Send the invoice with the contract — get paid at signature.
Branded invoices, deposits, and payment schedules built into the same platform as your proposals, contracts, and galleries. Your client signs and pays in one sitting.
Secure payments powered by Stripe · No credit card required to try
Proposal to paid, without the follow-up emails
In most tools, booking a client means four apps and a week of back-and-forth. In FotoMate it's one link your client opens once.
Send the proposal
Packages, pricing, and add-ons in one branded page. Your client picks what they want.
Client signs the contract
Legally binding e-signature built in. No printing, scanning, or chasing.
Invoice is right there
The deposit invoice sits next to the contract. Clients pay by card the moment they sign.
You're paid — and it's tracked
Payments land in your Stripe account and every balance updates in your dashboard instantly.
Invoicing that works the way studios do
Deposits, schedules, reminders, and tracking — built for how photographers actually bill.
Stripe-powered card payments
Secure, PCI-compliant checkout with all major credit and debit cards plus Apple Pay — no separate merchant account to manage.
Pay at signature
Contract and invoice live in one client link. Signing and paying the deposit happens in a single sitting, so booked really means booked.
Payment schedules & deposits
Split any total into a deposit plus balance — 30% to hold the date, the rest before the shoot.
Payment status at a glance
See exactly what's paid, pending, and overdue across every client — no spreadsheet cross-referencing.
Branded invoices
Your logo, your colors, your business details — invoices that look like they came from a studio, not a spreadsheet.
Real-time payment tracking
Paid, pending, and overdue at a glance. Know exactly where every dollar stands without opening your bank app.
Built for photographers, not "creative entrepreneurs"
HoneyBook and Dubsado handle invoicing for anyone with a business card. FotoMate connects getting paid to the rest of a photography workflow — from $19/mo, galleries included.
- Invoices connect to proposals, contracts, and the final gallery — one flow, one login
- No separate gallery subscription stacked on top of your CRM bill
- Photography line items out of the box: sessions, albums, prints, travel
Competitor amounts from public U.S. pricing: HoneyBook Starter from $36/mo month-to-month; Dubsado Starter ~$28/mo equivalent on annual billing. Confirm current pricing on each vendor's site.
Invoicing questions, answered
Everything photographers ask before switching their billing to FotoMate.
FotoMate integrates with Stripe for secure payment processing. Your clients can pay with all major credit cards and debit cards, plus wallets like Apple Pay where available. You can also split any invoice into a deposit plus balance.
Yes. You can split any invoice into a deposit plus the remaining balance — for example 30% to book the date and the rest before the session.
Yes. With pay-at-signature, the invoice sits right next to the contract in a single client link. Your client reviews the proposal, signs, and pays the deposit in one sitting — no separate follow-up email asking for payment.
No. Clients open a single secure link, review the document, sign, and pay — no account creation, no app download, no password.
No. FotoMate offers unlimited clients, unlimited projects, and unlimited invoices on all of our paid tiers. We want you to grow without being penalized for success.
HoneyBook and Dubsado are built for generic "creative entrepreneurs." FotoMate is built only for photographers, so your invoices connect to the same platform that delivers the final gallery — one subscription from $19/mo instead of a CRM plus a separate gallery service.
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