Frequently asked questions

No. Inky is built for the individual, freelance tattoo artist. There's no studio roster, no chairs, no multi-staff setup to configure - it models you and your clients, not a shop.

Yes. The Free plan costs you nothing, every month. We're paid by a 10% booking fee your client pays on the deposit, or by your Professional subscription.

Your client, on the deposit only. It's included in the deposit price they see from the start, with the breakdown shown, so there are no surprises.

No. The fee applies to the deposit, never to the balance.

Upgrade to Professional, $29/month. Your clients pay the deposit and nothing else.

Yes. Professional is month-to-month or annual, and you can cancel from your account. You keep access to the end of the billing period, then move to Free - with all your clients and records.

No. Inky runs in your browser and on your phone. Your clients book from a link - no app for them to install either.

Yes. You share a booking link; clients pick a placement, size and time, attach design references, and pay a deposit - without a DM back-and-forth. You wake up to a booked, paid appointment.

For the booking itself, yes - clients book and pay through your link instead of a long DM thread. Your DMs stay for the relationship and the showcase; the scheduling stops being a conversation.

One page per client: past pieces, session notes, references, aftercare and consent forms. It persists across sessions, so you remember a sleeve is three sessions in without scrolling a chat thread.

Yes. Deposits are taken at booking; balances and refunds are tracked against the appointment. No separate spreadsheet.

Yes - digital intake and consent forms, stored against the client and appointment. No paper, no filing cabinet.

Yes. Your portfolio lives in the same place you run the business, so your past work sells the next booking instead of sitting in a separate app you have to maintain.

Yes - organise your work by style so clients find the work that matches what they want.

Those are salon suites built around hair, skin and nails, with a consumer marketplace. Inky is tattoo-first and freelance-first. You never pay a fee on clients you bring yourself: on Free, your client pays a small booking fee on the deposit only, and on Professional there's no fee at all.

Both are free to start, with a booking fee paid by the client. Inky's applies to the deposit only. Venue's also applies to payments processed through it. Inky's Professional plan ($29/month) removes the fee entirely, and Inky runs consent forms, client records with medical flags and multi-session projects alongside booking.

Those are excellent general schedulers. They handle time and money well, but they don't model tattooing - no portfolio, no client 360, no consent forms. Inky wraps the scheduler in the rest of the workflow.

Tattoo-specific tools are in the right category, but many lean toward multi-artist studios. Inky is built for one artist, so there's less studio overhead to configure and ignore.

Yes. You own your client data and can export it at any time. See our Privacy Policy for how we store and protect it.

On secure cloud infrastructure (see our Privacy Policy for subprocessors). Consent and intake forms are stored against the client and appointment, not on paper.

Yes. You can request an export of your data before termination; we retain it for 90 days afterward, then delete it.