Táve Alternative
Táve is a long-standing photography CRM without a gallery product. lemon.gallery covers similar CRM ground with galleries and sales included.
Táve has been around the photography CRM space for a long time and has a loyal user base, particularly among wedding studios running detailed multi-step workflows. It's CRM-only. Galleries and print sales aren't part of the product.
| Táve | lemon.gallery | |
|---|---|---|
| Workflow depth | Very detailed, mature | Template-based, editable |
| Contracts & invoicing | Yes | Yes |
| Client galleries & sales | No | Included |
| Interface | Feature-dense | Simpler, fewer settings screens |
Who Tave suits — and when you outgrow it
Táve is a long-standing, detailed studio-management CRM favoured by high-volume operations that need granular workflow control. That depth is also its cost: it's a lot to configure, and like other CRMs it has no gallery, proofing or print-sales layer of its own.
What moving to lemon.gallery changes
lemon.gallery trades exhaustive configuration for speed — a visual workflow board, twelve automation triggers and a free CRM — and folds in the client galleries and sales Táve leaves to a separate platform, so delivery and management share one system.
Recreate your pipeline as workflow stages, bring new jobs across, and keep Táve running only until its current projects finish.
Frequently asked questions
Will I lose workflow depth moving from Táve?
You trade fine-grained scripting for a simpler stage board most photographers run faster; the trade-off buys built-in galleries and sales.
Does it handle deposits and payment plans?
Deposits are taken at booking through Stripe, and invoices support recurring billing for staged payments.
Is lemon.gallery as configurable as Táve for complex workflows?
Workflow stages are editable and templated by shoot type, though Táve's workflow engine goes deeper for studios wanting highly granular custom automation logic.
Run your whole studio in one place
Client galleries, per-image sales, bookings and contracts — free to start.
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