Their donors. Your clients.
CoPhoto is a photographer's favorite marketing tool. Run collaborative fundraiser campaigns with your local nonprofits. Donor families give to a cause they already care about and receive a portrait session with your studio. Turn their donors into your new clients.
Founding spots are limited to 50 studios, and the first 3 months are free.
How a campaign runs
Five steps from a name on a map to a finished order. The app carries each one.
- You, the photographer
- The nonprofit
- Donor families
Find the right nonprofit
You
Search every IRS-listed charity near your studio by cause, size and distance, and add the ones you want to your pipeline.
The nonprofit signs on
The nonprofit
They fill in one form from your link or your website, sign the campaign agreement, and connect their own payment account. You never handle their money.
You publish the campaign
You
Choose a template, add your portraits and set what donors receive. The page, QR code and a full promo kit go live in your brand.
Donors give and book
Donor families
Each gift goes straight to the nonprofit. The donor gets the nonprofit’s receipt and a booking code for their session with you.
Sessions become sales
You
Photograph each family, then sell through your ordering appointment or your gallery. Every donor becomes a client card, from booking to final order.
Everything a campaign needs, in one place
Nonprofits see your brand on every page, email and receipt. CoPhoto stays in the background.
Nonprofit finder and pipeline
Every active charity around your studio, sorted by cause, with a pipeline from first hello to campaign ready.
Campaign pages in your brand
Six templates for schools, booster clubs, alumni groups, community causes, holiday gifts and event days.
A promo kit that writes itself
Posts, stories, emails and a printable flyer with the nonprofit’s name, the link and live totals filled in.
A dashboard for the nonprofit
Their champion sees what’s been raised, what to share today, and the donor list for thank-you notes.
Booking built in
Consults, sessions and ordering appointments on your own hours, with booking codes applied for you.
Client cards
Notes, session details, model release choices and orders for every donor family, so nothing lives in your head.
Receipts done right
Each gift is receipted in the nonprofit’s name with the value of the session disclosed, the way the IRS expects.
The method, inside the app
The consult script, campaign readiness checks and ordering appointment training from six years of real campaigns.
Made for working portrait photographers
If your calendar has gaps or your sessions sell less than they should, a fundraiser puts you in front of families who already trust the cause, with a reason to book now.
Campaigns work for any kind of nonprofit: schools and PTOs, booster clubs, alumni groups, community causes, holiday gift drives and event days.
- Family and portrait studios looking for a steady stream of new families.
- Senior photographers who want a way into schools and booster clubs.
- Wedding photographers filling the off-season with portrait work.
- Gallery or in-person sales both work. You choose how you sell when you set up.
How many clients could your calendar hold?
Tell us what a client spends with you and how many new clients you'd like each month. We'll show how many campaigns that takes and the plan that fits.
At 8 campaigns a year, that's about 64 to 176 new clients and $64,000 to $176,000 in gross sales.
An estimate, not a promise. Results aren't guaranteed: each campaign depends on the nonprofit and its donor list, and what clients spend depends on your own post-session sales process.
We've tested portrait fundraisers since 2020. CoPhoto is that system, built so any photographer can run it under their own name.
Ashley SiegertFounder of Vacanva
Every template, script and promo piece in the app comes from campaigns we've run with schools, booster clubs and alumni groups, including three years of an annual program with Aggie Mom clubs.
Results depend on your market, your nonprofit partners and how you sell. What the app takes off your plate is the setup, the paperwork and the reminders, so your time goes to the sessions.
Become a founding member
We're opening CoPhoto to 50 studios first. Founding members shape what we build next and keep their rate for as long as they stay.
- 3 months
- free when the app opens to you
- $250 off
- any plan, every year after that, or $20 off each month
- Locked
- for as long as you stay subscribed