Frequently asked questions.

For self-employed tattoo artists first: with the Taddoo App or App Pro you have calendar, clients, requests, deposits, consent and bookkeeping in one app, and your account belongs to you, in every studio and on every guest spot. Taddoo Studio comes in when the artists of a studio use Taddoo and want to link their apps in the studio: day board, shared calendar, requests and consent forms in one place.

Taddoo App costs US$14 per month billed yearly (US$168 per year) or US$16 monthly, the first 7 days free, cancel anytime. If you take payments through Taddoo, a small fee per payment applies: on the deposit in the booking link your client covers it as a surcharge by default, on Tap to Pay you do by default, both switchable. Taddoo App Pro costs US$25 per month billed yearly (US$300 per year) or US$35 monthly, has the same features plus texts to clients and no Taddoo fees on payments. Paying yearly is up to 28% cheaper. All numbers and the fees for your country are on the pricing page.

Yes. Taddoo Studio is Taddoo's studio and team management, for US$30 per month billed yearly (or US$40 monthly) for the studio, 7 days free, with no cap on artists: a shared calendar of all artists, a day board with stations and floor plan, residents and guest artists, a front desk that enters walk-ins, appointments and consultations for artists who allow it, requests from the studio page and website routed to the right artist, every consent form signed in the studio in one place with a studio template and QR code, and the studio deal and revenue per artist as far as shared. It is artist first: every artist uses and pays for their own app, joins the studio account, decides what the studio sees and keeps everything when they move on. You create the studio account at taddoo.com/studio, then download the app and log in with it.

Your client holds their card or phone to your iPhone or Android phone, done. No card reader, no extra subscription. Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay and Google Pay are accepted. The payment lands right on the appointment and in your bookkeeping. All it needs is a connected Stripe account.

Only if you want to take payments through Taddoo: the deposit in the booking link and Tap to Pay run through Stripe, connected in a few minutes. Calendar, clients, receipts, consent and reminders work without it. You then note the deposit yourself as before, Taddoo keeps it on the appointment.

Through the booking link the appointment is only confirmed once the deposit is paid; until then the slot is reserved for 15 minutes and released again without payment. If you enter an appointment yourself as reserved and send a deposit link, the link expires after the time you choose (48 hours by default, up to 7 days). If no payment comes in by then, Taddoo cancels the reserved appointment automatically, the slot is free again, and you get a push.

Yes, with App Pro. The appointment reminder then goes to your clients by text as well as by email. Confirmation, reschedule notice, aftercare and your own messages go by email only. Only clients who agree get texts: in the US and Canada anyone can reply STOP, in other countries you withdraw the consent on the client. There are never marketing texts. Every month 100 texts in the US and Canada and 20 to other countries are included. For more, there are SMS packs: 100 texts for 15 CHF, and they never expire. If no texts are left, the reminder goes by email only. What's up, Europe? WhatsApp reminders are coming soon, included in App Pro.

Yes: your Taddoo appointments appear in Google or Apple through a calendar subscription, including private events you enter in Taddoo, and every change. The other way round, Taddoo pulls in up to three private calendars through an iCal address as busy times, so nobody books over your private plans. You book and edit in Taddoo, you see it everywhere.

Yes, usually in a quarter of an hour. Taddoo takes over the next three months from your phone calendar (on iPhone including Google, Outlook and Exchange) and recognises client names in the titles, imports appointments with contacts from Calendly and existing clients from a CSV file. Private calendars keep blocking your time through an iCal address.

Yes. Deposits, gift vouchers and the rest after the session run through Stripe, where your clients pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Klarna, for example in three interest-free instalments. You get the full amount right away and Klarna carries the risk. At checkout you show the payment link as a QR code or send it on WhatsApp. Klarna is available with Stripe accounts in Switzerland, the EU, the UK, the US, Canada and Australia.

Yes, as an add-on. Taddoo stays the app for tattoo artists; if you pierce or set tooth gems on the side, you switch the treatment on under Settings and get its own consent form, its own booking button on your artist page with deposit or prepayment, and its own aftercare notes. Appointments work like tattoo appointments, just with fewer fields. If you only tattoo, none of it shows.

Yes: iPhone, iPad and Android from the stores, on the Mac via the App Store. The app works offline and syncs by itself as soon as you are back online. One account, the same data on every device.

Yes. Taddoo has a connector for AI assistants via the open MCP protocol (address taddoo.com/api/app/mcp). Once connected, Claude or ChatGPT creates appointments from screenshots, finds free slots, creates deposit links, sets up your link in bio and files receipts. Every change shows a preview first and only runs after you confirm. The connector is included in every plan; the setup guide is in the app under Settings > Connect AI.

Yes, through the Taddoo website API with an official SDK. Your website, also one built with Lovable, Bolt, v0, Framer, Cursor or Claude Code, then shows your flash with booking and deposit, your request form, free days, waitlists and gift vouchers in its own design, and every request lands in the app. In the app under Settings > Integrations > Embed on your website you copy a ready-made prompt for your coding agent. The API is included in every plan and works with a card on file; the docs are at taddoo.com/developers.

Yes. In the app under Settings > Integrations > Embed on website you copy a short code and paste it into Wix, Squarespace, WordPress or any other website. The form appears in your site's design. The difference to a normal contact form: instead of an email in your inbox, every request lands sorted in the app, with idea, body part, size and reference images, with push, and you send the booking link with deposit from there in one tap.

The app comes in 26 languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian. The artist page, flash, request form and booking link appear for your clients in their browser language, in 27 languages.

Once duration and price for a request are set, you generate a personal booking link. The client only sees genuinely free slots in the right time zone, picks one and pays the deposit through Stripe. Until payment the slot is reserved for 15 minutes; once the deposit is paid the appointment confirms itself and you get a push. You set the lead time, booking window and how long the link stays valid. With App Pro the link also works without a deposit.

Yes. With your Stripe account connected, the client pays the deposit right inside the booking link, and the appointment is only confirmed once the payment went through. For appointments you enter yourself you send a deposit link; if no payment arrives before it expires (48 hours by default), Taddoo releases the reserved appointment by itself. Without Stripe you record the deposit yourself as before, Taddoo keeps the amount on the appointment and sends you a push if it is still open after the time you set.

For an appointment you generate a link with a QR code. The client scans it, reads the form, fills in what is missing and signs on the device. Motif, body area, place, date and price are prefilled from the request and the appointment. You countersign at checkout, you can attach documentation photos straight from your phone, and everything ends up as one PDF on the appointment. The text is frozen when the form is created, so later template changes never touch existing forms.

The app is available for iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac, works offline and syncs by itself as soon as you are back online. One account, the same data on every device; you manage your subscription in the browser.

Yes, straight from Taddoo. In every request and on every appointment, buttons take you straight to the client: WhatsApp, Instagram, email, text or a call, depending on the contact details on file. For requests a short summary of idea, placement, size and preferred day comes along, already in the message field for WhatsApp, email and text, and ready to paste on Instagram. Booking, deposit and consent links go out the same way through any channel. Confirmations, reminders and aftercare go out automatically by email, and with App Pro also by text. There is deliberately no shared inbox: conversations stay personal and where your clients already write.

The account belongs to the artist, not the studio. Clients, appointments, consent forms, receipts, link in bio and numbers stay with you, whether you work in your own studio, as a resident in someone else's studio or on a guest spot. With your app you join a studio's Taddoo Studio account and decide yourself what the studio sees, such as calendar, revenue or consent forms, and whether the front desk may enter appointments for you. If you change studios or go independent, you end the link and take everything with you. The studio still gets its own studio and team management: shared calendar, day board with stations, front desk, requests and revenue per artist as far as shared.

Yes, one account for every place you tattoo: several home studios by weekday and guest spots with dates and time zone, each place with its own address, working hours and currency. Clients pick the place first on your page and only see your days there, confirmations name the right address, and every place has its own waitlist and its own studio deal. If the studios use Taddoo Studio, you link your account to several studios at once and decide per studio what it sees. Many tools tie the account to a single studio; with Taddoo it belongs to you and comes along everywhere.

A lot around every appointment, once you switch it on: the booking confirmation with a calendar file, the reminder before the appointment (optionally with the consent form link), optionally the notice when an appointment moves, the aftercare email with your care PDF, the review request with your Google link and up to 30 automated messages of your own before or after the appointment, by email and with App Pro also by text. On top of that, an appointment booked through the booking link confirms itself once the deposit is paid, Taddoo releases unpaid reservations automatically when the deposit link expires, a receipt is created after every checkout, purchased gift vouchers go to the buyer as a PDF with a code, and push notifications tell you about new requests, bookings and expiring links. Personal replies to requests you still write yourself.

Yes, wherever it takes work off your plate. The receipt scanner reads amount, date and merchant from a photo of a receipt. When you switch over, AI recognises client names and appointment types in your old calendar entries. The texts on your artist page appear automatically in your clients' language, and your own consent template can be translated into other languages with AI. Through the Taddoo connector (MCP), Claude and ChatGPT work right in your account: create appointments from screenshots, find free slots, create deposit links, file receipts or set up your link in bio, always with a preview and only after you confirm. No AI writes to your clients without you; the personal replies stay with you.

Not with App Pro: 0% Taddoo fees on deposits, gift vouchers, merch and Tap to Pay; only the Stripe fees of your country remain, and the money goes straight to your own Stripe account. There is no revenue commission in any plan. In the cheaper Taddoo App a small fee only applies when you take payments through Taddoo; on deposit links your client pays it as a surcharge by default, on Tap to Pay you do by default. Taddoo Studio takes no payments itself, so it has no platform fees.

Yes, as an overview: with the studio deal you set a percentage, day rate, daily minimum or monthly rent per location, and Taddoo shows the studio share per appointment and in the dashboard what you keep. A linked studio can set the deal for its artists. Taddoo does not split the money itself: payments go straight to the artist's Stripe account.