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Online booking for photographers
Mini-session weekends sell slot by slot without a single DM exchange, every shoot takes a deposit at booking, and consult calls land in the gaps you choose. The enquiries that used to die in your inbox become paid dates in the diary.
Photography enquiries arrive at all hours and go cold within a day. A booking page answers instantly: session types with real prices, real dates, deposit taken at booking. The tyre-kickers filter themselves; the bookers book.
A shoot week with Booksmith
Twenty 20-minute slots across one Saturday, priced and deposit-backed. You post the link once on Instagram; the diary fills while you shoot a wedding.
A couple pick a 15-minute call from your Tuesday evening availability and answer your questions: date, venue, guest count. You call prepared, and quote warm.
A family shoot books for the 14th with the deposit paid through Stripe into your account. Reminders will handle the rest; you get on with edits.
Built for working photographers
Minis, full sessions, weddings-consults: each with its own length, price, deposit and questions. Add-ons like extra time or prints extend the slot and the price.
The date isn't held until the deposit clears; the system says so, not you. Money settles straight to your Stripe account.
Location preferences, ages of children, venue, vision: asked per session type, answered before you plan the shoot.
Open only the days you shoot. Block editing weeks in two clicks, cap how far ahead people book, keep a notice period so nobody grabs tomorrow.
Day-before and hour-before reminders, and clients can move their own session inside your rules when it pours, freeing you from the reschedule text tennis.
After the shoot, clients get your Google review link automatically. Local photographers live on search; the review engine feeds it.
Questions we get
Yes, that's exactly the shape it's built for: a session type with a fixed length, price and deposit, offered only on the dates you open. Post the link; watch the grid fill.
Yes, from the link in their confirmation, within the notice period you set. The slot reopens for the waitlist, and their reminders reset to the new date.
To you. Payments run through your own Stripe account; Booksmith never touches the money and takes no commission.
Ask for the location at booking and set buffer time between sessions so travel is baked into the diary. Many photographers open different session types for studio and on-location work.