Your DMs are not a booking system.
They just act like one, badly. Cake gives you one link for your bio, and requests come in whole: idea, placement, size, references.
Claim your linkHow Cake turns DMs into bookings
Cake gives a tattoo artist one booking link for their Instagram bio. Instead of a DM thread, the client fills one request with the idea, placement, size and reference photos. The artist reads it, approves it with a price and a length, and offers times. Nothing books without the artist's yes. Replies to clients come from the artist, not a chatbot.
What your DMs make you do.
Scroll back three weeks for one reference photo.
Now: on the requestType out your deposit info. Again.
Now: on their payment screenAsk what size. Then ask what small means.
Now: on the form
One link. The request shows up whole.
Idea, placement, size, references, together. You read it and say yes or no. Nothing books without your yes.
When you do want to talk, the conversation lives on the booking, next to the request. Not three weeks up a thread.
I'm copying and pasting out of my DMs all the time. It's annoying.A shop owner with high-volume books.
Keep Instagram.
It's where your work lives. Put one link in your bio and let the DMs go back to being DMs.
Questions artists ask.
How do I stop booking tattoos through Instagram DMs?
Put one booking link in your bio and point every DM to it. With Cake the link opens a request form that collects the idea, placement, size, style and reference photos, so the booking starts complete instead of across a thread.
Do my clients need an app or an account?
No. Your clients tap one link. No app, no account.
Does Cake reply to my clients for me?
No chatbots. Automations can send the messages you approve, but your clients always reach a human: you.
Can a client book without my approval?
No. Nothing books without your yes. You approve the request and set the price and the length before any time is offered.