Quote it.
Pick the medium, size, faces, background and whether it's a rush. The price builds itself from your own rates, line by line, and the deposit and balance are already worked out.
For portrait artists who take commissions
Price the portrait.
Keep the promise.
Sitter turns your rates into a clean, printable quote in a minute, then follows every accepted commission from reference photo to delivery, and tells you which piece is running late. It runs in your browser, so your clients' details stay on your machine.
No sign-up. No server. Works offline once loaded.
A sample quote sheet for Priya Nair's oil portrait, totalling $2,049 with a $1,025 deposit, and her board card in the Painting stage, marked late by 2 days.
You price by feel, keep deadlines in your head, and find out a piece is late when the client asks.
Sitter writes both down for you.
How it works
From first message to finished frame.
Print it.
Save the quote and it gets a number. Open the quote sheet and print it, or save it as a PDF from the print dialog. One clean page with your studio name on top.
Track it.
When the client says yes, the commission lands on your board. Move it along, Reference received to Delivered, and Sitter flags whatever is due soon or running late.
01 · Quote
Every price, shown its working.
Your clients see exactly how the number was reached, and so do you. Set a base price for each medium once. Sitter scales it by size, adds each extra face, adds the background, then the rush fee, and rounds every step to a whole amount you can say out loud.
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Oil, 16 × 20 in
Oil starts at $320. A 16 × 20 canvas is 220% of that: $704.
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Two sitters
Each extra face adds 60% of the sized price: $422.
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Detailed background
A detailed background adds 40% of the portrait: $450.
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Needed in two weeks
Rush adds 30% of the subtotal: $473. Total $2,049, and half of it, $1,025, is the deposit.
Price build-up
- Oil, 16 × 20 in
- $704
- 1 extra face
- $422
- Detailed background (40%)
- $450
- Subtotal
- $1,576
- Rush (30%)
- $473
- Total
- $2,049
- Deposit (50%)
- $1,025
- Balance on delivery
- $1,024
Default rates shown. Every rate is yours to change in Settings.
02 · Track
See what's late before your client does.
Six stages, the same for every medium. Each card carries its due date, and the board sorts every column by what's due first. One line at the top tells you how your day looks.
A sample board with six stages and five commissions in progress: one late, two due soon. Priya Nair's oil portrait is in Painting and late by 2 days.
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Late, in words. "Late by 3 days", never just a red dot.
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Back and Next. One click moves a piece one stage, with no dragging, and it works from the keyboard and your phone.
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Due dates that default. Today plus your standard turnaround, or your rush turnaround for rush jobs.
Everything else
Small tool. Whole job.
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Your rates, your rules.
Base prices per medium, size percentages, extra faces, backgrounds, rush and deposit, all editable, with sensible defaults so your first quote works straight away.
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Prices that stay put.
A saved quote keeps its price even if you raise your rates tomorrow. What you sent is what stands.
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A sheet worth sending.
One printed page with your studio name, quote number, valid-until date, every line, the deposit and the balance. The app's buttons and menus are left off the printout.
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Quotes that expire.
Each quote is valid for as many days as you choose. Past that it shows as Expired, and you can still accept it if the client comes back.
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Six currencies.
USD, GBP, EUR, INR, CAD or AUD, in whole amounts with no stray pennies.
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Yours, and only yours.
Everything lives in your browser. Export a backup file to keep it safe or move it to a new device. A bad file is turned away whole, never half-loaded.
Try it here
This is the real thing. Build a quote.
Below is Sitter itself, running right here on the page. Change the medium, add a face, tick rush, and watch the price rebuild. Nothing you type leaves this browser.
Quotes you save here are kept in this browser, the same as in the full app.
In short
- No account
- No server
- Prints from your browser
- Light and dark, like your studio
Your next sitter is already asking for a price.
Open Sitter, set your rates once, and send a proper quote today.
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