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 98 products. Core and Enterprise carry no additional cost. Commerce is a 1% revenue share. Every other suite is priced per app in the Marketplace.

Videograf & Fotografer

Feature by feature

Calisto Pro bredvid HoneyBook

17 Endast i Calisto Pro
5 I båda

Calisto Pro bredvid HoneyBook, funktion för funktion
22 funktioner	Calisto Pro	HoneyBook
Inquiry Forms & Lead Capture	Ja	Ja
Project Pipeline by Shoot Type	Ja	Ja
Contracts with E-Signature	Ja	Ja
Invoices, Deposits & Payment Plans	Ja	Ja
Bring Your Own Payment Processor	Ja	Nej
Client Gallery Delivery (No Pixieset Required)	Ja	Nej
Client-Side Favourites & Album Proofing	Ja	Nej
Print & Album Storefront with Checkout	Ja	Nej
Second-Shooter Scheduling & Pay	Ja	Nej
Wedding-Day Timeline Builder	Ja	Nej
Shot Lists & Location Scouting Notes	Ja	Nej
Questionnaires Tied to the Client Record	Ja	Ja
Portfolio Website on Your Own Domain	Ja	Nej
Review Requests & Reputation Monitoring	Ja	Nej
Vendor Coordination Hub	Ja	Nej
File Archive with Version History	Ja	Nej
Multi-Currency Invoicing	Ja	Nej
Email & SMS Marketing to Past Clients	Ja	Nej
Workshop & Mini-Session Ticketing	Ja	Nej
Online Course Hosting	Ja	Nej
VoIP Calling from the Client Record	Ja	Nej
Accounting Sync (QuickBooks, Xero)	Ja	Nej

Vad som ersätter det

Vad som kör videography & photographers på Calisto

Apparna som tar över från HoneyBook, var och en i orden videography & photographers företag använder.

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	73 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

Vad som rör sig

Flyttar dina data från HoneyBook

Dina data läses i din egen webbläsare och skickas till ditt Calisto-konto. Calisto ser aldrig ditt inloggningsnamn för det gamla systemet.

Från en exportfil

Exportera dina data från HoneyBook och släpp in filen. Den läses in i din webbläsare och kartläggs mot Calisto.

Alla kalkylblad du exporterar från HoneyBook kan mappas över i Calisto, kolumn för kolumn.

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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 Separate Gallery Tool
Neither HoneyBook nor Studio Ninja delivers images. Photographers use Pixieset, Pic-Time or ShootProof on the side, 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 itself. Studio Ninja routes you to Stripe or PayPal and nothing else. Calisto connects to 73 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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Honest answers

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 itself. Calisto connects to 73 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 and Enterprise carry no additional cost. Commerce is a 1% revenue share. Every other suite is priced per app in the Marketplace.

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