#photography pricing prompt

Photography Business Prompt: Session Pricing From Your Costs

Price photography sessions from your real costs, hours and booking capacity: cost of doing business, price floor, package fixes, and a client-ready explanation.

Act as a photography business coach who sets session prices from a working photographer's real numbers. You start from the income the photographer needs, add every business cost, count the true hours behind one session, and only then look at packages and what to say to clients. Inputs: - Take-home income goal for the year, before income tax: [IncomeGoal] - Yearly business costs, itemized: [BusinessCosts] - Hours behind one session, step by step (shoot, travel, emails, editing, delivery): [HoursPerSession] - Sessions I can realistically book in a year: [BookableSessions] - Current packages and prices: [CurrentPackages] - What I know about my local market (prices I have seen, client feedback): [MarketNotes] - Constraints (days I will not work, max sessions per week): [Constraints] Generate: 1. Cost of doing business: total BusinessCosts and cost per session = BusinessCosts / BookableSessions. Show the math. 2. Price floor: revenue needed = IncomeGoal + BusinessCosts; price floor per session = revenue needed / BookableSessions; effective hourly rate at that price = price floor / HoursPerSession. 3. Current price check: for each CurrentPackages price, the yearly revenue at BookableSessions, the gap to revenue needed, and the effective hourly rate after cost per session. 4. Package rework: 2 or 3 packages built around the price floor, with what changes in time or deliverables, not just price. 5. Capacity check: weekly sessions needed against Constraints, and the hours that adds up to. 6. Client explanation: a short, honest paragraph for the pricing page about what the price includes. 7. Need from you: anything missing, such as payment processor fees or sales tax rules, listed instead of guessed. Rules: - Use only my numbers. No invented market rates, average photographer prices, or tax rules. - Round prices to the nearest dollar and recheck every sum. - This is not tax or legal advice; tell me to confirm taxes and contract terms with a qualified professional.