WordPress gives you full control, along with the plugins and updates that come with it. Apture's websites are designed for photographers, run on your own domain, and have booking, galleries and a blog built in.
Step 1
Tap every tool you pay for. The page rewrites itself around your setup.
A designed photography website with a blog and search settings, and no plugins or updates to look after. Posts are copied across by hand.
Moving from WordPress, step by stepWhat you get with Apture
Instead of WordPress
From the first inquiry to the final gallery, every client has one record: sessions, messages, forms, contracts, payments and galleries.
No copying a client from your CRM into your gallery tool, and no wondering which app has the latest email. Your team sees the same record you do.
Plans differ in storage, video hours and team size. Nothing else is held back for a higher tier.
Automations, proposals, payment plans, video, RAW files, your own domain and AI writing help are on the smallest plan too. There are no add-ons to buy.
A client picks a session, signs your contract on their phone and pays the deposit, in one booking.
Turn on signing before paying and the contract becomes part of booking, so a date is never held without a signature and a deposit. Your client gets the signed PDF, and the signed record stays with the booking.
Deliver photos, video and RAW files side by side, in galleries clients open without an account.
Hearts, picks and proofing, downloads in the sizes you allow, download sales, and print orders you send to your own lab. Galleries are linked to the booking that came before.
Instead of WordPress
A photographer's website on your own domain, with booking, galleries and the client portal built in.
Pick a design, add your photos and words, and preview it on a phone and a computer. A blog, search settings and a link-in-bio page come with it.
Clients see their sessions, contracts, forms, payments and galleries in one place, on their phone.
They pay a balance, answer the questionnaire and find their gallery from the same link, so they stop emailing you to ask where things are.
Instead of WordPress
Deposits, balances, payment plans and gift cards are paid into your own Stripe account. Stripe's card fees apply; we add nothing.
Payment plans with autopay, bank transfers (ACH) for balances, and tips on the final payment are all there when you want them.
A setup guide walks you through packages, hours, contracts and Stripe, with sample clients to click around first.
“Honestly, you killed this. Setup was so easy. Once I saw how everything connects, it all just clicked.”
Ready-made workflows for weddings, portraits, branding and minis mean you change a few emails instead of building from scratch.
Instead of WordPress
Send us your client list and we'll bring your clients and upcoming sessions across, with what each has already paid.
You check a preview of every row before it goes live, nobody is emailed, and one click undoes an import.
Side by side
Pick a tool above to compare it here. WordPress depends on the plugins you choose, so we don't score it.
Pick the tools you pay for above to see them here.
| Tool and plan | A month |
|---|---|
| Starter | $19 |
Each company's own published price on 22 October 2026, billed yearly, for the plan named. Not counted: WordPress (no yearly price we could confirm). Plans and features differ and prices change, so check before you decide. Card processing fees are extra with all of them, including Apture.
Choose a design, add your logo, colors, photos and words, and preview it on your phone and computer. A coming-soon page holds your place while you work.
There's no automatic import, so copy the posts you want to keep. Each post gets its own page, and your search settings sit with the rest of the site.
When you're ready, connect your domain; your apturesites.com address keeps working and forwards to it.
Download your client list as a spreadsheet (CSV) and drop it into Clients, Import in Apture. You match the columns once, check a preview of every row, and import. Upcoming sessions come too, with what each client has already paid, and nobody is emailed. Changed your mind? One click undoes the import. Or send us the file and we'll do it for you.
Add your sessions with their price, length and deposit, then the hours you're open each week. Apture keeps those times open on your booking page, and a client who books pays the deposit there and then.
What you keep: Your books come with you too: Apture records every payment as income, tracks your expenses and shows profit by month, with a year-end export for your accountant.
Moving any site can shift rankings for a while. Keep your domain, keep the pages people find you by (like your services and portfolio), and copy across the blog posts that bring visitors.
Yes, on every plan.
Free move-over help
Export what you have in WordPress and send it over. We import your clients and upcoming sessions, with what each has already paid, and you check everything before it goes live. Nobody is emailed.
Or write to us first: support@aptureapp.com