Is this your deposit envelope?
The client book for tattoo and piercing studios. $9/month flat — you and up to four helpers included, unlimited clients and sessions.
1 month free. No card.
Your free month
It fits, because somebody makes it fit.
Tell us how you run things. We build the rest.
First
Start the free month
Your email and your business name. That is the whole signup. 1 month free. No card.
Then
Write to us in the app
Talk to Anda is a screen in the app, and a real person reads it. Say what is missing, how you colour your calendar, which screens you never use. Several of the screens on this page began as one customer writing to say what she was missing.
Rather not start with an empty calendar? Send your client list, a spreadsheet, or a photo of your paper diary to contact@tendmatehq.com, and we set it up for you before you log in. Included in the price.
By the end
An app that fits your business
What you ask for gets built, free, and it arrives for everyone. Your job types, your colours, only the screens you use. $9 a month after, you and up to four helpers included.
One price. That is the whole pricing page.
$9per month, flat
1 month free. No card.
- You and up to four helpers. More are $1 a month each.
- Unlimited clients, unlimited visits. No appointment caps.
- Phone and laptop, always in sync — and it works with no signal.
- Your schedule fills itself in from how often each client is due.
- Setup done for you, free — send your client list or a photo of your spreadsheet.
- One-click export, no contract, cancel any time.
Already in another app, or in a spreadsheet?
Send it to us as it is: an export, the sheet, or a photo of your diary. We bring your clients, how often each one is due, your prices and your history across before you log in. It is free, and your old app keeps working while you decide.
Founding members keep $9/month for good. We expect to settle at $12.
Before you start
Questions people ask
Does it text or email my clients?
Not yet, and if you want it, ask: a feature a customer asks for gets built, and it is free. Emails to your clients would cost you nothing. Text messages would be a small package, because the SMS providers charge for every message sent, not us. Today TendMate keeps the schedule and the records, and you message your clients the way you already do. For somebody who asked for a price it keeps the message you sent and what they replied.
Can my clients book online?
Not yet. Your work is the same clients coming round again and again, so the calendar fills itself in from how often each one is due, and a new enquiry is written down as a lead with the day to come back to them. If your clients want to book themselves, say so: a calendar you share with your free days, where a client picks one, is the kind of thing we build for the person who asks, at no extra cost. We will work out together what suits your business best.
What does a helper see?
The schedule, the addresses and the notes for the work she is sent to, on her own phone. Not your prices, your expenses or your totals. You choose, screen by screen, what each helper can open.
What if I have more than four helpers?
Contact us. Extra seats are $1 a month each, and we add them for you. Tell us how you run them too: if you want them in teams, or there is something that would make managing them easier, that is exactly the kind of thing we build for you, free.
Does it work without signal?
Yes. Everything you need is on the phone already, and it catches up when you are back in range.
I already have a spreadsheet, or another app. What happens to it?
Send it to us: a spreadsheet, a CSV, an export from another app, or a photo of your paper diary. We bring your clients, your schedule and your history across before you log in, and that is included in the price.
What happens after the free month?
$9 a month, flat, for you and up to four helpers. No card is taken during the month, so nothing is charged unless you choose to carry on. Cancel any time and export everything, clients, visits and history, in one click.
Your deposits are in your messages and your consent forms are in a drawer.
Studio software is built for the shop with six artists and a front desk, and it is priced and shaped for that. With one chair, or two, the choice is a booking app that knows nothing about a deposit, or a notebook that does.
So the balance owed on Saturday's sleeve is a scroll back through the thread, and whether her form is on file is a question for the drawer. That is the whole problem we are solving.
Today, and after
Why a booking list stops telling you the truth
The next date
On the spreadsheet
Nearly every list we have seen has the same flaw: it holds the appointment and not the money. The deposit lives in a payment app, the price lives in a message, and what is still owed on the day is worked out at the counter with the client watching.
In TendMate
The fix is small and it changes everything: record what was paid, on the session it was paid for. A deposit is a fact with a date on it. What is owed is arithmetic:
Balance due = Price − Paid so far
Every month = 28 · Every 3 months = 90 · Only when booked = no interval
A deposit, a second payment, a client who settles in cash — nothing has to be re-typed and nothing is lost by moving to the next session, because the money was never in the thread in the first place. A sleeve in progress is monthly, and the app places the next sitting.
What you get
Deposit and balance on every session
Write down what was paid to hold the date and the app shows what is still owed — on the session, on the day, and on the statement. A chair is never blocked out on a promise.
The consent date on the card
The day the form was signed, on the client, where whoever picks up the machine will see it. Allergies and style notes sit beside it, and the piece and its placement are on every session.
A sleeve comes back on its own
Most clients come back when they come back, and the app leaves them alone. A multi-session piece is monthly, a touch-up client is every three months, and their next session places itself from the last one.
You and your helpers, flat
$9/month covers you and up to four helpers. More helpers are $1 a month each. No cap on clients or sessions. A helper sees the day — the client, the piece, the placement, the consent date — and not your prices, your expenses or your totals.
Your data stays yours
Export everything — clients, sessions, notes — in one click, any time. No contract, cancel whenever, and take your data with you.
Built for you if…
- You run one chair, or a small studio, and you take a deposit on every booking.
- You want the balance owed on Saturday without scrolling back through a thread.
- You have a second artist or a piercer and need to share the day without sharing what you charge.
- You keep a consent form on every client and would like the card to say whether it is on file.
- You want something genuinely simple — not “simple” with forty settings.
1 month free. No card. Your email and your business details — that is the whole signup.