Online Booking Software for Photographers
Turn a DM about a family session into a booked date. Your customers pick a session type, a date, and a time, and pay by card in the same flow, so the shoot is on your calendar before you get back to the next message.
- Online bookings from your own website, or from the link in your bio
- A booking flow customized to match your photography brand
- Card payment inside the booking, so the session is paid when it's booked
- Session types, packages, and every shoot on one calendar you can run from your iPhone
Demo
How online booking works for a photographer
A screen recording of a real booking on Luna Pearson Photography's kiwilaunch booking page. The customer opens a wedding shoot, enters their postcode to check the service area, adds drone coverage, picks a date and time, fills in their contact details, applies a promo code that brings the total down, and pays by card.
Integrate with your website or use our standalone booking page
Booking widgets in your website
- Integrate in 3 mins with an embed script
- Your own web pages convert to paying customers
- Compatible with all systems (Wix, Wordpress, Squarespace, Weebly and more)
Standalone booking page
- Your custom domain and design
- Use in your ads (social media, newsletters)
- Optimized for conversion and customizable
Photography booking software with the payment built in
Whether you shoot weddings, newborns, headshots, or brand content, the work around the work is the same: answer the message, agree on a date, and get paid. kiwilaunch gives you a photo session booking system on your own website or on a standalone kiwilaunch booking page, with your own custom domain on it if you want one. Someone picks the session type, a date, and a time, and pays by card in the same flow. On your side, one calendar holds every shoot, and payments, invoices, refunds, and extra charges all live in one dashboard.
Booking software for photographers who get asked in the DMs
Most inquiries don't arrive as an email. They arrive as a message at 10pm asking whether you're free in October. Put your kiwilaunch booking page behind your own domain, keep that link in your Instagram bio and in your ads, and answer with the link instead of a back and forth about dates. The customer picks the session and a time you actually have open, and you go back to editing.
A booking flow that looks like your work
Your booking flow should feel like the same business as your portfolio. The booking funnel can be customized to match your brand, so the step between the portfolio and the confirmed date doesn't look like it came from somewhere else. It sits inside your own website through an embed script, or stands on its own page at your own domain. Either way, your customer stays with you the whole time.
Payments that live inside the booking
Payments run on Stripe, built into the booking flow and into your admin panel. Someone booking a headshot session can pay by card right there. For everything else, you can send a payment link, invoice a commercial customer, or charge a returning customer straight from your dashboard. Refunds and extra charges happen in the same place.
Mini-session days, packages, and the regulars
Each session type is its own service with its own settings, so a 20-minute fall mini and a full wedding day aren't sharing one set of rules. Build a mini-session day as a run of short slots and share a single link. Sell a package when a family wants newborn, six months, and one year together, and set a recurring booking for the brand customer who shoots with you every month.
A photographer scheduling app that fits in the camera bag
The kiwilaunch iOS app carries your calendar, your customers, your bookings, and your payments, which matters when your office is a car between two locations. Check what tomorrow looks like, and take a card in person with Tap to Pay on iPhone, with no reader to buy or keep charged. The admin happens between shoots instead of at midnight.
iPhone app
Run the whole thing from your iPhone
Everything you'd sit down at a desk for, on the phone that's already in your hand.
Your booking page, live in minutes. Set it up on the phone and share the link the same day.
Today, first thing. Who's coming, what they booked, and who still owes you.
Get paid without the chase. Take the card in person or send a payment link, from the app.
Take a card with nothing but your iPhone. No reader to buy, carry, or charge.
Join us
Flexible pricing plan suited for the size of your business
Free
$0/month
Take bookings and get paid online, with no monthly bill.
- 100 bookings
- Own branding experience
- Custom labels and localization
- Custom landing page
- Online payments via Stripe
- Self onboarding
Transaction fee : 1%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
Solo
$9/month
One calendar, one person: you.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited bookings and customers
- Custom domain
- Google Calendar integration
- Marketing integrations
Transaction fee : 1%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
Business
$39/month
Bring your team. Add as many staff members as you need.
- Everything in Solo
- Unlimited team members
Transaction fee : 1%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
Scale
$99/month
Assisted onboarding, enterprise support, and the lowest transaction fee we offer.
- Everything in Business
- Assisted onboarding
- Enterprise support
Transaction fee : 0.5%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
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Frequently asked questions
How do I add online booking to my photography website?
Most of my inquiries come through Instagram. Can I just send a link?
Can I offer different session types and sell packages?
Can I run a mini-session day?
How do photo session payments work?
Can I take a card in person, at the shoot?
Can I try it before I pay?
Can I bring the customers I already have?
Contact us
Do you need custom expert support?
If your business needs custom help on design, integration, or content creation, let's talk.
(We will arrange a call with our experts to define your needs and scope.)