Free Tools for School and Daycare Photographers
Three calculators for the questions that come up before every picture day: what do commission and fees cost me, what can one picture 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 daycare 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 picture day turn over — and what is left of it?
Students per picture day, picture 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% commission. Useful when you are quoting a new school.
Open the revenue calculatorPicture day planner
What does the picture 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 picture day from a chaotic one.
Open the picture 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 picture day turn over? | Students per picture day, picture days per year, purchase rate, basket, commission rate | Annual revenue, profit side by side, revenue per student |
| Picture 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 picture days
The default values reflect the orders of magnitude that are normal in school and daycare 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 picture day planner comes in once the date is set.
The schedule from the picture 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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