Stratus brings your clients, scheduling, communications, workflows, invoices, payments, and reporting into one connected system. Built for photographers and flexible for service businesses that manage appointments, projects, teams, and customer relationships.
All information for each customer in one record to provide a single view of your relationship with every client.
The flexibility to let you separate locations within the same database, from your 2nd location to your 502nd location!
The cloud, backup and recovery assure uptime and availability, with IT security to meet international industry standards.
Even more amazing features are available for additional monthly fees: Ecommerce, SMS Texting, Mail, and Perfectly Clear.
Looking for a specific feature? Or just want to see the full power of Stratus?
Features marked Pro are included with Stratus Professional.
Check out the available tools to make your business even more powerful! Visit the Pricing page to view additional fees.
Ecommerce platform designed to not only increase your sales averages, but do so without extra work from you. Through automation and full integration, successful online selling has never been easier.
Take payments in person and online with fully integrated, PCI and EMV compliant credit card processing through Global Payments Integrated & eWAY — deposits, payment plans, and receipts all tracked in Stratus.
In order to build successful relationships with your clients and prospects, you need to engage them where they spend the most time – on their smart phones. The SMS Text Messaging add-on allows you to do just that!
Modern marketing tools at your fingertips. Confirmation emails, open and click-through rates, spam law compliance, and more!
Use built in image correction tools and specially designed presets to help automate your digital workflow.
Need more flexibility? Connect Stratus with third-party tools using the Stratus Web API. Make a powerful software even stronger!
Questions? Call 888-862-4868 to speak with a Sales Representative.
Yes. Stratus is a cloud-based platform, which means your data can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection.
It depends on how you use Stratus. The full-featured Stratus Desktop app is installed on a Windows PC. Stratus also includes a simplified web app that can be accessed through an internet browser.
Stratus Desktop requires a 64-bit Windows 11 or higher computer, a Pentium dual-core processor or AMD equivalent processor or higher, and at least 4 GB of RAM. For best performance, 8 GB of RAM is recommended.
Yes, the web app can be accessed from any internet browser. Best practice recommendation is to have at least one Windows PC with the desktop app installed. Stratus helps you organize leads, clients, contact details, communication history, appointments, invoices, payments, and related activity in one place.
Yes. Because Stratus is cloud-based, your business information can be accessed from different locations with an internet connection.
If you have more than one business, we recommend our multi-location enterprise solution. Contact Us to learn more.
Both come with your Stratus subscription. They are just different ways you can access your data. Stratus Desktop is the full-featured Windows application. The Stratus web app is a simplified browser-based version that lets you access Stratus from an internet-connected device with a compatible web browser.
A user is an individual team member account in Stratus. You can create as many users as you need. A user license controls how many people can be logged into Stratus at the same time.
For example, your studio may have 10 users set up in Stratus, but if you have 3 user licenses, 3 people can be logged in at one time.
Yes. Stratus helps you manage the full client journey, from the first lead to scheduling, communication, workflow steps, invoicing, payment, and follow-up. Built-in statuses help you see where each client or job stands, while automation tools help keep your workflow moving with tasks, reminders, and timely communication.
Yes. Stratus helps you track unpaid invoices, payment status, and accounts receivable in one system. You can use invoice and payment data to trigger email reminders that include online payment links, making it easier for clients to pay and helping your studio reduce outstanding balances.
Yes. Stratus was built from more than 25 years of working directly with photographers and photography businesses. That experience has helped shape a flexible solution designed to fit a variety of studio needs, including client management, scheduling, workflows, communication, invoicing, payments, and reporting.
Try Stratus free for 30 days and explore how it can help you manage clients, sessions, workflows, invoices, payments, and more.
