Tattoo software built for the long session
You are tattooing every day, running the shop in the seams, and answering DMs between line work. Bookings live in Instagram, deposits live in Venmo, and a four-hour no-show on a sleeve session quietly costs you the shift. Appointible gives a 1-3 chair studio a single booking page, a custom cancellation policy in the booking flow, and a calendar your other artists can actually share.
You don't need a better app. You need to stop installing your own infrastructure.
Most tattoo software was built for salons, or built for tattoo and then quietly broke at the checkout, the reliability, or the price. Appointible is the part you have been doing by hand for years — the consult-to-deposit-to-session pipeline — handed off to software that speaks your trade. Free onboarding assistance plus free import and export move your client list and your calendar in. You forward a few screenshots and go back to drawing.
Online Booking
End the three-day DM game. The booking lands before the chair is held.
A booking page with your cancellation policy in the flow.
Chasing a deposit through Venmo for three days, then five, then giving up and hoping they show, is the ritual every owner-artist quietly hates. With Appointible the client picks the date under your custom cancellation policy — shown in the booking flow before she confirms — and the calendar event lands on your phone. No more chasing a Venmo screenshot in the camera roll.
Custom booking page that looks like your portfolio
Your booking page is part of your brand. Other booking tools make tattoo studios look like nail bars, which is why they get bounced after a week. Appointible lets you put your photos, your fonts, your colors, and your domain on the page, then drop the link in your Instagram bio. The booking page reads as an extension of your work, not a vendor screen bolted onto it.
Consults, sessions, and the long pieces
A 30-minute consult, a four-hour back piece, and a session of a sleeve in progress cannot all be one service called 'appointment.' Appointible lets you build the services you actually run — consults, full sessions, follow-ups for touch-ups — with the right block length on each. Book the next session before the client walks out so the sleeve keeps its cadence, and the calendar holds the artist's time at the right shape so a half-day session never gets a 30-minute appointment stacked on top of it.
Client Communication
Stop apologizing in Instagram Stories for slow replies.
Automatic reminders that cut no-shows on long sessions
A no-show on a four-hour piece is not a missed appointment. It is a lost shift, an empty chair, and the radio sounding louder than it should. Appointible sends automatic reminders 24 hours before and an hour before the session, so the client shows up, on time, with breakfast eaten. Artists who switch on reminders typically watch their no-show rate drop within the first two weeks — without you having to send a single 'just checking in' text.
Two-way texting that takes the back-and-forth off your DMs
Right now the consult conversation lives in Instagram DMs, half-buried under tire-kickers asking 'how much for a small one.' Appointible gives you a clean inbox for client texts — confirmations, reschedules, aftercare questions, follow-ups — so the real bookings don't drown in noise. You stop apologizing on Stories for being slow. The client gets a reply when you are between sessions, not at midnight.
Aftercare and follow-up sent automatically
Aftercare instructions belong with the client the day they walk out, and a check-in a week later is how heal photos and reviews actually happen. Appointible sends aftercare and follow-up messages on a schedule you set once. The client gets the care, the studio gets the heal photo for the portfolio, and you do not have to remember to message anyone.
Artist Scheduling
One calendar for you, your other artists, and the guest spot.
A calendar per artist, all in one view
The other artist in your shop has not told you what days she's working next week, and the guest spot in March is still unconfirmed. Appointible gives each artist their own calendar, their own services, their own rates — and rolls them up into one shop view you can read at a glance. No more double-booking two clients into the front chair, no more refereeing who owns Saturday afternoon.
Long-session blocks that hold the chair
Salon software was built for 45-minute color appointments. Your sessions run three, four, six hours, with a lunch break in the middle. Appointible holds the chair for the full length of the session — set the service duration to include setup and stencil work — so the calendar will not offer a same-day appointment on top of it. The piece gets the time the piece needs.
Add an artist or a guest spot without rebuilding the shop
When you bring on a third artist, or host a guest for a week, the calendar should adjust without you spending a Sunday re-doing the booking page. Appointible lets you add an artist, set their services and hours, and have them taking online bookings the same day. Remove them when the guest spot ends. You only pay for the artists actually working that month.
Start appointment booking in simple three steps
Sign up, set up your booking page with free onboarding assistance on Pro, and start taking bookings the same week.
Create account
Create your account in a couple of minutes — sign up on the Free plan with no card needed.
Create a booking page
List your consults, sessions, piercings, and touch-up services with their own rates, then add each artist with their own hours and rates.
Share and get booked
Drop the booking link in your Instagram bio, your website, or your shop's link tree — clients pick a slot under your cancellation policy, and the session lands on your calendar.
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Built for owner-artists who would rather be tattooing than chasing deposits, refereeing schedules, or answering DMs at midnight.
Text marketing for fill-in slots and touch-ups.
When a same-day cancellation opens up a four-hour slot, a quick SMS blast to your client list fills the chair faster than an Instagram Story. Appointible's text marketing reaches the people who already know your work, with open rates that beat any post buried in the algorithm.
Explore SMS Marketing SoftwareStudio insights without the spreadsheet.
See what you booked this month, which artist is filling their week, where the no-shows cluster, and which services fill the calendar. The numbers your accountant asks for at tax time are already there, no spreadsheet maintenance required.
Explore Business Insights SoftwareReminders that actually get clients in the chair.
Automatic reminders 24 hours and one hour before the session. Clients confirm with a tap, reschedule themselves if they need to, and stop ghosting four-hour pieces. The reminders are SMS — not email, not push notification — because that is the only channel your clients open.
Explore Appointment Reminders SoftwareArtist schedules you can read in one screen.
Each artist sets their own hours, their own days off, and their own guest weeks. You see the whole shop in one calendar, on your phone, between sessions. Schedule changes do not require a group text.
Explore Employee Scheduling AppManage artists, guest spots, and apprentices.
Add a resident artist, a guest for a week, or an apprentice with limited services — each with their own calendar and their own service lists and rates. Appointible is priced per user — $5/user/month on annual billing or $8/user/month month-to-month — so the second artist costs you one user, not a tier upgrade or a sales call.
Explore Employee Management SoftwareClient records, custom fields, and heal photos in one place.
Every client has a record — past sessions, custom fields you set for age and allergy notes, aftercare notes, before and after heal photos. The notebook on the counter is replaced by a screen you can search. When a client comes back for a touch-up two years later, you already have the reference.
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