Wedding & event photographers

The event booking CRM for photographers.

Couples book you to capture photos, which is the fun part, but much of the job is repetitive admin. 1pm answers new leads from the form on your website with a quote for dates you are free, while you're working. It gets the agreement signed and the deposit paid, and collects the family group photo list. It reminds the couple to book their pre-wedding consultation through appointments, and shares the live photography run of show.

Professional plan, from $20/month. 30-day free trial. No credit card.

A photographer in the foreground shoots a wedding ceremony in a high-rise function room, the couple and celebrant standing before a marble wall and gold chandelier while guests watch from white chairs
Chris Jack, founder of 1pm

“I was a wedding and events photographer for 11 years, so 1pm was built to help me book more weddings, save hours of admin every day, and provide an exceptional and seamless client experience throughout the booking and planning process. 1pm is literally the event booking CRM designed by a wedding photographer, for event professionals.”

Chris Jack · Founder 1pm.app

Built for a business where the timeline is the job

You shoot one wedding a day, booked about 12 months out. So every lead is the same question: are you free on the 14th? And the couple is your client for eighteen months, not one afternoon.

You do not own the venue, and the day moves: getting ready at the hotel, the ceremony in a garden, the reception in a barn. The run of show is where you plan all the details, the family formals and the portrait window, and the planner, celebrant and the band all end up using it.

A booking and calendar tool, an e-signature app, a questionnaire and a timeline spreadsheet each hold one piece of that. 1pm holds all of it on one record per couple, from the first email to final payment.

Built for photographers who shoot weddings, elopements, engagement sessions, corporate events, conferences, and parties and celebrations.

Sales CRM

Reply to the lead before the next photographer does

Couples email two or three photographers at once, usually while you are shooting someone else's wedding. The first real answer, with a price, often gets the booking and certainly the first chance to impress.

Auto Reply only on dates you are free

Before 1pm replies to a new lead, it checks every booking you hold on that date. If you are already shooting, nothing sends and you get a notification naming the clash. If you are free, the couple has your reply within minutes.

Help: Auto Reply to new leads

A lead type for each kind of shoot

Set up Wedding, Elopement, Engagement and Corporate event as separate lead types, each with its own form fields, reply and terms. One form on your website can offer them all with a dropdown.

Help: Capturing leads with a form

Every email with the couple in one thread

Reply from the Leads inbox, or answer the notification email from your phone, and it lands in the same thread. Save your usual replies as templates that fill in the first name and the wedding date.

Help: Replying to leads

Follow-ups that remember for you

Put a date on a lead and note what the chase is for. It appears on your Follow-ups tab on the day, next to the leads that have gone quiet with nothing scheduled.

Help: Following up on leads
You're up! run of show

Show them the day before they book

A quote tells the couple what you cost. A live run of show next to it with the draft timeline makes their day come to life, and that is often what gets the yes.

A timeline beside your quote

Build a run of show in You're up! for free and paste its share link onto the lead. The couple reads your quote on one side of the page and the shape of their day on the other. Change a time and their page shows it, with nothing to re-send.

Help: Add a You're up! run of show to the booking portal

The couple can adopt it

One button gives the couple their own copy. The rows they adopt stay linked to yours, so when you move the portraits, their copy moves too. They add rows of their own, such as hair and makeup, and send it to their celebrant, venue and band.

Help: Why event pros use a You're up! run of show
Bookings & payments

Lock in the date with a deposit

A Saturday you have promised is a Saturday you cannot sell again. The booking is not confirmed until the couple has agreed to your terms and paid.

A proposal that sells your packages

Build a proposal template once, with your logo, your words and the quote. Send it to each couple as a branded web page at a private link, with no PDF to re-export when a detail changes.

Help: Proposals

Accept, agree and pay on one page

The couple accepts the quote, agrees to your terms by typing their name, and pays the retainer, all at one private link with no login. Each booking keeps the exact version of the terms they agreed to.

Help: Event confirmations

Deposit and balance, billed separately

Bill the deposit and the balance as separate invoices. Take card payments through your own Stripe account with no platform fee, or record a bank transfer. Couples can pay in full instead, or keep a card on file for the balance.

Help: Deposits and balances

A booking portal and an event portal

Every couple gets two private pages. The booking portal holds their quote, agreement and invoices. The event portal holds the run of show, your requests and the files for the day. Neither needs a login.

Help: Your booking portal and your event portal
Requests & automations

Get everything from the couple without chasing

The family groups, the getting-ready address, the coordinator's number, the pre-wedding consultation. Ask once, and it all arrives on the booking.

The family photo list, asked for on booking

Save your questions once as a request pack: the family groups, the must-have shots, the getting-ready address, the coordinator's number. Link it to the Wedding lead type, and every wedding booking asks the couple for it in their event portal.

Help: Request packs

Their answers on the booking you work from

Tick Save the answer onto the booking on a question, and the couple's answer lands in the booking's event brief, next to the rest of the wedding details. Only the couple sees that question.

Help: The event brief

A reminder to book the pre-wedding consultation

Build an automation that emails the couple a set number of days before the wedding, with a button to your booking page. Every client email waits 24 hours for you to check it before it sends.

Help: Automations

Consultations they book themselves

Publish a booking page with the times you take consultations, in person, by phone or over video. Couples pick a slot and get a confirmation with a reschedule and cancel link, and a consultation never blocks a wedding date.

Help: Appointments and the booking page
Run of show

One live timeline on the day

Getting ready, first look, ceremony, family formals, golden hour, speeches. Your second shooter, the planner and the couple all work from the same times.

Your second shooter's own link

Add your second shooter to the booking and they get a private link to the run of show, with their items highlighted. Put the shot list in each item's details, and the timeline doubles as the shot plan.

Help: Sharing the live link

The couple sees the same times

Give the couple their own link to the run of show. When the ceremony starts 15 minutes late and you move the items, every open link updates within seconds. It also links back to their booking to pay the balance.

Help: Sharing the run of show with your client

Still works with no reception

Barns, vineyards and beaches often have no signal. Open the link once beforehand and the run of show still loads on the day. Items ticked off while offline sync when the connection returns.

Help: Working offline at the venue

Your full-day timeline as a template

Save a wedding that ran well as a template. The next couple's booking starts with the same timeline, details and all, re-anchored to their date.

Help: Event templates
Professional

Everything on this page is on Professional

$20 a month, or $192 a year.

An associate or a studio manager needs their own login? Each extra user is $4 a month.

Questions from photographers

I shoot weddings and corporate events. Does it suit both?

Yes. Set up a lead type for each, with its own form fields, reply, terms and request pack. A corporate lead gets the corporate reply, and a wedding lead gets the family photo list.

Do I need to set up Spaces for the venues I shoot at?

No. Your bookings do not need a Space, and without one Auto Reply checks every booking you hold on the date, which is right when you are the one being booked. You only need a Space for the public booking page. Name it Consultations, then set Default Space to No default in your account profile, so new leads do not land in it.

What is You're up!, and do I pay extra for it?

You're up! is a separate run of show builder at youreup.co. Building a sheet, sharing it and letting a couple adopt it are free. You paste the share link onto the lead in 1pm, and the couple reads it beside your quote.

Does my second shooter need an account?

No. They open the run of show from a private link with no login. Regulars can bookmark it, one link that lists every booking you have put them on.

Do couples need to create an account?

No. The couple or client opens their quote, agreement, invoices, requests and run of show from private links, with no login and no password.

Is there a free trial?

Yes, 30 days with every feature, and no credit card.

For the whole workflow from lead to final invoice, read a wedding photographer walkthrough. Every feature is on the features page.

Book more weddings. Do less admin.

30-day free trial. No credit card.