What is BoothIQ?
BoothIQ is a complete commercial photobooth kiosk. It's a self-contained, touch-only machine you place in your venue: customers walk up, take photos, pay, and walk away with prints — without any staff operating it for them. Your job as the operator is to put the booth in the right spot, plug it in, and use the built-in admin dashboard to manage prices, templates, sales, and hardware. You never have to touch Windows, install drivers, or open a browser.
Who this is for: Venue operators evaluating BoothIQ, and installers about to set one up on site.
What a customer does at a BoothIQ booth
- Walks up to a screen showing a video and a glowing START button.
- Picks a product — a photo strip, a 4×6 print, or uploading photos from their phone.
- Picks a template (a layout and design they like).
- Stands in front of the camera, watches a countdown, and takes their photos.
- (Optional) Adds filters, stickers, or extra copies.
- Pays with cash, coins, or card depending on what your booth accepts.
- Picks up their printed photos a few seconds later.
That whole flow runs without staff. The kiosk handles the camera, the printer, the money, the receipts, and the cleanup between sessions.
What BoothIQ gives you as the operator
- A complete, touch-only customer experience so you don't have to design any screens.
- A built-in admin dashboard for setting prices, swapping templates, watching sales, running diagnostics, and configuring hardware. You reach it on the kiosk itself with a hidden tap sequence and a password.
- A locked-down kiosk experience. BoothIQ launches automatically when the booth powers on and stays full-screen. There is no Windows desktop, no browser, no Camera app, no Settings menu — just BoothIQ. Everything you need to run the booth is inside the BoothIQ admin dashboard.
- Offline-first operation. The kiosk keeps working if your internet drops. Sales, photos, and credits are stored locally and synced to the cloud when the connection comes back.
- Cloud sync and fleet management. When you're online, your booth pushes sales and health data to the BoothIQ cloud, and you can pull templates, push remote commands, and watch your fleet from a web dashboard (viewed from a separate computer or phone, not the kiosk itself).
- Hardware integration out of the box for the built-in camera, the DNP DS-RX1hs thermal printer, the coin/bill acceptor, and a built-in Wi-Fi photo upload feature for customer phones.
- Per-kiosk licensing so each booth has its own activated license tied to its hardware.
What BoothIQ is not
- It is not a phone app or a website. Customers walk up to a physical kiosk.
- It is not an online photo printing service. Photos are printed on the kiosk itself, on the spot.
- It is not software you install on your own laptop. BoothIQ ships pre-installed and pre-configured on the kiosk hardware. You don't run an installer, you don't install drivers, you don't manage Windows.
What's inside a BoothIQ kiosk
A BoothIQ kiosk arrives as a single unit with all of this already wired up and ready to go:
| Component | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Touchscreen Windows PC | Runs the BoothIQ software. This is the brain of the booth. It boots straight into BoothIQ — operators and customers never see the Windows desktop. |
| Camera | A USB camera mounted at face level inside the booth that captures the customer's photos. |
| Photo printer | A DNP DS-RX1hs thermal dye-sub printer that produces 2×6 strips and 4×6 prints. |
| Payment device | A coin or bill acceptor (or both) connected to the PC internally. Optional if you run the booth in Free Play mode. |
| Internal cabling | Power, USB, and serial cables are connected inside the enclosure. You don't have to wire anything yourself. |
You'll see the same components again in What's in the box with a little more detail.
Where BoothIQ stores data
- On the kiosk: A local database holds your sales, templates, settings, admin accounts, and credit history. It lives on the kiosk's internal storage and is preserved across power cycles and software updates. You manage backups from inside the BoothIQ admin dashboard.
- In the cloud: When the booth is online and registered, transactions, heartbeats, and templates sync up to the BoothIQ cloud. Photos themselves stay on the kiosk by default.
You'll learn how to control what's stored and what's synced in the Admin Dashboard › Settings section (coming soon).
Next steps
- How it works — Walk through the customer experience screen by screen.
- Site and venue requirements — What your venue needs to provide for the kiosk.