How to grow your payments app with piercing studios
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Piercing studios, whether on their own or inside a tattoo shop, serve a steady flow of walk-ins alongside booked appointments. Most customers pay for the piercing and the jewellery together, often add aftercare products, and come back later to upgrade their jewellery. Many are young customers who pay by phone rather than cash. A payments app that takes deposits for bookings, quick payments at the counter and simple card or phone payments can win studios, and every customer who pays there sees your app.
Talk to piercing studios
Ask local piercing studios:
- How do customers pay for walk-ins and booked appointments today?
- How often do booked customers not turn up?
- Do you sell jewellery upgrades and aftercare on their own?
- Do you share the shop with a tattoo artist who takes payments separately?
Take a deposit for bookings
A small deposit by payment link when a customer books helps cut no-shows, especially for busy weekend slots.
Make the counter quick
Letting customers pay for the piercing, jewellery and aftercare in one go by phone or card keeps the queue moving on busy days.
Grow through shared shops
Many piercers work inside tattoo shops or beauty salons. When everyone in the shop takes payments through your app, one studio can bring several businesses onto it.
Build it
Create your own financial platform.
Pick a template, name it, brand it, preview every page before you pay. Your brand, your users, your fees.
Build my platform →Questions people ask
What about tattoo artists?
The tattoo artists guide covers taking deposits to book appointments and payment when the work is done.
Tattoo artists →What about nail and beauty technicians?
The nail and beauty technicians guide covers technicians working from small studios, rented chairs or clients' homes, and how to take deposits and cut no-shows.
Nail and beauty technicians →Can I call it a bank?
In most countries "bank" is a protected word you can only use with a banking licence. Call it an account, a wallet, an app or a platform. The accounts and payments behind a SendPay Business platform are powered by licensed partners.
Is there a step-by-step plan I can follow?
Yes. The free launch checklist takes you from picking your people and naming your app to setting fees, going live and winning your first ten customers.
Digital bank app launch checklist →How do I start?
Pick a template, name it and preview every page before you pay. Your platform can be live on your own domain within 24 hours of confirmation.
Build my platform →Read next
This guide is general information, not legal or financial advice. SendPay Business is a technology company, not a bank, and does not take deposits; regulated services on the platforms are provided by licensed partners. PayPal, Patreon and Substack are named as reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.