Free Tools for School and Nursery Photographers
Three calculators for the questions that come up before every photo day: what do commission and fees cost me, what can one photo day turn over, and what does the schedule look like? No sign-up, straight in your browser.
Do the maths before you plan
Most decisions in school and nursery photography are arithmetic: whether a job is worth taking, what is left of the revenue at the end, how many classes fit into one morning. We built the three calculations photographers ask us about most often as open tools.
All three run in your browser, need no account and store nothing. You can use them without being a Pixalo customer — every tool page shows the formula underneath the result.
The three tools
Commission calculator for photographers
What do commission and fees cost me per year?
Enter your annual revenue, your current provider's commission rate, the checkout fee per order, the monthly platform fee and the number of orders. The calculator puts your total platform costs next to storage-based billing and shows the difference per year and per month.
Open the commission calculatorRevenue calculator for school photographers
What can a photo day turn over — and what is left of it?
Students per photo day, photo days per year, purchase rate and average basket give you the annual revenue. Beside it you see what a commission model leaves you and what stays with 0% platform commission. Useful when you are quoting a new school.
Open the revenue calculatorPhoto day planner
What does the photo day schedule look like?
Start and end time, number of classes, students per class, time per student and breaks produce a class-by-class schedule with buffer times. You can copy the plan and send it to the school in advance — that is usually what separates a calm photo day from a chaotic one.
Open the photo day plannerWhich tool answers which question
| Tool | Question | Inputs | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commission calculator | What do commission and fees cost me? | Annual revenue, commission rate, checkout fee, monthly platform fee, orders per year | Current platform costs, saving per year and per month |
| Revenue calculator | What can a photo day turn over? | Students per photo day, photo days per year, purchase rate, basket, commission rate | Annual revenue, profit side by side, revenue per student |
| Photo day planner | What does the schedule look like? | Start and end time, classes, students per class, time per student, breaks | Schedule per class including breaks, ready to copy |
Why these tools are open
No sign-up
No account, no email address, no waiting. You open the page and start calculating.
Open formula
The formula sits underneath every result. You can follow each number and check it yourself.
From real photo days
The default values reflect the orders of magnitude that are normal in school and nursery photography, not a marketing model.
Useful without Pixalo
The calculators work regardless of which platform you use today.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the most important questions about our software.
Yes. All three calculators work without an account and without signing up. There is no trial that expires and no feature hidden behind a registration.
No. The calculation runs in your browser. Your revenue figures never leave your device and are not sent to Pixalo.
If you already work with a platform, the commission calculator is the quickest start: it shows what your current fees add up to over a year. If you are quoting a new job, the revenue calculator is more useful. The photo day planner comes in once the date is set.
The schedule from the photo day planner can be copied and sent to the school by email or messenger. In the two calculators you can select and copy the result values.
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