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VEYRA
Deliver
Money
Bookings
People
Studio
Storage
84 GB left, enough for about one more wedding.
Mayowa Akinradewo
The First Studios · Pro
Search clients, projects, invoices
Sunday, 23 August 2026
3 things need you today
Ranked by wait time, deadline, value and risk. The reason is always shown.
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The record, this week
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Coming next
Sunday 30 August
Jola, pre-wedding shoot · Birmingham
£330 past dueQuestionnaire outstanding
Seven days out and the balance is late. Worth settling before the shoot rather than after.
Money, right now
Owed to you£2,165
Past due£330
Booked, not yet shot£8,940
Yours after VAT£9,043
Uploading
Akinwande and Omotola, registry
44 GB of 61 GB. Resumed twice. You can close the laptop.
Pipeline
Nine stages, in the order you already work
Every card carries its money state and whether the client has done their part.
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Projects
One record, from first message to final download
Pick a project to see everything that has happened on it. Nothing lives anywhere else.
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The whole record
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Calendar · August 2026
Shoots, holds and the money attached to them
Every block knows the fee, the balance and whether the client has done their part.
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Sunday 30 August
Jola, pre-wedding
2 hours · Birmingham · £330, past due
Sunset 20:11. Golden hour starts 19:15, so aim for a 19:00 start.
Availability
Saturdays free before Christmas7
Holds waiting on a deposit1
Booking siteLive
September has four weddings in three weeks. Editing time is the constraint, not shoot days.
Galleries
Your work, under your own name
Your typography and colours on every cover. Ours nowhere.
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Publish checklist · Ayodeji's birthday shoot
Crops checkedPermissions setExpiry 12 monthsCover not chosen
Proofing
Their shortlist arrives as your edit
Favourites and comments come back as colour labels in Lightroom, not a numbered list in an email.
Waiting on you
Project
List
Marked
State
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Send to Lightroom
Akinwande and Omotola's 214 favourites are ready to write back as a green colour label.
Clients see one list per purpose: the album, the parents, the print order. You see one edit.
Money
What you are owed, and what is actually yours
Stripe, into your own account. Veyra never holds your client money.
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Open invoices
Client
Due
Reminders
Amount
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Next payout
£1,240
Friday 28 August, into your own Stripe account
No twelve month revenue curve here on purpose. These are numbers you can act on this week. The long view lives in Reports.
Money · Invoices
Invoices that chase themselves
Fourteen, seven and three days before, then once after. Every run is logged on the project.
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No.
State
Client
Project
Due
Reminders
Amount
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Money · Payment links
One link, reusable, always attributed
Every payment through a link lands on a project, so nothing arrives unexplained.
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Used
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Collected
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Money · Transactions
Every payment, and what landed after fees
Gross, fee and net on the same row, because the net is the number that matters.
Client
For
Method
Date
Gross
Fee
Net to you
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35 payments this yearGross £38,940.00Fees £1,227.60Net £37,712.40
Money · Reports
The five numbers that change a decision
A revenue squiggle tells you nothing you can act on. These do.
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Where the money comes from
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What you actually kept
£8,869
£38,940 invoiced, less £1,228 in card fees, less £7,630 set aside for VAT. This is the only revenue figure worth quoting to yourself.
Worth knowing
Bank transfer share61%
Fees you avoided by it£138
Refunds and disputes£0
Bookings · Session types
What you sell, and what actually sells
Every card shows bookings and enquiry-to-booking rate, so a package that does not earn its place is obvious.
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Booked
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Enquiry to booking
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Bookings · Sessions
Booked, and whether they are ready
A session is not ready because it is paid. It is ready when the paperwork is in too.
Date
Session
Client
Money
Paperwork
Ready
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Bookings · Booking site
A page that takes the deposit while you sleep
Your domain, your branding. Nothing on it says Veyra.
book.thefirststudios.ukLive
The First Studios
Weddings, portraits and events in Birmingham. Pick a session, see the dates I actually have, pay a deposit and it is yours.
Wedding Standard, £1,299Half day, £699Portraits, from £250
Rules
Deposit to hold a date30%
Notice needed14 days
Weddings per weekend1
Contract on bookingAutomatic
Last 30 days
Visits412
Enquiries9
Booked and paid on the page4
Bookings · Offers
Reasons to book, not pressure to book
No countdown timers and no invented scarcity. An offer states a real reason or it does not exist.
Code
What it does
Who it is for
Used
State
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A referral code that pays a past client back is the only discount that reliably earns more than it costs. The off-season one exists because February is genuinely quiet, which is a true reason.
People · Inbox
Every message, on the job it belongs to
You never reply without knowing what they have paid and what they are waiting for.
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People · Contacts
A family is one relationship, not four rows
26 people, grouped into the households they actually belong to.
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People · Enquiry forms
An enquiry becomes a project the moment it arrives
No inbox triage. It lands in the pipeline, timed from the second they pressed send.
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Enquiries
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Became bookings
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Studio · Templates
Write it once, send it for years
Templates fill themselves from the project record, so a name is never typed twice.
Template
Kind
Used
Last edited
Signing
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Studio · Settings
Your studio, your brand, your exit
Export is a button, not a support ticket. It is on this page on purpose.
Client-facing brand
The First Studios
Gallery typefaceCormorant Garamond
AccentRose clay
Veyra branding on client pagesNone, ever
Plan and storage
Pro£12 a month, excluding VAT
116 GB of 200 GB used. 84 GB left, enough for about one more wedding. Change plan any time, prorated.
Payments
Stripe connected
Your own Stripe account, your own payouts. Veyra never holds client money and is not a payment processor.
Bank transfer offeredYes
VAT rate20%
People on the account
Mayowa AkinradewoOwner
One seat unusedPro includes 2
Your data
You can leave, with everything
Clients, documents, payments and photographs, in formats that open without us. Held in the United Kingdom and European Union. No exit fee and no retention period to argue your way out of.