For events, companies and organizations
Upload the list. Search the archive by person.
The engine that names athletes on a sideline names the people in your conference hall, your all-hands and your gala. It matches against a list you provide, the names are written to the files, and storage is the only line item on the bill.
Standard from $20/mo · Volume from $160/mo for 2 TB · No per-attendee or per-photo charges
We built MatchID for sports because sports is the hard case. The engine does not know it is a sports tool.
A list of people with headshots, and a pile of photos. A team roster, an attendee list, an employee directory, a donor list. To the engine those are the same thing.
The rest of what was built to name athletes at scale works here unchanged: the matching, the review queue for anything uncertain, the names written to the file in XMP and IPTC, the branded galleries, the FTP delivery and the 0% commission store.
Nothing about it was specialised so narrowly that it only works on a sideline.
Sports is the hardest thing you can point a facial recognition engine at. Most of what you photograph is not sports.
A face half covered by a helmet, turned away, blurred by motion, photographed from across a stadium, streaked with sweat. Each of those conditions works against facial recognition, and MatchID was built to name the athlete anyway.
A keynote. A handshake at the podium. A headshot. The face is close, well lit, facing the camera and holding still, which is the condition facial recognition handles best. The engine is not working against the photo here.
The same product and the same workflow. The list is what changes.
Trade shows, summits, industry conferences, award nights. Load the attendee and speaker list, and the keynote, session and step-and-repeat photos come back named, ready for sponsors, press and the people who turned up.
All-hands, off-sites, holiday parties, headshot days, brand sessions. Load the employee directory once, and comms, HR and brand teams search a person instead of a date.
Galas, annual meetings, member gatherings, fundraisers. Load the member or donor list and hand named photos to the people whose support you want to keep.
Four of the rooms this already works in.
Load the registration export. Photographers cover keynotes, breakouts and the expo floor, and the names are written to the files, so marketing pulls a speaker’s photos or a sponsor’s booth coverage without opening a folder.
One upload of the employee directory. The candids, the awards and the stage photos from the off-site are filed to the right person, which is the difference between an archive and a pile.
Load the guest and honouree list. The step-and-repeat, the award moment and the table candids come back named, and each supporter can be sent their own photos under your branding.
Match a headshot session against the directory and each image lands on the correct employee or member. No naming spreadsheet, and nobody matching filenames to a list by hand.
Import the list with headshots and the matching works the same, whatever the list is called in your organisation.
One archive you can search by person, across events and across years.
The name is written to the file itself, in XMP and IPTC PersonInImage, so a photo handed to a sponsor or filed in a different system reads the same name there. An account can hold several lists at once, which is what lets one organisation keep its staff directory and its member list apart.
The distinction matters enough to put it on the page rather than in a footnote.
It matches the photos you upload against a list you upload, of people you already have a relationship with: your attendees, your employees, your members, your donors.
Somebody who is not on that list is not identified. There is no lookup against a wider index, because there is no wider index.
There is no global headshot database, no matching across client accounts, and no model training on your photography. Each client’s data is isolated, and your reference list benefits your organisation only.
You own the data and GalleryID is the processor, not the owner. Uncertain matches wait in a review queue for a person to confirm rather than being guessed at.
Not the list, not the people who need access, not the identifications, not the sales.
A list of two hundred people costs the same as a list of two thousand, and the comms, HR, brand and events people who need the photos are free to add. Charging per name or per seat would mean charging most for the organisations that have the most people to look after.
MatchID is unlimited on all plans, with no credits and no per-photo fee. Run it across a whole conference, and run it again when the late registrations arrive with their headshots.
The download store runs at 0% commission, paid to your own Stripe account. You are the merchant of record and we take no cut of what you sell.
Two tiers, the same features in both, and the only difference is the price per GB.
Right-sized for a single event, one conference, or a smaller organization.
For a company or association running a year-round archive, at a better rate per GB as it grows.
White-label galleries on a custom domain, FTP and PhotoShelter delivery, the audit log, the 0% commission store, unlimited MatchID, unlimited users and unlimited lists come standard. The tier decides the price per GB and nothing else. See pricing in full →
Yes. MatchID matches faces against any list of people who have a headshot: an attendee list, an employee directory, a member or donor list. Jersey number reading is the part that only matters in sports, because helmets hide faces. Facial recognition is the core of it, and it works the same way at a conference or a gala as it does on a sideline.
Event photos are the easy case. Facial recognition works best on a face that is lit, frontal, close and still, which describes a keynote, a handshake at the podium and a headshot. Sports is the opposite of all four, and that is what MatchID was tuned to survive, so a posed event photo asks much less of it. Uncertain matches still wait in a review queue rather than being guessed at, whatever the setting.
A list of people, each with a headshot: a registration export, a speaker lineup, an employee directory, a member or donor list. Import a CSV with headshots or add people one at a time. Your photos are matched against that list and nothing else.
No. You upload the list and the photos, and the people being identified never sign in. You choose how to deliver: branded gallery links, direct downloads, or named files you hand over however you already share with attendees, staff or members.
No. It matches against a list you upload of people you already have a relationship with: your attendees, your employees, your members. It is not facial search of the public, there is no matching across accounts, and each client’s data is isolated. Somebody who is not on the list you provided is not identified, and we do not maintain a global headshot index or train models on your photography.
Storage-based, in two tiers, and nothing else is metered. Standard starts at $20/mo for 200 GB and scales to 1.5 TB at $10 per 100 GB block, which covers a single event or a smaller organisation. Volume covers 2 TB and up from $160/mo, then $40 per 500 GB above 2 TB with no cap. Unlimited MatchID, unlimited users and unlimited lists are included at both tiers.
None of the three. The size of your list does not change the bill, the number of people who need access does not change the bill, and identifications are not metered. Platforms that meter identification usually charge somewhere between one and three cents an image, and per-seat pricing for this kind of software commonly runs $25 to $50 per user per month. Storage is our only line item.
The names are written to the files, so anything you have downloaded or delivered keeps them and nothing is trapped in GalleryID. Cancelling starts a 30 day grace period where you keep full access to reactivate or export the archive. The specifics are in our terms.
Built for the field.
Works in any room.
14-day free trial, card required · No per-attendee, per-seat or per-photo charges