One wedding,fully costed
Meet Sofia, who shoots thirty weddings a year and used to price them on vibes. Here's the Nguyen wedding — the first job where she knew her margin before the album shipped.
The setup — an illustrative scenario, not a customer reviewSofia knew her day rate cold but not her real margin — rentals, second shooters, and parking quietly ate an unknown slice of every booking. For the Nguyen wedding she opened a workspace the day the contract was signed and scanned everything that job touched.
See Receni for photographersOne day, recorded
Sofia's day, receipt by receipt
- 1
Fri 4:30 pm
The rental pickup
The 70–200mm and a lighting kit for the weekend. Sofia scans the rental slip at the counter and files it to the Nguyen workspace while the gear goes into the trunk.
$145.00Lensworks Rental House
Gear — Nguyen wedding
- 2
Sat 7:50 am
Morning-of supplies
A memory-card backup and gaffer tape from the camera store — the classic morning-of run that never used to get recorded. Scanned in the parking lot, ten seconds.
$62.40Shutter Supply Co.
Consumables
- 3
Sat 2:15 pm
Venue parking, captured
Two cars, valet only. The slips go straight from the attendant's hand to the scan queue during the cocktail-hour lull.
$48.00Grandview Estate Parking
Travel — Nguyen wedding
- 4
Mon 10:00 am
The second shooter's invoice
Marcus sends his invoice for the day. Sofia scans the PDF's screenshot into the same workspace — the biggest single cost of the job, on the record next to the smallest.
$650.00M. Reyes Photography
Crew — Nguyen wedding
What changed
The shift, in Sofia's scenario
The margin stopped being a mystery
The Nguyen workspace showed exactly what the booking cost to deliver — and that weddings were subsidizing her underpriced portrait work.
Repricing came with receipts
Next season's package prices were built from real per-job costs instead of a guess at what the market would bear.
Tax season shrank to one export
A year of rentals, crew invoices, and parking slips left as categorized CSVs instead of a camera-bag excavation.
The features doing the work
- AI receipt scanning — Every capture is a ten-second scan — at the rental counter, in the parking lot, mid-reception.
- Workspaces — One workspace per wedding keeps each job's true cost separate and comparable.
- Manual entry — Cash tips to venue staff went in as manual entries before the drive home.
- CSV export — Each job — and the whole year — exports as a clean CSV for her preparer.
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