Tattoogenda alternative for solo artists

Tattoogenda was written for tattooing rather than adapted from salon software. It handles digital consent forms and ink passports, and collects deposits into your Stripe account with reminder and automatic cancellation rules. It is designed for studios with a manager.

If you work independently, start with the tools you use yourself. You may need deposits and reminders without needing a manager to coordinate several calendars.

Studio software has a front desk in it

Tattoogenda is organized around a manager who sees every artist's calendar, sets preferences, tracks artist shares for financial reports, and schedules on their behalf. That structure is useful in a managed studio but may be unnecessary for one artist running their own book.

On tats.to, you manage your own page and bookings. There is no front desk role or accounting for artist shares to set up. You create your profile, and a person handles artist verification.

Where the money sits

Tattoogenda routes deposits through Stripe into your account, so payment and booking happen in one flow and Stripe charges its processing fee. tats.to does not touch payments. You state the deposit amount and instructions once, each client sees them in the acceptance email, and you mark the deposit as received from your email or dashboard.

With Tattoogenda, the client pays during booking and Stripe charges a processing fee. With tats.to, you can keep using bank transfer or your usual payment app, but you need to confirm receipt yourself. You can also turn off deposit settings if you do not want to manage them in tats.to.

A hosted portfolio and booking page

Many booking tools provide a widget for an existing website. That leaves artists without a site needing another service, and it can make updates harder to manage.

We host your tats.to page, so you do not need a separate website. Search engines and supported AI crawlers can read the published page, including information about your location and rating. That helps them understand the page; it does not guarantee a ranking.

What Tattoogenda has that tats.to does not

• SMS as well as email. tats.to sends email only.
• Deposit collection inside the booking flow, with automatic cancellation when a deposit is late.
• A manager view across every artist's calendar and shop-wide commission tracking. tats.to Studio adds a shared shop page for up to 10 listed artists, not that manager view.
• Ink passports and the aftercare record that goes with them.

If you need a manager view or card payments during booking, those are reasons to consider Tattoogenda. tats.to may suit you if you work independently and want a portfolio page, a place to manage requests and deposit tracking without commission.