Tattoo studio bookings, deposits, and consent in one studio record.

It keeps one record per client from first message to healed tattoo. Booking, deposit, consent form, sessions, aftercare, and final payment sit on that record, and every artist and office screen reads from it. The studio stops retyping the same booking into a calendar app, a payment app, and a paper form.

A deposit is collected at booking and linked to the consultation or session it belongs to. The studio's own rules decide what happens on cancellation, reschedule, refund, dispute, and final payment, and those rules are shown to the client before payment. Every deposit is reconciled against the payment processor, so the office can see which deposits are held, applied, refunded, or outstanding.

The form captures the disclosures, questions, identity evidence, document version, signature evidence, and time of acceptance the studio has approved, and links the record to the relevant session. Access to sensitive responses is restricted, and records are kept or deleted under the studio's approved retention policy. Consent, screening, and retention requirements vary by jurisdiction, so qualified local counsel should approve the fields, timing, access, and retention rules before the system goes live. The software records the approved rules; it does not define them.

Every artist works from one calendar with their own availability, booking lead time, and session lengths. A booking checks the artist, the chair, and the time together, so two clients cannot land on the same artist at the same hour. Guest artists get a calendar for the dates they are in the studio and nothing else, and their bookings stay on the same record as resident artists.

A project record links the consultation, planned sessions, deposits, design references, approvals, and notes. When one session moves, the system shows which later sessions, healing buffers, and other clients may be affected, and staff review the change before anything downstream moves. Unresolved conflicts stay visible instead of being forced silently into the calendar.

Each arrangement is a separately configured workflow with its own contract, permissions, payment rules, adjustments, and accounting export. Booth rent, employee pay rules, tips, and reimbursements stay separate in the records while finance sees one reconciliation view. Worker classification depends on the real relationship and local law, so the software applies the studio's approved rules without deciding anyone's legal status.

Buy one when it handles your core workflow with reasonable setup: standard booking, deposits, consent, and artist calendars that fit its model. Build when your studio breaks the template: mixed booth rent and commission models, multi-session projects with dependency rules, guest artist rotations, or a money model the product cannot express. The first call gives you that answer in writing.

One studio, end to end. Client and artist records, booking with deposit, digital consent on file, multi-artist scheduling, aftercare follow-up, and a money record covering deposits, tips, and booth rent. A second location, a client portal, and warehouse or supplier connections come after the first studio is running and trusted.

You do. Code, cloud accounts, data, and provider access stay visible and under your control from day one, with operating notes that let another capable team run the system. Ownership is agreed before paid work starts, not negotiated at handover.

Both are records, not rebuilds. A guest artist gets a calendar, permissions, and a money record for their dates in the studio. A second location gets its own artists, chairs, and records under the same system, with each location manager seeing only their location's data. The client record follows the client across both.