Tattoo artists: booking consultations before sessions

A tattoo session booked without a conversation can end with the wrong size, the wrong placement or a design you'd rather not do. Make the consultation the first online booking: a short service on your booking page where the client describes the idea, then you meet, agree the design and book the session yourself at the right length. Your session days stay full of work you've planned, and DMs asking "how much for a small one?" become booked consultations.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description shown on your public page, and each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity. Keep consultations open online and sessions booked by you.

Durations and prices are examples: set your own. If you only want sessions booked after a consultation, say so clearly in their description.

The booking form takes first name, last name, email and phone, plus an optional note that reaches you in the new booking email. Ask in the consultation description for:

Group consultations on set slots, such as Tuesday evening or Saturday morning, so session days stay uninterrupted. Slots repeat each week on the weekdays you choose until an end date. When a consultation slot is booked, it leaves your page.

At the end of the consultation, you know the size and the time it needs. Book the session yourself from your bookings list at the right length: first and last name are enough, and if you enter the client's email, they get a confirmation with a calendar file. For large pieces, book all the sessions at once, a few weeks apart.

Drawing takes time between the consultation and the session. Leave enough days before the first session date, and block design time in your calendar so it doesn't get filled with consultations.

For a guest spot in another city, create a consultation service for those dates only, with the studio address in the description. Touch-ups can be a short service you book after healing.

Clients can't move or cancel online: they contact you, and you move the session from your list. Book doesn't take deposits, so say in the session description how you take them. Book doesn't send reminders: the calendar file and a message the day before help. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.