Photography and video
Booked shoots with deposits, deliverable galleries and heavy file storage needs.
Six short steps. No email or account.
Family
Creative, media, events and technology
Project or audience-based income, delivered mostly as digital work.
- Priority decisions
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Operating reality
What makes this different
The realities that change which tools can actually work for you.
Deposits and contracts protect against cancellation, which is the main revenue risk.
File storage volumes are large and grow permanently, so storage cost is an ongoing line item.
Equipment cover is a distinct insurance need from liability.
Usage and licensing terms in the contract decide whether you can resell the work later.
Where to start
The decisions that matter here, in order
You do not have to take them in this order, and you do not have to take all of them. This is where most businesses like yours start.
- 1Proposals
Send a proposal that wins the work and gets signed.
- 2Invoicing
Send the bill, and let people pay it without writing a cheque.
- 3Appointment booking
Let people book a time without the back-and-forth.
- 4Email and file storage
Email at your own domain, and files everyone can find.
- 5Accounting software
Track income and expenses so tax time is a report, not an archaeology dig.
- 6Business insurance
Cover the things that could end the business in one bad afternoon.
- 7Card payments
Take a card in person, over the phone or through a link.
- 8Customer records and follow-up
One place for every customer, conversation and next step.
Your next step
Answer six short questions about your photography and video business: your team, where the work happens and what you want to fix first. You get an operating plan in the order to tackle it, with the must-haves and comparison points for each area.
Answers
Common questions
- What software does a photography and video business need?
- Booked shoots with deposits, deliverable galleries and heavy file storage needs. The decisions that matter most are 8 areas, starting with the ones tied to how the work actually gets done and paid for.
- What makes running a photography and video business different?
- Deposits and contracts protect against cancellation, which is the main revenue risk. File storage volumes are large and grow permanently, so storage cost is an ongoing line item. Equipment cover is a distinct insurance need from liability. Usage and licensing terms in the contract decide whether you can resell the work later.