Bookings

How to send a booking request to a piercer, permanent makeup practitioner, or laser practitioner — from picking a service to having the slot on the calendar.

How to send a booking request to a tattoo artist or body modification practitioner — from intent and references through location and scheduling preferences to the proposal phase that follows.

How to read, respond to, add or drop sessions on, and (if needed) walk away from a project-based booking request — the practitioner's playbook, from the moment a tattoo or body-modification client's request lands in your Pending tab to the first proposal you send back.

What each per-field proposal modal looks like, the rules it enforces, and the gotchas worth knowing — Date, Time, Duration, Price, Deposit, and Location, from the practitioner's seat.

How a piercing, permanent makeup, or laser booking request lands on your side, when (and how) you confirm the deposit, when the booking auto-confirms on its own, and what to do once the appointment has passed — the practitioner's playbook for time-based work, much shorter than the project-based one because the client picked the slot up front.

How a collector cancels a booking, how a practitioner drops one, what happens to the deposit in either case, and what the booking looks like after you tap the button.

How either side changes the date, time, location, price, deposit, or duration on a booking that's already confirmed — what's editable on each booking model, what it does to the booking's status, and when it's smarter to cancel and re-book instead.

How the practitioner marks a past-appointment booking as completed — where the button lives, what it does to the booking and the deposit, how it differs between time-based and project-based, and why it's a one-way move.

When a piercer, laser, PMU, or body-mod practitioner joins a new studio, how the switch-date banner moves upcoming bookings over, what the client sees, and how Confirm, Cancel, refunds, and a studio-collected deposit are handled.

How practitioners and host studios keep a per-appointment record of the products, lot numbers and expiry dates (or laser machine settings) used on a client — the French traçabilité du matériel — where the Post-Session tab lives, how to fill it during or after completion, reuse it between sessions, and why the client never sees it.

How reviews work on InkMap — what the client rates and writes, how visibility is split between the star average (instant) and the written comment (practitioner-approved), the editing window and how multi-session projects re-open it, plus how the practitioner makes a review public, archives one, or unarchives it.

How a practitioner records an appointment that happens entirely outside the app — walk-ins, phone bookings, returning clients — so it shows up in the booking history and accounting without ever passing through the request/confirm/review lifecycle.

Send a tattoo project to every matching artist in an area at once instead of picking one. How clients run a broadcast, how tattoo artists receive and apply, and what changes when a client picks someone.

How to book a piercer, laser practitioner, or permanent makeup practitioner directly from their inkmap.app web page, without installing the app — picking a service, locking a slot, paying the deposit, and managing the booking from your email.

How to book a tattoo artist or body modification practitioner directly from their inkmap.app web page, without installing the app — submitting the request, responding to their proposal, paying the deposit, and managing the booking from your email.

How practitioners and studios get their public InkMap web page (inkmap.app/your-username), where to find the link and the QR code, and where to drop them so clients can book without installing the app.