ApertureBook is the client experience platform for photographers. Here is everything it does, from the invoice that starts a booking to the gallery that finishes it.
Send a branded invoice and keep every payment on record, right next to the gallery.
More about invoicingDraft-to-paid invoices carrying your logo and studio details.
Send invoices to clients and track draft, sent, and paid status at a glance.
Log the cash and checks you take so your totals always stay honest.
Add discounts, tax, and line-item adjustments to any invoice.
Send a contract for signature, track who has signed, and keep the signed copy filed with the client it belongs to.
More about contractsEmail a contract to your client and collect a legally recorded signature online.
Save the agreements you send often and start from them next time.
See who has viewed, signed, or declined at a glance.
Everyone receives the signed PDF, and the copy stays with the client record.
Send a questionnaire once and have the timeline, the addresses, and the family list come back written down.
More about formsWedding day, portrait prep, newborn, senior, feedback, and new inquiry. Send one as it is, or make it yours.
Name, email, phone, and shoot date arrive already filled in, so your client confirms instead of retyping.
Clients answer in the ApertureBook app or from a link in any browser. No account, no password.
A form left half-finished picks up exactly where they stopped, on any device.
Up to two nudges go out on their own, and stop the moment the form comes back.
You get an email on submit, the answers sit with the client’s gallery and invoice, and they export to PDF for the day.
One calendar for what is on, when, and for whom, with your blocked time feeding straight into it.
More about schedulingMonth, week, or day view of every session, whichever way it landed on your books.
Block a day off, right from the calendar, and it comes off the board the same way a session would.
The shoot date on an invoice is what puts a session on your calendar. Nothing to enter twice.
One conversation per client, in your studio inbox and in their app, sitting right next to the work it is about. Included on paid plans.
More about messagingEvery conversation stays in one place, beside that client’s galleries, invoices, and contracts.
Reply from your studio inbox; your client replies from the ApertureBook app on their phone.
Your client gets a push the moment you send, so it does not sit unread like an email.
If they miss the push, an email arrives with a button that opens the conversation.
Bold, italics, lists, and links, so dates and details stay readable.
Know your client has actually seen the message instead of guessing.
Upload once and every client gets their own on-brand gallery, live in minutes.
Each client enters their email and shoot date, and a sign-in link arrives by email that opens only the galleries meant for them.
Set a download-expiry date and auto-delete, so galleries do not linger forever.
Choose the cover image your clients see first when they open a gallery.
Clients download a single photo or the whole gallery at full resolution.
Previews carry your watermark; downloaded originals are clean.
Galleries open quickly on any connection, with crisp previews and HEIC support.
The part that breaks on a shared link is the part we got right.
Grab every photo at once, on desktop or phone.
On the app, a full-gallery save lands as an album in the camera roll.
On the web, download the entire gallery in one go, right from the browser.
Downloads are the real files, not shrunken previews.
ApertureBook puts your photos in a native iPhone and Android app, free for your clients.
More about the client appA genuine native app in the App Store and Google Play, not a mobile web page.
Save full-resolution photos into a gallery-named album on the phone.
Clients heart their picks and those favorites come straight back to you.
Clients get a push the moment you share a gallery with them. No chasing emails.
A one-tap sign-in link or QR code opens the app straight to their gallery.
Your galleries appear under your name, logo, and cover.
The galleries, invoices, and emails your clients see carry your studio’s name and details.
Your business name and logo on every gallery your clients open.
Client emails carry your business name, logo, and contact details, sent for you.
Set one accent color for your public portfolio and the contract pages your clients sign.
A public portfolio page at your own link on ApertureBook to show your best work.
Every report is built from the payments you actually recorded, so your totals reflect real money in, not just what you billed.
Actual earnings across every invoice, from the payments you have collected, not just gross billed.
See who still owes you and how long each invoice has gone unpaid.
See which clients and shoots actually brought in the most over any period.
Download any report anytime to use in your own spreadsheets.
They enter their email address and the shoot date, and a sign-in link arrives by email. No account to create, and no password to remember. That link opens only the galleries meant for them, on the web or in the ApertureBook app.
Yes, per gallery. You can turn downloads off entirely, or set a download-expiry date after which the gallery stays viewable but downloads close.
You can set a gallery to auto-expire. When it does, the photos are deleted to free your storage but the gallery record itself is kept, so the client, the linked invoice, and the contract all stay intact in your account.
Switch watermarking on per gallery and your logo is applied to the previews clients browse. Anything they download at full resolution comes through clean, without the watermark.
Clients heart photos as they browse and those favorites sync straight back to your dashboard, so you can see the shortlist without asking for screenshots.
Yes. Invoices, contracts, and galleries all live against the same client, so a session is one record from its opening invoice to its finished gallery. Invoicing is on every plan, including the free one.
Yes, on every plan. Send a form for session details (a wedding day timeline, portrait prep, newborn notes), starting from one of six ready-made forms or one you build yourself. Clients answer in the app or from a link with no login, their contact details arrive pre-filled, and up to two reminders send themselves until the form comes back.
Yes, on any paid plan. Each client has one conversation you can open from their gallery, invoice, or contract, and they reply from the ApertureBook app on their phone.
No, and that is deliberate. Clients do not book themselves. You create the session, which means your calendar is never filled by someone else’s click. ApertureBook covers everything after a client has decided to book: the invoice, the contract, the questionnaire, the shoot date, the conversation and the gallery.
It is the client-facing half of one. Every invoice, contract, form, message and gallery sits against one client record, so you can see a client’s whole history in one place. What it does not do is lead-capture forms embedded on your own website, sales pipelines and drip marketing. Plenty of photographers land the booking with whatever they already use, and run everything after it here.
Create your studio, upload a gallery, and share it in the next ten minutes. Free to start, no credit card.