Photography Tool with Galleries and Booking Overview in One Place

The typical photography workflow has a gap: you track bookings in a spreadsheet and deliver galleries in a separate platform. The two never connect. You can have a gallery delivered and a booking that still shows "outstanding" in your spreadsheet — because nobody updated it. Or you have a shoot coming up and no clear picture of which galleries from last month are still undelivered. Lumeny bridges this gap by connecting your booking overview directly to your gallery delivery.

How Galleries and Booking Overview Work Together in Lumeny

In Lumeny, every gallery is attached to a project. Projects have a status: upcoming, in progress, or delivered. When you publish a gallery, the project status updates. Your booking overview dashboard shows all projects at their current status in one view.

The practical result: you open Lumeny and see exactly where every active shoot stands. Three upcoming shoots, two galleries in progress, one delivered last week. You can navigate directly from the overview to the gallery you need to work on. No spreadsheet. No cross-referencing between apps.

This isn't a full CRM — there's no invoicing, no lead pipeline, no automated emails. It's a clean project status layer that connects directly to your gallery delivery workflow.

The Cost of Disconnected Booking and Gallery Tools

When booking status and gallery delivery live in separate tools, the gap has a cost:

Time cost: You spend time keeping the spreadsheet updated, cross-referencing it with the gallery platform, and looking up which clients have received their galleries.

Error cost: Things fall through the cracks. A gallery that's ready to deliver but sitting in a "in progress" spreadsheet row. A client who's been waiting two weeks because the shoot got lost in the shuffle.

Context cost: Every time you switch between tools, you lose context. "Let me check the spreadsheet" breaks the flow of actually working on the gallery.

Lumeny's approach: the booking status and the gallery are the same object. A project entry has a status and a gallery. You work in one place and both stay current.

Booking + Gallery Tool Comparison

Feature	Lumeny	Spreadsheet + Gallery Platform	Full CRM + Gallery
Project status overview	Yes	Manual (spreadsheet)	Yes
Connected to gallery delivery	Yes	No	No
Auto-update on delivery	Yes	No	No
Briefings per project	Yes	No	Sometimes
Auto-portfolio	Yes	No	No
Monthly cost	From €9	Variable	€20–50+
Setup required	Minimal	Manual	Significant

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I see which clients are still waiting for their gallery? Yes. The booking overview shows which projects are in progress (gallery not yet delivered) vs delivered. This gives you a clear view of outstanding work at any moment.

Does the booking overview show financial information like invoice status? No. Lumeny's booking overview tracks delivery status (upcoming / in progress / delivered), not financial information. For invoice tracking, use a separate invoicing tool.

How do I create a new booking in Lumeny? You create a new project in your Lumeny dashboard. The project becomes a booking entry in your overview. You can then attach a briefing and, when the time comes, the delivered gallery.

Is there a limit to how many bookings I can track? The number of active projects you can track corresponds to your plan's gallery limit: 25 on Solo, 100 on Pro. Old completed projects don't count against active limits.

Written by Christian Bauer, founder of Lumeny and photographer with 10+ years of experience.