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A newborn photographer filling mini-session dates

You photograph newborns and families from a home studio and run mini-session days three or four times a year: twelve slots of twenty minutes, priced to fill. The announcement goes on Instagram at nine, the DMs start at nine-oh-one, and you spend the day matching names to times in a spreadsheet.

The moments

  • Eleven DMs asking "is ten-thirty still free" at the same time.
  • A family who booked and did not pay, holding a slot someone else wanted.
  • Sending the same "here is your address and what to wear" email twelve times.
  • The gallery for each of twelve families, delivered one at a time.

What goes wrong

  • Double-booked slots, because two people said yes to the same time in two DMs.
  • Unpaid holds that turn into no-shows.
  • The prep email that goes to eleven families and not the twelfth.

What Booksui does

  • A mini-session type sets the length, the buffer and the price; the booking page shows the day’s slots and a family picks one and pays in full, into your Stripe, before it is theirs.
  • The booking creates the client and the session on your calendar; Google Calendar sync takes the slot out of your personal calendar too.
  • The phase after booking carries the prep message — address, timing, what to wear — sent from the job at the right moment.
  • Each family gets their own gallery with favorites, downloads and print offers from your price sheet.

Honest limits

  • Starter: 1 booking page, 10 bookings a month, 3 galleries. Twelve families means twelve galleries, so a mini-session day fits Pro (25 galleries) better than Starter.
  • The booking page books the slots you make public; it does not post to Instagram for you.

Related answers

Can clients book sessions from my website?
Yes — your studio gets a public booking page listing the session types you make public; a client picks a time, pays the deposit into your Stripe, and the session appears on your calendar with the client record created. Link to it from your site or embed it.
How many galleries are on the free plan?
The free Starter plan includes 3 active client galleries and 25 GB of storage. Pro raises that to 25 galleries and 100 GB; on Studio and Agency galleries are unlimited.
Is there a free plan?
Yes — Starter is free, needs no card and does not expire. It has the same inbox, contracts, invoices, booking page and galleries as the paid plans, with caps on how many.

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