Managing your guest spots
Where a tattoo artist tracks guest spot requests and confirmed stays — the Confirmed, Pending, and Rejected tabs, withdrawing a request, cancelling a confirmed spot, and where confirmed spots appear publicly.
Once you've started sending guest requests, you track everything from one place: your Guests screen. Open your own profile and tap Guests. Requests and confirmed stays are split across tabs so you always know what's waiting on a studio and what's locked in.
Confirmed
Your accepted guest spots, grouped by month with the soonest first. Each card shows the studio and the confirmed dates. From here you can cancel a confirmed spot: tap cancel on the card and give a reason. The studio is notified that you've cancelled.
Pending
Requests you've sent that the studio hasn't answered yet. If your plans change before a studio responds, you can withdraw a pending request from its card.
Rejected
Requests a studio declined. You can clear these from the list once you've seen them.
Where your spots show publicly
Your confirmed upcoming spots appear in two places visitors can see:
- Under the Guests section of your profile's News tab — anyone visiting your profile sees them there, so clients know where you'll be and when.
- On your profile header, next to your resident studio — your next upcoming guest spot (studio name and dates) shows in a card beside where you work day-to-day.
See The News tab for how the News area works.
Announcing a spot on Instagram
Every confirmed spot has a Share as a Story button on its card. Tap it and InkMap builds a finished Instagram-story image for you — one of your pinned pictures, the city, the dates, and both your handle and the studio's — saves it to your camera roll, then offers to open Instagram's story composer with the card already in place.
Two things worth knowing. The picture comes from the work you've pinned to your profile, so pin the pieces you want clients to see before you announce a stay; if you've pinned nothing, the card falls back to the host studio's pictures. And the host studio gets the same button on their side, so both of you can post the announcement.
You can make a card as many times as you like — announcing a stay once when it's confirmed and again the week before is exactly what the button is for.
Booking clients during a spot
When a client books you during a confirmed stay, the booking runs through the host studio — the dates they can pick are limited to your guest spot period, and the price is in the studio's currency. Everything else works like a normal booking; see the Bookings section.
Invites and Reach
Two more tabs — Invites and Reach — sit on this screen behind the optional Guest Spot Reach add-on. Without it your guest spots still work exactly as above; Reach adds promotion and client invites on top.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I hold two confirmed guest spots on the same dates?
No. The system won't let your guest spots overlap — when you're picking dates for a new request, days that clash with a spot you've already confirmed are blocked.
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