SecondShooter PaySplit.
An app idea for wedding photographers.
Tracks hours and agreed rates for second shooters and assistants, then splits the final invoice with the lead photographer.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Lead wedding photographer who subcontracts second shooters
- The problem
- Lead photographers pay seconds out of pocket and then bill the couple separately, so the margin on every second shooter is tracked in their head or a spreadsheet. Rates vary wildly and nobody has a clean record of what was agreed, what was paid, and what was charged to the client.
- The gap
- The results show photographers openly comparing second shooter pay and client charges in forum threads, but no product in the results handles the pay split. Accounting tools do not know about per-wedding subcontractor rates and hours.
- Already out there
- Better Business Bureau directory listings bbb.org
Just a directory of photographers, no pay or invoice splitting tool.
- Yelp listing yelp.com
A business listing page, not software.
- Better Business Bureau directory listings bbb.org
- People asking for it
- Second shooter rates thread reddit.com
Photographer says they pay seconds 75 to 100 dollars and notes it is more work for the lead.
- How much do you pay 2nd shooters reddit.com
Commenter says seconds should get 450 to 850 dollars a day and tells leads to tack it onto the client price.
- How much to charge client for second shooter reddit.com
Photographer charges clients about 200 dollars an hour and pays the second 70 to 90 dollars an hour, a wide gap that needs tracking.
- Second shooter rates thread reddit.com
- The big assumption
- That lead photographers will pay for a small tool when a spreadsheet already does this well enough.
- Test it this week
- Post in r/WeddingPhotography asking how leads track second shooter hours, rates and client billing, and offer a free spreadsheet template in exchange for a 15 minute call. Count how many ask for the template and how many will talk.
Check your own market first.
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- Gap found
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