Photo & Video Gallery Plans and Storage

These plans cover ShootCal Galleries and Websites. The ShootCal scheduling and studio-management app is free, and you do not need a Galleries plan to use it. Galleries is optional. Basic Website hosting, Plus, and Pro are billed separately only when you choose a paid plan. Plans are based on stored media bytes, not a gallery-count limit. Plans purchased on the website are billed monthly through Stripe with no annual contract. Plans purchased in the Mac App Store app are billed by Apple.

Is ShootCal free? Free, Basic, Plus, and Pro plans #

The scheduling and studio-management app is free. Galleries and Websites have optional paid plans.

• Free ($0): 10 GB for new accounts. Existing accounts keep their 20 GB allowance. Includes unlisted galleries, download PINs, delivery, favorites, proofing, the studio page, and permanent Free Website hosting for Home and an optional Contact page.
• Basic ($5/month): Five-page Website hosting and 30 GB of photo storage. Basic is the Website hosting plan: it does not add custom domains, video, password-protected galleries, or a lower print commission.
• Plus ($12/month): 150 GB, password-protected galleries, 30 active video minutes, five website pages, and a starter WordPress blog with up to 5 published or scheduled posts.
• Pro ($25/month): 1,000 GB, 180 active video minutes (3 hours), everything in Plus, unlimited website pages, Full WordPress blogging with unlimited posts, custom domains for your website and client galleries, and the option to hide the ShootCal footer credit.

Plus and Pro have 0% ShootCal print commission. Free and Basic use a 15% commission on product price only, not shipping or sales tax. Print ordering becomes available after a studio completes the store setup. Video is included with Plus and Pro; 4K originals remain downloadable and gallery playback adapts up to 1080p.

Every plan includes a WordPress website with ShootCal’s photography blocks and looks. Free shows Home and Contact, Basic and Plus include the five standard pages, and Pro can add as many pages as needed. Plus includes a starter WordPress blog with up to 5 published or scheduled posts; Pro includes unlimited posts. Connecting your own domain for the website or client galleries is a Pro feature. Existing connected Plus domains keep working while the account remains eligible. See Custom domains.

Plus and Pro can keep unlimited drafts. Scheduled posts reserve a place in Plus’s five-post limit. The limit applies to existing and new Plus accounts. If you already have more than five published posts, they stay online and editable; take posts offline to get below the limit or choose Pro before publishing another. No authored posts or drafts are deleted. Free and Basic do not include a blog.

Live WordPress blog example #

The Ryan Smith Photography blog is a live WordPress example on a ShootCal-hosted website. Plus includes a starter WordPress blog with up to 5 published or scheduled posts; Pro includes unlimited posts. See Write blog posts.

AI help with your website #

The earlier built-in AI website designer has retired; it is no longer part of Website setup. Because so much of the web is built on WordPress, any AI assistant you already use knows it well. Ask it to help write a page, plan your layout or fix something. See Get help from an AI assistant.

Existing Website access and the Free plan #

New accounts start on Free, which hosts Home and an optional Contact page. Extra pages start hidden, and visitor preview follows the same hosting limit. You can edit extra pages as private drafts; their Hidden on Free label explains why visitors cannot see them. Choose paid hosting, enable the pages you want, and publish to make them public. Accounts created before October 23, 2026 at 7 p.m. Eastern received six calendar months of Basic Website access from their ShootCal signup date, with no card required and no automatic charge, and keep it until it ends. At expiry, already-published Home and an enabled Contact page remain public on the included ShootCal address; extra pages stop being public. Authored pages, uploaded images, and retained history stay saved and editable. Choosing paid hosting after access has expired requires an explicit Publish to make those extra pages public again. Accounts that existed before the Website rollout retain their promised ongoing full Website access, including accounts that had not yet created a website. This retained access does not add paid Galleries features or custom domains.

What counts toward storage #

Storage measures the media files kept for your studio, including photo copies and video originals. Video originals share the same storage allowance as photographs. Active video minutes are measured separately across all galleries. A replacement upload removes superseded photo files; deleting a gallery moves it to recoverable Trash before permanent cleanup.

Manage billing #

In ShootCal, open Settings and choose Plan & billing to see your current access, usage, and the options available for your account. You can also enter a promotion code there. For a Stripe subscription, choose Manage subscription to open Stripe for payment details, invoices, or cancellation. For an Apple subscription, choose Manage in App Store to change or cancel it in your App Store subscriptions. Change plans only when that option is offered for your subscription; otherwise, contact the support address shown on the page to request a different plan. Opening Stripe or returning to ShootCal does not itself change your plan.

If you reach the limit #

New uploads stop before exceeding the storage or active-video limit; existing galleries remain available. Remove unneeded work or upgrade, then retry. Video storage and active minutes are released after a video’s original and playback copy finish deleting. Do not repeatedly republish a Lightroom collection while a storage warning is active.