I grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. My mom ran a photography business from the kitchen table, and the cows still got milked twice a day. The photos were the fun part. The software bills were not.
She had one app for galleries, another for contracts and invoices, and another for booking. They were fine by themselves. Together, her clients, contracts, and galleries lived on someone else's server. If she stopped paying, a lot of that was just gone.
I've been programming since I was 15. I started a software engineering degree at Western Governors University and dropped out because the classes got too expensive. I couldn't afford to keep going. I still learned how to program, and I kept writing.
So I built the thing I wanted her to have. Booking, galleries, contracts, invoices, payments, email, and the follow-up emails live in one WordPress plugin. You put it on hosting you choose. Clients see your domain.
The license is yearly. If it runs out, you go back to the free version. You are not locked out, and your data stays on your site. I'm the one shipping updates and reading the support mail.
Her studio is Dandelion Soul Studio, and she actually uses Mankai. She's my mom. I'm saying that here on purpose. This isn't a review from a stranger.