Stock Photography Business Management

Like all of the worksheets in fotoBiz, the Delivery Memo holds all of the information about this phase of your job. We take the information that you enter on this worksheet and format it in different ways to create the various documents you will need for both you and your clients.

The Stock Photography Delivery Memo

• Enter stock requests.
• Check out and check in your stock submissions in batches.
• Create Tracking Numbers and fotoBiz will track all your sales.
• Customize messages and titles that appear on the electronic Delivery Memo.
• Automatically turn your Delivery Memo into a stock invoice or a quote in fotoQuote.
• Create a license agreement automatically with the RightsWriter™.
• Keep notes about your negotiation and job details for your own reference.

Every worksheet in fotoBiz has a List View that lets you view, select and print reports for groups of records.

The Stock Photo Production

A stock photography shoot is actually just an assignment that is produced by you. There are expenses involved, as there are with any assignment. The idea of this self produced shoot is that you hope to sell shares of the results to several buyers, and you hope to recoup your costs, and to make a profit.

The fotoBiz Stock Production Worksheet, along with the automatic sales tracking ability of the imageLog and billing modules in fotoBiz, make keeping track of the costs and profits of your stock shoots a breeze.

• View a list of all of the images that have been assigned to a particular Stock Production in the imageLog.
• Estimate and finally confirm the cost of the shoot.
• Use the Post Production window to make notes after the shoot that might be useful in future productions.
• Assign all resulting images in the imageLog back to this shoot and fotoBiz will track total sales from this production.
• The profit or loss of each production will be available from both the individual worksheet and the Stock Production List Views.

FotoBiz will also help you manage and track the sales of your existing stock library of images. Import your images into the fotoBiz imageLog to benefit from the program’s digital asset management capability. From tracking your image sales to managing and keywording your photos, the imageLog feature in fotoBiz quickly connects your images to your clients. Check out the imageLog for more information.