Core or Pro
There are two plans. They contain the same features. Pro is not a plan that unlocks tools Core doesn't have. It's a plan with more room.
That's the whole thing in one sentence, and it makes choosing easy: start on Core, move to Pro when you actually hit a wall.
Pricing
What's the same
Both plans include, in full:
- Client galleries and delivery
- Booking pages: inquiry, direct booking and mini sessions
- Proposals, contracts and questionnaires
- Invoices, online card payments and manual payment instructions
- Messages and email templates
- Intake forms, contacts and reports
- A custom domain
- Google Calendar and Zoom
- Reminders and notifications
No feature is held back for Pro. If you can do it on Pro, you can do it on Core.
What's different
Four things, and only four.
| Core | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | 100 GB | 1 TB |
| Published booking services | 5 | Unlimited |
| Currencies | One | Several |
| Support | Priority email |
Storage
100 GB is a lot of photographs, but it isn't infinite. How many fit depends on your camera and how you export, so check your current library size before you choose.
The thing that actually eats storage is keeping old galleries online forever. If you deliver a wedding, the client downloads everything in two weeks, and the gallery then sits there for three years, it's still using space.
Before upgrading for storage alone, it's worth having a clear-out.
Published booking services
A service is one thing a client can book: "Family Portrait Session", "Wedding Photography", "Autumn Mini Sessions".
Core lets you have five published at once. Unlimited drafts, unlimited archived, unlimited unpublished. The cap is only on how many are live and bookable at the same time.
For most people five is plenty. You'll feel it if you run lots of seasonal offerings side by side, or if you're an agency listing many distinct packages.
If you're on Pro with more than five services published and you switch to Core, CoreHue unpublishes the extras to get you within the limit. Nothing is deleted. But those services stop taking bookings and their links go dead.
The first five in your current order stay published. So you can choose which five survive, but only if you reorder them before the downgrade takes effect. CoreHue tells you how many will be unpublished before you confirm the change. See Changing or cancelling your plan.
Currencies
Core bills in one currency. The default you set for your account. Every invoice, service price and payment uses it.
Pro lets you charge in several alongside your default. This matters if you shoot abroad, or you have clients in different countries who expect to be billed in their own money.
Your default currency itself is fixed on both plans. Pro adds others. It doesn't let you change the default.
If everyone you work with pays in the same currency, this is worth nothing to you.
Support
Both plans get email support from a real person. Pro is answered first.
So which one?
Start on Core. Your trial runs on Core, and it's the right home for the overwhelming majority of photographers.
Move to Pro when one of these is true:
- You're running out of storage and you've already cleared out what you can
- You genuinely need more than five live booking services
- You need to invoice in more than one currency
Don't move to Pro because:
- You want a feature Core doesn't have. There isn't one
- You assume the bigger plan is the "proper" one. It isn't, it's just bigger
You can switch either way at any time, so there's no wrong first answer.
Checking where you stand
Settings → Billing has a Usage section showing your storage against your plan's allowance. On Core it also shows how many services you have published against the five you're allowed, so you can see how close to a limit you actually are before deciding anything.