InkDesk is booking software for tattoo artists and studios, from the first message to the final session. It began with questions to artists, and it still grows from their answers.
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Two founders, one city, one question. Kevin Hung and Andrew Dillion-Walshe had spent more than twenty years building software for other industries, but neither of them tattoos. So before writing any code, they listened, in over fifty conversations with tattooers and shop owners. InkDesk launched in 2023 in Toronto, and every feature since has started the same way.
“I asked a close friend who tattoos what she liked least about her job. I was ready to hear about tough clients or long days. Instead she talked about answering messages, juggling schedules and chasing deposits. The tattooing was the part she loved. Everything around it was eating her time.”
Kevin HungCo-founder & CEO“We’d spent years building products for other industries. What we were missing was the right problem to solve. We found it in tattooing, and we let artists show us how to solve it.”
Andrew Dillion-WalsheCo-founder & CTO
More people are getting tattooed than ever, from first-timers who saved up for months to collectors planning their next piece. They all expect a professional experience from the first message to the last session.
The work around the tattoo has grown with them. There’s a name to protect, a book to keep full, deposits to chase, clients to look after, and, for plenty of artists, a studio and apprentices on top of that.
The software never caught up. Plenty of artists are still running on tools built for salons and barbershops, held together with DMs, spreadsheets and a notebook that does the real work.
We built InkDesk to fix that.
“InkDesk saves me about 50 hours a year — that’s $12,500 in time I used to lose to admin.”
Founder of Boo Radley, Mockingbird Tattoos, & Naughty Comrade
“Now I can focus my time more on the clients in my chair instead of wasting my time with unintuitive software and separate messaging platforms.”
“InkDesk has refined my client communication and scheduling process to one platform! I find myself with more time and energy to focus on tattooing. Would recommend to all my artist friends!”
“InkDesk has allowed me to book my clients a lot more efficiently, especially with the automated emails and booking features! I went from using 2 separate apps to now just using 1, all thanks to InkDesk.”
“I love InkDesk, my clients love it too. It makes it easy for them to request an appointment, send reference images and communicate without wondering if I’ll see the message.”
“Whether I'm at my shop, doing a guest spot, or booking for a convention it makes my life simpler than when I was using Instagram and emails. There's way less chaos in my life!”
“InkDesk has transformed dozens of direct messages into 2-3 clear and concise communications. It saves me loads of time and is a great way to prevent any confusion in your schedule.”
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InkDesk is booking and client management software built only for tattoo artists and studios. It brings online scheduling, custom booking forms, deposits, messaging, digital waivers, automated reminders and client projects into one place, on the web and in the InkDesk app.
Because a tattoo isn’t a haircut. Long before anything goes on the calendar, there’s an idea to understand, references to review, a size and placement to settle and a deposit to collect. Most artists were juggling all of that across DMs, spreadsheets and salon booking apps. InkDesk keeps it together in one place.
Kevin Hung, our CEO, and Andrew Dillion-Walshe, our CTO. They founded InkDesk in 2023 in Toronto, after more than twenty years of building software for other industries. The idea came from a dinner conversation with a close friend who tattoos for a living.
With tattoo artists in the room. Before the first line of code, we held over fifty conversations with tattooers and shop owners about how they run their books. Every major feature since has been shaped by artists describing how they work.
Solo tattoo artists and studios with teams of about two to twenty artists, plus apprentices starting to build a book. It earns its keep once your demand has outgrown DMs and free tools.
Yes. We build for one craft. Tattooing works differently from other appointment businesses, and building only for it lets InkDesk fit the way artists work, instead of making artists fit the software.
InkDesk has a simple monthly or yearly price, with one plan for solo artists and one for studios. We never take a cut of your deposits, and every plan starts with a 30-day free trial. You’ll find current prices on our pricing page.
Toronto, Canada. Artists in countries around the world use InkDesk, and you can use it in 16 languages.
Yes. Questions and feedback go straight to the team that builds InkDesk, and many features started as an artist’s suggestion. Use the contact link on this page to reach us.