Collect details with a questionnaire
Ask the questions you always ask, once, in a form the client fills in themselves.
Every shoot needs the same handful of facts — addresses, timings, who's in the family shots, what the client is dreading. A questionnaire collects them in one place instead of across nine text messages you have to scroll back through on the day.
Building one
Add a question of the type that suits it: a short answer, a long answer, multiple choice, or a tick box. Mark the ones you genuinely can't shoot without as required, and leave the rest optional — a form that demands twenty answers gets abandoned halfway.
Keep it to what changes the photographs. Every question you ask out of curiosity costs you completions on the ones that matter.
Sending and reading answers
Choose the client and press Email to them, and they fill it in on their own page — no account, no app. Their answers appear on the questionnaire and on the client's profile, so on shoot day the timings and the family-group list are in one place rather than across your inbox.
Templates
A new questionnaire can Start from template: ready-made sets of questions for common shoot types, which you then edit to suit. Refine yours each time something surprises you on a shoot — after a season it's a genuinely good pre-shoot brief.