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The booking site your craft deserves
Photographers, tutors, salons, repair shops — take bookings, sell packages, and answer the same ten questions automatically.
The case for building it
Why build this instead of a booking tool plus a website builder?
The standard setup is a website builder for the front, a booking tool for the calendar, and payment links for the money — three subscriptions, three logins, and customers bouncing between them. None of it knows your business. Kliv builds one site where the portfolio, the booking, the packages, and the follow-up are a single system under your name.
Small businesses are all edge cases — travel zones, seasonal mini-sessions, package terms, your particular reschedule policy. That's exactly what template software handles worst and a described system handles best: your policies become the site's behavior, and the assistant answers your ten most-asked questions the way you would.
Anatomy of the system
What the business actually knows
A one-person business runs on details nobody else would keep straight: which package has two sessions left, whose gallery is ready, who bought a gift last December. Here is the shape of the system Kliv would build.
Clients
Everyone you've worked with — their bookings, purchases, galleries, and history in one record.
Sessions & bookings
Booked through Calendly on your real availability, confirmed and reminded automatically.
Packages & credits
The three-session package as a balance that spends per booking and shows what's left.
Client galleries
Each client's photos delivered in their own private space — not a public link with an unguessable name.
Gift purchases
A gift is a credit with a recipient — bought in one checkout, redeemed in another.
The FAQ
Your ten most-asked questions, written once, answered by the assistant while you shoot.
Who sees what
Rules the database enforces
- A client's gallery opens for that client — a forwarded link doesn't open it for anyone else.
- Package credits decrement per booked session; the client sees the balance, so you never argue about it.
- A gift creates a credit the recipient redeems — tracked from purchase to session.
- The assistant answers from the FAQ you wrote — your prices, your policies, your voice, nothing invented.
None of this is complicated. It's just usually scattered across a calendar app, a spreadsheet, a link folder, and your memory — and now it's one system under your name.
What Kliv assembles
A shopping list of platform pieces — each one built in, each one composing with the rest.
Booked while you work
Clients book sessions themselves through Calendly, right on your site.
Packages, prepaid
Sell session packages and gift-able one-time purchases with clean receipts and refunds.
A portfolio that loads fast
Galleries with automatic image optimization — full-resolution masters, instant thumbnails.
The same ten questions, answered
Pricing, turnaround, what to wear — your agent answers from your FAQ while you work.
Ways to charge
Three ways to charge for your craft
Small-business pricing is quietly sophisticated: the single session, the package that rewards loyalty, the gift that recruits new clients.
Single session
$350 one-time
The client who needs this one thing done well
The session, booked on your real calendar, confirmed and reminded on your templates.
- Unlocks
- The booking, the prep details, and afterward the private gallery.
- Billing
- Paid at booking; one charge, one receipt.
- Refunds
- Reschedules and refunds by your policy, through your approval.
Three-session package
$900 one-time
The family that comes back every season
Three sessions at a better rate, valid for the year.
- Unlocks
- A credit balance that spends per booking — visible to the client, enforced by the system.
- Billing
- One charge up front, credits tracked automatically until they're used or expire.
- Refunds
- Unused credits refundable by your policy, with your approval.
Gift purchase
$150 one-time
Someone who loves someone who loves your work
A gift credit with a recipient and a note — delivered by email, redeemable for a session.
- Unlocks
- The recipient redeems it into a booking; the credit's journey is tracked end to end.
- Billing
- One charge to the giver, one clean record for you.
- Refunds
- Same approval-gated flow.
Before launch
The first week, before you launch
You already have the craft and the clients. Four days to give them a home, then a rehearsal.
Shape the business
Describe how you work: your services, your prices, your reschedule policy, the ten questions everyone asks. Kliv builds the first preview around your actual week.
Make it yours
The portfolio carries the sale — arrange the work, tune the pages, upload full-resolution and let the site handle the speed.
Load the real thing
Connect Calendly, set the real prices and packages, write the FAQ in your voice, and open a test client's gallery.
Try to break it
Book yourself, reschedule it, buy a gift and redeem it. Open a client gallery from a link that shouldn't work — and watch it not work.
Then rehearse a year
In the Sandbox, with simulated money and simulated time, run a season: the November mini-session rush, package credits spending down over months, a gift bought in December and redeemed in January. Launch already knowing how the busy month behaves.
Bespoke, without the bespoke risk
Custom software used to mean a budget, a contractor, and a maintenance contract. This is a different deal.
Enterprise-grade parts
Sign-in, permissions enforced at the database, billing, audit, email — the components under your bespoke system are the same hardened pieces every Kliv app runs on. You compose proven infrastructure; you don't commission code from scratch.
Changes ship in order
When your process changes, say so — the change is built in conversation, you review it in a live preview, and nothing reaches your users until you publish. Commerce changes can even be rehearsed in the Sandbox with simulated money and time.
Nobody can sunset it
Off-the-shelf tools get re-priced, redesigned, and retired on a vendor's schedule — and your workflow goes with them. Your Kliv app changes only when you change it. It's your product, not a seat in someone else's.
Say it in one sentence
“Build a site for my photography business with a portfolio, session booking through Calendly, prepaid session packages, and an assistant that answers pricing questions.”
This is genuinely how it starts — describe it, then refine in conversation.
Common questions
Can clients book and pay in one place?
Yes — sessions book through Calendly right on your site, and prepaid packages and gift purchases check out there too, with clean receipts.
I'm not technical. How do I change things later?
The same way you built it — say what should change, review it in a preview, and publish when you're happy. Quick tweaks you can make visually, by pointing at the thing and changing it.
Will a big portfolio slow the site down?
No — images are optimized automatically, so you upload full-resolution work and visitors get fast pages.
How do gift purchases work?
Someone buys the gift and the recipient gets a credit with their name on it — redeemable into a booking like any other. You see the whole journey, from checkout to session, in the client records.
Can it handle my reschedule policy?
Yes — your policy is stated on the booking and enforced by it: the reminder emails go out, the window you allow is the window that works, and changes land back on your calendar.
What happens when I grow — a second shooter, an assistant?
Roles are already there. Assign sessions to a second shooter and they see their schedule and details — not your revenue, not the client list. The business grows without the system being rebuilt.
