Microblading sessions are long, prepped, and high-value
A microblading or brow-tattoo session is not a fifteen-minute shaping. It is a long, careful appointment you prep pigment and tools for, and it carries a high price tag and a scheduled touch-up to follow. A no-show on a session like that is a serious hole in the day and a real loss, because you cannot refill a two-hour PMU slot on short notice.
A deposit, applied to the service, is the right protection for that kind of appointment, and clients booking permanent work expect to commit. Keptbookings lets you require deposits on microblading and PMU while keeping quick brow services like waxing or tinting on card-on-file. The protection matches the value of the slot.
- Deposit on microblading, PMU, and touch-up sessions.
- Card-on-file for brow waxing, tinting, and lamination.
- Protection sized to a long, high-value appointment.
Consent and intake before pigment touches skin
Permanent and semi-permanent work needs consent and a health check first. Keptbookings lets you collect intake and consent at the time of booking, so clients confirm they are not pregnant, on blood thinners, or otherwise contraindicated before they ever sit down. You spot the issues that should cancel a session before you have prepped for it.
That intake stays attached to the booking, so the record of what the client disclosed and agreed to lives with the appointment. Keptbookings handles booking, intake capture, reminders, and deposits; it is booking software, so any formal procedure records stay in your own system.
No-show protection that actually holds
A deposit policy only works if the payment clears and stays in place. Some tools never validate the card, so a fake one slips through and the deposit fails. Others let clients delete the card after booking, voiding the hold quietly.
Keptbookings validates the card with Stripe at booking and rejects invalid cards before the session is confirmed. If a client removes their card before the appointment, you are alerted in time to re-secure the deposit or release the slot. Deposits pay out through Stripe the next business day with no fund holds.
- Cards validated at booking, not blindly stored.
- Alerts when a client removes a card early.
- Next-day deposit payouts, no fund holds.
Book the session and the touch-up together
PMU work comes with a scheduled touch-up, and the results depend on the client returning for it. Keptbookings gives you a branded booking page and link-in-bio where clients book the initial session, then the touch-up, with guest checkout and no account to create. Reminders make sure the touch-up does not slip.
Each client’s booking history stays attached to their record, so you can see the session, the deposit, and the scheduled touch-up at a glance.
Flat price, zero commission, your clients stay yours
Marketplace apps take a percentage of every high-value PMU booking and treat your clients as leads. Keptbookings has no marketplace and no commission. You pay one flat price: around $19 solo, a flat $49 for up to six artists on Team, with a free tier of 20 appointments a month.
Your clients and their records are yours. One click exports the full list and history, importing is free, and nobody is renting your regulars to the studio across town.