For tattoo artists
The deposit is not the money. It is the filter
Twenty people ask what a piece costs and one of them transfers. Publish half-hour consultations and four-hour sittings as what they are, take the deposit before you block out half a working day, and keep the people who have already put something down.
Free for 30 days, no card. Then USD 25 a month, flat. It never renews on its own.
- Typical length
- 30–240 min
- Booking window
- 60 days
- Free trial
- 30 days
Half an hour and four hours on one day. The long sitting is one block, not eight boxes in a row.
What happens before you pick up the machine
None of it happens while tattooing. It happens on your phone.
Twenty quotes, one deposit
Everybody asks the price, sends a reference and disappears. You have the same conversation twenty times, one booking comes out of it, and there is no way to tell which of the twenty was serious until somebody transfers.
Half a day blocked out for someone who never came
A sitting is four hours of your Thursday. If they do not turn up you have not lost an appointment, you have lost half a week of work — and at eleven in the morning nobody is available for four straight hours.
The receipt lost among the reference photos
You send your bank details privately, wait for a screenshot, and three days later go looking for it among references, stories and five other conversations. You end up asking again who paid for what.
What sorts out the working day
Starting with what decides who actually sits down.
The deposit, before the day is blocked out
Switch the deposit on once: the amount, the currency and your transfer details. Whoever books transfers to your account and uploads the receipt against the booking; you approve or reject it with the image in front of you. Until you approve, the booking reads deposit pending and you know exactly which one it is.
Four hours is one appointment, not eight boxes
Every window you publish is exactly one appointment, at the length you gave it. You publish 13:00 to 17:00 for a sitting and 12:00 to 12:30 for a consultation on the same day, and there is no appointment length for the whole studio to fight with.
Four hours that fall through on a Thursday
It is the hardest hole to fill anywhere on this site. The people who wanted that day are on the list, so when somebody cancels the freed block goes out by email and the first one in keeps it. That is considerably more than a story asking whether anyone wants it achieves.
The client who booked six weeks ago
When a sitting is booked a month and a half out, whoever booked it has arranged their life around something else by the time it comes round. The reminder goes on its own the day before, with the day and the time, once per booking.
Your sittings in the calendar on your phone
A private, read-only feed you subscribe to in Google Calendar or on your phone. Sittings show up beside the rest of your week. What you put in the other end does not block anything here: the feed goes out, it does not come back in.
The first thing we hear
“I already take a deposit, and they lose it if they do not show. What changes?”
The deposit is not what you are missing. It is the one part that already works. What you do not have is everything else. The receipt attached to the booking instead of buried in a message from three weeks ago. The four hours that fell through on Thursday going out by email to the people who wanted that day, rather than to a story two hundred people see and nobody takes. And the twenty quote conversations arriving as half-hour appointments in your calendar instead of as twenty open threads.
How it works
Three steps, and the middle one is no longer yours.
- 1
Your dashboard
Publish your hours
Set your week once: which days you work and at what hours, how long an appointment lasts and the break you want between them, and your hours are split into times clients can book. Services can each have their own length. Then add the one-off dates and the days you are closed.
- 2
What your client sees
Your clients book themselves
At any hour, from their own account. They pick a slot that is open and the booking is taken then and there, with the day and the time in their own list. Two people cannot end up with the same slot: the database refuses the second booking outright, rather than leaving you to catch it afterwards.
- 3
Your dashboard
You collect the deposit and the calendar fills
If you ask for a deposit, the client transfers the money and uploads the receipt, and the deposit is settled once you approve it from your dashboard. A reminder goes out the day before and, if someone cancels, the waitlist hears about it by email.
One plan, no surprises
Start with a 30-day free trial. Subscribe when it ends, or do not: nothing is charged automatically.
Free trial
The whole product, for a month.
Free30 days
- Every feature, nothing held back
- No card to get started
- It ends and nothing is charged
Premium
RecommendedFor professionals taking bookings every week.
USD25per month
- Unlimited appointments and clients
- Deposits by bank transfer, with a receipt
- Reminders, waitlist and site widget
- It never renews on its own: you pay for the month you want
Common questions
What people ask before they start.
A big piece is four sittings. Can they book all of them at once?
It depends how far apart you space them. The number is yours to set with the cap on appointments per client; the real limit is the window, which runs to two months. Four sittings three weeks apart reach into the ninth week, so the first three fit and the fourth gets booked as the window moves. Two weeks apart, all four fit.
Does the deposit come off the price of the work?
That is your call, and it goes in your service description, which is what the client reads before booking. The app does not deduct it from a total, does not invoice and never touches the money: it records that an approved receipt exists and marks the booking as paid.
What if the sitting runs two hours over?
The next appointment does not slide by itself: the window you published is the window they booked. So put the long sitting at the end of the day, or publish four hours when you have estimated three. That is the price of the window being the appointment — and it is the same reason you can sell four straight hours without fighting a grid.
Do my clients need an account?
That is up to you. Switch guest booking on — it arrives switched off — and a name and an email are enough: no account, no password, the booking is confirmed by email, and that same link is how they cancel. Leave it off and the client creates an account with a confirmed email address, and in exchange sees all their bookings in one place and cancels the ones they cannot make. Either way, they get the reminder by email the day before.
How do deposits work?
You decide whether to ask for a deposit, how much, and in which currency, and you write the transfer instructions your clients see. They transfer the money and upload the receipt; you look at it and approve or reject it from your dashboard. Until you approve it, the receipt shows as pending.
What happens when someone cancels?
Your dashboard updates without a reload. If nobody is waiting on that day, the slot goes back on the public list immediately. If people are queued, the freed slot is emailed to the first few of them and held for half an hour: for that stretch it is offered to nobody else, and the first of them to take it keeps it. If none of them does, it goes back on the public list.
Can I plug it into my website or my calendar?
Yes. There is a widget to paste into your page, so clients book without leaving your site, and an ICS feed you subscribe to from Google Calendar, Outlook or your phone. The feed is read-only: appointments flow into your calendar, but what you put in Google does not block hours here.
Does it work if I also see people without a booking?
Yes. Whoever turns up unbooked you enter by hand, with a name and no account, and they are filed at the time they arrived. And if you want air between two appointments, set a break between appointments in your schedule, and those minutes never reach whoever is booking.
How much does it cost?
The first 30 days are free, with everything included and no card. After that it is a flat monthly subscription: the same price whether you take ten appointments or two hundred, with no commission per booking or per deposit. If you decide not to continue, nothing is charged and your data stays where it is.
Try it on next month’s calendar
Publish your days once, and whoever wants Thursday transfers before they get it. 30 days, no card.
Free for 30 days, no card. Then USD 25 a month, flat. It never renews on its own.