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The Complete Guide to LOTULIS: Every Feature Explained

Everything you need to run your business, organized and explained.

Carlos Marques

Real Estate Photographer. Founder, LOTULIS and Marcott Studios

January 23, 2026

Updated October 4, 2026

14 min read

Galleries & Media

Six Gallery Types

Feature	Built for
Listings	Real estate delivery with a branded page and an MLS-clean page for every property
Portfolio	Your own work, with themes and SEO settings, sold through the Market
Commercial	Client review rounds and licensing terms attached to every delivery
Portrait	Session galleries, with private delivery for sensitive sessions
Volume	Rosters by organization and season, picture-day planning, thousands of subjects
Events	Coming soon: guest sharing and print storefronts

Supported Media Types

Everything a delivery needs, in one gallery

Photos - JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF; originals are kept with their EXIF

Videos - MP4 and MOV, with a shareable video page

Floor plans - Images or PDFs

3D tours - Matterport, Zillow 3D and other embeds

Documents - PDFs, contracts, disclosures

Watermarks - Your mark, position and opacity

Media Features

Organize, deliver and keep your work

Unlimited uploads - No limits per gallery

Drag & drop reordering - Set the order your clients see

Bulk operations - Upload, delete and download many files at once

ZIP downloads - Streamed, so large galleries start downloading at once

Auto optimization - Resized copies and thumbnails; the original is never touched

Public download page - Share without requiring a login

Editing sessions - Send a gallery to an editor, review, request changes, approve

RawVault - Cold storage for RAW files at $0.02 per GB per month

MyDrive - Your own file storage with shareable links

AI Editing

Available AI Operations

Priced per edit, from $0.01 for object removal to $0.80 for twilight

Sky replacement - Basic and premium skies

Object removal - Mask what should go

Twilight conversion - Day shots to dusk

Grass enhancement - Brown lawns to green

Window pull - Recover the view through blown-out windows

Perspective correction - Straighten verticals

Custom prompt edits - Describe the change in words (free during beta)

AI tour video - Clips from your photos, cut to the beat of a music track

How It Works

Credits, confirmation and review on every run

Credits - Buy once; every run shows its cost before it starts

Before/after review - Approve or discard each result

Bulk enhance - A whole gallery in one go, with a confirmation step

Platform editing - Human editors deliver finished images into your gallery

CopyPro - Copyright Protection

Detection

Reverse image search across the web for the images you choose to protect

Protected library - Pick the gallery images to watch; nothing is duplicated

Web search - Google Vision and SerpAPI look for copies

Confidence scoring - Review each match before you act

Daily scanning - Drawn from your tier's monthly quota

Pricing - Flat monthly tiers from $9.95, by library size

Takedowns and Filing

From match to notice to registration

Takedown notices - Written from a template and sent from the same screen

Case tracking - Every match and notice on one record

US Copyright Office filing - A wizard prepares your registration

Business Tools

Orders

Public order form with live pricing
An order creates its listing automatically
Draft invoice when the order completes
Status workflow from pending to delivered
Estimates your clients accept online
Multi-session orders (exteriors one day, interiors another)

Invoicing

Invoices from orders or from scratch
Automatic tax calculation
Partial payments
Automatic overdue reminders
Pay-online link, no client login
Receipt PDF and sequential numbering

Calendar

Month, week and day views
Drag & drop scheduling
Availability blocking
Travel time between jobs
Weather on the booking page
Google Calendar sync, .ics invites, team scheduling

CRM

Contacts and companies
Client segments with their own pricing
Campaigns (email broadcasts)
Forms, automations and reports (Pro)
Client reviews after a job
Messages inside the platform

Team

Photographers and editors with their own logins
Assignments and availability
Rates, earnings and payout batches
Equipment check-out and expenses

Growth

Affiliate program: credits for every business you bring in
Sales partners: recurring cash commissions
Public profile and the live feed
SMS notifications for orders and appointments

Pricing Engine & Payments

5 Pricing Strategies

Feature	Use Case
Flat Price	Fixed price regardless of variables
Formula Pricing	Custom calculations: base + (sqft × 0.05)
Matrix Pricing	Two-variable grid lookup, for example sqft by home price
Markup Pricing	Percentage added to base cost
Lookup Pricing	Price tables by category

Modifiers You Define (examples)

Feature	Example
Rush fee	+50% for 24-hour delivery
Travel fee	+$25 beyond your service area
Volume discount	-10% for 10+ properties
Segment pricing	Different rates for top clients or agent partners
Weekend fee	+25% for Sat/Sun
Date windows	A modifier that applies only between two dates

Payment Gateways

Feature	Features
Stripe Connect	Cards and ACH; funds go to your own account
PayPal	Connect your PayPal business account
Square	Connect your Square account

The platform fee is 0.25% of each payment, on top of what your processor charges.

Market & Websites

The Market

Buy, sell, rent and hire from the businesses on LOTULIS

Categories - Real estate, products, art, music, services, rentals and jobs

Your profile - A public @handle page with everything you publish

Cart and checkout - Paid through your connected processor

PinBoard - Post work you need done, find work to do

Music - Host and sell your own tracks

Websites and Branding

Every gallery, every listing and your business, online

Property pages - Two URLs per gallery: branded for sharing, clean for MLS

Six listing themes - From editorial to dark cinematic

Website builder - AI assembles a site from your name and web presence; edit every block

Per-listing domains - Buy 123-main-street.com without leaving the platform

White-label - Logo and colors on every plan; your own domain and no LOTULIS credit on Pro

Lead capture - Contact form on every property page

Sharing and SEO - Meta tags and Open Graph previews on every page

Client Experience

What Your Clients Get

One email is one person: every gallery delivered to them lands in the same account

One account - Galleries from every photographer they work with, in one place

Two links per gallery - Branded for sharing, clean for MLS

Downloads - Originals, floor plans, or everything as a ZIP

Comments - Request revisions on a gallery

Order status - A public status page for every order

Online payments - Pay invoices through Stripe

Mobile-optimized - Responsive design for any device

Branded experience - Your logo and colors

Integrations

Cloud Storage

Feature	Status
Google Drive	Available
Dropbox	Available
OneDrive	Coming Soon
Box	Planned

Platform Migration

Feature	Status
Aryeo	Available
HDPhotoHub	Coming Soon
Rela	Coming Soon
CSV Import	Coming Soon

Migration Features

Switch platforms without losing your history

Connect with your API key - Then pick what to bring over

Time-based selection - 30 days, 90 days, 6 months, a custom range, or everything

Free to import - Imported galleries count toward your plan storage

Protected archive - Imported galleries stay stored and ownership-tracked

Progress tracking - Watch the import move in real time

Other Connections

The rest of your stack

Google Calendar - Jobs pushed to your own calendar

Social publishing - Facebook, Instagram and TikTok connections for listing media

SMS - Trial, new order and appointment reminders to your phone

API keys - Available to every business; documentation is on the way

Security

Security Features

Feature	Implementation
Row-Level Security	Access rules live in the database, per business
Multi-tenant isolation	Every business sees only its own rows
Encryption	Credentials and sensitive fields AES-256-GCM at rest; HTTPS on every connection
Authentication	Supabase Auth, with Google sign-in (OAuth 2.0)
Rate limiting	On sign-in and public endpoints
Audit logging	Who did what, when
Content Security Policy	On every page

Carlos Marques

Real Estate Photographer. Founder, LOTULIS and Marcott Studios

Carlos Marques is the founder of Marcott Studios and creator of the LOTULIS platform. With 15 years of experience in real estate and architectural photography, he builds tools designed to solve the problems photographers actually face.

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