How do I connect SmugMug to Check Cherry?

The event is over, the photos are edited, and the gallery is live on SmugMug. Now you need to get it to the client, which usually means copying a link, digging up the gallery password, and writing the same delivery email you wrote last week. The SmugMug integration connects that last step to Check Cherry. It does two things: it lets you attach a SmugMug gallery to a booking and send it to the client in a couple of clicks, and it makes your SmugMug photos available anywhere you pick images in Check Cherry.

Connect your SmugMug account

Manage → Business Settings → Integrations
Go to Integrations and find SmugMug in the Galleries section.
Click Connect.
Sign in to SmugMug and authorize the connection. You will land back in Check Cherry with your account connected.

The Integrations page shows which SmugMug account is connected, so if you ever need to double-check, that is the place to look.

Every booking has a Deliverables panel where the gallery link and viewing instructions live. With SmugMug connected, you can fill those in by picking the album instead of copying and pasting.

Bookings → Select a booking → Deliverables → Manage
Open the booking and click Manage on the Deliverables panel.
Click Browse SmugMug Albums.
Search for the album by name and click it. The search works across your whole SmugMug account, so this stays fast even if you have thousands of albums.
That is it. The booking's Gallery URL and Instructions fill in automatically.

Password-protected albums

If the album is password protected, Check Cherry asks about the password before finishing, because SmugMug does not let us read an album's existing password. You will see the album's password hint if one exists, plus two options: enter the password if you know it, or reset it to a new one. If you reset, Check Cherry suggests a short, easy-to-share password (you can change it or generate another) and updates the album on SmugMug. Either way, the password is written into the booking's Instructions so the client receives it with the gallery link.

Resetting changes the album's password on SmugMug itself. Anyone you already gave the old password will need the new one.

Once the gallery details are set, a Send Gallery Information to Client box appears at the top of the Deliverables page with Send via Email and Send via SMS buttons (SMS appears if SMS is enabled for your account). Each opens a message pre-filled from the Send Gallery template with the client's name, the gallery link, and the instructions already in place. Review it, tweak the wording if you like, and send.

The Send Gallery templates (one for email, one for SMS) are seeded for every account and are customizable like your other automated message templates. Worth a few minutes to make the default message sound like you, since you will be sending it after every event.

The Deliverables page also has fields for video: a Video/Video Gallery URL and its own Instructions. The SmugMug picker fills the photo fields; video details you enter yourself. And the page tracks when the gallery details were first set and last updated, which is handy when a client asks whether their photos went out.

Use SmugMug photos in your media library

Once connected, SmugMug also appears as a source in the Media Library browser, which opens anywhere you pick images in Check Cherry: package photos, proposals, website content, and the Media Library page itself. Browse your albums as tiles, click into one to see its photos, and import the ones you want. It is an easy way to put real photos from your own events on your packages and proposals instead of stock images.

Imports use the largest web size of the photo rather than the original file, which keeps pages fast and is plenty sharp for packages and proposals. Only photos can be imported; video files in an album are skipped.

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Last updated July 14, 2026 14:13