Quick Start Guide

An Introduction to PhotoDay

Last updated
July 8, 2025

PhotoDay: The all‑in‑one workflow, marketing, e-commerce, and marketplace solution that volume photographers love.

In order to sell online as a photography studio, you only need to do two things:

  1. Create amazing images.
  2. Tell people how to find them.

Yes, it’s really that simple. Don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise. With PhotoDay, we’re here to help you facilitate both of those steps. This self-onboarding guide will get you up, running, and selling images in no time flat. Along the way, we’ll give you plenty of helpful links to further reading material, but we’ll be keeping things moving at a steady pace, showing you around the PhotoDay environment.

And with that, let’s get started! But first, a little bit about us (feel free to skip ahead to the next section if you really just want to dive in—our feelings won’t be hurt).

Transforming the industry & empowering photographers since 2018

Since our founding, PhotoDay’s singular goal has been to make picture day easier than ever for everyone involved. This includes studios, customers, and organizations alike.

Through innovative technology, countless hours of work, and a massively supportive community, PhotoDay has propelled the industry forward into higher-quality photography, enhanced customer experiences, and improved quality of life for photographers. And we have no intention of slowing down!

The PhotoDay Workflow

The PhotoDay process streamlines and simplifies picture day from start to finish, so you can spend more time doing what you love.

  • Promote: Communicate with customers clearly and effectively using automated and manual marketing options—including text messages, emails, flyers, posters, and other templates.
  • Pre-Sell: Lock in sales before picture day with AdvancePay. Customers can purchase AdvancePay credits before picture day to apply to their order after picture day.
  • Photograph: With online selling, images are inventory! Capture multiple poses to create more photos that your customers won’t be able to resist. Edit, upload, and you’re done.
  • Sell: Just hit “publish” to set it and forget it. PhotoDay automatically lets your customers know their photos are ready to view and strategically reminds them until they order.
  • Deliver: When an order is placed, your choice of our trusted partner labs prints and ships it with care. Customers receive a text update and can track their products directly to their doorstep—all while you sit back and relax.

Ready to see how we do it? Let’s first see it all from the most important perspective: your customers.

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