Revify vs. Booksy for Tattoo Artists

Revify vs. Booksy for Tattoo Artists

The short answer: Booksy is an affordable, all-features-included booking app with a big consumer marketplace, built mainly for barbers, salons and beauty pros, and tattoo artists can use it too. Revify pairs InkedIn Tools, a booking app built by tattooers, with dual pricing payments, so your shop pays $0 a month for processing and earns Monthly Cash-back on card sales instead of paying a percentage on each one. The right pick depends on where your clients come from and how you want to handle card costs.

We make Revify and InkedIn Tools, so weigh our view with that in mind. Every Booksy detail below comes from Booksy's own public pages, as of November 2026, per booksy.com. Prices change, so check both sites before you decide.

What Booksy does well

Booksy is a booking and payments app with a consumer marketplace where clients search for and book local pros. Its biggest audience is barbers and beauty businesses, but the tools are general enough for tattoo artists. Booksy's pricing is simple, as of November 2026, per biz.booksy.com:

• $29.99 a month (plus tax), with $20 a month for each extra team member.
• Every feature included on every plan: online booking, reminders, a portfolio on your profile, custom forms and liability waivers, waitlists, online gift cards, Reserve with Google, and email and text marketing (2,000 free marketing texts a month).
• 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and no commitment.
• Boost, an optional marketplace feature: no monthly cost, and a one-time 30% commission on a new Boost client's first visit, capped at $100. After that first visit, you keep 100% of that client's future bookings.

For a solo artist who wants a polished profile, reviews and marketplace exposure for a low monthly price, that's a strong package.

Booking, deposits and no-show protection

Both platforms cover what a tattoo artist needs to protect the calendar: an online booking link, deposits taken at booking, and automatic reminders.

Booksy's No-Show Protection gives you two options, as of November 2026, per booksy.com. Deposits charge part or all of the service price at booking and apply it at checkout. Cancellation fees keep a card on file and let you charge your policy amount if a client cancels late or doesn't show. Booksy's pricing page notes that standard Mobile Payments processing rates apply to these features.

InkedIn Tools was built by tattooers, so the deposit flow is shaped around how tattoo bookings work. Clients book from your Instagram bio, Google profile or website, the deposit is charged at booking and lands in your account the next day, and the balance is paid at checkout by card or cash. Messages from Instagram DMs, Facebook, text and email land in one inbox next to the client's booking. For the policies that make deposits stick, read our guide to cutting tattoo shop no-shows.

Payment costs: per-transaction rates vs. dual pricing

This is where the two differ most. Booksy uses a standard per-transaction model with no monthly payments fee, as of November 2026, per biz.booksy.com:

Those are competitive rates, and the model is easy to predict. Here's what it looks like for a busy artist: $20,000 a month of in-person card sales at a $250 average ticket works out to about $506 a month ($498 in percentage fees plus $8 in per-transaction fees), before any deposits taken online.

Revify Payments uses true dual pricing. You post two prices for every service, a cash price and a card price. Both show on every receipt, and the client chooses how to pay. Your shop pays $0 a month for processing and earns up to 0.75% Monthly Cash-back on card sales. On that same $20,000 a month, that's up to $150 a month coming back to the shop instead of about $506 going out. You also get a free terminal while you process with Revify, next-day funding and no long-term contract.

The fair trade-off: with dual pricing, clients paying by card see a card price that's higher than the cash price. Some artists prefer one flat price and are happy to absorb processing costs, and Booksy's model fits that well. Rules on how prices must be posted also vary by state, so set dual pricing up with your processor before changing your signage. Want your own numbers? See what your shop would earn →

Tattoo-specific needs

Booking software built for a 45-minute fade has to stretch to cover a six-hour back session, a consult, and a piece that takes four sittings. Here's how the two compare on tattoo jobs:

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One note on Boost for tattoo work: because the commission is capped at $100, it costs proportionally less on a large first session than on a small one. A $600 first sitting would hit the $100 cap rather than $180. Whether that's worth it depends on how many new clients the marketplace actually sends your way.

Who should pick which

Booksy may be the better fit if:

• You're a solo artist who wants a low monthly price with every feature included.
• You want marketplace discovery and are comfortable paying a one-time commission on new clients it sends.
• Your studio also offers barbering, piercing or beauty services and you want one system for everyone.
• You prefer one posted price and a per-transaction processing rate.

Revify may be the better fit if:

• You want booking built specifically by tattooers, with deposits, consent, reference images and aftercare in one flow.
• You'd rather your shop earn on card sales than pay a percentage on every one.
• You process at least $10,000 a month in cards. At that point InkedIn Tools is $0 a month with Revify Payments, instead of $99.
• Your clients find you through Instagram and Google rather than a marketplace.

Comparing more than two tools? Our app for tattoo artists page covers what an artist's booking app should do, and our best tattoo shop software guide lines up eight options side by side. We also compared Revify and Fresha the same way.

The bottom line

Booksy is a well-priced, all-in-one booking app with a strong marketplace, and it suits artists who want discovery and simplicity. Revify is built for tattoo shops that want booking made by tattooers and payments that earn instead of cost. Run a week of your real calendar through each, plug your card volume into the numbers, and pick the one that fits how you actually work.

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Sources

• Booksy: Pricing (subscription, payment rates, card readers, Boost), checked November 2026
• Booksy: No-Show Protection (deposits and cancellation fees), checked November 2026
• Booksy: Features (portfolio, client notes and photos), checked November 2026