The venue's wi-fi will drop. Your booth won't.
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
- Preview
- Countdown
- Capture
- Compose
One place to design the print, run the event and account for every strip.
Boothiva is the back office and the booth software, built together. What you publish in the browser is exactly what comes out of the printer, because both ends render the same template from the same measurements.
Template editor
Lay out strips, 4×6s and postcards on a canvas measured in real millimetres, with an embedded font set that exists on every booth. The preview in your browser and the print on the dye-sub are checked against the same reference render, so what you approve is what guests take home.
Published snapshots
Events and templates are edited as drafts and published into immutable versions.
Fix a typo during a reception and nothing changes on the booth mid-session — it stays pinned
to v4 and picks up v5 between guests, when you say so.
Events & booths
Assign booths to events, activate a machine with a one-time code, and watch state arrive as it happens: sessions started, prints pulled, media remaining, last sync. A booth that loses signal keeps working and catches up on its own.
Your team, scoped
Owners, admins, event managers and booth operators — each with only the permissions the job needs. Every query is scoped to your tenant by the data layer itself, and a test suite sweeps every endpoint for cross-tenant leaks on each release.
Clients & invoicing
Keep the couple, the agency or the brand attached to the events they booked, and raise the invoice from the same record rather than retyping it into a separate ledger.
Audit history
Who published what, which booth accepted it and when support last looked at your account — recorded, timestamped and readable by you, not just by us.
Four steps between signing the client and handing over the first print.
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.
Design the print
Build the template in the browser, drop in the client's logo and colours, and check it against the printed size.
Publish the event
Set the date, capture settings and print counts, then publish. That snapshot is now frozen and versioned.
Activate the booth
Enter an activation code on the Windows machine once. It downloads the event, the templates and the assets, and is ready to travel.
Run and sync
Guests shoot and print with no connection at all. Photos, counts and diagnostics upload themselves when there's signal again.
Four passes. One print. No connection.
A dye-sublimation printer doesn't spray ink — it feeds the paper past a thermal head once for each ribbon panel, laying colour down in layers and sealing it under a clear overcoat. Boothiva composes the page at 300 DPI on the booth itself and hands the printer the finished file. Nothing in that loop touches the internet.
- YellowFirst panel down, on bare paper
- MagentaPaper retracts and feeds again
- CyanThe image reaches full colour
- OvercoatClear seal — waterproof, handled straight away
A certified list, honestly labelled.
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.
Priced per operator, not per guest.
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.
- 1 booth, 3 team members
- 10 active events, 25 templates
- 2,500 sessions & prints a month
- 50 GB storage · 90-day retention
- 24 hrs offline grace
- Custom branding, guest gallery
- 3 booths, 10 team members
- 50 active events, 100 templates
- 10,000 sessions & prints a month
- 250 GB storage · 1-year retention
- 72 hrs offline grace
- Custom branding · premium cameras
- Guest gallery soon
- 10 booths, 30 team members
- 250 active events, 500 templates
- 50,000 sessions & prints a month
- 1 TB storage · 3-year retention
- 14 days offline grace
- Advanced analytics · white-label
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 things operators actually ask us.
What happens if the venue has no internet at all?
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.
Can I edit an event while a booth is using it?
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.
Will the print match what I saw in the editor?
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.
What do I need to buy to get started?
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.
Who can see my guests' photos?
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.
Can I change plans mid-season?
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.
Set up your first event this afternoon.
Fourteen days on the full Pro feature set. One booth, no card, nothing to uninstall if it isn't for you.