It is not a fault and nothing is missing. Open the drawer that owns that thing and the same drag works.
Closing a drawer never discards anything, because every control saves as you use it. The lock is protection. It stops a stray click moving work you placed carefully.
The open drawer decides what you can edit
The editor keeps items locked to protect your work until you open the specific drawer that owns them. Floor tags only move when "Point Tags" or "Move Points" is open. Map pins only select when a drawer that picks pins is open, like an area's settings, "New area" or "Align & Rotate", or when you Shift click one. If your mouse isn't doing anything, you probably just have the wrong drawer open.
Profile
Profile is the first card on your account page, which you reach from Plan and billing in the dashboard account drawer or Account & billing in the editor one. The page is headed Account & billing, and the card says Your details. Change anything here and save.
It holds Full name and Phone, then what you look after: Company or property name, Your role, Kind of property, How many properties, Property location and Approximate size. Four of those are lists to choose from rather than boxes to type in. Press Save profile and the line above the fields reads Profile saved. A name is the one thing it insists on: leave it empty and it tells you your name cannot be empty.
Fill it in once, the first time you sign in. None of it reaches a visitor, so nothing here is on show. It is what somebody at StrollPoint reads when you write in about a tour, and it is what the rest of the page is filed under. Sign in & security, the card below it, is where your email address and your password live instead.
Your account at the foot of the rail
Your account info is pinned to the very bottom of the Build rail. Click it to open a drawer where you can manage your billing or sign out.
Delete account
Delete account is the red button on the last row of your account page, under Sign out. The words beside it read Permanently remove your account and all tours. This cannot be undone.
Press it and nothing is removed. A message comes up saying account deletion is currently handled manually and asking you to email [email protected] to request it. So the button is a way of asking, not a switch. Your tours, your photos and your sign-in all stay exactly as they are until somebody answers that email.
If what you want is for a tour to stop being seen, you do not need this at all. Turn Anybody can open this tour off in the Front Desk and the link stops working for everybody but you, or move the tour to the Archive from your dashboard, where it is restorable for 30 days. Either one takes a second and neither one asks anybody for anything.
Scouting
The teal Scouting button is the first of the three on a tour card, before Editor and Front Desk. It opens this tour's scouting plan in a new tab: where somebody is going to stand, in what order, and what has been shot already. There is no gate on it, so it sits on every tour you have, old ones included, because a recapture or a new wing needs it as much as a new tour does.
The first press makes the plan. It also hands the plan two things so nobody types them twice: the address you gave when you created the tour, and the link to the live tour once there is one, which is what the capture app's own Tour button opens. That copy goes one way only. Scouting never writes back into your tour information.
Press it from any browser on any machine. The plan belongs to your account rather than to the computer you made it on, so the dashboard proves the tour is yours and takes the plan back when no copy to hand matches. If it cannot, it says it could not open Scouting and to try again in a minute, and nothing is lost by pressing again.
Where a plan comes from
A plan does not appear on its own. It belongs to a tour, and the tour comes first. Sign in on a computer and open your dashboard. Press Create New Tour and type the property name. Type the street address into the Address field while you are there. Press Create tour. Your new tour appears as a card. Every card carries the same buttons, Scouting, Editor and Tour among them. Press Scouting. The plan opens in a new tab, already holding that address. Press Scouting again on any day and the same plan reopens. One tour, one plan, one card. That is the link between the planner and the editor.
Front Desk
The navy Front Desk button is the third of the three on a tour card, after Scouting and Editor. It opens the Front Desk in a new tab carrying this tour's id, so the desk opens on this tour and not on whichever one happens to sort first. If your browser blocks the new tab it opens in the one you are already in.
The desk is where everything a visitor reads lives: the places and their hours, events, the front screen cards, sponsors, lists, inventory, the numbers and the board report. The editor builds the walk, the Front Desk dresses it, and this button is the door between them. The report that used to have a button of its own on this card lives inside the desk now.
On a phone or a tablet the button is not drawn, and neither is the Front Desk row in the account drawer. The same answer that keeps the editor off those devices takes the desk off them too. Open the dashboard on a computer and both come back.
Scouting chips
A tour with no points yet wears up to five chips from its scouting plan. Scouting says a plan exists at all. Then either Address with a tick or a grey No address yet. Then 12 points planned, then 4 of 12 captured, then a grey 2 flagged. The last three appear only once there is a number to put in them.
Once the tour has points the row shortens to one chip, Scouting 4/12, and that one goes as well when every planned point has been captured. So a card with no scouting chips on it is either a tour nobody planned or a shoot that is finished, and the difference is one press of Scouting.
This is the only place a shoot shows on the dashboard, and the numbers come from the plan rather than from the photos in the tour. Read 2 flagged first. Those are the spots whoever walked the property marked Flagged instead of capturing, and they are waiting on you to decide what happens to them.
Check the plan before anyone drives out
A shoot is only as good as the plan behind it. Read the plan through once before you send it out. Check four things. Every point carries a real name, not the word Point. No point is still pulsing on the map. A pulsing point was never placed. Every point that needs a note has one. Gate codes, locked doors and parking all belong there. And the number of points suits the property. Thirty to fifty is normal for a small place. Your dashboard card reports the same plan from the other side. It reads Address with a check mark once the address is set. It counts how many points are planned. Fix the plan now. Nobody wants a second trip.
Choose a folder
Choose a folder is the teal button directly under Choose photos in the Import Photos drawer. Rather than reaching into a folder and picking the photos, you hand over the folder itself and the import keeps what it can use, .jpg and GoPro .36P, and ignores the rest of what is in there.
The line under the buttons says what it found before anything moves, reading something like 24 photos in that folder. Importing them now. A folder with nothing it can read says so instead and names the two kinds it takes, so you know to check which folder you picked rather than wonder whether the import broke.
It then imports exactly as Choose photos does. Every photo arrives as its own point, placed by its own GPS and aimed by its own compass heading when the camera recorded one, and points arrive unconnected, so you still draw every path yourself. Handing over the same folder twice is safe: a photo already in the tour is recognised and skipped, and a note tells you how many were skipped and how many are new.
One import door, and the switches beside it
There is only one import tool now. Inside the drawer, there are no switches. Points arrive unconnected, so you draw every path yourself. Floor tags are aimed automatically from the camera's compass as the photos come in, and "Undo the last change" puts the last automatic pass back.
Made with StrollPoint
Made with StrollPoint is a small dark pill in the bottom left corner of the tour itself, on a phone and on a computer alike. It is a link, and it opens strollpoint.com in a new tab.
It is drawn on the Free plan and on no other. Tours on Operator, Studio and Agency draw nothing there. Nothing in the editor switches it on or off and there is no setting for it: the plan the tour belongs to decides, and the badge appears or goes the next time the tour loads.
Two things follow from that. A tour you are shown with the badge on it is on the free plan, whoever is showing it to you. And upgrading is the whole of the work, because there is nothing to go and remove afterwards.
Sign in and security
Sign in & security is the second block on your account page, under your profile, and its line names the ways this account signs in.
Email address takes the new one twice, and Send confirmation sends a link to both your current address and the new one. Both links have to be opened or nothing changes, and your email stays as it is until then. The two messages come from [email protected], so check spam if one of them does not arrive. Mistype the second box and it tells you the two emails do not match before anything is sent.
Password takes your current password, then the new one twice, and Update password saves it. Eight characters is the minimum, and it will not take the password you already have. On an account that has only ever signed in with Google the block reads Set a password instead and asks for no current one: "This account signs in with Google. Set a password and you can use either." Once you have set one it says so, and from then on the block asks for the current password like any other.
Usage this month
Usage this month is the block under Subscription on your account page. Its line reads "Resets on the first of each month. Upgrade to lift caps." Three tiles sit under it: Tours, Captures and Storage.
Tours is labelled Active tours in your account, and where your plan carries a limit it prints yours against that limit, 1 / 3. The limit shown is the account's own, the same one that decides whether you are allowed to create another tour, so it is never a guessed number. Storage is labelled Across all panoramas and adds up the size of every panorama you hold. Captures is labelled Stops captured this month.
A tile that never fills in means the account is still loading, or the figures could not be fetched; reopening the page asks again. None of this is a bill. For what you are paying, and what the next plan up lifts, use Manage billing on your plan card above.
Front Desk
Front Desk is the first row under Your tours in the Account panel on the dashboard. The line under it says what is through the door: every tour’s numbers, events, services and map sheets. Press it and you leave the dashboard for the Front Desk.
It sits here, next to the email you are signed in as, because the Front Desk is not part of building a tour. The editor is where photos, paths and tags are made. The Front Desk is where a tour is run once it exists, which is often a different person on a different day.
Plan and billing
Plan and billing is the second row under Your tours in the Account panel, directly under Front Desk. Its line reads change plan, update card, or cancel, and that is the page it opens: the plan you are on, the plans above it, and what you have used this month.
Look at it before you need it rather than after. The number of tours your plan includes is enforced the moment you press Create New Tour, so knowing which plan you are on is the difference between planning the next tour and meeting a wall halfway through a sitting.
The plans, and what each one includes
Your account page lays the four plans out side by side under Subscription, over the line Pick the plan that fits your volume. Cancel or downgrade anytime. Free is $0 a month and one tour. Operator is $49 and three. Studio is $149 and twelve. Agency is $399 and forty. Upgrade to Operator, and the two beside it, open the checkout. Manage billing opens the portal where the card on file, the invoices and cancelling live.
Tours are not the only difference. A free tour is also held to twenty points, and it carries a Made with StrollPoint link inside the finished tour. Every paid plan lifts the point limit, drops that link, and opens Street View points, 3rd party tours and more than one building. These numbers are read from your account by the dashboard, the editor and the tour alike, so there is one answer and all three obey it.
Under the plans, Usage this month shows what you are actually using: Tours against your limit, Captures for the stops shot this month, and Storage across all your panoramas. Read it before a big shoot rather than after, because the tour count is the one that stops a create.
You are at your plan’s limit
Press + Create New Tour with no room left and a panel slides up titled You are at your plan’s limit. It names the plan and the number, so a free account reads The Free plan includes one tour, and you are using it. Under that: upgrading takes a minute and your tours stay exactly as they are, and you can also archive a tour you are done with to free the slot.
See plans and upgrade goes to your account page. Not now closes the panel and leaves everything alone. Nothing was created and nothing was lost, the create did not happen and that is all.
Archiving really is the other way out. An archived tour keeps everything in it, stops holding a slot, and comes back whole with Restore. In the editor the same cap turns up per point instead of per tour, as a message naming your plan and the points it includes, with the same two answers: delete a point, or upgrade.
The plans, and Manage billing
Subscription is the third section of the Account & billing page, after Profile and Sign in & security. You get there from Plan and billing in the dashboard’s account sheet, or Account & billing in the menu under your name. Four cards sit side by side: Free at $0 a month for 1 tour, Operator at $49 for 3 tours, Studio at $149 for 12 tours, and Agency at $399 for 40 tours. Above them: Pick the plan that fits your volume. Cancel or downgrade anytime.
Each paid card carries its own Upgrade to button, which opens checkout. Manage billing on the Free card opens the billing page instead, where the card on file, the receipts and cancelling live. Every one of those buttons reads One moment while it works, and if it cannot open it says so in a line of plain words rather than leaving you pressing it.
Under the plans is Usage this month, which Resets on the first of each month. The tour count is the number that bites first: when you are using every tour your plan carries, the dashboard answers Create New Tour with a sheet instead of a new tour.
The hover help card
Rest the pointer on a control in the editor or on the dashboard, hold it still a moment, and a small card appears beside it. In the editor it carries the control’s name, its own line about what it does, the short brief from this Academy, the keyboard shortcut when it has one, and Open the guide, which opens the matching section of the Academy in a new tab. On the dashboard it is the name, the brief and the same link.
The card reads from the same file these pages are built from, so what it tells you and what you are reading here can never drift apart. In the editor it is placed on the map or photo side of whatever menu the control belongs to, never over the menu itself. A card headed About this control is one where the control has its own words but no section in the Academy yet.
It belongs to a mouse. Pressing or dragging anything cancels it, so it never appears over work in progress, and on the dashboard it is switched off on a phone or in any window narrower than 901 pixels, where a tap would have opened it on top of the thing you were trying to press.
You are at your plan’s limit
Once you are using every tour your plan carries, pressing Create New Tour brings up a sheet headed You are at your plan’s limit. It names the plan and the count, so it reads like the Operator plan includes 3 tours, and you are using all of them, rather than a create that quietly fails.
Under it: Upgrading takes a minute and your tours stay exactly as they are. You can also archive a tour you are done with to free the slot. Then two buttons. See plans and upgrade takes you to the Account and billing page. Not now closes the sheet and leaves everything as it was.
Archiving is the answer that costs nothing. A tour you have finished with goes to the Archive from its own card, which frees the slot and keeps everything inside it, and you can bring it back whenever you want. The count behind all of this is the one your account really has, not something the page works out for itself.
Webpage
Webpage is the black button beside Tour on the second row of a tour card, under the row that holds Scouting, Editor and Front Desk. The two on this row are the two things a visitor sees. Tour opens the tour itself. Webpage opens the website the tour builds out of its own contents: the header, the ways in, and every section in the order you set, in the tour’s own look.
It opens in a new tab. It is the page to look at before you give the address to anybody, because it is what somebody who has never heard of you finds. Everything on it comes from the tour, so a place you add or an event you post turns up there without a second piece of work.
Two answers mean there is nothing to open. No captures in this tour yet · add captures first means the tour has no photos in it yet. This tour is Private, so it has no webpage yet · switch it to Live in the Front Desk, under Share means the tour exists but is not public, and the switch it names is the one to go and press.
Floor tags
Floor tags is the last card in the Import Photos drawer, and most days there is nothing in it to press. Tags are aimed at their neighbours as the photos come in, so by the time the import bar finishes the aiming is done. A photo with no compass heading is still placed on the map by its GPS, and only its tags need doing by hand.
The line under the card is that pass reporting itself: how many floor tags were placed across how many points, how many tags you had placed by hand were left alone, and a warning when points report a magnetic heading with no declination set for this tour, which can leave those tags several degrees off. Read it before you go looking for a fault.
Undo the last change puts the last automatic pass back the way it was. It keeps every tag the pass did not place, so a tag you aimed yourself after the import stays where you put it. It holds one pass, and it sits dim when there is nothing to undo.
The floor tags line and its amber warnings
Your import report includes a Floor tags line with amber warnings about heading data. It will tell you if points are relying on a magnetic compass, if points lack headings entirely, or if connections were skipped due to keep-out zones. Write these counts and point names down to fix them later.
From a Google Drive folder
From a Google Drive folder is the card under Choose a folder in the Import Photos drawer. Paste the address of a Drive folder into the box and press Load that folder. It reads the folder and reports what is in it, 14 photos and about how many megabytes, and then Import these photos appears and runs the same import as photos picked off this computer.
A folder with folders inside it gives you a button for each one, Open and its name, and pressing that loads it instead. While the photos come down the button reads Fetching from Drive and the import bar counts them, so a big folder is a real wait: leave the editor open until the bar finishes. If Drive stops part way you are told how many arrived, and those are imported rather than thrown away.
The folder has to be shared with anyone who has the link, and when it is not you are told what to do about it: That folder is private. In Drive, open Share, set it to Anyone with the link, then press Load that folder again. Nobody signs in to Drive for this, at your end or theirs, which is why the link a client already sent you is all this needs.