Boothiva runs the whole guest session on the booth itself — preview, countdown, capture, compose, print — with the network cable unplugged. The cloud is where you design templates, publish events and watch the fleet. It is never what stands between a guest and their print.
No card required · Windows 10/11 booth app · Set up your first event in an afternoon
Running a booth business is busy enough. The Boothiva portal is calm on purpose: a clean layout, clear numbers and the next thing to do always in reach — so preparing an event takes minutes, not an evening.
Sign in to upcoming events, active templates and booths online, each one click from the full list.
Date, time zone, venue and client sit together, so you never dig through screens to confirm a detail.
Preview checklist flags what's unfinished — venue, client, consent, print limits, screen designs, booths and templates.
Switch themes, collapse the sidebar for more room, and keep full navigation on a tablet or phone.
The order matters here: nothing reaches a booth until you publish, and a booth never changes what it is running in the middle of a session.
Build the template in the browser, drop in the client's logo and colours, and check it against the printed size.
Set the date, capture settings and print counts, then publish. That snapshot is now frozen and versioned.
Enter an activation code on the Windows machine once. It downloads the event, the templates and the assets, and is ready to travel.
Guests shoot and print with no connection at all. Photos, counts and diagnostics upload themselves when there's signal again.
The booth, the back office and the guest's phone, built as one system — so the screen a guest taps, the photo they share and the log you check the next morning all come from the same place.
Design the three screens a guest moves through — idle, capture and session complete — with your client's colours, logo, text and QR code. Lay them out in the browser and preview them exactly as the booth renders them, portrait or landscape.
Capture, compose and print all run on the booth. Photos queue locally and upload themselves when the connection comes back.
Two-step sign-in for your team, a PIN on the booth's operator menu, and every query scoped to your business by the data layer itself.
Build strips and 4×6 prints on a canvas measured in millimetres. What you approve in the browser is what the printer produces.
Every event gets a gallery guests reach by QR code — public, private or passcode-protected, with an expiry date if you want one.
Guests share their photos from their own phone to Instagram and Facebook Stories or Posts, WhatsApp or Messages — no app to install.
Invite owners, admins, event managers and booth operators. Each role sees and changes only what its job needs.
Pull a booth's logs from the portal and download them, wherever the booth is. Diagnose a problem without driving to the venue.
Who published an event, changed a template, reset a PIN or signed in — recorded with a timestamp and readable by you.
See which booth runs which event, when it last synced and which version it has. Activate a new machine with a one-time code.
Camera and printer support is a certification programme, not a checkbox. We would rather name the hardware we test on every release than promise "all Canon cameras" and let you find out at a wedding.
| Hardware | What we support | Status |
|---|---|---|
| UVC webcams | Certified list of USB video-class cameras via Windows Media FoundationThe dependable capture path — tested every release | Supported |
| DNP dye-sublimation | DS-RX1HS through the Windows driver, with more models as we certify themPrint counts reported to the portal | Supported |
| Generic photo printers | Any Windows photo printer with a borderless 6×4 or strip sizeMedia telemetry depends on what the driver exposes | Supported |
| DSLR & mirrorless | Sony first, then Canon and Nikon — each behind a published compatibility tierVendor SDKs run outside the booth app so a crash can't end a session | In development |
| GoPro | Capture over the vendor's control interfaceNot recommended for paid events | Experimental |
Booth app requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). Installs from a downloadable package and updates itself between guest sessions.
Session and print allowances are commercial signals, not gates. Go over on a busy month and the booth keeps printing — we'll tell you, and you can move up when it suits you.
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial on the Pro feature set — 1 booth, 3 active events, 1,000 sessions. No card to begin. Prices in Australian dollars, excluding any applicable tax.
The booth runs the entire session locally: live preview, countdown, capture, retakes, composition and printing. Photos and telemetry queue on the machine and upload when it next sees a connection. Your plan sets how long a booth can stay offline before it needs to check in — 24 hours on Starter, up to 14 days on Studio.
Yes. Edits go to a draft. The booth stays pinned to the published version it downloaded and only moves to a newer one between guest sessions, once it has the new snapshot in full. A half-downloaded template can never reach a guest.
The editor and the booth render the same template file, described in millimetres, using the same font set and the same rendering engine. Every release is checked against reference prints pixel by pixel, so a change to the renderer cannot quietly shift your layout.
A Windows 10 or 11 machine, a webcam from the certified list and a DNP dye-sub or a borderless Windows photo printer. If you already run booths, that is usually hardware you own. DSLR support is in development and will arrive with a published compatibility tier per body, rather than a blanket claim.
You and the team members you invite. Support access is time-boxed, read-only by default, recorded in your audit history and visible to you. Retention is set by your plan and you can shorten it.
Any time, in the portal. Upgrades apply within seconds — activate the extra booth straight after. Sessions recorded by a booth that was offline for a fortnight are still counted against the month they actually happened in.
Fourteen days on the full Pro feature set. One booth, no card, nothing to uninstall if it isn't for you.