Foto Fiesta, founded by Alessio Pennella in Dübendorf, Switzerland, opened its doors in 2024 with one idea in mind: renting a photo booth should be easy, transparent, and hassle-free. “We noticed that many providers overwhelmed customers with complicated packages, hidden fees, and unnecessary upselling,” Alessio explained. Instead, he and his team of three decided to offer a straightforward approach where customers know exactly what they are paying for and what they will get.
Today, Foto Fiesta rents out two kinds of photo booths: a sleek, durable metal booth with a built-in printer and a modern wooden-style booth with a separate printer stand. Both come with unlimited prints, digital sharing, and simple setup. Their main customers are couples planning weddings, companies hosting corporate events, and private groups celebrating milestones like birthdays or anniversaries.
But managing a growing rental business quickly revealed its challenges. Alessio admitted, “I didn’t know how we would achieve a clean booking process before I found Booqable.” By turning to Booqable’s WordPress rental plugin and online payments feature, Foto Fiesta solved its early struggles and gave customers the smooth experience they were looking for.
WordPress plugin for photo booth rentals
Like many rental businesses, Foto Fiesta faced the pain point of managing bookings in a professional way on their website. For Alessio, the Booqable WordPress plugin solved that challenge by allowing him to integrate real-time booking directly into their photo booth rental website.
The integration is available right from their Booqable account, complete with straightforward instructions and an easy-to-follow video tutorial. This meant they could embed the Booqable date-picker, product cards with live availability and add-to-cart buttons, online shopping cart, and their Booqable online checkout straight to their existing wordpress website.
This made it possible for Foto Fiesta to get their system live without technical headaches.
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Customers can book anytime, 24/7, without needing to wait for a reply.
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Inventory updates automatically, so double bookings are avoided.
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Payment requests can be tied directly to confirmed bookings.
This practical setup means Foto Fiesta no longer worries about messy communication or missed opportunities. The WordPress plugin gave them the straightforward booking flow they were searching for, perfectly aligned with their promise of a “clean booking process.”
Online payments that work
Before Booqable, Foto Fiesta was not sure how they would manage payments efficiently. Their concern was making it fast and stress-free for customers while keeping track of everything in one place. With Booqable’s online payments integration via Stripe, that problem disappeared. The Stripe integration is easy to set up directly from their Booqable account.
Foto Fiesta also uses the payments in checkout feature, which allows them to decide how much of the booking is charged upfront. As soon as a customer pays, the order’s payment status updates automatically inside Booqable, keeping everything in sync.
Here’s what it achieves for them:
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Customers can pay instantly at the time of booking.
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Payments are secure and connected directly to each order.
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The team saves time by not manually chasing invoices.
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Refunds or adjustments can be processed quickly if needed.
As Alessio summarized, customers now enjoy “fast payments possible,” and his team feels confident everything is under control. The online payments feature does not just make things easier, it ensures their original goal of transparent, reliable service is met in practice every single day.
Day-to-day with Foto Fiesta and Booqable
The team at Foto Fiesta always knew they wanted to stand out by keeping things simple and honest. “Our business stands out because we keep things simple, transparent, and customer-focused,” Alessio said. They started in 2024 with this principle and chose Booqable as their very first solution to stay aligned with that vision.
Day to day, Booqable powers nearly every part of their workflow. Foto Fiesta takes reservations and payments instantly from their online store, checks the dashboard each morning for pickups and returns automatically scheduled for that day, prepares orders with the help of packing slips if needed, and handles deliveries before updating the order status. By doing so, they can skip the piles of admin work and focus on customers instead.
Since implementing Booqable, Foto Fiesta has already seen measurable benefits. “Increased bookings definitely! Since it’s much easier to keep track of everything,” Alessio shared. And according to customer feedback, the results are clear: “Easy process, fast payments possible.”
Looking ahead with confidence
Foto Fiesta set out to create a photo booth rental company that avoided the confusion and hidden fees often associated with the industry. By choosing Booqable from the start, they built their business around a clean, customer-first approach that works. The event rental software powers their everyday operations, the WordPress plugin provides a professional photo booth rental website experience, and online payments ensure every booking is easy and fast.
For Alessio and his team, what matters most is keeping things simple and delivering unforgettable memories. With Booqable supporting them, Foto Fiesta is already achieving that mission and they are just getting started.
