Sample companySan Jose · Walnut Creek

[Your Name]'s Imagine Photography

A photography studio with a camera shop, in San Jose and Walnut Creek. Doug Wood owns it, and he has just hired you to keep the books in QuickBooks Online.

The Imagine Photography logo: a film camera with Imagine written on the lens
Owner
Doug Wood, who has just hired you
Locations
San Jose · Walnut Creek
Structure
S corporation, files Form 1120S
Revenue
Photography services · store sales
Classes
San Jose · Walnut Creek · Overhead

Your name on the door

Type your name and the headline above becomes your studio.

The book names the company after you, in Table 2-1. Your name stays in this browser.

Book a session

Sessions and services

Photography income, and not taxable. You add every one of these to QuickBooks in Chapter 3.

The full price list
  • Indoor Studio SessionIn the San Jose studio$225.00
  • Outdoor Photo SessionOn location$195.00
  • Photo retouching servicesAfter the shoot$195.00
  • VideographerSubcontracted to Gandhi Video$125.00

Bundle

Deluxe Photo Shoot

  • Indoor Session
  • Outdoor Session
  • Retouching
  • Standard Package

You build it as a bundle in Chapter 3, so one item adds all four parts to an invoice.

Learning Exercises

Doug's job list

One frame per chapter. Doug hands you the job, you do it in your own copy of the studio. The exercises are part of the Standard tier.

All 13 exercises
  1. 2Setting Up QBO

    SUPRA 400 ▸ 2A

    Open your own copy of the studio and name it after yourself.

  2. 4Customer Sales

    SUPRA 400 ▸ 4A

    Import seven customers and add sub-customers for two of them.

  3. 11Projects and Job Costing

    SUPRA 400 ▸ 11A

    Start the Marketing Photos project for Veronica Vasquez and send her an estimate.

  4. 12Inventory

    SUPRA 400 ▸ 12A

    Add the new 8.5x11 frames in black, bronze and gray.

In the shop

Cameras, lenses and frames

Every price here is one you set up in QuickBooks. Turn a tag over to see how the item is entered.

Sessions & Shop

Two locations

San Jose and Walnut Creek

Each location is a class in QuickBooks, so Doug can see what each one earns. Shared costs go to Overhead.

  • The studioSan JoseKaydee Roppa. Works at the San Jose studio and books the photo shoots. Earns commission.
  • The storeWalnut CreekMario Marthas. Runs the Walnut Creek store and does retouching on client projects. Earns tips.

Clients

Who the studio shoots for

  • Satterley Wedding Planners
  • Vasquez Services
  • First Community Bank
  • Madeira Builders
  • Nayo Garcia
  • Shonette Dymond
  • Lynda Fulton
Meet the team, the clients and the suppliers

Imagine Photography lives in a book

You keep its books in QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step, by Alicia Katz Pollock. Its exercises are part of the Standard tier. The student demo walks you through chapter 4 of the book, with no account.