Packages, day rates, and retainers — scoped, booked,
and paid through one professional link.
Free for 6 Months — No Credit Card • Market Rate Advisor • Ready in Minutes
Wedding photography is a business with roughly forty sellable Saturdays a year, booked twelve to eighteen months ahead, where the product cannot be reshot and the client has been planning around it for a year. Every commercial decision follows from that scarcity. A booking is not a job, it is the sale of a specific irreplaceable date, and the deposit structure has to reflect that a cancellation in March leaves a peak-season Saturday that will almost certainly not resell. The long lead time creates a second problem — a year between booking and shooting, and several months more before delivery, is a very long time to hold a client relationship together on a single upfront payment.
The billing structures this trade actually uses — and what each one means for getting paid. Every one of them can sit on a single rate card.
The core offer.
Hours of coverage, second shooter, albums, engagement session.
Every wedding.
Reflects the removal of an irreplaceable date from your calendar.
The long gap between booking and the day.
Instalments across the engagement are easier for couples and better for your cash flow.
Post-wedding.
Sold when the couple has seen the images and wants them in their hands.
The payment problems specific to this trade, and what actually fixes each one.
A cancelled June wedding booked eighteen months out leaves a peak Saturday that will not resell at that notice.
A non-refundable booking fee proportionate to holding the date, stated plainly at booking.
A single large payment up front is a barrier for couples already spending heavily.
Staged instalments across the engagement lower the barrier without reducing the total.
Album sales get chased months later when the couple has moved on.
Offer albums as bookable services at delivery, while the images are still fresh.
RateCards turns your link into your storefront — packages scoped, deposits collected, and payment handled before the work starts.2
Send a clear package with deliverables and price. The client approves, pays the deposit in one tap, and you start with money in hand.
✓ Deposit Before You StartFlat-price the standard package, day-rate the shoots and sprints, retainer the ongoing work. Price it the way wedding photographers actually bill.
✓ Project · Day Rate · RetainerCoverage hours, engagement sessions, albums, and second shooters — all listed with clear prices. Clients see exactly what you offer and book without the back-and-forth.
✓ Unlimited ServicesInstagram, your portfolio, your email signature — one link everywhere. Clients pick a package and book without the back-and-forth DMs.
✓ One Link, Every PlatformSell wedding-season booking retainers as recurring services. Predictable monthly income between the one-off projects.3
✓ Automated Retainer BillingMessage clients from your dashboard — briefs, revisions, delivery dates — without chasing threads across five apps.
✓ Built-In Client MessagingRateCards puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of wedding photographers — not just big corporations.
Describe what you do and AI builds your profiles and rate cards in seconds — your services, prices, and descriptions ready to share.
Stop guessing what to charge. Benchmark your rates against real market data so you win jobs — without leaving money on the table.
Never miss a client again. The AI Voice Receptionist answers your calls 24/7, quotes from your rate cards and books the job while you're on site.
Three steps. That’s it.
Add your services and pricing in minutes. No tech skills needed.
Text it, post it, or print it — customers open it on any device instantly.
They book and pay. You show up and do the work. Money in your account.
One link in every bio, every post, every text — wherever your clients already find you.
Free for 6 months. No credit card required.
Everything your customers need to pay you —
nothing they have to figure out.
Free for 6 months. No credit card required.
My packages page closed more work in a month than my old proposal PDFs did in a quarter.
RateCards is a booking and payment link for Wedding Photographers: list your services and prices on one page, take bookings and deposits, and get paid by card through Stripe — no website, no app, no code. Free to start, and most providers are set up in minutes. See how RateCards works or explore every feature.
A non-refundable booking fee secures the date, with the balance staged across the engagement or due shortly before the wedding. Instalments are easier for couples budgeting for a whole wedding and better for your cash flow than one payment at either end.
Booking removes a specific Saturday from a calendar with roughly forty sellable dates a year, usually more than a year in advance. A late cancellation almost never resells, which is why non-refundable booking fees are standard across the trade.
At delivery, when the couple has just seen their images. Listing albums as bookable services means they can order in that moment rather than being chased weeks later.
With RateCards.app, clients pay directly through your link — no invoices, no chasing. Payment is processed through Stripe and typically arrives in your account fast.1
It’s a simple page listing your services and prices where clients can book and pay quickly — like your own mini storefront.1
Yes. Collect a deposit at booking and the balance on delivery — no more finishing work and hoping the invoice gets paid.
No. They open your link in any browser on any device and pay in seconds — no download required.
Yes. Coverage hours, engagement sessions, albums, and second shooters — add every service you offer, all on one profile.
Yes. Tipping is built in and optional for every job — one tap at checkout.4
Put the link in your bio, portfolio, and email signature — clients book from wherever they find you.
Starter is free for your first 6 months — no credit card required. After that it’s $5/mo billed annually ($60 a year) or $7/mo billed monthly. Solo is $24/mo billed annually ($288 a year) or $29/mo monthly, and Business is $119/mo billed annually ($1,428 a year) or $149/mo monthly. See the full breakdown on the RateCards pricing page.
Two, and both are flat percentages of the listed price. A 5.5% service fee is deducted from your payout — that rate is all-inclusive, so Stripe’s processing costs are absorbed within it rather than charged to you separately.7 A 5.5% client booking fee is added to your client’s total at checkout.7 Solo cuts your service fee by 20% and Business by 30%; the client booking fee stays 5.5%. Every rate is listed on the pricing page.
RateCards gives wedding photographers one shareable link where clients see services and prices, book, and pay by card through Stripe. This page covers how the trade prices its work — package priced by coverage, non-refundable booking fee, staged balance, and albums and prints — and the payment problems specific to it: peak dates that will not resell, one large payment up front, and album sales chased too late. Deposits, recurring billing, tips, and a print-ready QR code are built in, and clients need no app or account. Free to start.
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Create Your Rate Cards →Starter is free for your first 6 months — no credit card required. $5/mo billed annually after that.7