From photos to a live tour in one sitting.
Everything begins on the dashboard. Press Create New Tour, give it a name, choose at least one 360 photo, and you have a tour. Each tour appears as a full-width card with its point count, Live or Private status, and buttons for everything you can do with it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Split chip shows the panorama and the satellite map at the same time, side by side: the map takes the left half of the stage and the 360 photo takes the right half. The chip highlights to show it is the active view.
Split is the default view: every editing session opens in it, with all your points fitted in the map frame. The map re-sizes itself automatically whenever the layout changes, so you never have to nudge it.
Work in Split for anything that pairs the photo with geography: placing tags while checking their direction on the map, reviewing connections, or walking the tour while watching your position. When one side needs your full attention, jump to 360° or Map and come straight back; switching views never changes anything about the tour itself.
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 groups, 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.
The Collapse panel icon button in the right panel's header slides the entire right panel, the Points list with its groups, 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
+ Create New Tour opens the Create a new tour dialog, the start of every tour. No phone scan is involved: you name the tour, optionally fill in the business details visitors will see, choose your 360 photos, and press Create tour. Each photo becomes one point, and each photo's own GPS places its point on the map automatically.
Step by step: click + Create New Tour · type a Tour name (the only required field) · fill any of the info fields you want · click Choose photos… and select your 360 JPEGs · press Create tour and watch the progress bar · when it finishes on a computer, the editor opens with your new tour loaded. On a phone the tour is still created, but the editor is desktop-only and waits for a computer.
Have the photos exported from your 360 camera before you start, in JPEG format. Everything in the dialog except the photos can be changed later: the name from the card's pencil, the info fields in the editor's Tour Info panel. So do not stall on wording; get the points in and refine later.
+ New Group creates a folder in your tour list. Name it, then drag tours onto it and they file inside. A client with five properties becomes one tidy row instead of five scattered cards.
The group only organises your dashboard. It changes nothing about the tours themselves, their links, or what visitors see.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
Category is an optional one-line label for what kind of place this is, for example "Family Campground · RV Park". Visitors see it as the badge under the tour name on the welcome screen and in the tour's info panel.
Type a short phrase or leave it empty. Empty simply means no badge shows.
Keep it to a few words: it renders as a small badge, not a sentence. You can add or change it later in the editor's Tour Info panel, so skipping it now costs nothing.
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.
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 business tour, since the address is the detail visitors act on most. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
Phone is the business'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 business actually answers, the front desk or booking line, not a personal cell. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
This Email field is the business'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 business wants inquiries sent to, for example [email protected].
Skip it if the business prefers phone or the booking link. Editable later in the editor's Tour Info panel.
Website is the business'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 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 is the name of the business the tour was shot for, optional. It is stored with the tour's info alongside the capture date.
Type the business 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 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… 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
Put two or more tours in a dashboard group and the group row carries a Merge button. Press it and a brand-new tour is created, named after the group, with one layer per source tour, each named after the tour it came from.
It is a full independent copy: every point, photo, connection, zone, path, group and property map is copied across, with live progress counting the images. The originals are not touched in any way; they keep their cards, their links, and their independence forever. Editing the merged tour never changes them, and editing them never changes it.
The merge only finishes if every expected image copied. If any fail, nothing is finalized and the message says exactly how many, so a flaky connection can never produce a tour with missing photos.
+ 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.
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.
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.
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, groups, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
These lines are instructions, not errors. The Points list on a new tour reads No points yet and sends you to Import Panos in the left rail. Properties with nothing selected reads Select a point to inspect, and one click on any row fills it.
History reads No edits yet. Your changes will appear here. The groups panel reads a longer line telling you to pick points, give them a category, then name the group. 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.
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 group 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.
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 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 a group's settings or the New group 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.