If you got your first client than want to know how to set up your wedding photography payment than I hope my story today will inspire you.
Dear photographer fellas my name is Bima and thank you visiting my blog, here on for photographer categories I post a lot of stories that you can use to operate your studio. Sometimes I share about how to shoot pre wedding with 1 flash and sometimes I also share some tips about selling your photo stocks and start to earn money while you sleep. Whatever it takes I hope this blog can be useful for you at the end.
Wedding Photography payment Set Up
Having a standard operating procedure of wedding photography payment is a thing to do that every photographer should consider, there are so many option that couple can choose to pay your services such as cash, bank transfer, credit card, and Paypal so let them choose which is the most comfort one. Till now Paypal still the best payment provider that help every photographer accepting money from worldwide couple even we know that sometimes Paypal got lower rates than in your personal bank.
Next thing that you need to consider before using Paypal is they also cut off around 5-6% from the total amount but their system still being the best so far. Actually you don’t need to be really care about the Paypal transfer charge cause I know that your fee is more than that and thinking about it will just wasting your energy.
On going your career I’m pretty sure your rate will be increasing and 5% is just a small money that Paypal got from you but if you still thinking about it just ask your couple to pay your services by bank transfer and yes sometimes they will charge less for it.
Shortly I’m gonna guide you to set up your wedding photography payment with 5 simple steps:
- Provide your studio with several payment option such as: bank transfer, Paypal, Payoneer, or cash
- Ask your client how they want to pay your services
- Always remind to send them your legal invoice which containing your studio logo or any legal sign
- Make sure you got a payment limit (without it you gonna lost your potential couple)
- Send the payment recipe once they make a payment
Tips Before Sending Your Photo Enquiry Rates
By the way I work together with my wife Nina so she used to be the one who take care about payment, enquiry, and any finance matter. Here I’m gonna share for what we did in our studio:
Don’t Just Tell Your Rates
After receiving email just like what I shared above my wife will reply about where does she come from and how do they know about our studio. Here we’re not suddenly tell about our rates but greeting will be the first words that we deliver to our future couple.
Asking for Expectation
At the second email we will be talk about their expectation of hiring us and some details that should be considered if they want to use our services. Due to our studio regulation, we never send our packages and rates if couple don’t want to reply our expectation question!
Send Your Packages and Rates
The third step is we send our enquiry and its wedding photography payment term and condition. Here in my studio booking will be base on the first come couple and they should pay for the non-refundable deposit for 50% than continue for the full payment 30 days maximum before the shooting day.
How to Meet Your Couple If Distance Become Problem?
Since I focusing my services on destination wedding photography niche so it would be rare to meet our couple before the photo session except we can meet directly in a country that we transit or a city where we visit for business. Through this condition I really suggest to our couple to do skype video meeting before they make a payment for our services.
We know as well that wedding photography is not like a retail business but truly this gonna be a personal services so meet each other will be better if not we try to meet on skype to get know each other and it is really fun to see my couple before we meet in the location.
Once again Paypal today make an easy way for us to send an enquiry to our couple, and money will be hold about 1×24 hours for the verification and following that day we can accept it into our account, and withdraw it into our bank within 2-3 days. For any of you that also using a Paypal to accept money I suggest you to complete all the form which is consist of our details that use for verification so they will allow us to accept funds without limit.
Conclusion
I hope you got an inspiration of how to set your wedding photography payment today and if you still willing to ask something more about it just simply drop me a comment below and I’ll reply as soon as possible. I will keep in touch with your and write other article that related to photography business