Photography & Imaging
Build a photography studio client hub
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe the photography studio client hub you need — prepaid packages, booking against credits, private galleries, and branded delivery — and it builds the app around your studio.
Just enter your idea into the text box and AI will build it for you
What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t studio software you sign up for and configure — it’s an AI that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the database, the rules, the screens, the booking flow, and the private areas. What you get is a real app that’s yours. You can use it, change it later by asking for changes, and run it on your own accounts, including your own Stripe account when customers pay. It isn’t a template with your logo on it.
On this page, that app is a client hub for a photography studio. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one for repeat studio work.
Why build your own client hub?
A portrait studio that serves the same companies all year does not run like a wedding business. The main questions are practical: how many sessions are left on the company package, who has booked, which galleries went out, and who still needs to choose retouch selects.
Most studio tools are built around one client, one event, and one invoice. A corporate headshot business runs on balances. Kliv builds the hub around that work: a package is a live balance, bookings spend it, galleries are private to each person, and delivery emails carry the studio’s name.
What the studio system tracks
Six records keep the repeat-client business clear.
Packages and balances
A ten-headshot package is stored on the company record. Bookings spend it, and the client can always see what remains.
Sessions
Each booking names the person, the slot, and the credit it used. An eleventh booking against a ten-pack is blocked until someone tops up.
Companies and people
An HR lead sees the company balance, bookings, and usage. Each employee sees only their own session and gallery. Organization roles draw the line.
Private galleries
Every gallery is private to its subject by default. Files are shared per person and can be revoked per person. Marketing permission is recorded on the gallery.
Selects and retouch picks
The subject stars the frames they want retouched. Those picks become the retouch queue, with clear states for chosen, delivered, and pending.
Delivery from your studio
Finished-gallery emails use your template, your domain, and your tone. The last touch the client sees is the studio, not a file-transfer service.
An example: Marcus’s portrait studio
Here’s how one studio might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own clients, packages, prices, and gallery rules.
A company buys a prepaid package
Fairhold’s HR lead checks out once for a ten-session headshot package at $1,450 on Marcus’s own Stripe account. The package becomes a live balance on Fairhold’s record.
Employees book against the balance
Nine new hires choose slots from the studio’s real availability. Each booking subtracts one credit immediately, with no calendar email thread.
The shoot list is ready before the day starts
Tuesday shows six names, times, and notes. The CFO’s entry carries the rush request the HR lead typed during booking.
Each gallery is private to its subject
Proofs land in separate galleries. The CFO cannot open the intern’s gallery, and the intern cannot open the CFO’s. Each person stars their retouch picks.
Delivery updates the company balance
Final files go out in a branded email with the gallery link. Fairhold’s dashboard shows nine of ten credits used.
A top-up reminder sells the next package
At one credit remaining, a scheduled email nudges the HR lead with a one-click repurchase. The next quarter is ready before Marcus has to ask.
Describe what you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Include who books, who pays, what stays private, and what happens after delivery. Here are three examples:
Corporate headshot packs
A company buys credits, and employees book against them.
“Build a studio hub where companies buy ten-session headshot packages for $1,450, employees book their own time slots against the shared balance, each person gets a private proofing gallery, and the HR lead receives a top-up email when one credit remains.”
Family portrait club
A yearly plan with sessions and album credit.
“Build a client hub for my portrait studio where families pay $495 per year for two portrait sessions and a $150 album credit, each family gets a private gallery, parents choose retouch selects online, and unused session credits expire after 12 months unless I extend them.”
School photo delivery
Many private galleries with ordering from each gallery.
“Build a delivery hub for school portraits where each family receives a unique code for their child’s private gallery, can order prints from that gallery, and receives a reminder seven days before gallery access expires.”
Where the leverage is
The balance is the contract. Packages, bookings, and invoice lines all read the same record. The HR lead can see the same ten rows Marcus can, with timestamps.
Privacy is per subject, not just per client. A gallery rule names one person. Even inside the paying company, HR sees usage counts, not someone else’s unchosen frames.
Test the quarter first. In the Sandbox, you can sell a practice ten-pack with test payments, spend it across test bookings, and watch the top-up reminder fire at one credit before a real client touches the hub.
A studio like this is a local business with repeat customers, which is the pattern Kliv’s local-business page is built around.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI that builds custom web apps from a description. For a photography studio client hub, it builds the booking flow, package balances, private galleries, delivery emails, and admin screens around how your studio works.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. Kliv builds the database, rules, and screens for your studio, not a generic gallery theme you fill in.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You ask for changes in plain words. You can change packages, gallery rules, email templates, booking rules, or the way top-ups work without starting over.
Is it only for corporate clients?
No. A package can belong to a company, a family, or an individual. A three-session family pack uses the same balance rules; the records are just organized differently.
What happens to unused credits?
Your policy becomes the rule. Credits can expire, roll over, stay as credit, or be refunded after your approval.
Who owns the photos and the client list?
You do. Clients and bookings are rows in your database, images live in your file store, and the app’s source syncs to your own Git repository.
Can galleries expire?
Yes. Access rules can include dates, so a gallery closes on schedule and reopens if you extend it. You can also warn the client before it closes.
Can people see each other’s galleries?
No, unless you explicitly allow it. Gallery access is set per person, so one employee cannot open another employee’s proofs.
Does Kliv take a cut of package sales?
No. Payments run through your own Stripe account. Card processing fees are between you and Stripe.
Do clients need their own Stripe accounts?
No. Clients just pay by card. The Stripe account is yours.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. The hub can run on your own domain, with public pages in front and sign-in areas behind them.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The code syncs to your own Git repository, so leaving is a git pull, not a rebuild.
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Run the studio between the shoots
Describe your repeat-client work in detail: the package sizes, prices, booking rules, gallery privacy, retouch workflow, and delivery emails. Kliv builds the hub around those rules.