Help & FAQ
What is Studio Manager Display?
Studio Manager Display is a dashboard built for photography and content studio owners. It pulls your bookings from Google Calendar — Peerspace, your website, TagVenue, Giggster, and direct — into one place, tracks revenue in real time, and surfaces which customers are driving the most business. It was built by a working studio operator and is now available for other operators.
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. Stripe may ask for a payment method during trial signup; you are charged $29/month when the trial ends unless you cancel first.
Cash App inside the app means logging off-platform payments your clients send you — not paying for Studio Display itself. Subscription checkout is card only through Stripe.
Pricing
Standard — $29/month after your 14-day trial. One plan includes bookings, financials, clients, multi-studio views, cash tracking, reconciliation, and exports.
Cancel anytime from Account settings. We don’t raise prices on active subscribers without at least 30 days’ notice.
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.
Optional: direct scheduling API
If you use Acuity Scheduling per studio, you can connect it under Settings → Integrations for faster backfill and webhooks. That integration is optional; calendar sync alone is enough for most operators.
Acuity API steps (optional)
- Log into your Acuity account.
- Go to Integrations → API.
- Copy your
User IDand generate a newAPI Key. - In Studio Manager Display, go to Settings → Integrations → Website scheduling.
- Paste the User ID and API Key. Label this account with the studio name (e.g., "Main Studio").
- Click Test connection. If it returns your studio name, you're done.
- Repeat for each studio you run on a separate Acuity account.
Bookings start flowing in within a few minutes. Historical bookings can be backfilled with the Import history button on the same settings page.
Connecting Peerspace
Peerspace doesn't offer an outbound API for bookings, so the integration uses a Zapier email parser: Peerspace sends you a booking confirmation email, Zapier forwards the parsed fields to Studio Manager Display as a webhook.
Peerspace setup currently requires a 15-minute onboarding call. The Zapier field mapping is being stabilized. While this is in progress, email support@studiomanagerdisplay.com after signup and we'll get it wired up together. You'll be live the same day.
Self-serve Peerspace setup will be available in a future update.
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:
- A full CSV export of your bookings, customers, and revenue data is generated immediately.
- You get an email with the download link (valid for 30 days).
- Account access ends at the close of your current billing period — no pro-rated refund, but no immediate cutoff either.
- After the billing period ends, your data is removed from active systems within 30 days.
Where your data lives
All data is stored on US-hosted PostgreSQL databases managed by Railway (a SOC 2 Type II certified infrastructure provider). 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. Subscribed accounts get a response within a few hours during weekdays. During initial setup, you can also request a 15-minute onboarding call at no charge.