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Onboarding

Set up your studio, one step at a time.

Full setup takes about 5 hours 30 minutes.

Start with chapter 1

  1. Chapter 1: Install Mankai

    Check your site is ready, put Mankai on it, and turn it on.

    1. Free vs Pro 3 min
    2. Before you install 4 min
    3. Install and activate Mankai 5 min

  2. Chapter 2: The setup wizard

    Do the wizard first, in one sitting. These lessons follow it screen by screen and never send you somewhere else halfway.

    1. Open the setup wizard 1 min
    2. Your studio: name, email and timezone 4 min
    3. Add your logo 3 min
    4. Currency, tax and when the balance is due 4 min
    5. Card payments in the wizard 1 min
    6. The two add-on screens 1 min
    7. Finish and save the wizard 2 min

  3. Chapter 3: Find your way around

    A short look at the screens, now that the wizard is done.

    1. A quick look around 4 min
    2. Where settings live 4 min
    3. Put Mankai on your phone and computer Pro 4 min

  4. Chapter 4: Email that reaches your clients

    Confirmations, invoices and gallery links all go by email. Set this up properly once and it just works.

    1. Install FluentSMTP and connect your email 15 min
    2. Send a test email 3 min

  5. Chapter 5: Card payments

    Connect Stripe or PayPal so clients can pay by card. The money goes straight to your own account.

    1. Connect Stripe or PayPal 15 min
    2. How you know a payment arrived 5 min

  6. Chapter 6: Contracts, questionnaires and forms

    Make what clients sign and fill in before you open booking, so every booking collects them.

    1. Make your contract 10 min
    2. Make a questionnaire 10 min
    3. Choose the questions on your inquiry form 6 min
    4. Put an inquiry form on your website 12 min

  7. Chapter 7: Booking

    Your hours, what clients can book, and the page they book on.

    1. Set your studio hours 4 min
    2. Set up golden hour 4 min
    3. Make a session type 12 min
    4. What clients see when they book 5 min
    5. Block off time 3 min
    6. Put your bookings in Google, Apple or Outlook 5 min
    7. Booking collections 5 min

  8. Chapter 8: When someone books

    What happens after a booking, and where you work on the job.

    1. After someone books 4 min
    2. Work on one session 8 min
    3. The to-do list on a session Coming soon
    4. Today's tasks 3 min
    5. Message a client 5 min
    6. The client portal 6 min

  9. Chapter 9: Galleries

    Upload the photos, let the client pick favorites, then deliver.

    1. Make a client gallery 6 min
    2. Protect your photos 6 min
    3. What your client sees 6 min
    4. Favorites, delivery and downloads 8 min

  10. Chapter 10: Print shop

    Sell prints from your galleries.

    1. Set up your print products 8 min
    2. Choose how prints ship 3 min
    3. How a client orders prints 8 min
    4. Fill a print order 6 min

  11. Chapter 11: Money

    Invoices, payments, and everything around them.

    1. Send an invoice 6 min
    2. Let clients add a tip Coming soon
    3. Record cash, a check or a transfer 4 min
    4. Remind a client about a late invoice 3 min
    5. Money review 4 min
    6. Send a quote Coming soon
    7. Coupons Coming soon
    8. Gift cards Coming soon
    9. Track expenses Coming soon
    10. Mileage Coming soon

  12. Chapter 12: Clients

    Bring your clients in and keep them coming back.

    1. Import a client list 5 min
    2. Live chat 4 min
    3. Ask for a Google review 3 min
    4. Thank-you reward 3 min

  13. Chapter 13: Your website

    Put Mankai on your pages and see who visits.

    1. Designing the rest of your website 3 min
    2. Mankai blocks in the block editor 5 min
    3. Mankai widgets in Elementor 8 min
    4. Write a blog post 6 min
    5. Count visitors with Koko Analytics 8 min

  14. Chapter 14: Emails and automation

    The emails Mankai sends for you, and your own automations.

    1. Turn built-in emails on or off 4 min
    2. Build a workflow Coming soon
    3. Send a webhook to another app Coming soon

  15. Chapter 15: Keep it running

    Day-to-day checks, files, and what to know long term.

    1. Look back at what happened 3 min
    2. Studio files 4 min
    3. Diagnostics 4 min
    4. What to ask your host for 4 min
    5. If Pro runs out, or you uninstall 3 min
    6. Test everything with a fake client 15 min

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