Four hours into a piece, your inbox is filling up with questions about dates, designs and prices. With Avana, clients request a consultation or book a session themselves, with a deposit whenever you want one.
A private studio, a shop with a team or a guest spot. You set Avana up the way you work.
Small pieces, a few a day, without DMs going back and forth.
Your flash is ready and clients book a slot themselves.
Large pieces over several sessions, with a deposit upfront.
A consultation first, then a plan in your calendar.
Short appointments next to the tattoos, in the same calendar.
A few days in another city, and your clients book you there.
A whole day of set designs, booked slot by slot.
Every artist has their own hours, and clients choose who they see.
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Avana is tattoo booking software for independent tattoo artists in the US, whether they run their own shop or rent a booth. Clients request a consultation or book a session with a deposit online, answer the artist's own questions before they arrive and get a reminder the day before, and Avana takes no commission on any session.
While you are in a piece, clients request a consultation or book a session on their own. Your page already tells them what a half day costs and when you have space.
Deposits are standard in tattooing, and you switch them on per session. If someone cancels on the day, the deposit stays with you.
Avana charges one flat monthly price and nothing per session. A small flash piece and a full day on a back piece leave you with the same, complete amount.
Your work lives on Instagram and your booking page sits in your bio. Clients request a consultation or book a session, and can see straight away what a half day costs and which dates you have.
A good piece starts with a conversation about design, size and placement. Set that up as a short appointment in your services, separate from the session, and use the booking form to collect placement, size and a few references beforehand. You can add your own questions too, such as date of birth and ID.
Settling up in your studio stays as it is. Deposits are normal for tattoos, so you turn them on for your sessions with an amount you choose and leave them off for consultations. The deposit comes off the final price, and the client pays the rest after the session.
The confirmation lands as soon as they book. A day before the session a reminder follows with the time, your address and your own prep notes: eat properly, no alcohol, bring ID. Add your aftercare advice as a sentence in the confirmation.
After each session the client locks in the next one, a few weeks out, or you book it for them from the chair. Your client records hold the design, the placement and what you got through last time, so a back piece carries on exactly where it stopped. A touch-up can be a short service of its own.
If you rent a booth in a shared studio, Avana gives you your own page, your own calendar and your own clients. Run your own studio and a guest artist joins for a while? Add them with their own hours and style, and clients choose who they book with.
Avana handles booking, deposits, reminders and Instagram replies for tattoo artists, and pairing two of them covers the gaps a studio misses most. Switch two on together and the DMs that sit unanswered for days become consultations and sessions with a deposit.
Avana Connect and deposits
Someone asks in your DMs what a 6-inch forearm piece costs. The AI answers with your rate and your free half days, they choose Saturday at eleven and pay the deposit. By morning the session is in your calendar, already secured.
Avana ConnectYour booking page and reminders
The client picks a half day and gets a confirmation with your prep notes straight away. The reminder follows the day before, and if the session has to move they choose a new date without messaging you.
Booking pageYour clients and Avana Academy
New artists want to know how your lines come out so clean. Film what you know about needles and depth, sell it as a course and run the practice skin day in your own studio.
Avana AcademyThis table compares a week in a one-artist tattoo studio run from Instagram DMs with the same week run on Avana. On the right, consultations, sessions and deposits no longer pass through your inbox.
| How it goes now | How it goes with Avana | |
|---|---|---|
| A DM during a session | Left until the evening, when there are twenty of them | The client sees your rates and dates and requests a consultation |
| Consultation and session | Arranged in one long chat | Two separate appointments, each with its own length |
| A full-day session that cancels | A whole working day gone | You keep the deposit, under your own policy |
| Prep and aftercare | Typed out again for every client | In the reminder and confirmation, in your words |
| Design and placement | Somewhere in a chat from three months ago | On the client's record |
| What it costs you | Your evenings | $20.99 a month, tax included |
Deposits are the norm in tattooing, but you still switch them on per session yourself, and they switch off just as easily.
Every Avana plan includes an online booking page, a calendar on your phone, payment in the salon or online, deposits, email reminders and client records. Anything that only comes with Business Plus is marked. Tap a tile to read more.
Avana costs $20.99 a month on the Business plan, tax included, and that covers one person working alone. Avana takes no commission on bookings, you can cancel any month, and the first 7 days are free with no card details needed.
$0.70 a day, and no commission on your revenue.
Start free$1.20 a day. One extra appointment a month covers it.
Start free$2.37 a day, with Avana Academy included.
Start freeAll prices include sales tax. Add someone who helps out in your salon for $7.99 a month. If you change plans, you only pay the difference.
Billed on the same invoice as your plan, and you can cancel them any month.
Switch it on once for your Instagram. From then on, AI answers your DMs with your own prices and free times, and lets clients book inside the conversation.
Sell your own courses to people who want to learn your craft. You set up the lessons once, the practical day sits in your calendar and the certificate goes out by itself.
Avana is built for the solo tattoo artist: it handles a short consultation and a long session as separate appointments and takes a deposit on the session. Everything runs from your own booking page: clients request a consultation or book a session while you are tattooing, and send placement, size and references in advance. Reminders go out with your prep notes, and the design and placement stay on the client's record. It costs $20.99 a month, tax included, with no commission on your sessions.
Avana is $20.99 a month, tax included, for a tattoo artist on their own. That covers a booking page with consultations and sessions, your calendar, client records, the booking form, online payments with deposits and email reminders. Your sessions are commission-free and you can cancel any month. You can try it free for 7 days first.
Yes, Avana lets you set a deposit per session and choose the amount yourself, for example $150 on a half day, while consultations can stay free. The client pays it when booking with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and it comes off the final price, so they pay the balance in your studio after the session. If they cancel too late or do not turn up, you keep the deposit under your own cancellation policy.
With Avana, clients pay in your studio after the session, by card or cash, and online payment only appears if you switch it on. If you take a deposit, that part is paid online when booking and the rest afterwards. Online payments carry a small service fee for the client, included in the price they see from the very beginning, which is how Avana avoids taking commission from you. Your day rate stays exactly as you set it.
Avana does: you set up the consultation as a short appointment of its own, say 20 minutes with no deposit, and the session as a separate service lasting anything from a couple of hours to a full day. The client books the consultation first and, once you have talked it through, books the agreed session with the deposit. The booking form can collect placement, size and references before the consultation, so the conversation starts with something to look at.
Yes, in Avana you add your own questions to the booking form, such as date of birth and ID, allergies, medical conditions or the placement they have in mind, and the client answers them when booking. The answers sit on the appointment and stay on their client record. Avana stores what you ask for, but checking ID and meeting local rules on the day remains your job.
In Avana, after each sitting the client books the next session in one tap, or you book it for them while they are still in the chair. The client record keeps the design, the placement and notes on what you finished, so you pick up the piece weeks later without scrolling through old messages. A touch-up after healing can be set up as its own short service.
Yes, Avana is built for one artist with one calendar and one booking page, and Business at $20.99 a month is enough if you work alone, wherever your chair is. If a guest artist or someone else works in your studio, add them for $7.99 a month with their own hours and style, and clients choose who they book with. Business Plus ($35.99) already includes one team member next to you. You can try everything free for 7 days without card details, and your client data stays yours if you leave.
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Avana is tattoo booking software for the artist who works alone: it schedules a short consultation first and the session after it, and takes a deposit when the session is booked. Clients request a consultation or book a half day themselves, send placement, size and references in advance, and pay a deposit of the amount you choose. Reminders go out with your prep notes, and large pieces are booked session by session with the design kept on the client's record. Avana costs $20.99 a month, tax included, with no commission, and the first 7 days are free.
If you are searching for tattoo booking software, you most likely work alone: your own studio or a booth you rent, a portfolio on Instagram and DMs coming in all day about dates, designs and prices. Avana puts your consultations, sessions and rates on your own booking page, where clients request a consultation or book a session without a long chat first.
Few tattoos start with the needle. First comes a conversation about the design, size and placement, and only then do you plan the hours. So the consultation is a short appointment in your services, separate from the session, and the booking form gathers placement, size and references ahead of time. In your calendar you block exactly the half or full day the piece needs.
A full-day session that cancels at short notice is a day's income you cannot replace. A deposit on each session, at the amount you choose, covers that, and your cancellation policy sets when it is kept. Email reminders carry your prep notes, and Avana Connect answers Instagram questions about prices and dates while you work.
If you teach new artists, sell your explanation as a course through the Avana Academy, with the practice day in your normal calendar. Avana is $20.99 a month, tax included, and your day rate is never cut by commission. Get your studio online this afternoon, or compare plans and prices first.
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