Album design for HoneyBook studios, in their own swim lanes.
HoneyBook runs your business — booking, contracts, invoices, client comms. Cuppafolio runs the album-design step. They never need to talk to each other: this page is the practical guide to keeping both in their own lane.
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Your CRM runs the business; it should not design the album
HoneyBook is doing the business job: enquiries, bookings, contracts, invoices and the client relationship. That is exactly what it should do, and it is not where you want to be wrestling album spreads together.
Cuppafolio is the creative counterpart. HoneyBook keeps running operations, and Cuppafolio handles the one thing it does not: designing the album. You get a focused browser editor and a print-ready PDF you own, with a clean line between admin and craft.
Where studios get stuck combining HoneyBook with album work
The album step should be the fun part. Too often the tooling gets in the way.
Trying to crowbar album design into a business-admin tool that was never built for creative work
Wanting the album-design step to be invisible to HoneyBook's contracts, payments and automations
Needing the album file and lab choice in the studio's control, not bundled with the CRM
A focused tool that does the album job brilliantly.
Everything you need for the album, nothing you don't, and the finished file is always yours.
Two separate jobs
HoneyBook runs business; Cuppafolio runs design.
HoneyBook is your CRM, contract tool and invoice engine. Cuppafolio is your album-design tool. They never need to share data because they never overlap — the cleanest possible split between the business and the craft.
Studio-friendly
Multi-photographer studios on a single Cuppafolio plan.
Studio (£39/month) and Agency (£79/month) plans cover small and large studio teams with shared project access. Whoever is at the desk that evening designs the album, while HoneyBook keeps tracking the contract, payment and delivery status on the business side.
Print-ready PDF
300 DPI. 3 mm bleed. Yours.
One click and a press-ready PDF lands in your downloads: 300 DPI, sRGB, embedded fonts, optional crop marks. No watermark, no expiry, no per-album unlock fee.
Flat pricing
One monthly price. No per-album fees.
From £19/month. Design as many albums as your plan allows for the same price every month, with no surprise charge when a busy season hits.
Admin and craft, cleanly separated
Trying to make a CRM do album design, or an album tool do invoicing, usually means both jobs are done worse. Keeping them separate lets each tool be good at its job: HoneyBook for the relationship and the money, Cuppafolio for the album.
The handoff is trivial because there is nothing to integrate. When a project reaches the album stage, you design it in Cuppafolio and export a print-ready PDF you own and send to any lab.
Where Cuppafolio sits next to HoneyBook
Cuppafolio is deliberately narrow. It does not deliver galleries, take payments or manage clients, so it never competes with HoneyBook. It picks up exactly one job: turning your final selects into a designed, print-ready album.
Keep HoneyBook for enquiries, bookings, contracts and invoicing. When the album is what is on your plate, open Cuppafolio, design it from designer templates with smart snapping, and export a PDF you own and send to any lab. Nothing about your existing setup has to change.
- Keep HoneyBook exactly as it is today
- Bring final selects into Cuppafolio for the album step
- Export a print-ready PDF and send it to your album lab
- No migration, no integration to configure, no lock-in
The difference is in what we deliberately leave out.
A narrow tool, an honest deal, and a file that is genuinely yours.
It does one job well
No gallery, no CRM, no store bolted on. A focused album designer that respects, rather than replaces, the tools you already pay for.
You own the export
Every album leaves as a print-ready PDF with no watermark and no per-album unlock fee. It is a real deliverable you keep, not a file held hostage.
One flat price
From £19 a month, busy season or quiet. No counting albums, no metered exports, nothing to reconcile at the end of the month.
How HoneyBook studios use Cuppafolio in practice
- HoneyBook stays your CRM, contracts, booking and invoice engine — no change there
- Album design happens in Cuppafolio, in a separate browser tab, in its own swim lane
- Designer templates and smart snapping mean an album fits one focused evening per project
- Print-ready PDF you own — HoneyBook stays the business record, Cuppafolio stays the design tool
- Shared studio plans let any team member pick up an in-progress album
- Flat £39/month Studio (or £79 Agency) on top of HoneyBook, with no per-album fees
“We switched the whole studio over in a week. Everyone designs in the browser, the files are ours, and the bill is the same every month. Easy decision.”
Good questions, straight answers.
Does Cuppafolio integrate with HoneyBook?
No, and that is intentional. The two tools have no overlap — HoneyBook handles business workflow, Cuppafolio handles album-design workflow — so a direct integration would only add complexity without saving anyone time. Each tool stays focused on what it does.
How do we track album status against a HoneyBook project?
However you currently track it. Most studios already use HoneyBook tasks, project stages or activity notes for this; Cuppafolio does not replace that. The album-design progress is visible inside Cuppafolio (which spreads are done, which selects need approval), and the HoneyBook record of the contract and delivery stays where you already have it.
Can multiple photographers in our studio use the same Cuppafolio plan?
Yes — that is exactly what Studio (£39/month) and Agency (£79/month) are for. Multiple team members share project access, so any designer on the team can pick up an in-progress album. There are no per-seat licences and no per-photographer activation.
We bill clients through HoneyBook — does that change with Cuppafolio?
Not at all. Continue billing through HoneyBook as you do today. Cuppafolio is the design tool that produces the album file; HoneyBook is the business tool that captures the album sale, the deposit, the balance, the contract and the delivery confirmation. They each do their own job.
Do we own the album PDFs we produce in Cuppafolio?
Yes. Every PDF is a standard print-ready file at 300 DPI with no watermark, no per-album unlock and no fulfilment lock — it is yours to send to whichever album lab the studio prefers. We never sit between the studio and the lab transaction.
Does Cuppafolio replace HoneyBook?
No. HoneyBook keeps doing CRM, booking, contracts and invoicing. Cuppafolio only adds the album-design step, so the two complement each other rather than overlap.
Is there a HoneyBook integration to set up?
None is needed. The two tools do different jobs, so there is nothing to connect. You manage the client in HoneyBook and design the album in Cuppafolio when that stage arrives.
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