What tattoo studio management software has to cover

Studio management software, for this shop, is the request, the form, the payment, and the report of that payment. On November 8, 2026 this post read the pricing page, the forms help, and the reports help. Other vendors’ screens were not opened, so this post does not describe their menus and does not say a feature is missing from them.

Requests, then the calendar

Clients send a request through the public form. The pricing page says those requests land in an inbox for you to book or decline, so the calendar stays yours. Hours and each artist’s availability drive the date picker.

A deposit, when online deposits are on, can ride on the booking confirmation. That confirmation is a text, sent when the appointment is booked. It is not an email campaign. Scheduled reminders are texts too, up to five before the appointment. The pricing page says those texts are unlimited on every plan, with no per-message charge.

A booking-request conversation, if you reply, is one thread in Inbox, then Messages. The screen is labeled Beta. It is about that request.

The form and the profile

The client fills the intake, answers the health questions you wrote, and signs on the screen. Help says the signed result is a PDF on the profile and in the Forms Archive. You can download that PDF. A check-in link can go out ahead of the appointment so the paperwork is done before they sit down.

The profile holds contact details, date of birth, address, lifetime spend, appointments, deposits paid, and a no-show count. Signed forms sit there as PDFs. Staff notes on the profile are private. If you enter an email that already belongs to someone, the app stops you and offers to open that record.

The form walkthrough is on tattoo forms.

Checkout and the CSV

Card payments run through Stripe, in person on a reader or on the hosted online page. Cash, Venmo, Cash App, and the other recorded methods are amounts you type. They are not a second processor inside the app. Pay over time, Affirm, Klarna, or Afterpay on that hosted page, pays the studio in full. The Pay Over Time page is the setup. It does not run on the card reader.

Reports then shows sales, taxes, deposits, trends, commissions, tips, and payouts. The web export is a CSV of the filtered rows, with payment method. That file is a download. It does not sync to another ledger. The Payouts view adds tips and a stored salary. It does not send the money. The public page for that limit is reports.

What the plans cost

Solo is $29 a month or $239 a year, for one staff member who counts. Crew is $69 a month or $579 a year, for up to five. Every plan includes the tools. The page says there is no feature gating. Annual billing saves 30%. Larger staff bands are on pricing. The amounts are the dollars printed there. This read did not find a separate tax line. The page prints 30 days free.

FAQs

What should tattoo studio management software cover?

For this product: the booking request, the signed form, text reminders, checkout, and the reports CSV. Other products were not opened on November 8, 2026.

Do clients book themselves straight onto the calendar?

They send a request. You book or decline it. The pricing page says the calendar stays yours. A deposit link can go out with the text confirmation when online deposits are on.

Are reminders emails?

Scheduled client reminders in Message Editor are texts. A booking request can also produce one email thread about that request, labeled Beta. Mail campaigns are a different thing from that single thread.

Where does the signed form go?

The client signs on the screen. Help says a PDF is stored on the profile and in the Forms Archive, and you can download it.

Does the software pay the artists?

Payouts shows commissions, tips, and any salary figure you stored. No paycheck is issued from that view, and the money is not sent. Stripe’s card percent stayed unread here.

What does it cost to start?

Solo is $29 a month or $239 a year. Crew is $69 a month or $579 a year. The pricing page says every plan includes the tools, and it prints 30 days free. No separate tax line was on the amounts this read.