Tattoo studio software with booking, deposits and management built in.

Tattoo shop management software for studios, solo artists and piercing shops: a day schedule for every artist, a deposit on every session, consent and ID checks before the chair, multi-session projects and the books — one offline tattoo studio management software, one screen at a time. No subscription, no cloud account.

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OwnDesk Tattoo dashboard, showing today's sessions, deposits held and month-to-date revenue for a sample tattoo studio

No subscription No cloud account Works offline One-time payment

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One-time payment

Never another monthly bill per artist or per location. The price you see is the whole price.

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Deposits that run themselves

Every session starts as Deposit Pending, one click records the payment, and no-show deposits are kept unless you refund them.

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A Front Desk that remembers

Deposits owed, clients missing consent or ID this week, and healed check-ins due — one live list that clears itself.

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No cloud account

Client records stay on your own computer — nothing to sign up for, nowhere for a breach to happen.

What it does

Everything a tattoo studio touches, in one tattoo management software.

Dashboard with live studio KPIs • Front Desk checklist • day schedule per artist • sessions & month calendar • clients with allergies, consent and ID • artists with commission • multi-session projects • services with deposits • inventory with reorder alerts • suppliers • sales, tips & expenses • reports with no-show rate and deposits kept.

A deposit on every session, tracked to the dollar

Each service carries its own deposit, or uses the default from Settings. A new session is born Deposit Pending; Mark Paid records the income once and moves it to Booked. Check Out takes only the balance and the tip, so the deposit is never counted twice. The dashboard shows the deposits you are holding for sessions still to come.

Multi-session projects for sleeves and back pieces

A back piece is never one appointment. Enter the total quote, link each session, and the project shows sessions done, billed so far, left to bill and progress. One button books the next session with the client, artist and placement filled in.

Consent, ID and healed check-ins on the Front Desk

Three live lists: deposits still owed, sessions in the next 7 days whose client has no consent date or ID check, and completed sessions waiting for a healed-photo check-in after the number of days you set. Fix the item and it drops off. Print it as a counter checklist. Need a form to start from? Build a free tattoo consent form for adults or minors.

A day schedule with a column for every artist

Tattoo studio management software should show the whole floor at a glance. The Day Schedule lays the day out by artist, sessions can run from 20 minutes to a full day, and a warning appears before you double-book an artist or a client. Print the day sheet for the front desk.

Tattoo booking software

Tattoo booking software for the front desk, not the website.

A client messages on Instagram, you quote the piece, and the deposit has to arrive before the slot is real. Here is how the app handles that, from the first message to the chair.

Enter the session

Client, artist, service, date and time, plus where the booking came from: Instagram DM, phone, email, walk-in or in person. Price and length come from your service menu.

Collect the deposit

The session waits as Deposit Pending. The Front Desk shows exactly what is owed, and Mark Paid books it as income once.

Book the next one

Book Next puts the same client back in 2 to 12 weeks, leaving room for healing, and a project keeps the total quote and what is left to bill.

It does not take bookings from your clients by itself: there is no public booking page and no booking widget for your website. You or your front desk enter the session; the app makes it fast and keeps your artists from being double-booked.

Features and data model

What is inside: fourteen modules, one connected set of records.

The records point at each other, so nothing is typed twice. A session links a client, an artist, a service and, for big pieces, a project — and every total you see is worked out from those links.

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Clients

Contact details, date of birth for the 18+ reminder, ID checked, consent signed on, allergies and skin notes, style ideas and last session.

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Artists

Role (such as piercer or apprentice), station, commission percentage, and a performance view with revenue and commission owed.

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Services

Name, category, duration, price and deposit, from a touch-up to a full-day session to a piercing.

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Sessions

Every appointment with its artist, price, deposit, status, source and project link, plus the printable session sheet with your aftercare text and signature lines.

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Projects

Multi-session pieces with a total quote, sessions done, billed, left to bill, progress and status.

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Inventory and suppliers

Needles, ink, gloves, aftercare, jewelry and merch with cost, retail price and reorder level, plus who you buy from.

Plus Sales & Expenses, Reports for any date range, a Month Calendar, a Find box that searches everything at once, CSV export of every list and a JSON backup you can restore on any computer.

One app, every station

Built for every kind of tattoo studio.

A "service" is whatever you sell by the session — the same screens run a one-artist shop or a full crew.

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Solo tattoo artists

One artist, one station, a deposit on every booking and a record of every client.

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Multi-artist shops

Artists on commission, a resident piercer, an apprentice, one column each.

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Piercing studios

Piercing services, jewelry stock with reorder levels and healed check-ins after the session.

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Walk-in flash days

Add Walk-In opens the form at the next slot, and Reports shows how bookings arrive.

Why studios switch

You're not really choosing between two tattoo studio apps.

You're choosing between paying once and paying per artist or per location, every month, for online booking and payment features a studio that books through Instagram and the phone may never open.

	OwnDesk Tattoo	A subscription tattoo studio platform
Price	Original price was: $149.00.Current price is: $49.00. once	A monthly fee, usually by plan or by artist
Day schedule, open times, double-booking warnings	Included	Included
Deposits, multi-session projects, consent and ID checks	Included, as a record	Included, often with online payment
Your data	Stays on your own computer	Lives in their cloud
Online client booking, text reminders, e-signed waivers, card processing	Not included — pair it with your own tools	Often included, at a price
Setup	Unzip, open, go	Account sign-up, onboarding

Pricing for subscription platforms varies by company and plan — check current pricing on each site. OwnDesk Tattoo does not take online bookings, send reminders, store e-signed consent forms or photos, or process card payments itself, and does not sync live between two computers; it is single-computer by design, with a backup file to move between devices.

From payment to your first session

Three steps, about two minutes.

Pay with card

Checkout runs on Stripe. Your card details never touch this site.

Download and open

The link appears the moment payment clears. Double-click the file — it opens in your browser, no install, no internet needed after that.

Clear the sample studio, add your own

It opens with a sample studio already loaded — five artists, thirteen services with deposits, six multi-session projects and about 160 clients — so you can see how it works. Remove the sample in one click from Settings, set your studio hours and default deposit, and book your first client.

14-day money-back guarantee Plus support from Adrián, usually the same working day

If OwnDesk Tattoo isn't right for your studio, email me and you get a refund — no questions. If something's confusing, you're writing to the person who built it, not a queue. English and Spanish, both spoken here.

14-day refund Reply usually same working day Built for self-managing tattoo studios

Custom build

Need it to work exactly the way your studio does?

I can adapt OwnDesk Tattoo to the way your studio works: your own fields, your consent forms, your reports, or two OwnDesk products combined into one. It’s still a one-time payment, it still runs offline, and it’s yours. I built the software, and I build your version myself.

Your consent form, printed with the client details filled in
Splits that differ per artist or per project
A flash day sheet with fixed prices and a running count

Custom builds start at $490, paid in two halves: 50% to start, 50% after you’ve tested it.

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Questions

Before you buy.

What is the best tattoo shop management software for a studio that does not want a subscription?

For a small studio, the honest answer is something you own. Subscription platforms charge per artist or per location every month, and the bill climbs with every artist you add. OwnDesk Tattoo is a one-time purchase that covers sessions, deposits, client records, multi-session projects, inventory and reports, with no renewal and no per-artist fee.

Is this tattoo booking software? Can clients book online?

It is the booking side behind the counter, not an online booking page. You or your front desk enter the session (client, artist, service, date, time, where the booking came from) and the app lists the open times, warns you before you double-book an artist or a client, and keeps a deposit attached to every session. There is no public booking page, no widget for your website and no client self-booking. If you need clients to book themselves online, you need a subscription platform for that part.

How does deposit tracking work for tattoo sessions?

Each service has its own deposit, or uses a default you set in Settings. A new session starts as Deposit Pending, one click on Mark Paid records the deposit as income once, and the Front Desk lists every deposit still owed. At check-out only the balance is recorded, so the deposit is never counted twice. If a client cancels or no-shows, the deposit is kept unless you press Refund Deposit, and Reports totals the deposits you kept.

Can I track a tattoo that takes several sessions, like a sleeve or a back piece?

Yes. Create a project with the total quote and link each session to it. The project shows sessions done, billed so far, left to bill and progress, and one button books the next session with the client, artist and placement already filled in.

Does it handle discount codes, promo codes or coupons?

No. There is no coupon or promo-code engine. Every service has its own price and deposit, and you can change the price of any session when you check the client out, so a one-off discount is just a lower number on that session. Gift Card is one of the payment methods you can record.

Is it tattoo design software? Can I draw or make stencils in it?

No. OwnDesk Tattoo is management software, not a drawing, stencil or design tool. It runs the business side of the studio: sessions, deposits, clients, projects, inventory and money. It does not store tattoo photos or artwork either, because that would bloat the file and slow it down.

Is there free tattoo management software, or a free version of this?

This is not free software. It is a one-time purchase, and the live demo on this page is the free way to try every screen with a sample studio before you pay. Nothing in the demo leaves your browser.

What is in it? Which features and records does it cover?

Fourteen connected modules: Dashboard, Front Desk, Day Schedule, Sessions, Month Calendar, Clients, Artists, Projects, Services, Sales & Expenses, Inventory, Suppliers, Reports and Settings. The records are linked: a session points to a client, an artist, a service and optionally a project, and the deposits, balances, tips, commission and project totals all update from the same sessions.

Does it store consent forms, send reminders or take card payments?

No to all three, and it is worth knowing before you buy. It records the date a signed consent form is on file and whether ID was checked, and lists clients with paperwork missing, but it does not store the form, send text or email reminders, or process cards. It records the payments you take; it does not take them. It organizes your records and does not replace your own consent forms or your local health and age rules.

Can more than one person use it at the same time?

No. There is no cloud sync or shared database, so it is one computer at a time, and your data lives in your own browser. A common setup is one computer at the front desk where sessions are booked and checked out. Export a backup file from Settings every week and keep one somewhere that is not that computer.

What is the best tattoo studio software in 2026?

It depends on what you need. If you need online self-booking, text reminders, e-signed waivers and card processing, that means a subscription platform. If you want tattoo studio management software you pay for once that runs the deposits, the paperwork checks, the multi-session projects and the books on your own computer, this is built for that.

What do you get, and what do you need to run it?

The complete application as one HTML file, a quick-start guide and a lifetime license for one tattoo or piercing business. Any modern browser — Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox — on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook or iPad. Nothing to install, and no internet needed after the download.

Can you customize it for my tattoo business?

Yes. I can adapt OwnDesk Tattoo to the way your studio works: your own fields, your consent forms, your reports, or two OwnDesk products combined into one. It stays a one-time payment, it still runs offline, and it is yours, built by the same person who made the software. Tell me about your business and I will tell you what it would take.

See your own tattoo studio in it before you decide.

The live demo has real screens and a sample studio loaded — no credit card. If it fits, buying takes about a minute.