A full set is a two-hour commitment of your time
A classic or volume full set can take two hours or more of meticulous, head-down work. That is one of the largest single blocks in your day, and it is the worst one to lose. A morning no-show on a full set is two hours you cannot resell on short notice, because nobody walks in for a lash set without booking it.
Fills come fast and frequent, so even there the no-shows add up. Keptbookings lets you require a deposit on full sets and longer appointments while keeping fills on card-on-file. The deposit applies to the service, so honest clients pay nothing extra and the long block finally has weight behind it.
- Deposit on full sets and longer appointments.
- Card-on-file for fills and regular clients.
- Protection sized to the two-hour block.
The math of a few no-shows a week
If your average service is around $60 and you lose three appointments a week, that is $180 a week, roughly $720 a month, and close to $9,000 a year of lost work. A no-show policy backed by a validated card turns most of that back into either a client who shows or a fee you actually collect.
Reminders do a lot of quiet work here. The majority of lash no-shows are simply forgotten fills, and a 24-hour and 2-hour SMS reminder recovers a real share of them before the slot is ever lost. Keptbookings includes those reminders at no extra cost.
No-show protection that cannot be gamed
A deposit policy only holds if the card behind it is real and still there. Some booking apps never validate the card, so a fake number gets through and your fee fails. Others let clients delete the saved card after booking, quietly voiding your protection.
Keptbookings validates the card with Stripe at booking and rejects dead cards before the slot is confirmed. If a client removes their card before the appointment, you get an alert in time to ask for a new one or open the slot. Deposits and fees collect through Stripe with next-day payouts and no fund holds.
- Cards validated at booking, not blindly stored.
- Alerts when a client removes a card early.
- Fees and deposits that collect and pay out next day.
Book straight from your Instagram, no DMs
Lash clients find you on Instagram and book the set they saw in your feed. Keptbookings gives you a branded booking page and link-in-bio so a client picks the service, chooses a time, and leaves a deposit without DMing back and forth while you are mid-set on someone else.
Guest checkout means no account and no password, so a new client books in a couple of taps. You stop running your schedule out of your inbox and your fill slots fill themselves.
One flat price, and your clients are yours
Marketplace apps take a percentage of every set and treat your regulars as leads to rent to other lash artists. Keptbookings has no marketplace and no discovery feed, so your clients are not shown to anyone, and you pay zero commission on a single booking.
You pay one flat price: around $19 solo, a flat $49 for up to six artists on Team, and a free tier of 20 appointments a month. If you ever move, your client list and history export in one click and import for free.