Spray tans are time-sensitive and cluster around events
Spray tan demand bunches up. Clients book before weddings, vacations, photoshoots, and competitions, which means your busiest windows are packed and your slots are tied to a specific date the client cannot move. A no-show on a Friday before a wedding weekend is a slot you genuinely cannot resell, because everyone who wanted that window already booked it.
Card-on-file is the right protection for fast, high-turnover appointments. Clients book, the card is validated, and you only charge on a no-show or late cancel under your policy. For peak event windows you can require a deposit so the prime Saturday slots are held by people who will actually show.
- Card-on-file for standard sessions.
- Deposits on peak event and weekend slots.
- Protection for windows you literally cannot refill.
Mobile and in-studio, booked from your bio
Plenty of spray tan pros work mobile, in-studio, or both. Keptbookings gives you a branded booking page and link-in-bio where clients pick the service, choose a time, and leave a card, so you are not coordinating mobile appointments through a tangle of texts. You can present your service options clearly and let the client self-book.
Guest checkout means no account or password, so a bride’s whole party can book their pre-wedding tans in a few taps each. The booking is fast enough to keep up with event-season demand.
No-show protection that cannot be gamed
A no-show policy is only enforceable if the card behind it is real and still there. Some booking apps never validate the card, so a fake number sneaks through and your fee fails. Others let a client delete the saved card after booking, quietly voiding your protection on a slot you cannot refill.
Keptbookings validates the card with Stripe at booking and rejects invalid cards before the slot is confirmed. If a client removes their card before the appointment, you get an alert in time to act. Fees and deposits 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.
Reminders that protect prep timing
A spray tan has timing the client needs to respect: shower windows, what to wear, when to exfoliate. Keptbookings includes SMS and email reminders at no extra cost, so a client who books for the day before an event actually gets the nudge and the prep notes in time. Most no-shows are simply forgotten appointments, and reminders recover a real share of them.
Because reminders are built in and not metered per message, you can confirm and remind every booking without worrying about a per-text bill during your busiest weeks.
Flat price, zero commission, your clients stay yours
Marketplace apps take a percentage of every tan and treat your repeat 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 providers on Team, with a free tier of 20 appointments a month.
The bride who found you for her wedding and the regular who books before every vacation are yours. One click exports your full client list and history, and importing is free.