Taddoovs venue.ink
venue.ink is free for artists but charges your clients a ten percent booking fee. Its paid venue.ink Solo Pro (50 USD per month) only drops that to five percent. Taddoo is $16 per month with no revenue commission, and Taddoo Pro sits at practically the same monthly price as venue.ink Pro but takes zero Taddoo fee, leaving only the roughly half-as-high Stripe fee.
Honest comparison, as of 2026-07-22
venue.ink is an app built for tattoo artists, with a booking link, flash sales, deposits and payments via Stripe. It is US-founded but has long operated internationally (USA, Canada, UK, Australia and other markets in several currencies). The base tier is free for artists, funded by a ten percent fee on deposits and card payments that clients pay by default. Taddoo takes the opposite approach: a small fixed monthly price and no commission on your revenue, plus an AI email assistant on your own inbox and data hosted in Europe. If you process a lot, both offer a Pro tier: venue.ink Solo Pro (50 USD per month) drops the fee to five percent, while Taddoo Pro (50 CHF per month) removes the Taddoo fee entirely, leaving only the plain Stripe fee, roughly half as high.
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Features side by side
| Feature | Taddoo | venue.ink |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar and appointment management | Yes | Yes |
| Booking link: customers book themselves | Yes | Yes |
| Online deposits (Stripe) | Yes | Yes |
| No revenue commission, no marketplace feevenue.ink: ten percent fee, paid by the client by default (five percent on the 50 USD Pro tier). | Yes | No |
| AI email assistant on your own Gmail inbox | Yes | No |
| Digital consent form with QR code | Yes | No |
| Receipts and expenses via photo scan | Yes | No |
| Automatic reminders and aftercare | Yes | Yes |
| Built specifically for tattoo artists | Yes | Yes |
| Data hosted in EU and Switzerlandvenue.ink is US-founded, with no data residency in the EU or Switzerland. | Yes | No |
Pricing
$16per month
$16 per month, first 30 days free, two months free when paying yearly. No revenue commission, no marketplace fee.
Base tiers (Solo and Studio) free for artists, funded by a ten percent fee on deposits and card payments (client pays by default, switchable to artist or split). Solo Pro costs 50 USD per month and drops the fee to five percent; a payment terminal there is available only in the USA and Canada. Billed in USD, client payments also in further currencies.
What fits when
When venue.ink fits
Artists who lean heavily on flash sales, want a free entry point with no monthly fee and are comfortable with a client-facing fee at checkout. venue.ink is established, with over 10,000 artists worldwide.
Where Taddoo leads
Taddoo does not add ten percent to your clients on every deposit, only the small card fee (around 4.9% plus 0.50, mostly Stripe). Even in a direct Pro-to-Pro comparison at practically the same price Taddoo comes out ahead: venue.ink Solo Pro (50 USD) still takes five percent, while Taddoo Pro ($50) takes zero Taddoo fee, leaving only the roughly half-as-high Stripe fee. Plus Taddoo keeps data in Europe, writes a ready-to-send draft reply for every customer email (you read, decide, send) and offers digital consent and receipt scanning, which venue.ink does not.
Frequently asked questions
Is venue.ink really free?
For you as an artist yes, but your clients pay a ten percent fee on deposits and card payments. On a 100 deposit the client is charged 110 (five percent on the Solo Pro tier from 50 USD per month). Taddoo takes no such commission on your revenue. All that remains is a much smaller card fee on online deposits (around 4.9 percent plus 0.50, most of which is the payment provider Stripe's fee), and just like venue.ink you can choose whether you or your client pays it. On top of that comes the fixed monthly price of $16. If you want to lower that card fee too, Taddoo Pro (50 CHF per month, practically the same price as venue.ink Pro) cuts it further: zero Taddoo fee, only Stripe left (around 2.9% plus 0.30 on links, 1.4% plus 0.20 on Tap to Pay).
Do I pay fees on deposits and card payments with Taddoo?
Taddoo takes no revenue commission. Only the plain payment fees apply: around 4.9% plus 0.50 on an online deposit via the booking link, and around 2.4% plus 0.30 on an in-person card payment. Most of that is the fee charged by the payment provider Stripe, not Taddoo. For comparison: venue.ink charges ten percent on deposits and card payments and only drops it to five percent on the Solo Pro tier (50 USD per month). Even Taddoo's base tier stays below what venue.ink charges, and in a Pro-to-Pro comparison at practically the same price Taddoo Pro ($50) removes the Taddoo fee entirely, leaving only the roughly half-as-high Stripe fee (2.9% plus 0.30 on links, 1.4% plus 0.20 on Tap to Pay).
venue.ink Pro and Taddoo Pro both cost around 50 per month. What is the difference?
On the monthly price venue.ink Solo Pro (50 USD) and Taddoo Pro ($50) are almost identical. The difference is the fee per payment: venue.ink Pro still takes five percent on deposits and card payments, while Taddoo Pro takes zero fee of its own, leaving only the plain Stripe fee (around 2.9% plus 0.30 on links, 1.4% plus 0.20 on Tap to Pay). On 1000 of processed revenue that is around 50 in fees with venue.ink Pro versus around 29 via the link with Taddoo Pro, and even less on Tap to Pay, so roughly half. On top of that Taddoo gives you the AI email assistant, digital consent, receipt scanning and data hosted in Europe.
As of 2026-07-22. Details on venue.ink based on publicly available sources; pricing and features may change. Provider site.
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