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Online booking for tattoo artists
Consultations book themselves with the design brief already attached, every booking carries the deposit your studio already insists on, and day sessions block the hours they actually take. The DM pile becomes a diary.
Tattoo enquiries are enthusiasm-rich and commitment-poor. A booking flow that takes the brief, the placement, the reference images conversation and the deposit before a slot is held filters the dreamers politely and automatically, and your artists draw for people who show up.
A studio day with Booksmith
Today's consultations arrive with their briefs: style, placement, size, budget band, the artist they asked for. Fifteen minutes of useful conversation instead of forty of discovery.
Session types block real time: a two-hour piece, a half-day, a full day. Buffer time for setup and breakdown is built into each.
Tonight's booking for next month paid its deposit through Stripe at the moment of booking. If they vanish, the slot reopens for the waitlist and the deposit did its job.
Built for the studio
Style, placement, size, coverup or fresh, budget expectations: your questions, asked per service, answered before anyone picks up a pencil.
Per-service card deposits through the studio's own Stripe. The policy you already have, applied without a single awkward conversation.
Consults, small pieces, half-days and full days each hold the right hours, with setup buffers, per artist.
Each artist's own days, styles and column. Guest artists switch on for a fortnight and off again.
Booking questions can require date of birth confirmation and surface health conditions your artists need to know about before the day.
Tattoos book weeks out and get forgotten. Reminders the day before and hour before protect slots that can't be refilled on short notice.
Questions we get
Yes. Deposits are set per service, and services can be structured per artist and per session length, so a full-day sitting can carry a much larger deposit than a consult.
The money went to your Stripe account at booking, so your existing deposit policy applies; the system's attendance tracking gives you the record. Cancellation windows are enforced automatically.
The booking form captures the written brief and links (Pinterest boards, Instagram saves). Most studios keep image exchange to email after the consult books, using the brief to prepare.
Two clicks: add them as staff with their own dates and services for the window they're in, and hide them after.