Turn Your Google Drive Folders Into Website Galleries

Introduction

Your photos are already in Google Drive. Now you can put them directly on your Booostr website with out copying them!!!

This is one of those updates that might seem simple at first, but can save your team a lot of unnecessary work. Booostr Site Builder can now connect directly to your organization’s Google Drive and use existing images to create website galleries. No downloading photos, no creating duplicate folders, and no uploading the same images to Booostr just to get them onto your site.

If your organization already uses Google Drive to organize photos, you’re going to like this.

Your Google Drive Photos, Now on Your Website

Have a folder filled with photos from your latest fundraiser, team event, school activity or community project? Instead of moving those images somewhere else, you can simply connect that Google Drive folder to a gallery in Booostr Site Builder.

And here’s the part we think is really useful: the gallery can continue pulling in new images that are added to the connected folder. So your volunteers can keep adding photos to the Google Drive folder they already use, while the website gallery stays connected to it. There’s no need to remember to copy everything over and manually update the gallery every time someone adds a few new pictures.

For volunteer-run organizations, that’s a big deal. The person taking the pictures doesn’t have to be the person managing the website, and updating your site doesn’t have to become another weekly task.

Stop Copying Images Back and Forth

Let’s be honest. Copying images from Google Drive to your website just because your website can’t access the originals is unnecessary work.

With the new Google Drive connection, you can use the images where your organization already keeps them. Choose the folder, connect it to your gallery and you’re ready to go. Existing folders can quickly become full galleries on your Booostr-hosted website, giving you an easy way to showcase the people, events and activities that make your organization what it is.

You can also connect or disconnect Google Drive directly within individual gallery elements in Site Builder, so your team has control over exactly which folders are connected to which galleries.

Build Your Nonprofit Website Without the Technical Work

Booostr Site Builder is a no-code website builder for nonprofits, so you don’t need to know HTML or web development to create and manage your site. The Google Drive integration adds another way to make the day-to-day work of maintaining that site easier without asking volunteers to learn another complicated system.

And because the images can stay organized in the Google Drive folders your team already uses, you’re not creating a completely separate photo-management process just for your website. That’s the kind of small improvement that can make a big difference when you’re already asking volunteers to do ten different jobs.

Simple Connection. Secure Sign-In.

Connecting your organization’s Google Drive is designed to be straightforward, too. Booostr uses Google SSO for secure sign-in and connections, so you can connect your Google account without creating yet another username and password for your team to keep track of.

Need to change a gallery later? No problem. You can disconnect the Google Drive connection right from the gallery element in Site Builder and make a different selection when needed.

And Your Website Does More Than Show Photos

Of course, the gallery is only one piece of what you can do with Booostr Site Builder.

Your website can connect directly with Booostr Store Manager for 1-click ecommerce integration, while also working with Contact Manager CRM, Form Manager and Volunteer Sign Up. That means your website isn’t just a digital brochure. It can become a place where supporters learn about your organization, shop, complete forms, sign up to volunteer and stay connected with your team.

Booostr also includes hosting at no additional cost, and there’s no charge to point your custom domain to your Booostr-hosted website.

More Photos. Less Website Work.

We love features like this because they aren’t about adding another complicated capability just for the sake of adding one. They’re about looking at something volunteers already do and finding a better way to do it.

Your organization already has the photos. Your team already uses Google Drive. Now your website can connect the two.

That means less copying, less uploading and less time spent maintaining galleries, while giving your supporters a better look at everything happening inside your organization.

And we’re going to keep looking for those opportunities.

A Better Website Without Another Software Bill

If you’re looking for a no-code website builder for nonprofits that can do more than simply host a website, Booostr gives you a connected set of tools built to help increase supporters and revenue while making the volunteer job easier.

Best of all, you don’t have to add another monthly software bill to get them.

Booostr has $0 subscription fees, and every tool is included. That includes Site Builder, Google Drive gallery connections and all of the other Booostr tools, with no additional charge for access to another tool.

You also get unlimited contacts in your CRM and unlimited email sends, so your organization has room to grow without constantly running into software limits.

Take a look at Booostr and see what you can build with $0 in subscription fees at Booostr.co.