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Payments & paperwork, handled
The money side of a photography studio in one place: track deposits at a glance, send contracts your clients e-sign online, and connect Wave so a paid invoice marks the deposit received on your calendar automatically. Keep your books wherever you already do. ShootCal keeps the status accurate.
Deposit tracking, color-coded
Toggle any session as deposit received and it color-codes green on both ShootCal and your Google Calendar, red when nothing is in yet. Your paid and pending bookings are clear at a glance, on every device, without a spreadsheet.
One toggle, green or red
Mark a session paid or unpaid with a single tap. The event turns green when the deposit is in and red when it is not, on both the app and your Google Calendar, so you know a booking is secured before you ever leave for the shoot.
Deposit-only availability
Choose how a day shows as booked on your public availability calendar. Switch to deposit-only mode and a day stays open until the deposit is received, so a soft inquiry never blocks the date for everyone else.
Automatic client reminders
ShootCal can email your client a friendly reminder before their session, sent from your own Gmail. Choose how many days ahead, and write your own message or use the built-in one. Fewer no-shows, zero manual follow-up.
Booking reports at a glance
See your business without exporting anything: bookings this month and year, sessions by type, deposits paid versus pending, and a month-by-month trend, all built into Clients & Booking.
Contracts your clients e-sign online
Send a wedding or portrait agreement from a built-in template, prefilled with the couple, date, venue, and package. Your client reviews and e-signs from any device with a tap, you are notified the moment they do, and a signed copy is saved to your own Google Drive. No printing, no scanning, no chasing a signature the week of the shoot. (Templates are a convenience, not legal advice.)
Wave invoicing, deposits in sync
Keep invoicing in Wave the way you already do. When a payment comes in, ShootCal marks that booking's deposit as received on your calendar, automatically.
ShootCal matches each Wave payment to the right upcoming booking by the client's email, falling back to their name if needed. You keep your books in Wave, ShootCal keeps your deposit status accurate. No more updating two places by hand, and no more wondering "did they pay?" before a shoot.
Connect in one click
On a Wave Pro account? Tap "Connect with Wave," approve the connection, and you're synced. Nothing to copy or paste.
Connect with a token
On a free Wave account? Paste a Wave API token once and you're synced the same way. Free accounts are fully supported.
Works with any Wave account, including free ones. Nobody is left out.
ShootCal never moves money or changes your invoices. It reads your payments and updates your bookings, that's all.
Keep your books where they are
Let ShootCal own the calendar and the paperwork. Free while in beta, no subscriptions.