Bookings, clients and follow up, in one place.
From the first enquiry to the booked session and the order after it, every step sits on one client record.
BUILT BY A STUDIO OWNER
The CRM built for busy portrait studios.
Calls, texts, email, bookings and follow up behind one login, for any portrait photographer, from your first booked session to a busy studio with a full front desk. Built by someone who ran one.
$297 per month. Card required. AI and phone usage is billed at cost, on top of the $297.
One inbox, from the first ring to the viewing.
Calls, texts, email, Facebook and Instagram messages and web enquiries, in one thread per client. Whoever picks up next can see everything that was already said.
$297 a month. One plan, no per user fees.
No contact limits, and no per seat penalty for hiring. AI and phone usage is billed at cost, on top of the $297, and emails at wholesale rates.
Other things worked. You just outgrew them.
Most studios we talk to didn’t fail with their old system. They grew past it. A booking calendar here, a texting app there, an inbox somewhere else again, each one a reasonable choice on the day it was bought. Then the studio hired a second booker, and the same enquiry started living in four places at once.
Allio puts the phone, the inbox, the client record, the diary and the follow up behind one login. Not because the other tools were wrong. Because a growing studio outgrows separate logins the same way it outgrows a folding table in the sales room.
What changes on day one
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Calls, from the client’s own record.
Every inbound and outbound call is logged straight against the right client. Whoever answers next can see what was already said, instead of asking the client to repeat themselves. Calling works from the moment your number is live.
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One inbox for calls, texts, email and social.
Every call, text, email and social message lands in a single thread against the right client, so nobody digs through three apps to remember what was said. Setup note: texting from your new studio number needs a verification step with the phone carriers before it can send, which can take a few weeks. Calling works right away.
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One plan, no per seat fees.
$297 a month, one plan, no charge for adding staff and no cap on contacts. AI features are included, and AI and phone usage is billed at cost, on top of the $297, with emails at wholesale rates. See the full pricing page for the honest breakdown.
One client, one view, with the phone built in
Open a client and their texts, calls, email, Facebook and Instagram messages and form fills are in one thread, in the order they happened. Call them from that same screen on your studio number. See the one-client view.
Most CRMs for photographers leave the phone to another app, and HoneyBook now sells one as a paid add-on. In Allio the phone is part of the plan: one studio number for calls and texts, every inbound and outbound call logged to the right client’s record with its recording, and the same conversations on the mobile app for iPhone and Android when you’re away from the desk.
As your studio grows, the Call Reporting Dashboard shows how many calls came in, how many were answered and who handled them. It’s included in the $297 plan at no extra charge. AI and phone usage is billed at cost, on top of the $297.
Built by someone who ran the sales room
Allio was built by a former portrait studio owner. In 2009 he and his wife bought her mother’s portrait studio and grew it into what Studio Digital, the agency he also runs, calls a “$16 million success story.” Those studios, in Perth, Australia, are still family owned. He ran the bookings, the marketing and the sales room. She ran the camera.
That’s a result from his own studio, not a result Allio the software has produced; Allio didn’t exist yet. What it means for you: every part of Allio was shaped by someone who has actually stood in the sales room and answered the phone, not by a team that has only ever sold software.
Studios already running on Allio
Allio runs the phones and the inbox for real portrait studios in the United States, Australia and France, with a studio in the United Kingdom now onboarding.
These are real studios, described by type and location rather than named, to respect their privacy. We only list a studio we can confirm against our own system.
A fine art portrait studio in Illinois
A fine art portrait studio in California
A portrait studio in Texas
A portrait studio in Western Australia
A two location portrait studio in New South Wales and Queensland
A portrait photographer in France
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$297 per month. Card required. AI and phone usage is billed at cost, on top of the $297.
Prefer to have your marketing run for you too? Studio Digital, the agency behind Allio, takes on a limited number of portrait studios each year to run their advertising alongside their software.
