Quick Start Essentials Guide

Your Virtual Studio Manger needs to know your basic Studio Information before getting started.

When you first log into VSM you'll land in the STUDIO INFO > Studio & Account Information section.  From there, you want to fill in your Studio contact information, and upload your logo.

This step will take you about 2 minutes.

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Creating your Pricing Catalog is simple!

In order to create a Contract, use your Manual Entry Form and/or Pricing Form, you'll need to create your Pricing Catalog. You can do this very easily under STUDIO INFO > STUDIO CATALOG

From there you'll have the following 3 sections: Package Pricing, Additional Items and Pricing Summary.

Package Pricing

Step 1: Select the event type from the drop down menu.

Step 2: Enter a name, brief description and package cost for this package.

Save your package and  it will now appear on the right hand side under "Your Packages". To create more packages click the "add another" button and repeat.

Additional Items:

Step 1: Select the event type from the drop down menu.

Step 2: The packages you've created for the selected event type will automatically appear in the drop down menu.  Select the package you'd like to link the item to, name the item and indicate a price.

Save your item and it will now appear on the right hand side under "Your Additonal Package Items".  To link more items to your packages click the "add another" button and repeat.

Pricing Summary:

Simply select the event type and the pricing details will appear on the right hand side.

This step will take you between 5 - 20 minutes, depending on the number of packages you offer. If you're short on time, try setting up packaging for just one event type.

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Customizing your forms and emails will help you communicate with your Clients with the push of a single button!

In order to communicate with your Clients, you need to tell VSM what it should look like, what it should say and where you should send your Clients after they send you information.  This step is essential in properply setting up your database.

If you don't have time available to customize all of the forms, simply visit each form and hit "SAVE".  Remember to hit SAVE for every form and every section, including Steps 1- 2 of the Shooting Day Details form and Steps 1-3 of the Contract.

If you are only saving your forms so that you can manually enter a Client into your VSM, this step will take you about 3 minutes.  You can return to the Customize section of your VSM when you have more time and properly customize the forms to match your branding.

Adding Clients to your Virutal Studio Manager will keep all of your important information in one (happy) place!

Congratulations, you can now add Clients to your VSM Database!  Go to the CLIENT > INBOX section.

Click on the "Manual Entry" button and a new window will appear with the Manual Entry Form.  Enter the details of the Client  you are importing into your database and click submit.  They will now appear in your Client Inbox!

This step will take you about 1 minute.