Campaign deadlines that do not wait for manual edits
A garden centre prepares an Easter weekend promotion. Forty SKU photos arrive from suppliers mixed with six in-house bench displays shot at dusk. Everything must carry the shop logo and fit the website template by Thursday because the mailer sends Friday at 7am.
A fashion boutique plans a collab launch with a local maker. Instagram carousel, website banner, and printed swing tags share photography but need different crops. Manual editing steals hours from packing orders. Batch export replaces an all-nighter in Photoshop.
From folder to published before the store opens
Upload the campaign folder to Stampi. Set logo position once. Choose web and social export profiles. Download ZIP. Hand files to whoever runs Mailchimp, Vend, or the Meta business suite. Total time is usually minutes if logo settings are decided.
Because processing is local, shop Wi-Fi slowness does not upload your catalogue to a remote server. That matters when forty high-resolution supplier files would otherwise clog an upstream connection on a busy evening.
Concrete retail scheduling scenarios
Black Friday prep: compress hero images so mobile landing pages load under three seconds. Logo placement consistent across categories so the site feels planned, not thrown together.
New store opening: Google Business photos, Facebook event cover, and local press pack all due the same day. One Stampi batch with multiple export sizes beats three separate editing sessions.
Seasonal window change: photograph the window after styling, brand the set for social, resize for email, and push to the screens vendor before staff leave. Scheduling success is whether imagery is ready when channels need it, not whether Stampi prints rota sheets.
Checklist for lean retail marketing teams
Monday: confirm campaign shot list. Tuesday: photography and supplier assets in folder. Wednesday morning: Stampi batch and internal proof. Wednesday afternoon: uploads and test email. Thursday: schedule sends and social. Friday: monitor. Photo prep fits in Wednesday morning instead of expanding to fill all of Wednesday.
Keep a campaign README in the folder: logo PNG, required widths, launch date, channels. Whoever covers holidays can rerun Stampi without calling the usual person.
Honest limits
Stampi will not schedule Instagram posts or staff shifts. It prepares images. If retail scheduling search intent meant workforce planning, this tool solves a narrower problem: visual assets on deadline.
When photography is the bottleneck, free batch branding removes the excuse that editing time pushed a profitable sale later than competitors.
Window campaigns and in-store screens on the same timeline
A fashion window refresh often ships photography to three places: the website sale page, the Instagram carousel scheduled for opening morning, and the digital screen facing the high street. Each wants a different crop. Stampi exports all three from one branded batch while the visual merchandiser resets mannequins.
Grocery and specialty food retailers photograph promo stacks the night before a bank holiday. Files must reach the agency building the flyer PDF and the person scheduling social before the store opens. Batch ZIP delivery by email is faster than sharing a cloud folder of raw exports someone still has to edit.
Treat the ZIP filename as part of scheduling discipline: include campaign name and date so nobody uploads last season's branded set by mistake.
Supplier drops and partial catalogues
Campaigns rarely arrive as one neat folder. Supplier A sends twelve images on Tuesday, your merchandiser adds counter shots Wednesday, and the email platform wants assets Thursday. Stampi lets you batch each drop with identical logo settings so the final mailer still looks unified.
When only half the SKUs have photography, brand what exists and queue the remainder in a second batch when stock lands. Consistent logo geometry means late additions do not stand out as afterthoughts.
Keep a campaign spreadsheet with columns for source file, branded export, and upload status. Photo prep stops being tribal knowledge when cover is needed during holiday leave. New starters can follow the sheet without a handover call about logo opacity.
Black Friday week often means multiple drops from the same supplier. Rerun Stampi with unchanged settings so each drop matches the first batch customers saw on teaser posts earlier in the week.
If your ESP throttles upload size, compress a dedicated email batch separate from the high-resolution web set. Same logo settings, different export profile, two ZIPs from one afternoon session.
Frequently asked questions
We get supplier images the night before launch. Is batch fast enough?
Yes. Upload the supplier ZIP contents, add your shop logo, export web and social sizes, download. Most batches finish before your espresso machine heats. The critical path is approving logo placement on one busy product photo, then trusting the batch for the rest.
Can we prepare both landscape website heroes and portrait stories?
Export separate profiles from the same upload. Run landscape-first sources for website heroes, then square or vertical profiles for stories. If a crop cuts important product detail, shoot with extra margin or pick a looser composition next time. Stampi respects aspect ratio when resizing to longest edge.
Does Stampi store our campaign files for next season?
No server storage. Save the downloaded ZIP on your drive or cloud storage. Keep the logo PNG and a text note of Stampi settings if you want to match next season exactly. Many shops duplicate the folder naming each year: Easter2026-source and Easter2026-export.
Our printer needs 300 dpi files. Will web export work?
Web-optimised exports prioritise screen file size. For print swing tags or posters, start from the largest originals and use minimal compression or export closer to native resolution. Stampi is primarily for digital retail channels. Test one print proof before committing a full run. Many shops run a separate light-compression batch labelled print while email uses web sizes.
Can relief staff run the same campaign batch?
Yes, if logo PNG and margin notes live in the campaign folder. Write opacity and corner position on a sticky note inside the shared drive path. Relief staff upload the folder, match the numbers, export, and upload to the same channels without waiting for the usual marketer to return. A two-minute Loom of the last successful batch prevents guesswork on logo size.
Is Stampi free to use?
Yes. Stampi is free with no subscription, no credit card, and no trial that expires. Open the app, upload your files, and download the results. We built it that way on purpose because photo prep is annoying enough without a paywall in the middle.
Do I need to create an account?
No. Stampi runs in your browser with no sign-up. Images are processed locally on your device. When you close the tab or download your ZIP, the session is gone. We do not store your files on a server.
How do I get started?
Go to stampi.cc, upload your photos (or click Try with samples to load demo files), add your logo, pick your export formats, and hit Prepare Media. A ZIP downloads in seconds. That is the whole workflow.