Client galleries and studio software

Your studio, front and centre.

Tellisto runs the enquiry, the booking, the gallery and the invoice from one back-office. It’s built for Australia and New Zealand, so your GST and tax invoices come out right, and clients pay straight into your bank. Your galleries, invoices and emails carry your studio’s name, not ours, so your clients remember you.

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Zero commission on your sales, on every plan, including free.

What do you shoot?

The whole back-office

One app for everything but the shutter.

Most tools give you a gallery and a bill. Tellisto runs the whole job under your brand, from the first enquiry to the rebooking a year later.

Capture the lead
Book the shoot
Send a GST invoice
Deliver the gallery
Keep them coming back

The Tellisto Overview: a Needs You list with an invoice to mark paid and a new enquiry to reply to, a Handled For You note saying a gallery-ready email was sent, upcoming confirmed sessions, and a sidebar listing Overview, Tasks, Leads, Clients, Bookings, Calendar, Galleries, Invoices, Packages, Automations, Checklists and Contracts. — The Overview shows what needs you, what Tellisto has already done for you, and what's coming up.

Galleries

White-label client galleries that look like you built them, plus the Client Vault.

Stays live as long as you keep it, no inactivity clockPrivate by default, location data strippedAgents pull full-res and the whole set themselvesWhole set as one ZIP, no account to create Invoices

GST-correct tax invoices for Australia and New Zealand, paid straight to your bank by PayID or transfer. Zero commission.

Built for B2B tax invoices over $1,000 Clients

Every booking, invoice, gallery and email for a client, on one timeline.

One link for the couple, parents and plannerThe family's whole history on one timelineOne company, many contacts, every repeat round

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Built here, for here

An invoice your accountant won’t need to fix.

Most gallery software is built overseas, for tax systems that aren't ours. Tellisto was built around the local paperwork. Tax invoices are numbered in sequence, GST is worked out and rounded the way the tax office specifies, and your business number is on every one. It handles Australia and New Zealand from the start, not as a setting added later.

Your client gets a pay link they can open on their phone and pay on the spot, by bank transfer, PayID or card. The money goes straight to your bank, so what they send is what you keep.

How the invoicing works

A tax invoice as the client sees it, headed Aurora & Pine Photography with their business number, showing full-day wedding photography and an engagement session, a subtotal of $5,909.10, GST of $590.90 and a total of $6,500.00. — Your name at the top, your GST worked out, and the money paid to you.

Why Tellisto

I watched this happen to people I love.

You didn’t start a photography business to babysit your software. Here are the three things that keep happening to working photographers, and what I do instead.

You build your business around a tool, and then the email arrives: the price is going up.

It happens to working photographers all the time. A tool you depend on raises its price, usually after a bigger company buys in. The plan you budgeted your year around changes under you.

What I do instead: $79 is the price and I have no plans to change it. If that ever changed, I’d tell you well in advance, and you’d have the whole notice period to decide what suits you. It would never turn up as a surprise on an invoice. The first twenty-five to go Pro keep $25 for as long as they keep their subscription, and I’ve signed a dated pledge on that. Two things stay the same regardless: zero commission on your sales, and a free tier that stays free.

A tool you trusted changes hands, and the support gets worse.

A good tool gets popular and gets sold. The new owners start treating the photographers who depended on it as a line item. The product still works, but it stops improving for you. Replies get slower and new features stop coming.

What I do instead: I’m one person in Sydney and I built this, so for now, when you email or leave a note from the help button in the app, you get me. My reply lands under your question. There’s no board, no investors waiting on a return, and nobody above me to answer to. Whatever Tellisto turns into later, you can always leave with your work. Your clients, leads and bookings export to a spreadsheet whenever you want, and every delivered gallery has a full-resolution download.

You log in one day, and your older galleries have been hidden.

A gallery isn’t a file you tidy away. It’s the day someone got married. But plenty of tools treat finished work as temporary. They run an inactivity clock that can hide a gallery after a year or so, just because you were busy with the next shoot.

What I do instead: your galleries stay live for as long as you keep them. There’s no inactivity clock. Clients who want their own long-term copy can keep it in the Client Vault, renewed each year, whether or not you’re still in business. The pricing page explains more, because the Vault also pays you.

Pricing

Two plans. That’s the whole menu.

There’s no “contact sales”, no enterprise tier and no secret deals. Pro is $79 a month, and the first twenty-five lock in $25 for as long as they keep their subscription. The free tier isn’t stripped back, and both plans take zero commission. On Pro, the Client Vault pays you a share of every gallery your clients keep.

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A letter from the founder

I shoot the night sky, where there are no clients to deliver to. I learned the business side of photography from two of my closest friends. Over years of long chats, the same frustrations kept coming up. A good tool gets popular, then it gets bought, and the new owners stop caring about what made it worth using.

We grow when you do.

That’s the idea behind Tellisto. If it grows, it will be because your business grew.

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Switching?

Want a hand moving across?

Tell us what you use today and we’ll move your galleries, clients and invoices across with you. You won’t lose a weekend to it, and you won’t have to work it out alone. While Tellisto is small, the person doing the move is me. Coming from Pixieset? There’s a step-by-step guide to the move.

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Frequently asked questions

Questions before you start

Is this just galleries, or a full CRM?

It's the whole back-office. Tellisto handles leads, clients, bookings, packages, GST invoices, white-label galleries and the Client Vault, plus the automated emails that link each step. Most people start with galleries, but your clients and their whole history live in Tellisto too.

Does the free plan need a card?

No. The free plan isn't a trial and it isn't stripped back. You get the full back-office, the automations and the white-label galleries. You never pay extra for the tools you run your studio on. Pro gives you more room, plus the extras that pay you back: more storage, unlimited live galleries, deeper version history, your own domain on galleries, and the Vault rev-share. Upgrade when your workload needs it.

Are the invoices GST-correct?

Yes, in both Australia and New Zealand. In Australia you get a proper ATO tax invoice with your ABN. In New Zealand it is 15% GST with your IRD number and your NZBN. If you're registered for GST, Tellisto calculates it and shows it on the invoice. If you're not registered yet, the GST settings stay out of your way.

How do my clients pay an invoice?

By PayID or bank transfer, straight into your account. Every invoice has a pay link your client can open on their phone, and you mark it paid in one click. The money never passes through us, so there's no commission and no card fee taken out of what they send. Clients can pay by card too once you connect your own Stripe account, and that money also goes straight to you. Card isn't available on an invoice with a payment plan, because a card charge takes the whole amount at once.

Where is my data hosted?

Tellisto is an Australian business, built and run from Sydney. Cloudflare's network stores and delivers your galleries, and the ones your clients keep in the Vault. That's why they open fast wherever your clients are. The privacy page lists who stores what.

Do you take any commission on my sales?

No. It's zero per cent on every plan. I make money when you choose to pay for Pro ($79 a month, or $25 for the Founding 25 for as long as they keep their subscription). I also earn from the Vault, which pays you a share too if you're on Pro. I never take a percentage of what you charge, and I don't put my badge on your galleries.

What happens to my galleries if Tellisto shuts down?

You'd get plenty of notice, and time to take everything out first. Your clients, leads and bookings already export to a spreadsheet, and every delivered gallery has a full-resolution download. A one-click export of all your records is in Settings, under Plan & billing. If Tellisto ever closed, I'd wind it down properly so nobody's work is left stranded.

Put your name on your next gallery.

Setting up takes about ten minutes. Add your branding, upload a shoot and send your client one link. There's no card to enter, no trial to run out, and zero commission.

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