Early access for models
“Are you free on the 14th?”
Answered before anyone asks.
Enquiries come in from Instagram, email and every site you're on, and they all ask the same thing. Are you free? What do you shoot? How much? Put one link in your bio and photographers know before they message you. Boka even checks each request against your calendar, so you don't have to.
Boka · new request
Sam Archer would like to book you
- Day
- Sat 14 Nov, 14:00-18:00
- Level
- Lingerie
- Where
- Studio, Brighton
- Fee
- £200 from your rates
“A window-light boudoir set for my portfolio, soft and quiet.”
Fits your day. Your morning shoot ends at 12:00 and the afternoon is clear.
Natalia
Instagram · Portfolio
Days I can shoot · November
What I shoot
- Fashion£40 an hour
- Lingerie£50 an hour
- Figureon request
Minimum two hours · references please
Put it wherever photographers find you
Swap it in wherever you'd write "message me for availability". Anyone can see your photo and a few lines about you; photographers who sign up see your free days, your levels and your rates, and ask for a day right there.
A day comes up or falls through? Change it in a tap.
Add it to your profiles, and every "are you free?" has somewhere to go.
Your shoots and the rest of your life, side by side
Connect your Google Calendar and your shoots sit beside your yoga class and Matt's birthday, as a calendar of their own. Nothing of yours is moved or changed.
Boka sees only when you're busy, never what or who with. That's enough to keep your free days honest, and to tell you how each request fits before you go looking.
My calendars
Natalia BokaYoga, 9am
Shoot · fashion, 1pm, Hove
Lunch with Ella, 12:30pm
Shoot · lingerie, 9am, Brighton
Request · Sam Archer, 2pm, Brighton
Matt's birthday, 12pm
Boka sees your own calendar only as busy. The outlined shoot is waiting for your answer.
Before you say yes
You choose who sees your days, and you know who's asking
Their references, one tap away
Photographers sign up with their name, date of birth and the profiles they shoot under, so you can check their references before you reply.
Your days, for the people you pick
Show them to anyone signed up, or only to photographers you've accepted. Your town is on your page; your address never is.
Your number stays yours
Questions happen on the booking. Share your WhatsApp when you're ready.
Coming next, with the first models
Your shoot terms, signed before you arrive
Write your terms once. When a shoot is agreed, Boka turns them into a model release, or a confidentiality agreement if you work anonymously, and you both sign on your phones before the day.
Only verified photographers
Ask for an ID check, and only photographers who've passed it can send you a request.
Invoices from the booking
When the shoot's done, send the photographer an invoice with the hours, the level and your rate already filled in, and see at a glance who has paid.
How it works
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Mark your days
Connect your calendar, tap the days you can shoot, and add your levels and rates.
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Share your link
In your bio, on your profiles, and in reply to every "are you free?".
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Say yes to the right ones
Requests arrive on Telegram, already checked against your day. Accept, decline or offer another day from the chat.
WhatsApp is on its way, and email works too.
“I'm pinging dates over. Can you shoot this day? This one? She says no, but could you do this day? Then I check my calendar, and I can't do that day. And then I still have to ask the studio.”
Questions?
Do I have to leave the sites I'm on?
No. Keep your profiles exactly as they are. Photographers still find you there; Boka is where they come to book.
Do photographers need Telegram?
No. Telegram is for you, because it's quick and the buttons sit right in the chat. Photographers hear back by email.
Can anyone see my diary?
Nobody sees your diary. Photographers see only the days you've marked as free, and only once they've signed up, or once you've accepted them if you'd rather.
What can Boka see in my calendar?
Only the times you're busy. Boka never sees what an event is called, where it is or who it's with, and it never changes anything in your calendar. You can disconnect it whenever you like.
What does it cost?
Nothing while we shape it with the first models.
Who's behind Boka?
We work on both sides of the camera, and we've lost whole weeks to that back-and-forth. Boka is from the team behind Posebook, and we're making it with the first models who use it.
What happens after I sign up?
We'll email you when your link is ready to set up. If you say you're up for a chat, we'll ask for twenty minutes to hear how bookings work for you now.
Be one of the first models on Boka
Tell us a little about how bookings reach you now. We'll email you as soon as your link is ready, and if you're up for a quick chat, we'd love to hear what drives you mad about booking.
You're on the list
We'll email you as soon as your link is ready. In the meantime, if a photographer asks "are you free on the 14th?", you have our sympathy.