For tattoo artists
Tattoo booking software that keeps a flash piece out of your session
A half-day session is the booking that pays your week. A one-hour flash piece dropped into the middle of it does not. Chairwarden stops that from being bookable — from the day you sign up, without a settings menu.
Free to try, up to 15 bookings/month · calendar protection included on every plan
300+ people have joined Chairwarden
Protect long sessions from short bookings.
The longest gap in the day is the one that costs you
Most booking tools treat a four-hour session and a forty-five minute touch-up as the same kind of thing: a block with a start time. They are not the same thing, and the difference shows up in what you earn.
- 12:00 PM — Half-day session starts
- 1:00 PM — a flash piece lands in the middle
- 2:00 PM — the session resumes, in pieces
- 4:30 PM · the leftover gap nobody can use
- 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM — Half-day session, protected
- 4:00 PM — open, and a flash piece fits properly
- Clients never see the middle of your session as bookable
What setup actually looks like
Two numbers
How long a quick job takes, how long a long one takes. Everything at or above the long number is protected from then on.
Your own service list
Consultation, touch-up, flash piece, half-day, full-day — with your prices and your durations, not a generic template.
A link, not an app
Clients open your booking page from a link. They install nothing and make no account.
Chairwarden was not built for tattooing
It was built for one person running one calendar, and the calendar part works the same whatever is happening in the chair. The parts specific to your trade are not there, and pretending otherwise would waste your afternoon:
- No reference photo upload on the booking form.
- No consent form, intake questionnaire or aftercare sending.
- No portfolio gallery — your booking page shows your services, not your work.
If those are what you came for, this is the wrong tool and it is better that you know now. If the thing costing you money is a session getting cut in half, keep reading.
A day-long piece deserves a deposit
You choose the percentage per service, so the big pieces can ask for one and a consultation does not have to. The charge goes directly to your own Stripe account; Chairwarden adds no fee and takes no share of it.
How payments workQuestions from the studio
Can clients send me a reference photo when they book?
No, and this is the honest limit worth naming up front. The booking form takes a name, a phone number, an email and the reminder channel — there is no photo upload. References still reach you the way they do now, by DM or email. If that is the single thing you need most, Chairwarden is not the whole answer for you yet.
Is there a consent form or an aftercare template?
No. Chairwarden does not do intake forms, consent documents or aftercare sending. Those stay wherever you keep them today. What it does is the calendar, the deposit and the reminder.
How does it know a session is long?
You tell it once, in two numbers: how long a quick job takes and how long a long one takes. Anything at or above the long number is protected automatically, so a half-day session is guarded the moment you add it.
Can I still squeeze someone in myself?
Yes. Protection applies to what clients can book online, not to what you can do. Adding a booking by hand inside a protected block is always allowed — the rule is there to stop the calendar filling itself in badly, not to stop you.
What about the deposit on a big piece?
You set a percentage per service, so a $600 half-day with a 50% deposit takes $300 at booking and the rest at the chair. The money goes to your own Stripe account as a direct charge; we add no fee and take no percentage.
Four hours is worth protecting
Free up to 15 bookings a month. No card required, and calendar protection is on from the first booking.
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