For tattoo artists
Every piece starts with a consult and a deposit, and big work takes several sittings. Take the deposit when the sitting is booked, keep the consult as its own short session, and let a returning client pay the rest in one tap.
Deposits, consults and long sittings
The deposit when the sitting is booked
Set what’s due at booking on a sitting, and the client pays it as they pick the time. The rest waits on Today, and a client who kept their card pays it in one tap.
A consult with its own length
Keep the consult as a short session with its own price, free or not, so it never takes a sitting’s slot.
Questions tattoo artists ask
Why do tattoo artists take a deposit?
Because the time and the design are made for one client. A deposit holds the sitting and pays for the drawing if the client doesn’t come.
Is a tattoo deposit refundable?
Usually not, but it moves with the booking if the client gives enough notice. Write the notice period in your agreement.
How do tattoo artists charge for big pieces?
By the sitting or by the hour, with a deposit for each sitting. Estimate the number of sittings at the consult.
What gets in the way
A no-show on a six-hour sitting is a day of your diary and the drawing you did for it.
Deposits arrive by bank app with the wrong reference, and you match them by hand.
Consults fill the week with free half hours that never turn into bookings.
Your page on the first day
This is the design or creative setup, and it’s what your page starts with. Change any of it where it appears.
- Clients can book from tomorrow onward.
- Moving or canceling is free up to 24 hours before.
- Before booking, your page asks: “What are we making, and by when?”
Your project agreement opens with this: Half of the project price is due up front and half on delivery. The scope is what we agreed in writing; new work is a new agreement.
What it doesn’t do for you
There’s no flash gallery, no aftercare tracker and no studio rota. Show your work wherever you show it now.
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