Studio Stack Audit

What is your disconnected stack really costing you?

Most studios can name every tool they pay for. Almost none can see the bigger bill — the hours lost re-entering data, reconciling systems, and stitching the client experience back together by hand. Add it up below.

The problem was never that any one tool was bad. It’s that none of them talk to each other.

Every tool in your stack works on its own. The cost lives between them — in the handoffs your team absorbs, the double entry, the context that gets lost moving a client from CRM to gallery to sales to invoice. This audit puts a number on both: the software you’re paying for, and the time that fragmentation quietly takes.

Your studio

So we can estimate the time lost in the seams between tools.

Your current stack

Check what you pay for today. Adjust any price to match your plan.

CRM & client managementSWS replaces
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Galleries & deliverySWS replaces
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IPS, sales & album designSWS replaces
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SchedulingSWS replaces
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Contracts & e-signSWS replaces
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Email & SMS marketingSWS replaces
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Invoicing & accountingYou keep
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File storage & docsYou keep
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Your stack today
$217/mo across 6 tools
$2,604 a year · 6 separate logins
CRM & client management$36
Galleries & delivery$40
IPS, sales & album design$50
Scheduling$23
Email & SMS marketing$38
Invoicing & accounting$30
One connected system
SWS Studio PlusConverges Jan$199/mo

Replaces 5 of your tools. You keep $30/mo in accounting & storage.

Added cost
$12/mo on software
Plus reclaimed time

~16.8 hrs/mo back from handoffs between disconnected tools — $504/mo of labor at your rate.

Estimate: standing upkeep of running 5 disconnected tools, plus ~5 min lost per client at each seam between them — scaled by team size. Directional, not a quote.

Total monthly value$492
What scales a studio isn’t more software — it’s fewer handoffs.

See the connected system behind the numbers

The savings are the easy part to see. The real change is what happens when information moves with your client instead of getting re-keyed at every step.

See how one connected system works