Corey Michaud

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Stripe declined us as a platform. Not for paperwork — for the model. We were onboarding photographers as sub-merchants and routing their client money, which made us liable for every wedding deposit ta

When a platform processes payments on your behalf, you're a sub-account of their merchant relationship. Their risk review is your risk review. If a processor decides that platform is too risky, every

Most tools that "handle payments" for photographers sit in the middle of your money. Your client pays the platform, the platform pays you — eventually, minus a cut, on their schedule.

Showpiece doesn

Someone told me our portfolio pages looked like a two-minute template grab. They were right.

So I built five templates. Then five more — different heroes, different grids, different type. Better, and

Most portfolio builders give you a template and a colour picker. You get a page that looks like everyone else who picked the same one.

Showpiece gives you a list of sections instead. Intro, galleries

Client texting went live this week. It took four days longer than it should have.

Every text arrived at our server and died there. I checked the phone number config. The webhook URL. The campaign reg

Website. Client gallery. Booking calendar. Contract. Invoice.

Five tools, five logins, five bills, and five places your client has to look at somebody else's branding on the way to your photos.

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A template shouldn't mean everyone gets the same page.

So your portfolio is now a list of sections you arrange — intro, galleries, an about block, a quote, services, contact. Move them. Delete them.

Week 5 of building Showpiece in public. This was the week strangers showed up.

Three photographers signed up on their own — no outreach, no ads, they just found us. One of them uploaded a shoot and d

A question worth asking about whatever platform you deliver through: whose name does your client see?

On a lot of them, it's a footer badge. A branded login page. A "powered by" on the gallery your c

Four things photographers told us were annoying. All four are fixed as of this week.

1. Square crops. Gone. Galleries now show full frames in a mosaic layout — your verticals stay vertical, your pano

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