Help & FAQ

What is Studio Manager Display?

Studio Manager Display is a dashboard built for photography and content studio owners. It pulls your bookings into one place, tracks revenue as it comes in, and shows which customers are driving the most business.

Google Calendar is how bookings get in. Whatever you book on — Peerspace, TagVenue, Giggster, Square, your own website, or a phone call you write down yourself — the booking ends up on your calendar, and Studio Manager Display reads it from there. You can also upload a calendar or spreadsheet file, or add a booking by hand. Each booking is labeled by where it came from: Peerspace, Website, TagVenue, Giggster, Square, or Direct. It was built by a working studio operator and is now open to other studios.

Free trial & how billing works

Every new account gets a 14-day free trial with full access — connect integrations, import data, and use the dashboard.

Signup uses secure Stripe checkout, and a card is required to start the trial. You are not charged anything during the 14 days. When the trial ends, that card is automatically charged $29, and then $29 each month, unless you cancel first. You can cancel at any time before the trial ends and you will not be charged.

Can I pay the subscription any other way? No — subscription checkout is card only through Stripe. That is separate from the money your own clients pay you: payments taken outside a marketplace are recorded in the dashboard’s Cash Log, so they still count towards your revenue totals.

Pricing

Standard — $29/month after your 14-day free trial. The plan includes bookings, financials, clients, multi-studio views, cash tracking, reconciliation, and exports.

Connecting your website bookings

Website bookings flow in through Google Calendar — the same calendar your scheduling page or Acuity/Squarespace/HoneyBook tool writes to. Studio Manager Display reads those events, labels them Website, and routes them to the correct pipeline automatically. For most studios that is the whole setup: nothing else to connect.

Optional: store your Acuity credentials

If you use Acuity Scheduling for a studio, you can store its API credentials under Account → Settings → Integrations, where Acuity is listed as Website scheduling. This does not replace calendar sync and it does not create bookings on its own — bookings still arrive from your calendar. What it adds is detail: once the connection is finished, Studio Manager Display can read the price, the length, and any reschedule straight from Acuity for a booking your calendar already brought in.

Optional: Acuity API steps

• Log into your Acuity account.
• Go to Integrations → API.
• Copy your User ID and generate a new API Key.
• In Studio Manager Display, open Account → Settings → Integrations and choose Website scheduling from the Provider list.
• Pick the studio this account belongs to, then paste the User ID and API Key.
• Click Save integration. The connection then appears in the list at the top of the same window, showing the studio it belongs to and which credentials are stored — that is your confirmation it saved.
• Repeat for each studio you run on a separate Acuity account.

Saving the credentials is the first half of the connection. The second half has to be set up inside Acuity itself, and we do that part with you — email support@studiomanagerdisplay.com once your credentials are saved. Until it is finished, your website bookings still come in normally through Google Calendar.

Past bookings come in through Google Calendar rather than this screen: open Studios, choose the studio, and use Re-sync calendar — Studio Manager Display pulls roughly five years of past events for that calendar. On the same screen, Import file takes a calendar export (.ics) or a spreadsheet of past bookings.

Connecting Peerspace

There is nothing to connect. Peerspace has no booking API and no account for you to link, so Peerspace bookings come in the same way as everything else: through Google Calendar. When a Peerspace booking is confirmed it lands on the calendar you connected, and Studio Manager Display reads it, labels it Peerspace, and values it at your studio’s hourly rate for the hours booked.

To bring in past Peerspace bookings, open Studios, choose the studio, and use Import file with a spreadsheet of those bookings.

Canceling & data export

You can cancel anytime from Account → Account & billing in the app (sidebar footer). No cancellation fee. Data is retained for 90 days after cancellation so you can export or reactivate — see Cancellation.

When you cancel:

• While you are subscribed, you export your own data whenever you want it — bookings, clients, and revenue as CSV from the Reports tab.
• Account access ends at the close of your current billing period — no pro-rated refund for the unused part of that period, but no immediate cutoff either. (The separate first-paid-month refund is described in the Cancellation Policy.)
• Once your access ends, sign in again and the page you land on carries a Download your data panel with Bookings CSV, Clients CSV and Financials CSV — no active subscription needed. Those files stay there for the whole 90-day window, and after that the data is permanently deleted. We email you a reminder before that date.

Where your data lives

All data is stored on US-hosted PostgreSQL databases managed by Railway, our hosting provider, which maintains SOC 2 Type II certification. That certification is Railway’s, not ours — Studio Manager Display is not itself SOC 2 certified. Your booking records, customer info, and revenue data never leave US servers. We don’t sell or share customer data with third parties for marketing.

For the full data handling terms, see our Privacy Policy.

Still need help?

Email support@studiomanagerdisplay.com. We respond within one business day, Monday to Friday, US Central time. During initial setup, you can also request a 15-minute onboarding call at no charge.