Less admin.More timeat the chair.
Bookings, deposits and client details in one place — so the business side of tattooing takes less of your day and your work takes more of it.
deposit line · locked before the stencil goes on
Deposits split & settled by PayFastNo subscription
Your day,on one screen.
What is waiting on you, what is happening today, and what has been paid — without opening four apps or scrolling back through your DMs.
Two requests are waiting on a price.
Next opportunity
Half sleeve, three sessions
Asked four days ago and has not been priced.
Good morning, Jess
Thursday, 14 May
Today's earnings
R1 800This month: R14 200
Streak
6d
Keep going
Today
- 10:00Sleeve, second session3h
- 14:30Fine line, forearm1h 30
Pipeline
- Reply2requests
- Accept1quoted
- Pay1accepted
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The admin isnot the job.
Bookings that die in the DMs.
A request arrives with the date, the placement, the size and the reference — in one place, not buried under three days of messages.
A no-show that costs you the whole day.
A deposit sits between the enquiry and the chair. If someone disappears, you are not the one who paid for it.
Chasing people for money.
The deposit is taken when the client accepts your price. You never have to ask twice, and you never have to be the bad guy.
No subscription, ever. You pay only when a booking actually happens. See what it costs
The chair used to be lost to a ghosted DM. Now a deposit holds it.
Booking
03RL · liner- A
Find an artist
Search by studio, area or style. No login to look.
- B
Book a slot
Pick a time that is actually open. No DM ping-pong.
- C
Pay the deposit
A split payment through PayFast holds your chair.
- D
Get tattooed
You show up, they show up. Wrap it, heal it, done.
Earning
09RM · shader- A
Claim your position
Sign up and take a founding place — the earlier you are, the longer your commission-free window runs.
- B
Take deposit-backed bookings
A no-show costs the client, not your day.
- C
Get paid by PayFast
Your share settles to you on PayFast’s schedule. We never hold it.
- D
Book more, pay less
Commission falls as your volume grows. No subscription, ever.
Foundingartists first.
The first artists on the platform shape what it becomes, and keep a longer commission-free window for doing it.
Join the founding artistsBuilt by tattoo artists.For tattoo artists.
We built InkDeposit because we believe tattoo artists should have more time to do what they love — create, draw, and tattoo.
Too much of the work behind a tattoo happens outside the tattoo itself. Messages get buried. Deposits have to be chased. Bookings become spreadsheets. Client details live in old DMs. And years later, you're trying to remember what you tattooed, when you did it, or what was discussed.
It shouldn't be this hard.
InkDeposit is being built by tattoo artists, alongside tattoo artists, to make the business side of tattooing simpler — so the admin takes less of your time and your work can take more of it.
Your bookings, client information, deposits, tattoo details and history stay organised and documented, so you don't have to carry your entire business around in your head.
But we're building something bigger than another booking tool.
We're building a community.
A network where independent artists and studios can grow together, where artists can own their identity and relationships with their clients, and where the industry gets better because the people inside it are helping shape what comes next.
We're not building for the tattoo industry from the outside.
We're building it together, from the inside.
Less admin. More creativity. More time at the chair.
Three steps to your first deposit.
- 01
Set up your profile
Your name, your styles, your deposit. Add the studio you work at so clients searching that studio find you.
- 02
Get verified
We check you are a real artist before you go live. That badge is what clients trust when they pay up front.
- 03
Share your link
One link, straight into your bio. It takes the deposit and books the slot.
Read the artist agreement before you sign up.