Create Your Real Estate Photography Invoice Template for Security Easily

Real estate photography invoice template for Security

what is going on guys my name is alex welcome to the channel we talk about real estate photography here and today is no different but today we're going to be talking about not how to shoot the photos but how to deliver the photos or videos or virtual tour or pretty much anything that you do within the real estate photography niche how do we deliver those services so if you're like me when i first started out i was delivering everything through google drive which became a process that was not the most enjoyable google for whatever reason has a very difficult time zipping files to download them it takes a long time and it is not the most fun process so when you are sending photos to your clients that way and they are sitting there waiting uh 10 15 minutes sometimes to zip all these photos together to download it becomes something that's not really the most enjoyable process for your client and it might really be one thing one minor thing even if you have photos that are really incredible looking that turns them off to your company and makes them go to your competition because it really at the end of the day is all about how easy can you make it for them to use your service so when i had these problems going on not just with the zipping but it didn't really look professional it didn't really go with my brand i realized that i had to figure out a different way to send my photos and videos to everybody so that's when i was on the hunt for a great software that would do this and i ended up finding a company called show and tour so i am not affiliated with show and tour at all yet anyway but i wanted to show you guys the software because i use it daily and it has really done a great job for me at this point i've done dozens of projects on there and it is really such an incredible platform that you can put your photos your videos your virtual tours everything onto one page and make it very simple for your clients to download i've gotten several compliments over the last few months about how easy it is to use how easy it is to download the photos and the virtual tours and it has just really been a great asset to my business and i look back on delivering photos to google drive before and i am so glad that i found this company so what i wanted to do today is make a brand new account on show and tour and show you guys exactly how to get everything set up and how easy it is to deliver these photos to your clients for the starter package it is completely free i think it's like a gigabyte amount that they allow like two gigabytes or something like that but when you're first starting out it's completely free so i figure i'll just make this dummy account so i can walk through it with you guys and show you exactly how it works all right guys we are about to do a quick walkthrough of this software show and tour before we do if you could please hit the subscribe button i would appreciate it we are growing an awesome community here i'm teaching you guys everything i know about real estate photography videography virtual tours everything within that real estate photography niche so you guys can make over a hundred thousand dollars a year using your camera but let's go ahead and get into it i'm going to show you exactly how the software works so this is the dashboard that you guys will see when you first open up show tour mine is much more filled out with a lot of projects and a lot of clients but again this is just a dummy account so it is blank right now so let's go ahead and click new client and we will put in um how about george costanza is that hey costanza uh maybe i don't know all right we don't need to put in any of his information but you can put phone number email website um you can do some of his branding if they want to do the company name logo etc but let's go ahead and back out of that now you can see that we have george costanza right here you can also change the view so i actually prefer this kind of icon view or grid view over the list view and then let's go ahead and jump back over to projects and hit new project so we can type in any address right here we can type in i don't know i'm going to just try to come up with an address how about 100 main street perfect let's do let's do this one right here and then you would pick your client george costanza create project so this is the page where you build out all of your deliverables you put things like your photos your videos your virtual tour everything on here so let me show you how it works let's go ahead and add some photos into this project so to do that we'll just click on this little plus button we'll scroll down hit gallery and we just upload the photos right there so i have an example house i just took these photos the other day i thought they would be nice to throw in here for the example house so just open those up they will upload right here you can see the upload bar which is going pretty quickly for these i have them saved out pretty small so they would go faster when i save them out as full resolution photos which are like 20 megabytes or so each it does take a little while but it's still not too bad so when you have those photos uploaded you have the ability to click header and you can add one of those images to the top of the page so i like to do that every single time i like this image a lot so we will save that one for it and what's great about show and tour is you can also have your project payment in the link as well so it doesn't have to be a separate invoice sent it can all be on one page so i always do that i just hop over to here you can connect quickbooks stripe or you can add in a different link to a different company so i use square i i think they're actually going to add in squares and integration later on but currently they don't if you use stripe that's great you can have it as an integration right within here so let's just say this is a 300 project and then you just put you know square.com slash you know whatever your invoice link is for this one we'll just obviously put square.com and it will still save it so let's see what we have so far just save those changes preview and then as you can see it loads up that nice header image right there it shows that you need to pay now if we click this it'll go to square.com and you can download the images so scroll down it shows you the gallery of images right there after you add those photos let's say you have something else maybe a video or a virtual tour i have a virtual tour from an old one that i did that i'm going to load into here so you would click on new section external media and then you just put in the link so i just put in the link to it it automatically detects that it is a zillow tour you hit next and it shows right there you know created by me this is the address that's not the real address obviously it's the one that we just made up but next done and then it will add it in right there and then if we hit publish changes and preview you'll see that if we scroll down it is now right there and then you can click on it and scroll right through it it's an iframe so you're able to just use it as is right there and then they have the ability to download or share or i'm sorry share or embed using that link right there so the way i share these projects is i just click on the deliverable url i send it in a custom email you know i always say like hey here's the photos of 100 main street hope you love them let me know if you need anything else and put the link right there you do also have the option there's a button right here send project where you can send it to clients directly from show and tour you also have the ability to make property websites on here i don't personally do that if somebody asks me to do it i will but for the most part i don't really do property websites but i also want to show you guys the example page that they have on here so it's 963 north 1950 road i think that's a real place i don't really know but this is what a whole built out deliverable website would be so as you can see pay now 996 dollars and you can download which will automatically download the photos so you can go to the property website right here which is like another link so if we click view it'll show you like this is what the property website would look like it has all the details of the realtor of the home a big gallery etc it's basically the same thing with just like some added info but hopping back over to this deliverable page you can see that if you scroll down you have the ability to download multiple size photos so full resolution web 2048 web 1024 i always do full resolution and then web 2048 i don't offer the smallest one um and then you're able to rename those as well so the web one i rename is mls ready so they can download those it zips into a zip file makes it very easy for them to use scroll down you can have a video built in right here so you can just start to play it and they have the ability to either embed it or share it or download it right there and same thing with the download you can choose the size that they're able to download it and then virtual tour so this is a zillow tour just like the one that i put on the last one and you can literally scroll through right there click on each each section and walk through the house go into the entry and it's just literally that simple it's all on one page and my favorite part really is that it just makes it so easy for them they can pay right there it really increases um the likelihood that they pay right away if you're connecting stripe you can actually put a pay wall so they can like see all this stuff but they can't download it until they pay which is great um i don't really have a problem with clients paying ever so i i honestly thought about switching over to stripe just so that i would have the integration of these two platforms but it's really not that important to me all of my clients pay thankfully so i just keep it with square i really like square and how easy they are to use so for me it's just they click on this pay now they go to the square they pay it and they download everything so that is really it for the deliverables and how shown tour works i figure i'll just show you guys the pricing of it so right now i am using the plus 49 a month for 50 gigabytes um as i do a lot more projects obviously i'll probably need to go up more later on i'll probably just go to the unlimited 149 a month but if you're just starting out it's literally free i used the free one for the first couple of projects that i did just to test it out which is nice that you have that ability and then for 19 a month you have a pretty good option as well 10 gigabytes of storage it says about 100 projects i think it probably lasted me like 60 projects or so um but i put a lot of things in my projects usually you know between video and high resolution photos it does take up a good amount of space so right now i'm using the 49 a month one and it's great um but again i'm not affiliated with these guys i just really like the software and i felt like it would be a great enhancement to your business if you're still using dropbox or google drive but that's gonna be it for me on this one guys thank you so much for watching if you got any value out of this at all please hit the subscribe button i would appreciate it and i will catch you guys in the next one peace [Music]