TreeringReviews of treering.com

Great colors and binding. Arrived in time to give to our seniors before graduation with all major school events included in our yearbook.

Fast and Quality Printing Treering has such quick printing turnaround that we are able to submit the book much later in the year than with other companies. This allows us to cover more of the school year in the book and include more spring events. We like the fact that we can upload pages using Background and therefore avoid using the Treering platform for design work. We like to make our pages in InDesign and then let our Middle School students add photos and certain aspects in Treering. Technically, this is a 4.5 star review as the Treering design tools can be clunky and we don't care for the assets and pre-designed options. But we're not taking off a star since they offer a way around that. At the same time, if this were fixed, we'd give a full five-star experience vote. Resizing photos and cropping on the page are two of the main issues. All that said, the quality of the book is consistently high. The printing quality is vibrant and colors are true. This is our fifth book with Treering and we are very happy.

I went to order my son's yearbook in my treering account that I have used for several years, and this year wasn't available. I was informed that they have deemed my account "not updated". What should have taken me 10 minutes has now been a week long ordeal with support. Still not fixed.

Not the experience I was hoping for this time. I recently ordered my son’s yearbook and selected his current teacher from the list provided—only to later find out I had apparently chosen the wrong school year and school. The confusing part? His teacher was listed as an option, even though she teaches at the elementary school, not the primary school he attended last year. So I’m unsure how that even happened. Thankfully, one of the yearbook moms caught the mistake and told me to call in to get it transferred to the correct school. When I did, I was told not only could they not transfer it, but they also refused to refund me. As a single mom, that really doesn’t sit right with me. Sure, maybe it was my mistake—but if the system allowed me to choose a teacher from a different school, something about that process is broken. I just expected a little more understanding and flexibility. Disappointing, to say the least.

Great experience. Everything went smoothly!!

Great customer service. This was my first year doing the yearbook for our school and I decided to make the switch to Treering. We got double the pages for the same price compared to Shutterfly, and the interface was navigable for a first timer. I designed the book in InDesign and dropped hires jpegs into the yearbook layout. Worked out perfectly.

As a quick aside—I teach a Yearbook Team, and our school has used several different yearbook production companies over the years, including Herff Jones, Walsworth, and most recently, Treering. While Treering initially presents itself as clean and simplistic, it unfortunately lacks some extremely basic functionality and exposes multiple glaring bugs and oversights during real-world use. Here are just a few recurring frustrations my team and I encountered throughout the editing process: - Zoom Issues: When opening a page in the editor, standard text sizes (11–12pt) appear incredibly small. Anything below 16pt becomes nearly unreadable unless zoomed in. Unfortunately, zooming requires manually adjusting a percentage dropdown—there’s no smooth scroll-to-zoom or shortcut functionality, which severely disrupts workflow and makes editing tedious. - Extended Load Times: Even minor edits—like typing a single line of text—can result in noticeable lag. This delay adds up quickly when working across many pages or making multiple adjustments. - Erratic Text Frame Resizing: Adjusting the left handle of a text box often causes the entire frame to behave unpredictably, stretching or shrinking from the opposite side. This makes layout alignment unnecessarily frustrating. - Uneditable Off-Page Items: Elements (like text or graphics) that are accidentally moved beyond the bleed area become unclickable and unmovable. Unlike other platforms, Treering does not allow users to grab or recover off-page assets. - "Ghost Locked" Pages: Pages sometimes remain locked even after a team member exits, occasionally for several minutes. This seems to be a server responsiveness issue, but it creates bottlenecks and confusion in collaborative environments. - Thumbnails Stuck on “Updating Preview”: In spread view, some thumbnails show an “Updating Preview” spinner despite not being recently edited. This occasionally affects multiple spreads, leaving them inaccessible for no clear reason. - Clunky Photo Organization: Moving photos between folders lacks drag-and-drop functionality, making what should be a simple task feel outdated and overly complicated. - Confusing Portrait Flow Editing System: While portrait numbers can be adjusted, users have virtually no control over the layout structure beyond selecting a preset number of portraits to flow onto a page. Intuitively, one might expect that entering "portrait mode" in the page editor would allow for the creation and management of new folders. However, this process is unnecessarily confusing and unintuitive. Folder names for portrait flows are automatically dictated by the name of the page they’re placed on and cannot be edited manually—a limitation that was only clarified after a support call with a Treering representative, as it is not documented in any FAQ or official resource. Additionally, users cannot define the number of rows or columns, nor control the spacing between portraits and name labels. This often results in awkward gaps or misalignments between names and images. - Missing Page Status Tracking: Walsworth offered a simple but powerful system to tag each spread with statuses like “Not Started,” “Started,” “Proof,” “Submitted,” and “Completed.” When I contacted Treering support to ask if anything similar existed, the only solution offered was to “lock” the page—unfortunately, this also blocks any further editing unless manually unlocked, which defeats the purpose for workflow tracking. - No Shortcut Support for Text Formatting: Common text-editing shortcuts such as Ctrl+B (bold), Ctrl+I (italic), and Ctrl+U (underline) do not work within Treering's text editor. Users must manually highlight text and then click the corresponding formatting button in the toolbar. This adds unnecessary clicks to every edit and slows down the process for students used to standard keyboard workflows. **As a side note, the Treering support staff has been incredibly helpful and generally easy to reach, with hold times rarely exceeding five minutes. That said, there were a few instances where the initial support representative was a non-native English speaker with a strong accent, which occasionally made communication difficult and led to some misunderstandings. Bottom Line: While Treering may work for schools needing a basic, plug-and-play solution with a low learning curve, it is not well-suited for teams seeking detailed design control, collaborative efficiency, or consistent formatting. Many of its features feel underdeveloped or outright broken, making the editing process more frustrating than it should be—especially for students learning to lead and create.

Easy to use. Cost was reasonable. Quick shipping.