Commission-free booking software for photographers. Give clients a link that shows your real availability, takes the deposit and fills the gaps you would otherwise spend the evening filling by message.
Shoots are booked weeks ahead and cost you a whole slot if they fall through. Retveno holds the session against a deposit and confirms it the moment the payment lands.
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Set each staff member's weekly hours and time off once, and your own booking link does the rest. Customers pick a service, a person or "any available", a day and a time — days you are closed are greyed out, times already taken are struck through, and two people can never take the same slot.
Give every service a cleanup buffer and the next booking simply cannot land in it. A 30-minute cut with a 15-minute buffer keeps the chair busy until the room is genuinely ready.
Take a deposit per service through your own Stripe account, and let automatic email, SMS and WhatsApp reminders cut the no-shows. Both are part of the plan, not paid add-ons.
A portrait session booked a month out is a slot you have turned other work away for — which is exactly why it needs a deposit rather than a promise. Retveno gives every photographer their own weekly hours and time off, and maps each service to the people who can actually perform it. A client picks the person they want — or "any available" — and only ever sees times that person is genuinely free.
Every service carries its own duration, price, deposit and cleanup buffer. The buffer is held after the appointment as well as before it, so two bookings can never quietly erase the gap between them — the mistake that makes a diary look fine at nine and hopeless by noon.
Shoots are booked a long way out and there are only a handful in a week, which makes each one disproportionately important. A session also occupies far more than its slot — travel, setup, and the editing that follows — so the diary needs to reserve the shoot without pretending the rest of the day is free.
A €150 portrait session that falls through a week before is a Saturday you turned other work down for, and there is no filling it that late. This is the clearest deposit case outside tattooing: take it at booking, and let the session confirm itself the moment the payment lands.
Set a deposit per service and it is collected at booking through your own Stripe account — Retveno takes no cut. Switch on auto-confirm and a booking confirms itself the moment the deposit lands, or straight away when no deposit is due. Automatic email, SMS and WhatsApp reminders go out before the appointment either way.
Add your session types with their real lengths — the portrait hour, the family shoot, the quick headshot — and yourself as the staff member. Put a deposit on each one, since holding a date is the whole point, and switch on auto-confirm so a paid deposit locks the date without a follow-up message from you.
Yes. Set a deposit on the session type and it is taken at booking through your own Stripe account. With auto-confirm switched on the shoot confirms itself as soon as the deposit clears, so a date is never held by a promise alone.
No. They open your booking link, pick a service and a time, and leave a name plus an email or a phone number — either is enough. There is nothing to download and no account to create.
Yes. Weekly hours and time off are set per person, and each service lists who can perform it, so availability is always calculated against the individual rather than the business.
None. You pay a flat monthly price per staff member and nothing per booking. Deposits go to your own Stripe account, where only Stripe's standard card fee applies.
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