Five duct-taped apps. One inbox that never stops pinging. InkStack replaces all of it — booking, consent forms, deposits, client records — built by a 25-year tattoo veteran who also codes.
Google Calendar, sticky notes, Instagram DMs. Double-bookings happen. Reminders get missed. No-shows destroy revenue.
Clients book and vanish. 8-20% no-show rates cost studios $400-800 per session. No tooling to collect deposits upfront.
Health disclosures, consent waivers, aftercare instructions — all on paper. Lost forms. Missing signatures. Compliance risk for every session.
No tool exists to track apprentice progress, log mentor sessions, or manage skill development. Training is guesswork.
"Most tattoo studios are running their business on a combination of Google Calendar, Venmo, and hope."
Real-time calendar with multi-artist support, custom session types, and 24/7 online booking. Clients book, pay a deposit, and confirm — automatically. No more double-bookings or ghost sessions.
Every client, every session, every reference image — in one searchable place. Tattoo history, health notes, design preferences. No more lost sticky notes.
E-signature consent waivers, health disclosures, and aftercare instructions — delivered and signed before the session starts. Compliance made effortless.
Built-in POS, Stripe integration, and automatic commission splits. Artists get paid correctly, every time. Studios get clean financial reporting without the Excel nightmare.
First of its kind. Mentor-assigned tasks, skill progression tracking, session logging, and readiness assessments. The tool the industry has needed for decades.
Auto-send consent waivers when a session is booked. Clients sign from their phone before they walk in. Legally compliant for Hawaii and Florida. Artist sees green-check status in one glance.
Open Consent Dashboard →24/7 online booking with multi-artist calendars, deposit collection, and auto-reminders. Consent forms send automatically at booking.
Every client, every tattoo, every health note — searchable in one place. No more sticky notes or scattered spreadsheets.
Built-in POS, Stripe integration, automatic commission splits. Artists get paid correctly, studios get clean reporting.
These aren't mockups. They're running in production today.
Clients book online 24/7. Artists set their availability, deposit amounts, and blackout dates. Stripe handles payment collection automatically — no chasing Venmo, no IOUs.
Consent waivers send automatically when a booking is confirmed. Clients sign from their phone before they walk in. Artist sees green-check status at a glance. Signed PDFs store permanently.
Every client, every tattoo, every health note — searchable in one place. Reference photos, artist notes, booking history, medical flags. No more sticky notes or scattered spreadsheets.
Built-in POS, automatic commission splits per artist, clean payroll reporting for owners. Artists get paid correctly. Studios get clarity. No more end-of-week math.
We've watched salon software companies build empires on a solved problem. Tattoo studios have been left to piece together five different apps, three spreadsheets, and a text thread with their best client. That's not a tech gap — that's an opportunity.
InkStack was founded by a 25-year tattoo veteran who also codes. We know what it means to juggle a booking, deal with a no-show, and still have to remind a client about aftercare by text. We built the tool we always needed.
We intend to be first.
Every great tattoo studio software starts with one artist who refused to keep duct-taping their business together. InkStack is that — scaled into a platform built for the studios that come next.
This isn't just booking software. This is the operating system for the tattoo industry's next chapter.
We're rolling out shop by shop. Santiago personally reaches out to every studio on this list — no sales team, no automated drip. Just a real conversation about what your shop needs.