Sharing your InkMap web page

• What's on the page

  What inkmap.app/your-username shows depends on what kind of account you have.

  For an individual practitioner — tattoo artist, piercer, body modification practitioner, permanent makeup practitioner, or laser practitioner — the page shows:

  • Your avatar, your username, your discipline label, your city and country, and the studio you work at (if any).
  • Your bio.
  • Up to three of your featured posts. Body modification practitioners' featured images are blurred by default with a tap-to-reveal eye icon, matching the in-app feed treatment.
  • Your social links (Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, Telegram, website) and a share button.
  • The booking form — if you have booking access, your Services & Pricing, Availability & Schedule, and Policies & Legal are filled in, and you haven't temporarily closed your calendar. If you're not set up yet, this is where a "Bookings coming soon" message appears instead (see "When the form doesn't show" below).

  For a studio, the page shows the studio's name, location, bio, social links, featured images, plus your full team and — for tattoo studios — a separate Guests tab listing any guest artists you've got visiting soon (with the dates of each visit, soonest first). Each team member and guest is a card the visitor can tap to open that practitioner's own inkmap.app/their-username page and book with them directly. Below the team you'll see your upcoming public events and any open job listings. Studios don't take bookings on their own page — bookings always run through the practitioner the visitor picks.

  The web page is read-only otherwise — there's no chat, no profile-edit, no DMs from this surface. Clients who want to message you have to download the app; the page surfaces that as a "Download InkMap" CTA.

• What's free and what needs the Booking add-on

  The page itself — and the link and QR code you share it with — is free for every account, including collectors and studios. Sharing your inkmap.app/your-username link never costs anything. Only the part that actually takes online bookings is paid:

  • For an individual practitioner, the booking form on your page works once you have booking access. That means either you've subscribed to the Booking add-on yourself, or your studio has given you a seat through its Team Bookings add-on (the same booking access that unlocks in-app client requests).
  • For a studio, the public page is always a free, shareable directory of your team — there's nothing to unlock to share it. The Team Bookings add-on is what lets your residents take bookings without each buying their own Booking add-on; it doesn't change anything visitors see on the studio page itself.

• When the form doesn't show

  If you don't have booking access yet, your page still loads — but where the booking form would be, it shows a "still setting up online bookings" card with your social links, so clients you've already shared the link with can still reach you off-platform. Signed-in InkMap users also get a "Notify me when bookings open" button there, which quietly tells you a client wanted to book — a nudge that there's demand waiting if you turn bookings on.

  The same "coming soon" card shows if you have booking access but your Services & Pricing, Availability & Schedule, or Policies & Legal info cards aren't complete yet. Fill those cards in your Info Cards tab before sharing the link widely — the form only opens once all three are done.

  If you've temporarily closed your calendar in Availability & Schedule, the page shows a "bookings paused" message (with the date you've said you'll reopen, if you set one) instead of the form. There's no Notify button in that case — the calendar is deliberately closed, not unfinished.

• Practitioner page vs studio page

  Studios and practitioners are different pages with different purposes, even though they live at the same URL pattern.

  The studio page is a directory — it tells visitors who you are, where you are, who works there, and what's coming up. It's the right link to share when you're trying to bring foot traffic to the shop, advertising open job spots, or running a public event. The booking form on each individual practitioner is what closes the loop into an actual appointment.

  A practitioner page is a booking surface — bio + portfolio highlights up top, then a request form. It's the right link to share when you want clients to book you specifically, regardless of where you happen to be working that month (the form picks up your guest spots automatically — see below).

  If you're a resident at a studio, you have your own practitioner page in addition to your studio's page. The studio page links to your page through your team card; your page links back to the studio through your location line. Sharing both works; sharing just yours is fine if you want the booking funnel kept tight on you.

Step by step

1. 1

   Find your link in Settings → Account Center

   Open Settings → Account Center. Scroll past the username block and you'll see the Your InkMap Link section, with two cards:

   • Profile URL — inkmap.app/your-username. Tap the card and the full URL is copied to your clipboard, with a confirmation alert.
   • QR code — a square QR code that points to the same URL, with a Save to Photos button below it that drops a high-resolution PNG into your phone's photos so you can hand it off to a designer or print it directly.

   This section is always here — for practitioners, studios, and collectors alike. You don't need any subscription to copy and share your link.

2. 2

   (Practitioners) Make sure you have booking access so the form works

   The link is free, but the booking form on your page only opens once you have booking access. Open Settings → Account & Plan to check.

   • For an individual practitioner account, the add-on is Booking — or a seat from your studio's Team Bookings if you're a resident and your studio provides it.
   • Booking access takes effect as soon as the subscription (or your studio's seat) is active. Until then, clients who open your link see the "still setting up online bookings" card described above.

   Studios don't need anything here — the studio page is a free directory and works the moment your account exists.

3. 3

   (Practitioners) Connect Stripe if you want clients to pay a deposit from the web

   Having the form open (step 2) and being able to take a deposit are two separate things. A client can only pay a deposit from your web page by card through Stripe — there's no cash, bank-transfer, or "client paid, mark it received" path on the web, because web clients aren't registered InkMap users (which would make refunding them messy). Connect Stripe in Settings → Receive Payments; it's free to connect (Stripe takes its usual processing fee per payment).

   If you don't connect Stripe, your page still takes bookings — you just can't collect a deposit through it, and what that looks like depends on your discipline:

   • Piercers, laser, and PMU (time-based) — any service that requires a deposit is greyed out and can't be booked on the web. Clients can still book your deposit-free services.
   • Tattoo artists and body modification practitioners (project-based) — you can't set a deposit on a web booking. You can still take the booking forward with No deposit.

   If you'd rather not use Stripe at all, your options are: take only deposit-free bookings from the web, or ask any client who needs to pay a deposit to install InkMap and rebook in the app, where manual deposits (cash, bank transfer, Revolut, etc.) work between registered users. InkMap also nudges you to connect Stripe in a few places in the app — the service editor where you set a deposit, the Receive Payments settings, and the Set-Deposit screen of any web booking — each with a one-tap Set up Stripe shortcut.

4. 4

   Open your page yourself before sharing

   Tap the URL card to copy it, paste it into your phone's browser, and load it. This is the fastest way to catch any setup gap before clients hit it. Things to check:

   • Your avatar, name, location, bio, and social links look right.
   • Your featured posts are the three you actually want at the top of your page. Featured posts are managed from your profile in the app — pin or feature whichever pieces you want clients to see first.
   • The booking form is visible below your bio (on the web there's just the form, not a separate Book Now button), and it opens cleanly — services list isn't empty, the calendar has bookable days, the policies expand. For studios, check the team tabs (and the Guests tab, if you have visiting artists coming up) show the right people.
   • If you instead see the "still setting up online bookings" card, either you don't have booking access yet (step 2) or one of your Services & Pricing, Availability & Schedule, or Policies & Legal cards is incomplete.

   If something's off, the fix is in your in-app Info Cards tab. Once you patch it, the web page refreshes automatically — no re-sync step needed.

5. 5

   Drop the link where clients actually find you

   The link is just a URL. Anywhere clients are looking for you online, the InkMap link belongs:

   • Instagram bio (the one bio link, or via Linktree / Beacons / Carrd hub).
   • TikTok bio — same idea.
   • Linktree, Beacons, Stan Store — your link aggregator of choice.
   • Email signature for client correspondence.
   • Your studio's website if you have one — anywhere "Book me" / "Book us" makes sense.
   • Google Business profile — both the website field and the "Appointment links" section, if your category supports it.
   • Business cards, flyers, posters — the QR code from step 1 is what you want here. Print the QR with the URL underneath as a fallback for people who don't scan.
   • Studio shop window — same QR.

   There's no white-labelling on the web page — it's branded InkMap and links back to the app. That's intentional: clients who book once and like the experience are nudged to install the app for push notifications and the rest of the in-app booking lifecycle.

6. 6

   Tell your existing clients the link exists

   The link is most useful for new clients who don't yet have InkMap. For existing clients you already book through the app, nothing changes — they keep using the in-app Book Now the same way. But it's worth a one-liner in your stories or your next mailer to existing clients too: not every client is going to install the app, and now you have a path that works either way.

Frequently asked questions

Do clients need an InkMap account to book me through the link?

No. The web booking form is built specifically for clients who don't have InkMap installed — they fill it in, get a confirmation email, and manage the booking from the link inside that email. They can optionally sign in to InkMap on the success page after submitting if they already have an account, and the booking will appear in the app under their existing Bookings tab. But it's not required at any step.

Can clients pay a deposit through my web page?

Only if you've connected Stripe (Settings → Receive Payments). Web clients can pay a deposit by card through Stripe and nothing else — there's no "client paid in cash, mark it received" path for web bookings, because web clients aren't registered InkMap users (which would make any refund to them messy). So until you set up Stripe: for time-based disciplines (piercer, laser, PMU), any service that requires a deposit is greyed out on your web form and can't be booked — clients can only book your deposit-free services; for tattoo and body-mod, you can't set a deposit amount on a web booking (you can still choose No deposit and take it forward). InkMap nudges you about this in the app — on the service editor where you set a deposit, in Receive Payments settings, and on the Set-Deposit screen of any web booking, with a one-tap Set up Stripe shortcut. If a client genuinely needs to pay a deposit and you can't take Stripe yet, the cleanest path is to have them install InkMap and rebook in the app, where manual deposits work between registered users.

Can I customise the look of the page?

Not directly. The page renders from your existing InkMap profile data — avatar, bio, social links, featured posts, info cards. To change what clients see, edit those in the app. There's no per-page theme, custom colour, or hidden-field surface; the design is the same for everyone.

Does the link expose anything I don't already share publicly?

No. Everything on the page is already visible on your in-app profile to anyone who can find your username — avatar, bio, location, featured posts, social links, services, pricing, policies. The booking form just lets a non-app user submit a request against that public data.

What about my private info — phone number, email, exact home address?

Personal contact info isn't on the page. Only what you've explicitly published on your in-app profile shows up: your social links, your website if you've set one, your bio. Your location respects the privacy setting on your Independent Location info card if you have one — exact, neighbourhood, or contact-first all behave the same on the web as in-app.

I'm a guest artist visiting another studio for a few weeks — does the link adapt?

Yes. When clients book you through the form, the location step lists every place you can host them: your home studio, your independent location if you have one, and any guest spots you've got coming up (with the host studio's name and the date range). Clients see the same options on the web as they do in the in-app form. You don't have to update anything on the link itself — it's the same URL year-round.

Can a studio share its team's individual links instead of the studio link?

Yes — practitioners on your team each have their own inkmap.app/their-username page, and you can share those directly if you want clients to book one specific person. The studio page is most useful when clients don't yet know who they want — it lets them browse the team. Both flows route to the same booking form on the practitioner's individual page once a person is picked.

I changed my username — does the old link break?

No. Old links to your previous username automatically redirect to your new one, so past clients with old emails, screenshots, or already-printed QR codes won't hit a 404 — the redirect carries them through to your current page. And the QR code in Settings → Account Center always points to your current username on its own; it's drawn fresh from your live handle every time you open the screen, so there's nothing to "regenerate" and no stale version to clear. If you reprint business cards after a rename, just re-save the QR from Settings so the URL printed underneath matches your new handle — but that's cosmetic, since any older code still resolves to the right page.

Can I see how many people visit my page?

Not yet. There's no per-page analytics dashboard built into InkMap. If you want page-view tracking, point your link aggregator (Linktree, Beacons, etc.) at a redirect that you control, and pull stats from there.