Stop running your business across five different apps.
Pixieset for galleries, Canva for proposals, Apple Calendar for bookings, Notes for discovery calls, Reminders for follow-ups. Margin replaces all of it with one connected system — built around how photographers actually work.
Annika & Theo · September wedding
418 photos · 184 visits · 96 favorites
Olive & Pine · Q2 lifestyle campaign
124 selects · 11 downloads · usage-tagged
Greenrow Foods · SKU drop 03
64 hi-res · embedded metadata · web-only license
Indra & Pat · Elopement
312 photos · 184 visits · prints ordered
How it works
Built around your day, step by step.
The day-to-day of a working photographer is six tools deep. We rebuilt it as a single thread — from the first email to the final invoice — with the templates, reminders, and prompts that match how you already work.
- 01
Inquiry arrives
Margin reads the email, extracts scope and budget signals, and drafts the first version of your quote in your voice. You review, tweak, send — no more starting from scratch.
Quote Drafter - 02
Discovery call
Type into Margin during the Zoom. Suggested follow-ups for the questions you tend to miss — preferred sides, family dynamics, must-capture moments. Tagged and saved.
Discovery Notebook - 03
Post-Zoom proposal
A beautiful, on-brand document — built like Canva, structured like a brief. Pulls your discovery notes onto the page so the couple knows you listened.
Proposal Builder - 04
Contract, retainer, BOOKED
E-signed contract, Stripe retainer, calendar event with the venue and your second shooter — three steps, one click. Josh gets the calendar invite automatically.
Contracts & Invoicing - 05
Reminders engage
Engagement session at T+30 days, timeline draft at T-60, group-photo intake at T-45, insurance rider at T-30, film stock at T-14. The reminders you used to keep in your phone — automated per project.
Tasks & Reminders - 06
Gallery delivered
Branded gallery on your domain. Sneak-peek to the couple, full set when ready. Favorites, downloads, prints, expiring links. The final invoice goes out the same day.
Galleries & Delivery
Discovery + Proposals
The notes you took become the document you send.
During the discovery call, you type into Margin while the couple talks. Suggested follow-ups appear for the questions you tend to forget. Everything is tagged — Aesthetic, Logistics, Family, Must-capture.
When you build the proposal afterward, those exact words show up on the page — quoted back so the couple knows you heard them. No more rebuilding the brief from scratch in Canva.
- Live note capture during Zoom
- Suggested follow-up questions
- One-click proposal from notes
- Watch the couple open and favorite
For Halen & Mae
Your June elopement
What you said matters · from our call
- Aesthetic"Documentary-leaning. No super-posed group shots."
- Logistics"Late afternoon ceremony, 80 guests, dinner under string lights."
- Must-capture"Grandmother's broach, father-daughter dance to a song her dad wrote."
Documentary Day · 8h + second shooter + album
$6,500
Reminders
The reminders you used to keep in your phone.
Engagement session reach-out. Timeline draft. Group-photo intake. Insurance rider for the venue. Second shooter confirmation. Film stock order. The list every photographer improvises in Apple Reminders — except now it's a template that fires per project, automatically.
Edit the template once. Every wedding inherits it. Edit it per project for the venue's quirks — Margin remembers next time you book there.
See task templatesWedding workflow · Annika & Theo
10 reminders queuedSend engagement-session prompt + scheduling link
EngagementtemplatetomorrowConfirm second shooter — Mara if available
Second shootertemplatein 7 weeksBuild wedding-day timeline draft
Timelinetemplatein 11 weeksGroup-photo list intake — send questionnaire
Group photostemplatein 13 weeksRequest insurance rider from Hudson Farmstead (30 days out)
Insuranceautoin 16 weeksOrder film stock — 12 rolls Portra 400
Filmmanualin 18 weeks
Vendors & Venues
Knowledge that compounds.
"Does this venue need a $2M rider 30 days out?" Goes on the venue. "Does my bride have a preferred side?" Goes on her profile. Margin keeps them as separate files so the right knowledge surfaces at the right moment — and so when you book a new wedding at a venue you've shot before, the rider task and the light-window note are already there.
- Per-venue notes that survive every wedding
- Insurance rider tracking with auto-task creation
- Vendor ratings + history per project
The Hudson Farmstead
Hudson, NY · Venue
Family farm venue, ~80-guest capacity. Requires $2M insurance rider 30 days out. Best ceremony light: 5–6:30 PM in late summer. Tight reception tent, plan tighter family formals. Bridal suite is the upstairs barn loft — limited natural light.
Galleries
Beautiful delivery, on your domain.
The gallery is the deliverable. Margin treats it like one — branded on your domain, gorgeous on every device, with the controls you actually need: favorites, downloads, prints, expiring links, watermarked previews, embedded metadata for licensing.
- Mobile-first viewer, edge-to-edge images
- Client favorites flow back into your retouch queue
- Watermarked previews, hi-res with metadata
- Expiring links, password protection per gallery
- Print storefront with margin-protected pricing
Annika & Theo
Hudson, NY · September 14
Every surface
Nine surfaces. One connected system.
Each one designed to remove a category of work you currently do by hand — and to make sure the knowledge from one surface compounds into every other.
Discovery Notebook
Type into Margin during the call. Suggested follow-up questions so you don't miss what matters. Notes flow into the proposal automatically.
- —Live note capture
- —Suggested questions
- —Tagged by topic
Proposal Builder
Beautiful, editable templates for the post-Zoom doc. Pulls your discovery notes onto the page so the couple sees you listened.
- —Canva-quality templates
- —Pulls from notes
- —View tracking
Quote Drafter
Inquiries arrive, drafts appear. Margin reads each email, extracts the scope, and proposes a price band with reasoning.
- —<5 min from inquiry
- —Confidence-scored
- —You approve before send
Living Client Profile
One file per client that updates itself. Bride's preferred side, family dynamics, vendor connections — all captured, all retrievable.
- —Auto-summarized emails
- —Transcript ingestion
- —Tagged preferences
Vendors & Venues
Separate files for the people and places. Insurance riders, light windows, who's reliable, who isn't. Knowledge that compounds.
- —Per-venue notes
- —Rider tracking
- —Vendor ratings
Reminders & Tasks
Engagement session, timeline, group photos, insurance, second shooter, film. The reminders you set yourself up to remember — automated.
- —Per-project templates
- —Custom cadences
- —Calendar sync
Contracts & Invoicing
Templates that look like you. E-sign, retainers, automated reminders. Stripe-powered: cards, ACH, BNPL, digital wallets.
- —E-signature built in
- —Stripe Checkout
- —Automated reminders
Galleries & Delivery
Branded galleries on your domain — the deliverable clients actually love. Mobile-perfect, prints, watermarked previews, embedded metadata.
- —On your domain
- —Favorites + downloads
- —Print storefront
Licensing Engine
Territory × duration × media for commercial work. Track every active license and renew before it expires.
- —Usage builder
- —Renewal alerts
- —One-click amendments
Always working
Nothing falls through the cracks.
Margin reads your inquiries, watches your licensing calendar, spots renewal moments, and surfaces what needs you today — with reasoning. Nothing's auto-sent; you confirm everything before it goes.
Allmark Bicycles · Spring catalog license
North America + EU · Print + Digital · 18-month term ending Feb 1, 2026.
"We'd love to extend through the next cycle — same usage."— Robin H., Allmark, last Friday
Items
23
Reach
2.1M
Impact
$9.8K
Confidence
86%
Closed beta
Free during beta. White-glove migration.
We'll move your Pixieset galleries, Honeybook contracts, Canva proposal templates, and Apple Reminders task lists into Margin for you. No more juggling five apps.
- 9
- Surfaces. One product.
- <5 min
- Inquiry → quote
- 40–60
- Beta seats
- 2026
- V1 ship window