Hearth Studio

For wedding photographers

Currently booking November 2026

Spend your evenings shooting, not reconciling spreadsheets.

Your website and your client portal in one place: galleries, contracts, invoices, and video consultations, built around how you actually work, not how a SaaS thinks you should.

We reply within a day. Often within an hour.

adelynbeltran.com
The built-in site editor open on Adelyn Beltran Photography's live homepage

A young studio. The work we've shipped so far, and the kind we want to ship more of, lives here.

The problem

Your business is run on three apps and a folder of spreadsheets.

Galleries live in one tool. Contracts in another. Payments in a third. The wedding-day timeline is a Google Doc shared the night before. It worked when you shot eight weddings a year. It stops working at thirty.

Every off-the-shelf studio platform either costs more than your second-shooter, or treats your business like a franchise, same dashboard as the family-portrait studio in Idaho, same pricing pages, same client portal nobody uses because nothing in it feels like you.

You're left with a tax: an hour a day reconciling things that should reconcile themselves.

What we build

A studio dashboard shaped to your studio.

Your public website and the studio behind it, in one place. Inquiries, contracts, payments, galleries, and consultations, for you and for your couples. Built around your actual workflow, then quietly maintained.

See it running

Adelyn Beltran Photography, live and booking.

A working Southern California wedding studio, running on the platform we build. Consultations happen as video calls inside it, contracts get signed on the site, galleries go out from the same dashboard, and every page of the public site is edited from the backend.

A website and studio platform for a wedding photographer. live homepage
The studio dashboard overview: shortcuts, inquiry and booking stats, revenue totals, upcoming weddings, and recent inquiries
The studio dashboard. Inquiries, bookings, revenue, and the next few weddings at a glance. (Shown with sample data.)
The built-in site editor: a block panel on the left (heading, paragraph, image, video, photo scatter) beside the live homepage
The site editor. Click any text, photo, or block on the live page to change it. No developer needed.
The revenue screen: yearly bookings, gross, second-shooter pay and net, plus a monthly chart of realized and projected income
Revenue by month, realized and projected, with second-shooter pay already taken out. (Sample data.)
The video meetings screen in the studio backend, listing a past client consultation with join and copy-link buttons
Consultations run as video calls inside the platform. The couple joins in their browser, no Zoom account.

What you get

A workspace that fits, not a SaaS that almost fits.

01

A website you edit yourself

Click any text, photo, or section on your live site and change it. Add blocks, swap images, publish. No developer, no separate site builder.

02

Video consultations, built in

First impressions happen on the consult. Couples click your link and land in a call on your own website, not a Zoom waiting room. It's a small thing that reads as big-studio polish. No account, no app, nothing to install.

03

Inquiries that turn into clients

The inquiry form on your site lands in your dashboard. When they book, one click makes them a client with their own portal.

04

Contracts signed on your site

Send a contract from your own template. The couple signs it in their portal, and a signed PDF is saved for both of you.

05

Invoices and payment reminders

Couples pay deposits and finals by card through Stripe. Reminders go out on their own when a payment is coming due, even for checks and Venmo.

06

Galleries that feel like yours

Password-protected galleries in your brand, with sets, favorites, full downloads, and an expiry date if you want one. No third-party watermark.

07

One portal for the couple

Their contract, payments, timeline, shot list, guides, meetings, and galleries, all behind one login instead of five.

08

The business side, too

A calendar, revenue by month, your second shooters, and team logins, in the same dashboard you run the rest from.

How it goes

From first call to live, in 5–7 weeks.

01

Workflow audit

1 week

We map your actual workflow, every spreadsheet, every email template, every workaround.

02

Design in the browser

1 week

No Figma file you'll never look at. We build the real thing, week one, and refine from there.

03

Build & migrate

3–4 weeks

We build the dashboard and migrate your existing client data. You keep shooting.

04

Launch + season one

ongoing

We stay close through the first wedding season. Small changes happen fast.

Pricing

One-time build, then a small monthly for care.

Solo
$2,200
one-time

For a single shooter: your website, client portal, galleries, contracts, invoices, and video consultations. The version most studios outgrow Pic-Time and Honeybook into.

✓
Website + built-in site editor
✓
Client portal
✓
Galleries + favorites + downloads
✓
Contracts + e-sign
✓
Stripe invoicing + reminders
✓
Video consultations
✓
Migration from existing tools
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Most popular
Studio
$4,200
one-time

For studios with associate photographers, second shooters, and a more complex pipeline. Adds team logins, second-shooter scheduling, and revenue tracking.

✓
Everything in Solo
✓
Team logins
✓
Second-shooter roster
✓
Calendar + revenue by month
✓
Timeline, shot list + guides
✓
Two months of changes included
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Care plan
$340
/month

Monitoring, security updates, and an hour a month of changes. Cancel any month.

✓
Uptime monitoring
✓
1 hour of changes / month
✓
Quarterly product review
✓
Priority email support
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Questions we hear a lot

FAQ

Why pay once instead of a monthly SaaS?
Add it up. A gallery host like Pixieset or Pic-Time ($15–50 a month). A client manager for contracts and invoices like HoneyBook, Dubsado, or Studio Ninja ($35–80). A website builder like Showit or Squarespace ($20–45). Zoom for consults ($15). That's roughly $100–200 a month, or $1,200–2,400 a year, every year. Then there are the payment apps on your phone, Venmo, Square, PayPal, each keeping its own records; here every payment lands in one ledger, even the Venmo ones. A custom build pays for itself in a year or two. If you'd rather pay monthly forever, that's a fine choice. We just don't pretend it's cheaper.
Will I be locked in to you?
No. The code is yours and the data is yours. If we ever stop being a fit, you can hire any developer to maintain it. We use boring, well-documented tools precisely so this is true.
Can it handle prints and albums?
Couples already mark their favorites and proofs in their portal. Ordering from a print lab isn't built in today. If you sell prints or albums, tell us your lab and we'll talk through adding it.
How do you migrate existing client data?
We pull from whatever you're using now, Pic-Time, Pixieset, Honeybook, ShootProof, even spreadsheets. Past galleries, contracts, and invoices come along. Couples get a one-time email letting them know where to log in.
I'm not very technical. Will I be able to maintain it?
Yes. Day-to-day everything is point-and-click, no code. For anything you can't do yourself, the Care plan covers it. The whole point is to give you back evenings, not steal new ones.

Run a studio?

Let's talk about your studio.

A 30-minute call. We'll ask about your stack, your inbox, and what you actually wish your studio software did, and tell you, honestly, if we're the right fit.