What you get
Less time on the back office. More time with families.
Get your evenings back
Thank yous, reminders and gallery emails send themselves, in your words.
Automatic emails
Fill your mini days
Early access for past families, a waitlist, and a nudge for the last spots.
Booking and minis
Get paid without chasing
Deposits, balances and payment plans, straight to your Stripe or Square.
Payments
Keep families coming back
Birthdays, milestones and "it has been a year" notes, ready to send.
Families
Always know what is next
One Today screen for sessions, emails due and galleries owed.
Session day
Walk into tax time ready
Income, mileage, expenses and a year-end package for your accountant.
The business side
Book
Families book in a few taps.
Your own page, with your photo, contract and deposit, all finished on their phone.
- Your logo, colors and fonts
- Contracts signed and saved as PDFs
- Deposits to your Stripe or Square
Mini days
Fill your mini day before you post it.
Past families get first pick, everyone else joins a waitlist, and one tap nudges the last spots.
- Early access for past families
- Spots saved for your regulars
- A waitlist for full days
Families
Know who to invite back.
Every family, their kids and their story in one place, grouped by who is due a hello.
- Kids' names and ages on every family
- Every session and what they have spent
- Photo sharing choices, with history
Galleries and money
See what you owe, and what is coming in.
A due date for every gallery, payments collected for you, and your year ready for tax time.
- Deliver and email a gallery in one step
- Balances invoiced with a friendly nudge
- An income goal, mileage and expenses
Already photographing?
Bring your whole business with you.
Your calendar and client list come in, so every family has its kids and history on day one.
Works with HoneyBook, Dubsado, Pixieset, 17hats, Táve, Session or a spreadsheet.
Book the session. Build the relationship.
Turn every session into the beginning of the next one.
bookbirdy remembers every family, their kids and their story, and helps you bring them back.
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1
A new family books
From your event page, signed and paid.
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2
Session day
Checked in, with the kids' names in front of you.
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3
A year goes by
Families who have not booked in a year are easy to find.
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4
They book again
Their details and kids already filled in.
And the rest
The little things, handled.
Emails that send themselves
Thank yous, reminders and gallery notes in your words.
Paid without chasing
Deposits, balances and payment plans to your Stripe or Square.
Your Google Calendar
Sessions come in, and changes go back out.
Photo permissions
Every family's sharing choice, with its history.
Inquiries that stick
Reply with your booking link, and get a reminder to follow up.
Ready for tax time
Mileage, expenses and reports for your accountant.
The difference
From sticky notes and spreadsheets to one calm place.
Before
- Booking by text and DM, then copying it into a calendar
- Chasing deposits and unsigned contracts
- A spreadsheet of past clients you never get to
- Writing the same email every time
- A scramble for receipts and miles every April
With bookbirdy
- One booking page, signed and paid in a minute
- Deposits and balances collected with a friendly nudge
- Past families sorted, with a reason to say hello
- Emails that send themselves from your templates
- Reports, mileage and expenses ready for your accountant
Made only for family and mini session photographers.
No weddings, no commercial work, no pipelines to build first. It started inside a busy family photography studio, and it is still used there every day.
Pricing
Simple plans. Try everything free for 14 days.
Your trial includes every Pro feature and doesn't need a card. Pick a plan when it ends, or don't, and nothing gets deleted.
Basic
Booking, contracts, payments and client follow-up.
$19.99 a month $17.99 a month$215.89 billed yearly
Start free- Sessions, clients and your Today screen
- Google Calendar sync, both ways
- Online booking page, mini session days included
- Contracts with e-signing and PDFs
- Questionnaires that fill in the session
- Client email checklist and templates
- Automatic reminders, follow-ups and balance invoices
- A private family page for every family
- Payment plans, and online changes within your rules
- Deposits and balances through Stripe or Square
- Photo permission tracking
- The mileage log
- Your logo, colors and fonts
- Session day check-in and studio insights
- Your families, their stories, and who to reach out to
- Birthday, milestone and a-year-since reminders
- Your own studio.bookbirdy.com address
- Season planner, with golden hour for every date
- Inquiries, and an editing queue with a due date for every gallery
- Social post captions, a posting plan and announcement pictures
- Reports, sales tax, expenses and a year-end package
- An income goal, and what it takes to reach it
- Import your clients from HoneyBook, Dubsado, Pixieset and more
Pro
Adds waitlists, newsletters, gift cards and friend codes.
$29.99 a month $26.99 a month$323.89 billed yearly
Start freeEverything in Basic, plus:
- Waitlists for full mini session days
- Coupons, and gift cards you sell online
- Bring-a-friend codes that thank the family who sent them
- Newsletters with click tracking
- A map of your families, to plan minis close to home
- Use your own domain for booking pages
Coming soon to Pro:
- SoonTwo-way texting with clients, and text reminders
- SoonGmail sync, so every client email shows up in their record
One extra booked session covers bookbirdy for months.
Prices in US dollars. Change plans or cancel any time from your billing page.
Questions
Things photographers ask
Can I bring over my clients and my past sessions?
Yes. Connect your Google Calendar and your past and upcoming sessions come in. Import your client list from HoneyBook, Dubsado, Pixieset, 17hats, Táve, Session, Sprout Studio, Google Contacts or any spreadsheet. bookbirdy matches sessions to the right families and never creates duplicates.
Does bookbirdy deliver galleries?
Not the photos themselves. Keep using the gallery app you love, like Pixieset, Pic-Time or ShootProof. bookbirdy handles everything around it: an editing queue with a due date for every gallery, a one-step way to email the family their link, and the booking, contracts and payments before it.
How do clients pay me?
Connect your own Stripe or Square account. Clients pay on Stripe's or Square's secure checkout page, and the money goes straight to you. bookbirdy never sees or stores card numbers.
Will my booking page look like bookbirdy?
No, it looks like your studio. Your logo, colors and fonts go on your booking pages, contracts and newsletters, with a small "Powered by bookbirdy" at the bottom.
Can I take my data with me?
Any time. One download gives you every family, session, payment, note, expense and signed contract.
What happens when my trial ends?
Pick Basic or Pro to keep going. If you don't, your studio pauses, but nothing is deleted, so you can come back and pick up where you left off.
Book the session. Build the relationship. Keep them coming back.
Whether you're booking your first family or your 500th, start free and see how it feels.
Try it free for 14 daysFree for 14 days. No card needed.