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A live availability calendar — private by design

Share which days you're open without ever exposing a client's name, location, or session details. The calendar below is a live example feed from a sample studio, published straight from ShootCal and refreshed automatically. Booked days show as booked. Limited days have a session scheduled but still have open slots. Click any open day to try the booking flow. This is a demo, so nothing is actually sent.

ShootCal does the scheduling, so you can get back to shooting.

The calendar above is just the front door for your website. Behind it, ShootCal schedules your sessions around the light and turns open days into real booking requests, all from the Google Calendar you already use.

Sessions scheduled around sunset, automatically

Set your city once and ShootCal works out sunrise and sunset for any date, then starts each session at the right time for golden hour. No math, no guessing. It is the only studio manager with a calendar built around the light.

Tweak everything to match how you work

Build your own session types (mini sessions, weddings, studio portraits, newborns) and choose how each one schedules. Anchored to sunrise/sunset for outdoor golden hour, or fixed studio hours. Set how many bookings a day can take, decide what counts as booked, add your own reminders. Every default is yours to change.

Clients request open days, you stay in control

Turn on online booking and every open day becomes a request form. A client picks a day, sends their details, and it lands in your ShootCal and Gmail inbox. You can reply with details in Gmail and ShootCal automatically tracks that you replied. Or you can accept directly in ShootCal to drop it on your calendar immediately. Nothing books itself, it just helps make everything faster and easier.

Deposits tracked at a glance

Mark a session as deposit received or session confirmed and it turns green on ShootCal and your Google Calendar. This also marks the slot as booked on the website availability calendar. A soft inquiry never blocks the date for everyone else.

Private by design

Clients only ever see open, limited, or fully booked. Names, locations, and session details never leave your calendar.

ShootCal settings showing golden-hour timing and custom session types you can tweak — Golden-hour timing and your own session types. Tune how every shoot schedules.

ShootCal client manager showing bookings and deposit tracking — The built-in client manager keeps every client, booking, and deposit in one place.

Add one to your own website

Any ShootCal user can publish the same private availability calendar from their own Google Calendar.

Embed it anywhere

Open ShootCal on the web, turn on your availability feed, and copy the embed snippet. Paste it into an HTML / “Embed” block on whatever your site is built with — Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, a plain HTML page. It fills the space you give it and resizes itself automatically. No plugin needed.

Open the web app to get your feed