Event Rental
With event rentals, the booth goes to the customer. A couple, a company or an agency books it for a wedding, a dinner or a product launch and pays you a flat fee; their guests use the booth for free. What sells the next booking is how the booth looks on the day, how smoothly it runs, and the album your client shares afterwards. This page shows how to set that up in Pixture.
How It Makes Money
The client pays a fixed fee per event, usually agreed before the day. Weddings are the anchor for most operators, with planners, venues and agencies sending repeat work. Extras such as a second booth, video or slow-motion capture, or AI portraits can be sold into the package.
The Setup
1. Create the event
Create an Event for each booking with the wizard: its dates, client and venue, its Booth mode (Photobooth, Studio or Video) and its Output (prints, GIF, live photo, raw singles). Then pair the computers you bring straight from the event page. An event runs itself: it is active from the moment you create it, its computers follow its dates, and it ends by itself the day after its last date. See Run an Event.
2. Cover the event days
Every computer on an event needs Pix Pro or an Event Pass: 24 hours of Pix Pro on one computer, starting when you use it at the booth. If you only work weekends, Event Passes for the event days usually cost less than a subscription; for a two-day wedding, Extend 24h adds a second day to the same computer. The event page's Computers card says when every computer has an Event Pass or Pix Pro, or how many computers still need an Event Pass or Pix Pro, with Buy license. See Events.
3. Make it look like their event
- Give the event its own templates, from your own designs in Pix Design or one of Pixture's free template packs. See Assigning Templates.
- Give it a booth look with the couple's names or the brand's colours. See Customise the Booth Screens.
- Switch the event's booth mode to video if the client booked a video guest book. See Event Video Modes.
4. Free for guests, or paid
A new event is Free for guests: computers on it skip the Payment screen. If the client wants guests to pay (a sponsor charging for keepsake prints, for example), give the event its own prices and, if the money should go to the client, its own payment gateway. See Events.
5. The album and the report
With Link Sharing on, every guest gets their photos by QR code, and the event's Album collects every photo for your client to share. After the event, the Report tab shows how many sessions ran. See Run an Event.
On the Day
- Test the booth the day before with a free voucher, so you know payment, printing and sharing all work. See Vouchers.
- Set a Menu PIN so guests cannot reach the operator menu.
- Venue internet is often weak. The booth keeps shooting and printing offline and uploads when it can; bring a 4G router for the album and QR sharing. See Offline Mode.
Typical Numbers
From the Pixture Photobooth Playbook (September 2026): at about US$700 a booking and US$220 of costs per event (attendant, prints, travel), three bookings a month bring roughly US$2,100, six about US$4,200 and ten about US$7,000. A locally built booth costs US$2,000 to 5,000 and pays back in a few months. These are estimates; your market sets the fee.