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Photography Pricing Calculator
Work out what your photography business needs to earn, turn it into an hourly floor, check every package against it, and price any shoot in seconds.
- Know your hourly floor
- Build profitable packages
- Price any shoot in seconds
What's inside
- Start HereYour welcome page: a 3-step setup checklist, how the tabs fit together, a guide to every tab with clickable links, and the color legend.
- PricingYour numbers in three parts: A. Cost of Doing Business (revenue needed, hourly floor and minimum price per session), B. Packages (30 rows, each checked against your floor), and C. Real Estate Pricing (square-foot tiers and add-ons).
- Quote CalculatorPrice one shoot up to three ways side by side, for example a package, a custom quote and a discounted version, and see the quote price, hours, hard costs, floor price, profit, effective hourly and a verdict for each.
- SettingsSet up once: your business name, business mode (General, Real Estate or Both) and your two session-type lists.
A closer look
Screenshots show the Sample copy with made-up data.
Get set up in minutes
- Open your copy's Start Here tab.
- Settings: your business name and mode.
- Pricing: your costs, take-home goal and working hours, then your packages.
- Quote Calculator: try a real shoot.
Good to know
- Google Sheets: you need a free Google account. This isn't an Excel file.
- Works in any browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Setup is easiest on a computer.
- Nothing to install: no add-ons, no scripts.
- You get a ready-to-use copy plus a Sample copy filled with example data, and a step-by-step PDF guide.
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