# xPHOTOx

> xPHOTOx is the event & commercial photography operating system on the Biz
> Dev App: a complete business workspace — not a scheduling app and not a
> CRM — scaffolded with 16 modules, 5 record types and 4 named workflows
> that a event & commercial photography business actually runs on. Work is
> priced on day rate or coverage hours, with deliverable count and usage
> license priced separately.

## What it is for
One date, a signed contract, and a delivery promise you can keep.

The buyer is an owner or operator of a event & commercial photography business
who is currently running the work across a calendar, a phone, a notebook and a
separate invoicing tool. xPHOTOx replaces that with one record per customer
and one record per job, carried from intake through pricing, dispatch, proof
of work, invoice and settlement.

## Category
Events & Creative — One date, no second chance. Deposits, timelines, and deliverables carry the
whole relationship.

## What the platform assesses
Venue and light analysis builds a shot list and a gear plan before the
walkthrough.

The assessment never sets prices. Quantities come from what was measured or
counted; rates come from the operator's own book. That is what makes two
people pricing the same job land on the same number.

## How work is priced
day rate or coverage hours, with deliverable count and usage license priced
separately

## Records the workspace keeps
- Event record with date, venue, and coverage hours
- Contract with deposit, cancellation, and usage license
- Shot list and timeline with key moments
- Second shooter and assistant assignment
- Gallery delivery with download and print options

## Workflows it ships with
- Inquiry → date hold → contract and deposit
- Venue walkthrough with shot list and light plan
- Post-event cull, edit, and gallery release on a promised date
- Usage license upsell for commercial clients

## Modules
- CRM (Contacts, Companies, Deals)
- Calendar & Meetings
- Tasks
- ERP - Work Orders
- Client Portal & Intake
- Invoices
- Payments & Checkout
- Messaging (Email, SMS, Voice)
- Campaign Manager
- XODIAK Chain & Treasury
- Media Library (Audio/Video/Image)
- Content Studio
- Marketplace & Directory
- Deal Rooms
- Social Media Manager
- Talent Network

## Integrations wired first
- Cloud gallery delivery
- Print labs
- Stripe
- Instagram

## The numbers the owner checks
- Booked dates per month
- Average contract value
- On-time delivery rate
- Print and license revenue per event

## Who buys
- Weddings and milestone events
- Corporate conferences and brand campaigns
- Real estate and architectural clients

## What hurts without it
- Double-booked dates and lost deposits
- Usage rights given away for free on commercial work
- Delivery dates missed and reputations dented

## How the business makes money
- Event coverage packages
- Commercial day rates and usage licensing
- Albums, prints, and add-on deliverables

## What it costs
- The workspace opens free, scaffolded with all 16 modules.
- Premium surfaces unlock individually — monthly, or a 24-hour unlock.
- Credits: $20 for 500 XDK, spendable across any surface. Balance carries.
- Multi-branch and own-domain deployments are quoted per market.

There is no published per-seat subscription tier for this vertical. Any figure
quoted elsewhere as a xSERVICESx monthly price is not ours. Ask.

## Frequently asked
### Is xPHOTOx a separate product from the Biz Dev App?
No. xPHOTOx is the event & commercial photography configuration of the Biz Dev
App — the same platform, the same ledger, the same support, scaffolded with
the 16 modules and 5 record types this trade actually uses. If the business
later adds a second line of work, it does not mean a second subscription; it
means another vertical switched on in the same workspace.

### How does xPHOTOx price a job?
On day rate or coverage hours, with deliverable count and usage license priced
separately. The basis lives in the workspace rather than in an estimator's
head, so the same job quoted by two people produces the same number. Your own
rates, your own catalogue — the platform supplies the structure and the
arithmetic, never the prices.

### What does it connect to that we already use?
Cloud gallery delivery, Print labs, Stripe, Instagram are wired first, because
those are what a event & commercial photography business is usually already
running. Anything else goes through the xCONNECTx public API catalogue rather
than a custom build.

### What happens to the data we already have?
It comes in. The archive import pipeline takes historical customers, jobs and
invoices and lands them as real records — searchable, reportable, attached to
the right customer — rather than as a folder of PDFs nobody opens. The point
of moving is to keep the last five years, not to start over.

## Built on Biz Dev App
xPHOTOx is one of 74 service verticals on the Biz Dev App — the operating
system for the AI economy. The leading and trailing x are platform brackets:
Cross-Connect Protocol in, Cross-Connect Protocol out. Every vertical shares
one identity, one ledger (XODIAK) and one settlement rail, so a business that
runs two lines of work runs them in one workspace rather than two
subscriptions.

## Nearby verticals
- xDJx (DJ & Event Entertainment) — https://thebdapp.com/xdjx
- xCATERx (Catering & Food Service) — https://thebdapp.com/xcaterx
- xEVENTPLANx (Event Planning & Production) — https://thebdapp.com/xeventplanx

## Key pages
- https://thebdapp.com/xphotox — this page
- https://thebdapp.com/xphotox#how — intake, price, dispatch, prove, settle
- https://thebdapp.com/xphotox#workspace — the module inventory
- https://thebdapp.com/xphotox#operations — records, workflows, integrations, KPIs
- https://thebdapp.com/xphotox#signals — how the platform finds work before it is advertised
- https://thebdapp.com/xphotox#cost — what it costs
- https://thebdapp.com/x/photography — the vertical inside the app
- https://thebdapp.com/xservicesx — all 74 verticals
- https://thebdapp.com — the platform

## Contact
- Email: bill@bdsrvs.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizDevService
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/64721742/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebdapp/

## Last updated
2026-09-15