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Getting started for a photo or video studio

From sign-up to your first booking: the kinds of work you do, packages and prices, the calendar, enquiries and your team.

Sign up

  1. Tell the sign-up chat what your studio does in a sentence (“weddings and baby shoots in Kochi”). It picks Photography & videography and the kinds of work — weddings and events, portraits and family, commercial, films, studio rental, classes — and asks only what is missing.
  2. Mention your starting prices and your price list starts from them; everything else is an example you can edit.
  3. Your workspace opens with the menus and pipelines for those kinds of work. Change them any time in Settings → Workspace.
  4. The free trial runs 7 days. Choose a plan and the number of seats in Settings → Billing whenever you are ready; the first charge waits until the trial ends.

Packages and prices

  1. Packages & pricing: your packages by kind of shoot (for example Silver, Gold, Platinum) with hours, photographers, edited photos, album and films.
  2. Add-ons (second shooter, drone, extra hour, express delivery …) and pricing rules: peak dates, weekdays, travel for shoots outside your city, and your GST or VAT.

Calendar and enquiries

  1. Calendar: set how many teams you can send out on one day; each date shows free, some left or full. Mark peak and blackout dates.
  2. An enquiry is a job: Jobs → New, with each function (haldi, sangeet, wedding, reception) on its own date, venue and coverage. The estimate prices it from your packages.
  3. Hold a date for a client while they decide; the hold lapses after the days you set unless the advance arrives.
  4. Share your enquiry form on your website and Instagram link-in-bio; every enquiry lands as a job, and Riya can call it back within a minute.

Your team

  1. Invite your team in Settings → Team. On a paid plan each person and each open invitation takes a seat.
  2. Freelancers and crew do not need seats: add them under Crew and confirm them per shoot from a link.