Half-day session (4hrs) at £300Your services, priced and timed
Touch up, cover up and the rest of the menu each carry a price, a length and a category, ready to book online.
Tattoo studio booking app and deposits: More ink, less admin
Take enquiries, hold sessions with a deposit and send consent forms with the booking. Built for the chair and the whole studio.
No commission on new clients. No per client charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p on standard UK cards, only when you take a card payment.
What tattoo artists see in Youzse
Real screens from Black Ink Studios, our demo tattoo studio, with the numbers it shows today.
Half-day session (4hrs) at £300
Replied to from the appReviews that name the work
Every review names who it was with and what was booked, this one for cover up. Reply from the same screen.
Touch up, 1 hourEvery appointment in one place
Open any appointment to see the service, time, length, price and deposit, with the client and their history a scroll away.
Hold the session, take the deposit
Clients enquire, book and pay a non refundable deposit online, then complete consent before the session. Each artist runs their own diary and clients get reminded so slots never go to waste.
No commission on new clients. No per client charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p only when you take a card payment.
The deposit is the booking
A day of tattooing given away to a no show is a day you cannot get back. The design time is already spent. Take a meaningful deposit at consultation, hold it against the sitting and take payment sitting by sitting on a large piece.
Deposits come off the final total.
2.5% plus 35p on standard UK cards, with the platform fee inside it.
A sleeve is a relationship
Most serious work is a series of sittings across months. The collector who comes back for the next piece is worth many walk-ins. Keep the design, the references, the healing notes and the aftercare on one record.
Consent forms stored with the record.
Unlimited customer records on every plan, yours to export at any time.
Running a tattoo studio
A tattoo artist sells days rather than appointments. A Saturday given to somebody who does not arrive cannot be refilled at short notice. The design for it was drawn on a Tuesday evening that nobody paid for.
The deposit is what makes custom work possible
Design time happens before the sitting and is unpaid unless the deposit covers it. A meaningful deposit taken at consultation is the only thing making speculative drawing viable. It is the difference between an artist who draws for booked clients and one who draws for anybody who wanders in.
On large pieces stage the money across the sittings rather than settling at the end. A sleeve running over eight months should never sit as one accumulating debt, because by month six it is a sum the client has to find rather than a payment she is used to making.
Healing sets the calendar, not the client's enthusiasm
A large piece cannot be worked again until it has healed, which is a fortnight at the very least and considerably longer on a lower leg or anywhere that creases. Booking the next sitting too early wastes a day for both of you and produces worse work.
Book the next sitting at the end of the current one with the healing interval already applied. She is in the chair, the piece is visibly unfinished and it is the easiest booking you will ever take.
Aftercare should send automatically after every sitting rather than being explained over the noise of a machine while somebody is still bleeding. Most healing problems are aftercare problems. A documented send protects you as much as it protects the tattoo.
Four ways a studio fills a day and what each one leaves behind
| Type of work | How the day fills | What it leaves behind |
|---|---|---|
| Walk-in flash | Whoever comes through the door that afternoon | A transaction, occasionally a client |
| A large custom project | Six to ten sittings across a year | A collector who books the next piece before this one heals |
| A guest spot in another city | A week sold out from one announcement | Clients you have no realistic way of seeing again |
| Cover-ups and reworks | The difficult days nobody else wants | Your highest rate and the strongest word of mouth you will get |
A studio that counts how many clients came back for a second piece knows more about next year than one that counts how many tattoos it did.
What a tattoo studio gives away without noticing
- Drawing time for consultations that never turn into a booking
- A whole day lost to a no show, in a trade where a Saturday cannot be resold on the Friday
- Redraws after a client changes the concept, absorbed as part of the service
- Touch-ups offered indefinitely rather than inside a stated window
- Consent forms and age verification stacked in a folder nobody could find under pressure
- Artists renting a chair on a handshake, with the takings reconciled from memory on a Sunday
What a well run studio does
- Takes a deposit at consultation that genuinely covers the design time
- States the deposit and reschedule policy in writing before it is paid
- Stages payment across sittings on anything running over months
- Books the next sitting at the healing interval before the client leaves
- Keeps designs, references, stencils and progress photographs on one record
- Records consent and age verification against the client, findable years later
- Sends aftercare automatically after every single sitting
- Tracks how many clients returned for a second piece
Built for tattoo artists
Each of these sits in the same account, so a booking, its payment and the client record stay together.
Online booking and enquiries
Clients send a custom enquiry with reference images through your form or book flash straight into your diary.
Deposits and a cancellation window
Take a deposit at booking and keep it when a client cancels inside your cancellation window.
Digital consent forms
Consent and medical history forms are sent with the booking and signed before the stencil goes on.
Per artist diaries and rotas
Every artist has their own column and hours, so a guest spot or a day off is clear to the whole studio.
Automated reminders
Reminders before the sitting, so a six hour session is not lost to a forgotten date.
Client history and references
Reference photos on each appointment, with notes on placement and sizing for the next session.
Clear answers before you switch
The details that usually slow down a move: setup, pricing, bookings, records and how Youzse fits into your day.
Yes. Hold every session with a card deposit at the point of booking so no shows stop costing you money.
Simple pricing, nothing hidden
Try every feature on your plan free for 30 days, with no card needed.
- new client fees
- 0%
- day free trial
- 30
- card rate, plus 35p
- 2.5%
- client records on every plan
- Unlimited