Why Every QuickStage Plan Includes Free Re-Dos

Because I think the first result is a draft, and fixing a draft shouldn't cost what a new photo costs. Every QuickStage plan includes QuickFix re-dos each month (Basic 7, Pro 20, Studio 50, Agency 100), and each one re-runs a staged photo with your note on what to change, without spending a photo credit. The allowance resets every billing cycle, including on annual plans.

I build QuickStage, so this is a founder explaining his own pricing decision. Read it as opinion and reasoning, not research.

What is the draft rule?

It is my own handle, not an industry term: the first result is a draft, and a correction should never be priced like a new photo.

Any staging tool, mine included, will sometimes put a piece where it shouldn't go. A plant lands in front of a doorway. A picture ends up on a window. The bed sits on the wrong wall. The room is right and one decision in it is wrong.

Many credit-based tools charge a credit per generation, so a re-roll costs the same as a new photo. In my view that sends the bill for the tool's miss to the customer. For example, if you need 20 finished photos and five of them need a second attempt, you have paid for 25. Under the draft rule you pay for 20.

There is a second effect I care about more. When a re-do costs money, I think people start accepting "close enough". The sofa that half-blocks the hallway stays in the photo because fixing it feels like paying twice. That is bad for the listing, and it is bad for my product, because the photo that gets published is the one people judge QuickStage by. I would much prefer you fix it.

How does QuickFix actually work?

QuickFix, the re-do button inside QuickStage, appears with your finished photos on the results page. You click it, type what to change in plain words, and that one photo is staged again. The site's own examples are "move the plant so it isn't blocking the doorway" and "move the barstools to the other side of the countertop".

A few details worth knowing before you rely on it:

• It starts from the same original. A QuickFix re-runs the photo you uploaded with the room type and style you already chose, plus your note. The new version takes the place of the old one on your results page.
• It never spends a photo credit. It draws from a separate QuickFix allowance, and the button shows how many you have left.
• The allowance comes with a plan. Buying photos pay-as-you-go doesn't add QuickFixes. New visitors do get one free QuickFix along with the three free trial photos.
• It resets, it doesn't stack. Each billing cycle the allowance goes back to your plan's number. On annual plans it still refreshes every month.

When the allowance runs out, the button reads 0 left and tells you it resets with your next billing cycle. Until then you can wait, or upload the photo and stage it again as a new photo, which uses a credit.

Why a set number instead of unlimited? My view is that a correction button and an endless re-roll button are different products. I wanted the first one: enough re-dos that an ordinary miss doesn't land on your bill, on every plan, starting with the smallest.

Fix, restage or reshoot?

This is the checklist I'd use. The question to ask is where the problem lives: in the furniture, in your choices, or in the source photo.

Use a QuickFix when the room is right and the furniture is wrong.

• A piece blocks a doorway, a walkway or a fireplace.
• The scale is off, for example a bed that swallows a small bedroom.
• Something sits where it physically can't, like art hung on a window.
• The layout faces the wrong way or uses the wrong wall.

Write the note as an instruction, not a complaint. "Move the bed to the wall opposite the window" gives the re-do something to act on. "Looks weird" doesn't.

Stage it again when you want a different picture.

• The style is wrong for the room. A QuickFix keeps the style you picked, so choose another style and stage the photo again.
• You picked the wrong room type.

That spends a photo credit, and I think that is fair. You aren't correcting a miss; you are ordering a second look.

Reshoot or re-upload when the source photo is the problem.

• The photo is dark, blurry or tilted.
• The corner you care about is cropped out.
• The room is full of boxes or leftover furniture.

No re-do fixes these, because every re-do starts from the same original. Spend two minutes on a better photo instead of three re-dos on a bad one.

What does this do to the real price?

In my opinion the honest price of a staged photo is the price of a photo you would publish, re-dos included. Here is the price list on QuickStage: $1 per photo pay-as-you-go with no subscription, monthly plans from $19.99, and as low as $0.11 per photo on the annual Agency plan (billed yearly). Results come back in about 30 seconds, so a correction costs you about half a minute and no credit.

Re-dos should be rare when the tool respects the room. QuickStage is built to keep walls, floors, windows and paint colors as photographed and to add only movable furniture and decor. I say built to, not guaranteed, so compare every result with the original before you publish it. If the room itself changed, don't use the photo.

Whatever you publish, label it as virtually staged and keep the original. Labeling rules vary, so check your MLS and your broker.

Bottom line

Free re-dos are on every QuickStage plan because I think a first result is a draft and a correction is part of the job, not a second sale. Use a QuickFix when the furniture is wrong, stage again when you want a different style, and reshoot when the source photo is the problem.

Try the draft rule on three free QuickStage photos, no card.