Plans and storage

Your FOCL plan sets how much you can store. There is one subscription, and it covers the wedding-day app and your galleries together. For what the Free plan limits inside the wedding-day app, see Plans, billing and the Free plan.

• Free: 3 GB. Photos only; videos need a paid plan.
• Essentials, $10 a month or $100 a year: 100 GB and 3 hours of video
• Studio, $19 a month or $190 a year: 500 GB and 10 hours of video
• Pro, $39 a month or $390 a year: 2 TB and 30 hours of video
• Lifetime, $199 once: 100 GB, 3 hours of video and Lightroom Classic publishing. Includes the wedding-day app and Galleries, with no monthly or yearly renewal.

Videos require a paid plan. Lightroom Classic publishing is included with Studio or Pro, including complimentary Studio and Pro plans. Lifetime members are also included, with their existing storage allowance. No invitation is required. Free, trial and monthly/annual Essentials accounts can see Lightroom in settings and inside a gallery, but must upgrade before connecting or publishing unless FOCL has approved a tester exception.

Custom gallery domains are included with Studio and Pro: connect one address such as galleries.yourdomain.com while keeping your main website. Open Settings → Brand & galleries → Your domain. You need a domain you own; registration and renewal are separate. Free, trials, Essentials and Lifetime alone do not include custom domains. Leaving Studio or Pro pauses custom-domain links; your FOCL gallery links keep working. See Connect your custom gallery domain.

The following gallery features are on every plan including Free: unlimited galleries and couples, favorites, shared sets and vendor links, full-size downloads and ZIP delivery, your branding and portfolio page, passwords, watermarks and expiry dates.

Remove the FOCL gallery credit is also included with Studio and Pro, including complimentary Studio/Pro plans. In Settings → Branding → Gallery footer, enable Hide FOCL credit to remove “Delivered with FOCL” from client galleries and shared sets. Free, trials, Essentials and Lifetime alone keep the credit. If you leave Studio or Pro it returns; your preference is saved for a later upgrade. This does not remove email or homepage branding.

Saved brand colors: every account includes one saved palette, including Free, trials, Essentials and Lifetime. Edit it, reuse it in all your galleries and make it the default for new galleries. Studio and Pro include multiple saved presets for separate brands or styles. On downgrade, the default (or earliest saved palette) remains usable and extras are kept until you upgrade again. Existing galleries retain their colors. See Save and reuse your gallery colors.

Changing your plan

Open Settings → Plan & billing → Compare plans to move from Essentials to Studio or Pro, or to choose a smaller plan. If you already pay through Stripe, FOCL updates that subscription. Your galleries and photos stay in place, and storage and Lightroom access refresh after the change is confirmed.

When you keep the same billing frequency, Stripe adds a prorated charge or credit for the remaining time to your next invoice. Switching between monthly and annual billing can charge you immediately. Choosing a paid plan during a Stripe trial ends that trial and bills the new plan immediately.

If a change cannot be confirmed, FOCL shows an error instead of starting another subscription. Refresh your plan before trying again, or open Manage billing to check your subscription and invoices.

Video is measured in hours

Photos are measured in gigabytes. Video is measured in hours as well, because films are hosted differently from photos: the hosting is billed by the minute of footage stored, not by the size of the file.

Each paid plan includes hours of video: 3 on Essentials, 10 on Studio, 30 on Pro. A highlight film and a full ceremony edit together are usually a little over an hour, so Essentials covers about two weddings with film, Studio about eight, and Pro about twenty-five.

Films also use storage by their file size, like any other file. In practice the hours run out first.

If you need more, extra video is $5 a month per 10 hours. Contact us and we will add it to your account.

Settings → Plan shows a second meter for video. We email you at 80% and again if you use it all. Running out of video hours stops new films only: photos carry on as normal, and every film you have already delivered stays online.

Downloads and bandwidth are uncapped. However many times your couples and their guests open or download a gallery costs you nothing extra, and there is no limit on how many people you share with.

When you are near the limit

Settings → Plan shows how much you have used and warns you when you are close. Once you are out of space, new uploads are refused until you upgrade or delete a gallery. Nothing already delivered is touched: your galleries stay online and your couples keep their access. Deleting photos frees the space back up.

While you are subscribed, going over your storage only ever stops new uploads. Your galleries are never taken offline for being over the limit.

If your subscription ends

Everything stays online and downloadable for at least 90 days. After that, if you are storing more than the free 3 GB, your galleries may become temporarily unavailable to visitors until you resubscribe or bring your storage down. They come straight back when you do. If you are within the free 3 GB, nothing changes.

Your photos are never deleted quietly. They are kept for at least 12 months, and you get at least 30 days’ notice by email before anything is removed. A full export of your galleries and account data is available at every stage from Settings → Your data.

How much fits

A gallery of edited JPEGs averages about 2 GB. Allowing 3 GB per delivery, Free holds about one gallery, Essentials about 30, Studio about 160, and Pro about 650.

For film, count hours rather than gigabytes. A highlight film is 5 to 8 minutes and a full ceremony edit is 30 to 60, so a wedding with both is roughly an hour of your allowance.

Choose Lifetime

In Galleries, open Settings → Plan & billing → Compare plans → Lifetime, alongside Monthly and Yearly. Choose Lifetime to continue to the one-time Stripe checkout. If you already own Lifetime, the button says You already have Lifetime and you cannot buy it again from this screen.

Lifetime includes one saved brand color palette and Lightroom publishing. Multiple color presets, custom gallery domains and removing the FOCL gallery credit require a recurring Studio or Pro plan; they are not included with Lifetime alone.

Already paying monthly or yearly through Stripe? Open Manage billing or contact support before switching. Buying Lifetime does not automatically cancel a recurring subscription. FOCL checks your current billing before starting Lifetime checkout and asks you to resolve any existing subscription first. App Store and Play Store subscriptions must also stop renewing through their store before starting web checkout.

Lifetime and older plans

If you subscribed before these plans existed, you keep the price you are paying and get Essentials-level storage. Lifetime is included — 100 GB of galleries at no extra cost, for as long as you have the app. If you want more than that, subscribe to Studio or Pro at the normal price. Your Lifetime is kept separately: if you ever cancel Studio or Pro, you go back to Lifetime with the included 100 GB, and nothing is lost.

Subscribed through the iPhone app?

Cancel FOCL on your iPhone first, then choose Studio or Pro here. Apple bills you separately from us, and only you can cancel an Apple subscription — we can’t do it for you. If you subscribed here while Apple was still renewing, you would be charged twice, so FOCL waits until you’ve cancelled.

To cancel: on your iPhone, open Settings → your name → Subscriptions → FOCL → Cancel Subscription. Then come back to Settings → Plan and choose your plan. It can take a few minutes for us to see the cancellation. The new plan takes over your account as soon as it is paid, and your galleries and weddings stay exactly as they are. (Subscribed on Android? Same idea: cancel in the Play Store app under Payments and subscriptions.)