Guides
How to use StudioCue
Short, step-by-step guides to everything StudioCue does. The same guides are one tap away on every screen inside the product.
Studios
Running your studio, from the first inquiry to the final gallery.
Getting started
- A tour of StudioCueThe four places that do most of the work, and where everything else lives.
- Set up your studioSix questions that get StudioCue ready for your first real inquiry.
- Bring in the weddings you've already bookedImport existing bookings one at a time or from a spreadsheet, without emailing anyone.
- Add your packages, add-ons and price listSet up what you sell once, and every proposal draws on it.
- Upload your contractTurn your contract into a template StudioCue fills in for every couple.
- Put your inquiry form on your websiteGet every inquiry into StudioCue automatically, from your website, your own form or your inbox.
- Connect your toolsGoogle Calendar, Zoom, Dropbox and QuickBooks — what each does in StudioCue.
Every day
- Work from TodayStart each day here: decide what's waiting, approve what's drafted, and leave the rest.
- Follow one wedding from start to finishWhere a job is, the one thing to do next, and everything that's happened.
- Ask Cue, then approveAsk your assistant anything, or ask it to do something — it prepares, you approve.
- Message a coupleEvery conversation with your couples, with replies drafted when they write in.
Inquiry to booking
- Answer a new inquiryReply fast, follow up without remembering to, and close the ones that don't book.
- Build and send a proposalPackage, extras, price and payment dates — drafted for you, approved by you, sent in one tap.
- Get it signed and the retainer paidSend the agreement, raise the retainer, and confirm the booking.
- Book a consultationSet when couples can book a call, and see every call and event on one calendar.
- Change a booking after it's signedA new date or a different package, signed by the couple as an amendment.
Planning
- Collect the final balanceHow the last bill goes out, what to do when it can't, and how autopay takes it for you.
- Send the questionnaireCollect names, timings and key moments from the couple, with reminders sent for you.
- Build the run of show and share itDraft the day's timeline, publish it to your crew and couple, and share it with vendors.
- Book your second shooterStudioCue ranks who to ask and offers the job one person at a time until someone accepts.
- Get a venue's insurance certificateStudioCue asks your agent for the certificate, chases it, and sends it on once you approve.
- Know the wedding is readyThe checklist every booked wedding clears before the day, and the event-day brief.
After the wedding
Admin
- Read your InsightsBookings, money, where inquiries come from, and what StudioCue handled for you.
- Clients, crew, team and vendorsWhere each kind of person lives in StudioCue, and how to add them.
- Invite your teamAdd the people who help run your studio, and choose what each can do.
- Workflows and automatic emailsThe checkpoints and emails every booked job gets, and which emails wait for you.
- Your plan and billingWhat you're on, what you're using, and where to change your card.
Couples
For couples: your portal, from booking to your photos.
Getting started
Inquiry to booking
Planning
- Pay, and save a card for the final balanceSee what's due, pay securely, and let the final balance pay itself.
- Fill in your questionnaireTell your photographer what they need to plan your day. Answers save as you go.
- Your timeline, files and messagesCheck your wedding-day timeline, message your photographer, and find every file.
After the wedding
Crew
For photographers and assistants working for a studio.