How do photographers who charge what their work is worth actually run the business?
Enquiry, proposal, contract, deposit, shot list, gallery, and balance on one client record. The client who signed at 11pm, got a sneak peek before the thank-you cards, and never had to chase an invoice is the client who refers you without being asked.
One operating system for visual production
Calisto Pro is the software that runs a photography and video studio, from the first message to the last print: your whole studio in one place, shared with your crew and your editor, backed up, and open from anywhere.
Delivered on the Date
Culled and edited in your style, the sneak peek in 48 hours, every round of picks counted, and the gallery on the day you named.
Paid Without Asking
Deposits and balances that ask for themselves, in the client's own currency, and what every job earned.
Every Inquiry, First
Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and email in one inbox, and the package, contract and deposit on one link.
Booked From Your Reviews
Every review asked for on delivery and answered in one place, the sneak peek on every network, your website booking.
Clients Never Have to Ask
Their bookings, documents, shot list and gallery in your own app in the stores.
The Crew Knows the Day
The run of the day, the shot list and each person's hours on every phone, and the whole crew in one place.
Scope on Paper
Contracts, releases and NDAs signed, and every round and album change counted against the scope.
The Shoot Keeps Selling
Galleries brought over and kept for years, ordering sessions, prints, albums, editions and licenses with their terms.
Beyond the Session
Films and showreels published everywhere, and presets, courses, workshops and memberships on your own domain.
Every Shooter, Every City
Your standards set once for every associate and every studio, in every currency.
Calisto Creators + Depot
Every gallery delivered on the date you promised.
Calisto Creators puts every project's promised date on your day and warns you before it slips. The sneak peek, the gallery and each round of picks live on the project, in Depot.
Promised dates
Calisto Payments + Proposals + Ledger
Every balance paid without asking. Every job's profit known.
Calisto Proposals turns the accepted package into installments that ask for themselves as they fall due, paid through Calisto Payments where your client lives. Calisto Ledger shows what each job earned.
Installments
Ruiz and Vidal · US$5,300
The season's portrait sessions · profit in pesos
Calisto Connect + Creators + Sign
Every inquiry answered first, and booked on one link.
Calisto Connect brings Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and email into one inbox under each client's name. Calisto Creators holds the date, and one link carries the package, the contract and the deposit.
Calisto Reputation + Impreta + Sites
Booked from your own reviews, not from paid leads.
Calisto Reputation asks for the review the day the gallery is delivered and gathers every review in one inbox. Calisto Impreta posts the sneak peek to every network, and your Sites website books the package.
Leads from it this year
Small studio. Nothing about the day left to memory.
None of it is visible in a portfolio, and all of it is why one studio gets booked at its asking price.
record per client, holding the inquiry, the proposal, the contract, the gallery and every payment together. A client asks a question about a job from two years ago and gets an answer in the time it takes to say hold on.
ONE RECORDfrom last frame to sneak peek, because the edit went straight into the project's gallery and nobody rebuilt the selection in a second tool. The client posts it while the day is still the thing everyone is talking about.
EDIT TO DELIVERAM call time, on the run of the day before anyone asked. Every cue is timed on the appointment, the shot list is on your second shooter's phone to mark done as it is shot, and nobody is working any of it out in the parking lot at six in the morning.
SHOOT DAYawkward messages about money. The deposit was collected on the link that carried the contract, the balance is asked for by a reminder on the day it falls due, and you have never once had to write the sentence that starts just following up.
PAID WITHOUT ASKINGpicks, made in the gallery while you slept. The couple chose their favorites and answered the round, and the notice was waiting on the project at a reasonable hour. Process is what turns those from interruptions into a record.
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Catalog Behind Every Quote
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Deposits Chased by Text
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Calisto Navigator + Apps
Your clients never have to ask. It is all in your app.
Calisto Navigator gives every client their bookings, documents, shot list, gallery and messages behind one login. Calisto Apps puts it in the App Store and Google Play under your studio's name.
In Luz Norte's app
From Elena · open until 7 March
Calisto Creators + Workforce + Equipo
The whole crew arrives knowing the day.
Calisto Creators puts the timed run of the day and the shot list on the appointment. Calisto Workforce gives each person their hours, and the crew works the day together in Calisto Equipo.
The crew · their hours
The gear
The run of the day
Family groups · 5 of 9
Galleries and deadlines
Calisto Sign + Desk
The scope, the rounds and the releases, on paper.
Calisto Sign records every contract, release and NDA with its signature trail. Each round of picks and album changes counts against the scope you both signed, handled in Calisto Desk.
Ruiz and Vidal · the contract · the scope
Ron Caribe Alto · the proposal
Ron Caribe Alto · model releases
Calisto Shop + Station + Depot
The shoot keeps selling, years after the day.
Calisto Depot keeps every gallery on your own storage, found by client years later. Calisto Shop sells the prints, albums and wall art, Calisto Station runs the ordering session, and every license shows its term.
To pick, pack and ship
Edition · Malecón at Dawn
Hacienda Las Palmas · 20 images · the Ruiz and Vidal wedding
One shoot, sold as
Calisto Direct + Video + Live
Your eye pays on the days you are not holding a camera.
Calisto Video cuts, captions and publishes the highlight film and the showreel. Calisto Direct sells your presets, editing course and mentoring membership on your own domain, and Calisto Live runs the workshop.
Ruiz and Vidal · highlight film
The showreel · published
The shop · luznorte.do
The editing course · the March cohort · 14 people
The mentoring membership · in tiers
Earned this month · no camera in hand
Calisto Blueprint + Purview + Workforce
Every shooter on your standard, in every city you work.
Calisto Blueprint sets your shoot standards and delivery checklists once. Calisto Purview runs each studio and each currency on them, and Calisto Workforce gives every associate the screens their job needs.
The shoot standard · every studio
The brand kit
Luz NorteToday · his first Madrid wedding
His screens
University · the Luz Norte standard
Assure · Diego Serrano
By studio and by currency · this season
Twenty-two apps. One client.
Inquiry, proposal, contract, deposit, shot list, shoot day, gallery, prints, and the files that arrive under your name. One client record from the first DM to the three-year reprint.
Creators
Every project's promised date on your day, and the run of the day on every appointment.
Depot
The sneak peek, the gallery and every round of picks, kept for years.
Payments
Deposits and installments in the client's own currency.
Proposals
The package, the contract and the deposit on one link.
Ledger
What each job earned.
Connect
Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and email in one inbox.
Sign
Contracts, releases and NDAs with their signature trail.
Reputation
The review asked for the day the gallery is delivered.
Impreta
The sneak peek on every network.
Sites
Your website, its packages bookable online.
Navigator
Bookings, documents, shot list and gallery behind one login.
Apps
Your studio's own app in the App Store and Google Play.
Workforce
Each person's hours, and the screens their job needs.
Equipo
The crew working the day together.
Desk
Every album change counted against the scope.
Shop
Prints, albums and wall art, and numbered editions.
Station
The ordering session on a tablet.
Direct
Presets, courses and memberships on your own domain.
Video
The highlight film and the showreel, cut and published.
Live
The lighting workshop, live.
Blueprint
Your shoot standard set once for every associate.
Purview
Each studio and each currency on one account.
Calisto Pro for Videography & Photographers
- Today: appointments by the clock, what goes out today, inquiries and proposals with no answer, projects waiting on the client, deliverables due, shots clients added waiting for approval, failed payments, money per currency and orders to ship
- The Calendar of appointments, deliverables, posts and videos
- Inquiries on Inquiry, Proposal Sent, Booked and Lost, and Hold a Date
- Appointments with their Run of the Day: the crew, the shot list and the timed run
- Packages, add-ons and fees, bookable online
- Projects on Booked, In Progress, In Review and Delivered
- Galleries and proofing, rounds counted against the signed scope, and Deliver making the balance due
- Shot lists with the client's additions until your cutoff
- Deliverables and usage rights
- Team, with ready-made screen sets for the coordinator, the lead photographer, the second shooter and the editor
- On a phone: Today, Calendar, Projects and messages, and New Post and Today with no signal
- The date taken the moment they agree
- Golden hour on the run of the day, with the venue attached
- Mini sessions as packages of their own, booked online from your website, your booking page or a link
- One record per client holding the brief, the contract, the gallery, the album order and the review
- The client list is yours
- Coverage packages with exactly what each includes
- Coverage, prints and albums priced from one catalog behind the quote, the website and the contract
- Rights, releases and licensing carried on the product
- Legal identity, tax, currency and studio setup, built for destination work
- Cameras, lenses and album products tracked per job
- Album and print stock counted against orders
- Shoot standards and delivery checklists authored once, version-tracked
- Brand kits
- Structured inquiry forms that arrive as inquiries
- The inquiry from a case study page attributed
- The license is in the contract, not in your memory
- Model and property releases filed to the shoot
- Contracts and NDAs signed on any device with their trail
- One link holds the package, the terms and the deposit
- Your quote and your website never disagree
- Proposals built from live catalog prices and tracked to acceptance
- Take payment anywhere, in the client's own currency, on your own gateway: Cardnet in the Dominican Republic, Redsys in Spain, Stripe in the US and UK
- The deposit holds the date
- Installments asked for as they fall due
- Your real job profitability: the second shooter, travel and album cost against the job
- Double-entry books
- Invoices and payments due on accepted proposals
- Album revisions submitted through the portal, waiting at a reasonable hour
- Each request with the job, the gallery and the contract beside it
- Crew, assistants and second shooters on one roster, with availability and rates on the person
- Hours on each day of a project
- Roles and invitations
- The balance invoiced when the gallery publishes
- The deposit request and reminder on their own dates
- The booking confirmation and the reminder before a gallery link closes, each a rule with every run on record
- The editing queue, gallery status, inquiries and print orders in one view
- A report directory and a weekly summary
- Every gallery a shared folder the client opens by a link, password protected if you want, open until you close it
- High-resolution files, video deliverables and handoffs on your own storage, still there years later
- Masters and edits exported in their original formats whenever you want them
- Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and email in one inbox, each conversation under the client's name
- Every message, the inquiry, the booking, the project and every payment beside it
- An inquiry form that asks the venue, the coverage and who else is booked, and files each answer on the inquiry
- The questionnaire on the package they booked: ages, wardrobe, the group shots that matter
- Your website on your own domain, from themes, templates and your own library
- Your packages bookable online, and the inquiry form on it
- A client portal with their bookings, documents, gallery, shot list and messages behind one login, on your own domain
- Document requests
- Journey messages by email, text, WhatsApp or push
- Your studio's own app in the App Store and Google Play, with your name and icon
- Push notices
- One app for every studio, each with its own link
- Review requests sent with a press or a rule, and one reminder
- A private feedback form offered first, the public link always shown
- Every review from Google, Facebook, Yelp and Tripadvisor in one inbox
- Your Google profile kept right
- The sneak peek posted to each connected network with its own caption, from one queue and one grid
- Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest and the Google profile among eleven networks
- Prints, albums and wall art as products with their sizes, finishes and stock, picked, packed and shipped
- Numbered editions and who holds each print, in Prints & Merch
- The ordering session on a tablet, with the client's favorites, the sizes and finishes and the till, paid before they leave
- Presets, LUTs, photo packs and templates as downloads
- Courses as lessons released to a cohort
- Mentoring memberships in tiers
- Earnings and statements per currency, never converted
- The highlight film and the showreel cut on a real timeline, captioned, split into chapters and clips
- Published to Calisto TV, your own pages and YouTube over a connected account
- A studio podcast with guests by link
- A live editing session or a lighting workshop, free, for members or for ticket holders
- The crew of a wedding working the day together: the coordinator, the shooters and the editor in one place
- Every frame read after upload, with Blurry, Missed Focus, Closed Eyes and Missed Flash flags and the best of each burst first
- Your Style, learned from your own edits, and Bulk Auto for a whole wedding in one run
- Camera RAW developed on the device
- Client picks in the Library, and a contact sheet filed in Depot
- Prints bought from the gallery with Buy Print on your own checkout
- Every print, album and gallery order in one queue, whatever took it, each aged against its promised time
- The lab's orders shipped and tracked
- The viewing room's screen showing the client's favorites during the ordering session
- The lobby's slideshow of your work, designed or played from a playlist, updated on every screen at once
- Your shoot standard as a course in your studio's name, with lessons, a final exam and a certificate
- Assigned to every associate with a due day, and recertification before it lapses
- Licenses, policies and people's certifications running out within 30 days flagged
- Whether each associate's insurance is in date
- A delivered gallery walked against your delivery checklist
- The gear to pack, the location to scout and the files to back up, each a task with a person and a due day on their phone
- Your brand kit to hand, and anything off brand flagged for you to decide
- Settings ▸ Your Data builds the archive to take with you, any day
- Run it on your own infrastructure where a client asks where its files are kept
One platform for every visual studio
The format changes. The login does not.
Getting-ready through the exit as timed cues on the appointment. The crew starts each one, marks it done and flags running late on the day's own clock, so nobody spends the morning asking what happens next.
Hold the date for the couple while the proposal is with them. The hold lasts the days you set or until the proposal expires, and it is confirmed the moment they accept.
Put them on the day's crew and they already hold their hours, the shot list and the run of the day. The client sees a crew that already knows the day, because it does.
The first selects go into the couple's gallery while the day is still the thing everyone is posting about. The full gallery follows on the due date on the project, and you are warned before it slips.
The couple picks favorites up to the number you allow, notes an image and answers the round in their gallery. A round beyond the scope they signed asks you to bill it or give it.
A guest's or a venue's release signed on your phone from a link, and kept with the signature trail, before the image is published anywhere.
No setup cost. Pay when you start using.
Team size across your organization
Studio or Field Production
Your Foundation
Included With Your Plans
Your Core app shows everything your Commerce and Ops plans turn on. Core-Only Pricing sells it on its own, for a business that prefers not to pay a percentage.
The date is taken the moment they agree
Brief, contract, gallery, album order, and review
Coverage packages with what each includes
Cameras, lenses, and album products tracked
Legal identity, tax, currency, and studio configuration
Coverage, prints, and albums in one catalog
Shoot standards and delivery checklists set once
Projects and clients
The shoot diary, the contract and the invoice, billed per person rather than on what you collect.
What you get:
Enquiry pipeline Calisto DealsStructured enquiries that arrive as deals
- The questions you ask are the first thing they judge
- Structured enquiry forms arrive as deals
- The inquiry that came from a case study page is attributed
Plus everything included above
Core + Commerce
The booking, the contract and the collection in one place
With Commerce, get:
Shoot calendar Calisto BookingsThe date is taken the moment they agree
- The date is taken the moment they agree
- Golden hour is on the run-of-show, with the venue attached
- A 5 AM sunrise on the schedule before anyone asked
Payments & deposits Calisto PaymentsDeposits and balances without awkward messages
- Take payment anywhere, in the client's own currency
- Zero awkward messages about money
- The deposit holds the date
PulseDynamic pricing: nights, tickets and time slots priced by demand, inside the floor and ceiling you set.
SyncConnect your sales channels: listings, rates and availability, delivery menus and the orders they send, with every connection watched and every failure fixed, from your desk or your phone.
StationBuild workspaces for your team, and run the printers, card readers and cash drawers they use.
Open to every account, charged as you use them:
Start here. Businesses like yours grow into Quotes, Shoot calendar, Client records.
Contracts & releases Calisto SignThe licence is in the contract, not in your memory
- The licence is in the contract, not in your memory
- Model and property releases filed to the shoot
- Envelopes signed on any device, filed to the record they belong to
- Charged per envelope, so a draft nobody has sent costs nothing
Quotes Calisto ProposalsOne link holds the package, the terms, and the deposit
- One link holds the package, the terms, and the deposit
- Your quote and your website never disagree
- Proposals built from live catalog prices and tracked to acceptance
- One charge per proposal sent, with its signature included
Plus everything in Projects and clients
Core + Commerce + Ops
Talent gets you shortlisted; process gets you booked
With Ops, get:
Job costing & accounting Calisto LedgerReal job profitability, not a monthly guess
- Know your real job profitability
- Second shooter, travel, and album cost against the job
- Double-entry books with journal entries that post and reverse, never vanish
Client requests Calisto DeskRevision and album requests with the job attached
- Album revisions submitted through the portal, waiting at a reasonable hour
- Requests carry the job, gallery, and contract in the sidebar
- One ticket dataset seen as a list, a board, or a calendar
Team & second shooters Calisto WorkforceCrew, assistants, and second shooters on one roster
- Crew, assistants, and second shooters on one roster
- Availability and rates on the person, not in a thread
AutomationsThe balance invoices itself when the gallery publishes
- The balance invoices itself when the gallery publishes
- The deposit request and reminder send on their own dates
- Seventeen native connectors across Calisto Pro, with no middleware
Studio dashboard Calisto TodayEditing queue, galleries, and enquiries in one viewIncluded with any Ops app
- Editing queue, gallery status, enquiries, and print orders
- Tiles read live from the apps that own the work
- A report directory, a team scorecard, and a notice queue
SignalKnow the moment a device goes down, a reading leaves its band or a tracker leaves its zone, and act on it from your phone.
DispatchSend the job, follow the crew, and work the day from a phone: stops in order, checklists, photos and signatures.
OrderflowEvery order from every channel in one queue. Accept it, prepare it, hand it over and follow it to the customer’s door.
AssureRun inspections and checks, raise findings and see them fixed, report safety incidents, and keep credentials and maintenance in date, on the floor from a phone, or at a desk.
AccessLock and unlock every door, check visitors in with a scan, issue keys and passes, and run the roll call in an evacuation, from your phone or your desk.
UniversityTrain your people: build courses, assign them with a due date, see who is behind and who is certified, and take your own training on your phone.
WiFiGive guests WiFi through your own sign-in page, see who connects and who comes back, and know the moment an access point goes down, from your phone or your desk.
VelocityDecide on work and spend before it posts: sign off hours and expenses, review what gets billed, set rates, invoice from time, and see budgets and capacity.
Plus everything in Core + Commerce
No contracts, no trials. Use the apps and pay when you’re ready.
