Booking software for tattoo studios

Tattoo studios sell consultations, deposits against future work, and pieces that run across several sittings with a specific artist.

What usually goes wrong

Deposits are the entire economics of the business and most studios collect them by EFT, chasing screenshots. A sleeve booked across four sittings exists as four unrelated entries with nothing tying them together.

What changes when booking lives in the checkout

Deposits are taken at booking through your own checkout. A multi-sitting piece is a booking group, so all four dates stay one job against one client.

• One payment rail. Deposits and full payments settle through the provider you already use. No second checkout, no month-end reconciliation between two systems.
• One customer record. The person who has booked nine times stops looking like a stranger, so you can reward them, segment them and follow up.
• Deposits that actually reduce no-shows. A deposit is just a price, so it works like any other line item.
• Abandoned-booking recovery. A half-finished booking is an abandoned cart, and Shopify already knows how to chase those.
• Products and time in one basket. Aftercare products go in the same basket as the deposit.

What it takes

Three to five working days on an existing Shopify store. Two to three weeks if the store gets built at the same time. The slow part is almost never the software — it is deciding exactly what you sell, at what price, in what length of session.

Fun Life Media builds Shopify stores with booking built into the checkout. Installs from R4,500 once-off plus R850 a month. Book a free fifteen-minute audit.