Building your studio team

• Inviting an artist

  On the Members sub-tab, use the search box — Search artists by username to invite… — to find a practitioner by their username. Only practitioners who aren't already attached to a studio show up. Tap Invite next to the right person.

  You can also invite from a practitioner's profile with the Invite to Team button. Either way, the artist gets an invitation and joins your Members list once they accept.

• Invitations you've sent

  Pending invitations appear in an Invitations sent block at the top of the Members sub-tab — each card shows who you invited and a Cancel button if you want to withdraw it. The same search box still marks someone as Invited once you've sent an invite, so you don't double-invite. Until they accept, they won't appear in your member list — only in this invitations block and as Invitation Sent on their profile.

• Handling join requests

  Practitioners can ask to join you — when they create their account, or from your studio profile. Their requests collect on the Requests sub-tab, which carries a red number when something's waiting.

  Each pending request shows the artist, their discipline, when they asked, and any message they left. Accept adds them to your team right away; Reject turns them down. Both send the artist a notification. Accepting also sets up their financial arrangement — your studio default if you've set one, otherwise a blank one to fill in later. See Setting up arrangements.

  When you accept someone, their public location becomes your studio's, and if they were working independently before, that independent location is switched off (their address details are kept). Joining does not move their existing bookings onto your calendar, though — the studio calendar shows a booking only at the studio where it actually takes place. Any new booking they take while they're on your team is set to your studio automatically. To bring their existing upcoming bookings over, the practitioner moves them deliberately by picking a switch date (they'll see a prompt to do this), and each affected client is notified of the change — see Moving your bookings when you change studios.

• Being found by new practitioners

  The Requests sub-tab has a visibility switch at the top:

  • Studio Visible — new practitioners can find your studio while creating an account and send you join requests.
  • Studio Hidden — your studio appears as not accepting new members. People can still see it, but can't send a request.

• When an invite and a request match

  If you invite someone who had already asked to join you (or the other way around), the two match and the artist joins your team automatically — no second step. You'll see them appear under Members.

Frequently asked questions

I invited someone. Why don't they show up in Requests?

Requests only lists people asking to join you. Outgoing invitations sit in the Invitations sent block on the Members sub-tab (or show as Invited in the search box). The artist appears under Members once they accept.

Does the artist's old work or independent listing disappear when they join?

Their public location becomes your studio and an independent location is switched off — but the address details aren't deleted. Their existing bookings do not automatically jump onto your calendar: those stay where they physically take place until the practitioner chooses to move upcoming ones to your studio (with a switch date). New bookings they take while on your team are set to your studio from the start.

Can a piercing or PMU studio host other disciplines?

Yes — any studio type can have a team of any practitioner type. (Welcoming visiting guest tattoo artists is the one tattoo-studio-only exception, handled through Guest Spots.)