What do you use?

Hello everyone. I am usually tasked with taking pictures of large number of people with a lot of separate ordering. Dance classes, Group shots and individuals. Right now to keep track of the orders i have someone sitting at the desk were my laptop is Teather to my camera and they are taking the completed forms and writing the IMG number on them that i took of there kid and what ever Package they want. This is all well and good but i would think there is a better way to keep track of all this.

Especially since, the Parent would have to come back for another picture if there child is in more then one dance class. So either we hold onto the paper and bring it out and add the Img numbers to it, or the parent hopefully remembers to bring it with them for the next dance class for more pictures.

Is the a easer way? Is there a computer program i could use? Something. I hate killing trees, and it gets completcated the more classes the kids have. Lots to keep track of..

Thank you

Jeff

I would treat it as an event and use my online photo hosting/ordering service (Zenfolio in my case) to "tag" the images and have it send out invitation emails to the customers inviting them to view the photos online and order print products. IF, however, you feel you would lose sales by not having them order packages right there, then I don't imagine there is a better way. There might be a software package out there, but it's not going to do much different than having your assistant put in some sort of identifier and tie the customer's order to the image(s) taken. In other words, pretty much what you're doing now anyway.

If you're worried about killing trees, use an iPad or tablet or something and have them fill that out instead.