PinPics Quick Start Guide iii Contents CHAPTER 1 Set Up Your Profile Create a User Account 1 Complete the Registration Form 2 Login and Complete Your Profile 4 CHAPTER 2 Catalog Your Pin Collection Set the Privacy of Your Pin Collection 8 Catalog Your Pin Collection 9 Collection and Search View Options 11 Find Your Pins: Search Tips & Tricks 13 Searching from the Front of the Pin 15 CHAPTER 3 Trade Your Pins Catalog Your Wants 18 Select Your Trades 20 Activate Trade Assist 21 Use Trade Assist to Trade Your Pins 22 Finding a Pin You Want 22 Trading a Pin You Don’t Want 24 iv PinPics Quick Start Guide Confirmations and eMail Messages 26 Best Practices for Internet Pin Trading 28 Ask for References 28 Negotiate the Trade 28 Agree on the Terms 29 Ship the Pins 30 Confirm the Trade 30 Trade Issue Reports 30 CHAPTER 4 Add a New Pin Take a Photo of the Pin 31 Complete the Add New Pin Form 32 CHAPTER 5 PinPics Rewards Program Pins@Cost Drawings 37 Rules of Engagement 38 CHAPTER 1 Set Up Your Profile hen you become a member of PinPics®, you join the largest online community of pin collectors in the world. As a community member, Wyou can view and search the PinPics database of over 100,000 pins. You can catalog and share your own pin collection. You can connect with other pin collectors around the world. And you can trade your pins with over 75,000 other PinPics members using the exclusive Trade Assist feature. And the best part is that PinPics membership is absolutely free! Create a User Account Setting up your user account is easy. Go to http://PinPics.com and click the “Sign Up” Link to begin the registration process. Here’s how it looks from a desktop or tablet: 2 PinPics Quick Start Guide If you’re using your mobile phone, just tap the “Menu” icon to bring up the navigation menu, and then tap “Sign Up.” Complete the Registration Form You only need to fill in some basic information to set up your account. Name: Enter your first and last name as indicated. If you want your real name to be visible to other users, check “Make name public.” If you don’t want to show your real name, uncheck this box. You can change your privacy settings at any time. User Name: Create a user name for the site. This is how you will log in to access the site, and your user name will be visible to other members on the site. Password: Type a secure password for your account in the first box — then retype it in the second box to verify it. Email Address: Enter a valid email address. PinPics Quick Start Guide 3 Click the “Sign Up” button at the bottom of the form to submit your registration. You can complete the rest of your user profile later. You’ll see a pop-up message confirming that you have set up your account, and you’ll also receive a confirmation email message. 4 PinPics Quick Start Guide Login and Complete Your Profile When you complete your registration, you will be back at the home page. To log in to your account, enter your username and password in the boxes at the top of the page. Unless you’re using a public or shared computer, click the “Remember me” button so that you will stay logged in to your account. When you click the “Log in” button, the top menu will change. Click the “My Pins Profile” link to access your profile. If you’re using a mobile phone, tap the Menu icon and select “Login” from the menu bar. PinPics Quick Start Guide 5 When you’ve logged in, tap the Menu icon. You’ll notice the menu options have changed. Tap “My Pins Profile” to access your profile. The first time you access your profile page, it will look something like this: We’ll explore how to set up your Pin Collection in the next chapter. For now, click the “Edit Profile” button to finish setting up your user profile. 6 PinPics Quick Start Guide You can update all of your profile information — including your name, username, password, and email — from this screen. You can also choose to share your location, your interests, and even tell the PinPics community a little bit about yourself. Anything you choose to make public will be visible to all registered users when they view your profile. PinPics Quick Start Guide 7 As you scroll down the form, you’ll notice four configuration options: Trade Assist, Member Status, Public Collection, and User Preferences. For now, leave these on their default settings. At the bottom of the form, you can choose to upload a profile image. Simply click the “Choose File” button, and find the image file on your computer to upload it. When you’ve finished making your changes, click the “submit” button. You’ll return to your profile page, and see a message telling your profile has been updated. Notice in the example below, the new profile image is displaying. The public profile information displays below the profile image. In this example, the Real Name, Location, and Interests are public, but the email address and biography are private. Congratulations! You’ve successfully set up your profile! In the next chapter, you’ll learn how to catalog your pin collection using the PinPics database of over 100,000 collectible pins. 8 PinPics Quick Start Guide CHAPTER 2 Catalog Your Pin Collection ow that you’ve set up your profile, you can begin to catalog your pin collection. You’ll search through the PinPics® database of over N100,000 pins (and growing) to find the pins in your collection. Once you’ve built a record of your collection online, you will be able to organize and sort your collection by character, year, limited edition size, attraction, and many other options. But more importantly, your pin collection will never be farther away than your mobile phone. The next time you’re at a park or trading event and wondering if you should trade for a pin or not, you can easily search your entire collection on your phone and see if you already own it. And when you trade or purchase a new pin, you can update your collection on the spot. Set the Privacy of Your Pin Collection You can choose whether you would like your pin collection to be viewable by other PinPics members or if you would prefer to keep it private. By default, your collection will be public. This means that if another user views your profile, they will be able to see the pins that you have marked as “Own.” When you begin trading your pins using the Trade Assist feature, other PinPics members will be able to see the pins that you “Want” and that you have available for “Trade,” but you can still keep your personal collection private if you choose. To set the privacy of your pin collection, go to “My Pins Profile” and click “Edit Profile” under your profile image. When you scroll to the bottom of the form, you’ll see these user settings: PinPics Quick Start Guide 9 If you would like your collection to be private, and only displayed to you, select “Private” under the Public Collection option, and then click the red Submit button. Catalog Your Pin Collection When you visit My Pins Profile, notice that there are three tabs in your collection: Collection, Want, and Trade. We’ll explore the Want and Trade tabs in later chapters. For now, let’s add some pins to your collection. The PinPics® database has over 100,000 member-added pins, with new pins added every day. Chances are, most of the pins in your collection are already a part of the PinPics® database. Just enter a few search terms that 10 PinPics Quick Start Guide describe your pin, to find the pin in the database. For example, if you search for “Olaf” you will find well over 100 pins. When you find a pin in your collection, hover your mouse over the photo of the pin. A pop-up box will appear where you can check Own, Want, or Trade. Click the check-box next to Own to add the pin to your collection. PinPics Quick Start Guide 11 If you return to “My Pins Profile” you’ll see the pin in your collection. It’s that simple! Now repeat the process until you’ve cataloged all of the pins in your collection. Collection and Search View Options When you view your collection or search for pins, you can choose from three different views to display your search results:Grid View, List View, and Text View. You can select your view by clicking any of the three icons in the search bar. Here’s the default grid view on a desktop computer or tablet. 12 PinPics Quick Start Guide This is the list view on a computer or tablet: And this is the text view: And here’s how the three views look on a mobile phone: PinPics Quick Start Guide 13 Find Your Pins: Search Tips & Tricks With a database of over 100,000 pins, it can sometimes be difficult to find a specific pin, especially if you don’t know a lot about the pin itself. A search for a character featured on the pin, or the related movie title can return hundreds, or even thousands, of results.