Booking software for New Zealand portrait photographers.
Sessions booked a season out, the mini day filled slot by slot, and the sale that comes after the shoot sent as a quote instead of chased by text.
Start with Google- Mini, standard and extended sessions priced as fixed tiers
- Only your real golden hour slots ever shown
- Deposits at booking that hold the slot properly
- Date overrides for wedding weekends and holidays
- At-home newborn shoots slotted around your other travel
Online booking
A newborn slot taken at two in the morning
New parents book when the house finally goes quiet. Your page shows what you genuinely have left and prices each session as they pick it.
Learn moreSmart scheduling
One Saturday, cut into short slots
Mini sessions back to back down the day, each gone from the page the moment it is taken, so nobody is sold a slot that has already gone.
Learn moreDecember goes in October.
A portrait diary fills a season ahead, and the weekend a family finally agrees on is usually the one that went a month back.
The enquiry still lands
With nothing free left the page takes a request rather than turning them away, and it comes in with the occasion and the dates they can do.
Offer the next month
Most people will wait for the photographer they picked. They would just like to know which weekend they are waiting on.
One family, three sessions to pick from.
The short mini, the standard hour, or the long one with two spots and the grandparents in it. Three options on the one document.
Priced by the hour or the job
A session is an hour of your time or a job at a fixed price. Both are real, so the mini and the long one can sit on the same page.
The session fee, taken or not
Your page can take the session fee as they book or take nothing at all, and it is set per service rather than once across the whole business.
A number set once
The quote number is fixed the moment it goes out, so your copy and their copy are plainly the same document a month later.
Three options on one quote is Pro
Several priced options on one quote is the Pro part. They pick the tier that suits, accept it by typing their name, and the option they chose becomes the booking with the price already on it.
- Extended session · 90 minTwo locations$450
- Second shooterHalf day$320
- Album · 20 pageFine art$430
The sale that lands a week later.
Most portrait money arrives after the shoot, once they have seen what you made. That part is a quote and a link, not a second booking.
Send it as a quote
Whatever you sell after a session goes out itemised, opened by them and accepted by typing their name, with the date they viewed it on your side.
A link for the balance
A payment request carries its own signed link, so the balance gets settled without an account, an app or a call about bank details.
The photographs stay yours
Bookables never touches the images. It holds the booking, the quote and the money and leaves delivering the work to whatever you already use.
Cards come with Pro
Cash and bank transfer recorded by hand are free on any plan. Cards are the only part of the money that needs Pro.
- Hemi WalkerBooked just now$215Accepted
- Sarah ColemanOpened 2h ago$480Viewed
- The Oak CaféSent yesterday$120Sent
We are due on the 11th of March. Can we get in for a newborn shoot in the first fortnight?
A baby with no date to book yet.
Nobody can book the eleventh of March for something that has not happened. So it arrives as a request carrying the due date and what they are after, and you agree the real morning together once there is a baby to photograph.
- Grey Lynn8 districts · 2 crew
- Devonport7 districts · 2 crew
- Auckland North7 districts · 2 crew
The houses and beaches you drive to.
Half of portrait work happens somewhere else: a lounge with a newborn in it, a park at five, a back lawn with the good light on it.
The mini day runs to the minute.
Fifteen families, twenty minutes apiece, one Saturday. It only works if the eleven o’clock does not quietly eat the eleven twenty.
- Hemi WalkerP-1011 · 25 Jun · Bank transfer$380
- Sarah ColemanP-1012 · 25 Jun · Cash$240
- Mere SolomonP-1013 · 28 Jun · Card$380
- James FifitaP-1001 · 27 Jun · Card$190
One day, three ways of being paid.
The session fee taken as they booked, the cash somebody pressed on you at the end, and the balance settled by link a week later all land on the same list, against the booking each of them belongs to.
Built for portrait work
Every occasion a family books you for
Newborn sessions at home
Booked around a due date rather than to one, with the address on the record so you know where you are driving at seven in the morning.
Whānau portrait sessions
The whole family in one place is a rare afternoon. Price it as its own session rather than squeezing it into the standard hour.
Summer mini-session days
One Saturday cut into short slots that go inside a week, each held the moment it is taken and none of them sold twice.
Beach and lifestyle sessions
Late light, an address that is not yours, and a booking that carries where to meet rather than a thread of directions.
Cake smash and first birthdays
A studio session with its own length and price, booked by a parent who found you the week the baby turned eleven months.
School ball and graduation portraits
A short seasonal session that fills a weekend, booked online while the family is still arguing about which day suits.
Corporate headshot days
One business, one day, short sittings one after another, everyone on the same record and one payment request at the end.
Maternity sessions
Fixed price, fixed window, and simple to shift a fortnight when the bump turns out to have its own timetable.
Personal branding sessions
An hour priced as a job rather than by the minute, taken off your page by someone who needs the photo before Monday.
The album sale, after the shoot
Goes out as an itemised quote a week later, accepted online by typing a name, and settled with a payment link.
- Mason King · Mount EdenHeadshot day · sitting 6 · Wed · 3:30pm$180
- Ava Baker · Grey LynnNewborn session · at home · Wed · 1:00pm$560
- Grace Walker · AucklandFamily mini · 20 min · Wed · 11:30am$120
- Amelia Ryan · Mount EdenExtended family session · Tue · 2:00pm$190
A corporate headshot day and a newborn at seven, on one list.
One company filling a Thursday with fifteen-minute sittings sits in the same list as the family beach session and the newborn shoot at somebody's house, each with its own price and its own status.
- 2 NovExtended family sessionBooked · $450
- 18 OctAlbum quoteAccepted · $430
- 21 SepPayment received$220
- 6 MarCake smash sessionCompleted · $220
The same family, for a decade.
Newborn, then the cake smash, then the one where everybody is home at once. Every session, quote and payment stays on the one record, so the next enquiry starts from what you already know.
One app for the whole job
Everything you need to run your portrait photography business.
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only when you do.
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As you grow with us you can go Pro.
Common questions.
Yes. Each session sits on your page with its length and its price, only the times you actually have free are shown, and the booking lands on your calendar. Anything out of the ordinary comes through as a request.
No. There are no galleries, no proofing and no print ordering in here, so keep what you already use for that. What Bookables holds is the booking, the record and the money.
Send an itemised quote they accept online by typing their name, or send a payment request with its own link. Both happen after the shoot, which is when the decision is actually made.
It is the case this handles best. Make the session short, open the one day, and the slots fill back to back until the day is gone. Nothing gets sold twice.
Then it is not a booking. The parents send a request with the due date and what they are after, it arrives as a card you accept or decline, and the real date gets picked later.
Nothing to begin with. The Free plan carries a monthly booking allowance and needs no card, and the plan cards on this page carry the numbers. Cards come with Pro.
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