A CRM built for photography studios
Enquiries, shoot days, editing and gallery delivery on one board — deposits chase themselves, and no gallery quietly goes out late.
Free · no signup · a real plan and price in ~10 minutes, in your words.
- to a working prototype
- ~1 week
- to start
- €500
- that chase themselves
- Deposits
Off-the-shelf CRMs were built for a sales team. Not for photography studios.
Enquiries land on Instagram, email and the contact form — and the couple who doesn’t hear back by tomorrow books whoever replied first.
Deposits and balances get chased by hand, which means awkward money conversations the week of the wedding — or shooting before you’ve been paid.
The editing backlog lives in your head: which set is culled, which is retouched, whose promise date slips — until an apology discount fixes it.
Print and album sales are the easiest money in the business, and they never get offered because delivery day is also collapse-on-the-sofa day.
See it from the inside
What your CRM would look like — screen by screen.
Not stock screenshots — this is the shape of the system we’d build for photography studios: your records, your stages, your words. Click through the screens.
The studio’s morning screen — shoot days coming up, galleries still in the edit, money outstanding — and what already went out before coffee.
A real starting point
Here’s the analysis we’d start from — for photography studios.
Not a template. This is the data model, pipeline and automations a business like yours actually runs on — mapped in your words. Your free analysis produces exactly this, shaped to you.
Your system, mapped
Your pipeline, exactly as your CRM would show it — your stages, your words. This is what we build from.
What it tracks
Where customers reach you
Connects to
Busywork the system takes over
- Enquiry auto-reply — pricing guide and booking link back within the minute
- Deposit & balance chaser — invoice on booking, balance chased before shoot day
- Gallery delivery — link sent on approval, nudge before it expires
- Print & album upsell — an album offer a week after delivery, built from the most-viewed images
What this replaces — where it hurts today
- Enquiries answered too late
- Deposits chased by hand
- Editing backlog in one head
Your price, from your answers
Standard scopePrototype · 1 weekstart here
€500
- Client + shoot records
- The enquiry-to-delivery board
- The deposit-chaser automation
Full build
€3,500–€7,000
Estimate — it becomes one fixed price on the free call. Never hourly, no surprises.
What sets your scope
- · Enquiry-to-booking pipeline with deposits
- · Shoot scheduling & pre-shoot briefs
- · Gallery delivery & print-upsell automations
Run · monthly
€160/mo
Hosting, monitoring, fixes and small improvements.
If you go all the way: ≈ €5,420 first year, all-in — and you own everything. Today's only decision is the €500 prototype.
Questions photography studios ask us
- Does it work with Pixieset, Pic-Time or wherever our galleries live?
- Yes — we build around your gallery host, not against it. Delivery links, download status and expiry dates sit on the client record, so the CRM knows a gallery went out and the upsell fires on time, wherever the images are actually hosted.
- We’re two photographers and a retoucher — isn’t this overkill?
- It’s sized to you. Small studios lose the most to admin because there’s no one to delegate it to — the system does the replying, chasing and nudging, and you keep shooting. It grows with a second shooter or a studio hire without changing tools.
- How long until we’re live?
- A working prototype in about a week for €500. The full build usually lands in three to six weeks, depending on how many shoot types, integrations and automations are in scope.
- Who owns the system and the data?
- You do — entirely. It’s your system, hosted for you, and you can export everything — clients, shoots, galleries, invoices — at any time. No per-seat lock-in.
Have a mess like this one?
Book a free 30-min call. We’ll sketch what your version of this system would look like — and put a number on it.
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