HOW WE COMPARE
Calisto Pro vs HoneyBook & Studio Ninja
HoneyBook and Studio Ninja run the paperwork around a shoot. Calisto runs the studio: inquiry to contract to shoot day to gallery delivery to print sales to review, on one client record across 71 products. Core carries no additional cost. Commerce is a 1% revenue share. Every other suite is priced per app in the Marketplace.
- 영상 촬영 및 사진작가
Feature by feature
Calisto Pro beside Studio Ninja
- 15 Only in Calisto Pro
- 7 In both
| 22 features | Calisto Pro | Studio Ninja |
|---|---|---|
| Inquiry Forms & Lead Capture | 예 | 예 |
| Project Pipeline by Shoot Type | 예 | 예 |
| Contracts with E-Signature | 예 | 예 |
| Invoices, Deposits & Payment Plans | 예 | 예 |
| Bring Your Own Payment Processor | 예 | 아니요 |
| Client Gallery Delivery (No Pixieset Required) | 예 | 아니요 |
| Client-Side Favourites & Album Proofing | 예 | 아니요 |
| Print & Album Storefront with Checkout | 예 | 아니요 |
| Second-Shooter Scheduling & Pay | 예 | 아니요 |
| Wedding-Day Timeline Builder | 예 | 예 |
| Shot Lists & Location Scouting Notes | 예 | 예 |
| Questionnaires Tied to the Client Record | 예 | 예 |
| Portfolio Website on Your Own Domain | 예 | 아니요 |
| Review Requests & Reputation Monitoring | 예 | 아니요 |
| Vendor Coordination Hub | 예 | 아니요 |
| File Archive with Version History | 예 | 아니요 |
| Multi-Currency Invoicing | 예 | 아니요 |
| Email & SMS Marketing to Past Clients | 예 | 아니요 |
| Workshop & Mini-Session Ticketing | 예 | 아니요 |
| Online Course Hosting | 예 | 아니요 |
| VoIP Calling from the Client Record | 예 | 아니요 |
| Accounting Sync (QuickBooks, Xero) | 예 | 아니요 |
What replaces it
What runs videography & photographers on Calisto
The apps that take over from Studio Ninja, each in the words videography & photographers businesses use.
Client-management tools vs. a complete studio platform
| The Old Way | The Calisto Way | |
|---|---|---|
| Inquiry forms | Basic intake | Forms, routed to a pipeline |
| Contracts & e-signature | Included | Sign, with audit trail |
| Invoices & deposits | Their processor only | 75 gateways, you choose |
| Shoot scheduling | Calendar sync only | Agenda, with travel buffers |
| Gallery delivery | Pixieset / Pic-Time extra | Depot + Navigator, native |
| Print & album sales | Third-party lab tools | Catalog + Pulse checkout |
| Second shooters | Not modelled | Workforce, assigned per date |
| Portfolio site | Template microsite | Sites, your domain |
| Review collection | Not available | Reputation, included |
| Payment processor | Locked to theirs | Your merchant account |
What moves
Bringing your data from Studio Ninja
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Studio Ninja and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from Studio Ninja can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
PRICING TRANSPARENCY
1% of revenue on Commerce. Core is included.
HoneyBook charges a monthly subscription and takes its cut of every payment you process through it. Studio Ninja charges per photographer. Calisto charges nothing to set up and never charges per shoot or per photographer. Core carries no additional cost. Commerce is a 1% revenue share. Every other suite is priced per app in the Marketplace.
Calisto Pro
Revenue share on Commerce
HoneyBook
Subscription + processing
Monthly per-user subscription · Payments processed by HoneyBook at their rate · No gallery delivery
Studio Ninja
Per-photographer plans
Per-photographer monthly plan · Stripe or PayPal only · No gallery, no print sales
WHAT THEY CANNOT DO
The gaps a client-management tool leaves
HoneyBook and Studio Ninja handle the contract and the invoice. A photography business also has to deliver galleries, sell prints, schedule second shooters, and collect the reviews that bring the next booking. None of that lives in either tool.
Gallery Delivery: No Pixieset Subscription
Neither HoneyBook nor Studio Ninja delivers images. Photographers pay separately for Pixieset, Pic-Time or ShootProof, then reconcile two client lists by hand and hope the gallery link in the contract still works. Calisto delivers galleries from Depot through the client portal that already holds the contract, the questionnaire and the invoice. Client-side favourites, album proofing, comments, per-gallery download permissions and expiry all sit on the same client record. No second client list, no second subscription.
Print Sales: A Storefront, Not a Link
Print revenue is where a portrait studio makes its margin, and neither tool sells anything. Calisto turns the same gallery into a storefront: prints, albums and digital packages priced per gallery in Catalog, checked out through Pulse, and paid through your own merchant account. The order lands against the client record rather than an export, so the reorder campaign next Christmas already knows who they are.
The Studio Around the Shoot: Team, Site and Reviews
A studio with second shooters, a portfolio site and a review pipeline is running three more systems. Calisto handles second-shooter availability, assignment and pay in Workforce, publishes the portfolio in Sites on your own domain rather than a subdomain, and requests reviews automatically after delivery in Reputation. Every one of them reads the same shoot record, from inquiry to review.
Collect deposits. Your way.
HoneyBook processes your payments and keeps the processing margin. Studio Ninja routes you to Stripe or PayPal and nothing else. Calisto connects to 75 payment gateways across 11 global regions. Your merchant account, your rates, and deposits that land in your bank rather than a platform balance.
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Switching questions
Can I move my existing clients and bookings across?
Yes. Export your clients and projects from HoneyBook or Studio Ninja as a CSV and upload it in the Switch portal. The importer maps the columns to Calisto fields and shows you the mapping before anything is written. Contracts and galleries stay where they are until you are ready to move them.
Do my clients need an account to see their gallery?
No. The client portal opens from the link you send. They see the contract status, the questionnaire, the gallery, the invoice history and their print orders in one place, from a phone browser, with no download and no app store.
Can I keep my own payment processor?
Yes, and this is the largest single difference. HoneyBook processes your payments and keeps the margin. Calisto connects to 75 gateways across 11 global regions. You keep your existing merchant relationship and your rates, and the fees pass through at cost.
Does Calisto handle second shooters?
Yes. Second shooters are scheduled against the shoot record with availability, assignment and pay tracked per date. Their access is scoped to the shoots they are on, so a contractor does not see the rest of your book.
What does it cost to start?
Setup costs nothing and there is no credit card required. Core carries no additional cost. Commerce is a 1% revenue share. Every other suite is priced per app in the Marketplace.
자세히 알아보기
Everything Calisto does here
The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.
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