New iPhone Photo App: SmartStudio: Wedding Photographer Studio Manager
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 10:45AM | Glyn Evans Description from the AppStore: SmartStudio: Wedding Photographer Studio Manager
THE BIG IDEA
SmartStudio is the #1 software for managing your wedding photography business. From the day a prospective bride calls to the day you deliver the final product, SmartStudio will keep you organized and focused on what you do best - taking amazing pictures.
THE PROBLEM
One of the biggest frustrations for wedding photographers is the lack of mobility in studio management software. They limit you to the confines of a computer and most require an internet connection, not to mention a cost of nearly $50 every month for as long as you are in business.
For wedding photographers who haven't used studio management software - your frustration is the sheer amount of detail involved in taking the phone call of a prospective client, remembering that person's name, phone number, and email address, helping them choose the right package, book their wedding date, remember that wedding date, answer all their specific questions, remember when each of their payments are due, recall every shot request, and so on. Then to compound the problem, add more clients with the exact same needs. It can be overwhelming.
SmartStudio: Wedding Photographer Studio Manager is here to help!
FEATURES
- Track and manage payments due across multiple bookings and multiple payment milestones
- Easily contact clients to remind them of a payment due date
- Filter bookings by Future Weddings, Prospective Clients, In Post Production, and Complete
- Each booking contains a Dashboard with access to: Details, Itinerary, Contacts, Payments, Ideas, Notes, Crew, and Shots
- Manage your packages and associate them with your bookings
- Easily create custom packages and customize payment due dates and amounts
- Create and manage itineraries for the entire day of each of your bookings
- Google Maps integrated into itinerary to easily navigate to important locations at the right time
- Create shot lists and check off shots as you complete them
- Connect with your client or important person over the phone or email directly from the app
- All contacts integrated with your address book so their name shows up in Caller ID
- Compatible with multiple-day events
- Note where final products are supposed to be sent
- Capture photo ideas: Client may bring an image from a magazine or email you an image and you need to remember
- Manage crew members for each wedding and easily contact them over the phone or email directly from the app
- One-time cost for the software opposed to a monthly cost to operate a non-mobile software solution
- No internet connection required
- Access information on the go, when you need it, where you need it
AppStore Link: SmartStudio: Wedding Photographer Studio Manager - Price £17.99/$29.99
Editors comments: This is not a cheap app, but if you are a professional wedding photographer the this app may be just want you've been looking for.
Reader Comments (7)
Can you please quantify 'The #1 software for managing your wedding photography business'
Sales stats would indicate that's ShootQ.
Itunes would indicate that its Second Shootr (if you're referring to just App store software).
No matter how I 'fiddle' the numbers, SmartStudio is not the #1 software.
@Tim. Sorry I forgot to add "Description from the AppStore:" at the bigining of this post, which I have now done.
'The #1 software for managing your wedding photography business' are the developers words and not the blogs, and as such I have no way of quantifying the numbers.
This post as with most new app posts is here to let people know about this app.
As a none wedding photographer I have no idea is this app is either good or useful, so hence the comment asking for any feedback.
Sorry for the error in the original post.
who delete my post? why it has been deleted?
ops sorry.
So great !
Sound like a really great photo management software. I'm curious if this enhances the quality of photos taken by iPhone. We all know that iPhone gives somewhat dark and unlively picture quality.
Duncan Samuel
Business Scheduling Software