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Checked · September 2026
coil vs Mind Your Ink. Pay per booking. Or pay once.
Mind Your Ink is the booking request tool done carefully: a form that asks the right questions, a page that holds your Instagram feed and your reviews, consent forms, reminders, and a flash shop. It doesn't touch your money at all; you keep taking Venmo or Square or whatever you take. You pay $5 per appointment, or $100 a month for unlimited. coil covers the same ground and then keeps going: deposits, a business phone number, aftercare texts, healing photo replies, the waitlist, and a shop's back office, for $59 a month. Neither takes a cut. The question is what you need past the booking.
- See your site before you pay
- 30 days free
- Cancel anytime
The honest read
Mind Your Ink is $5 a booking or $100 a month.
Free for apprentices and part-timers. Pay-as-you-go at $5 per appointment, or $100 a month unlimited. No percentage, no processing; you keep your own payment apps.
coil is $59 a month, however many you book.
Flat. At twelve bookings a month you're even. At twenty, Mind Your Ink is $100 and coil is still $59. Neither one takes a cut of your money.
Mind Your Ink stops at the booking. coil keeps going.
Both do the form, the consent, the reminders and flash. coil adds deposits by card, a business number, aftercare texts, healing photo replies, the waitlist, tips, touch-ups, and a shop's roster.
The price difference.
- None$0 for apprentices and part-time
Free plan
coil: see the whole site built before you pay, then 30 days free.
- n/a$5 per appointment
Pay as you go
- $59/mo$100/mo
Solo artist, unlimited
- $59$60
Twelve bookings a month
- $59$100
Twenty bookings a month
Mind Your Ink caps at the $100 unlimited plan.
- $49/chair, 2-chair minimum, $392/mo at mostPer artist, same plans
Shop with several chairs
On coil, chair 9 and up are free.
- 0%0%
Cut on deposits, tips, balances
- Stripe standardNone. You keep your own apps.
Card processing
coil also lets you list Venmo, Cash App, Zelle or PayPal instead of running cards.
Feature by feature.
- YesYes
Public page at your own address
Both: a page at their domain or your own.
- YesNo
Site built from your photos before you pay
- PartlyYes
Instagram feed on the page
coil syncs your Instagram into the portfolio; it doesn't embed the feed.
- YesYes
Booking request form (placement, size, style, refs, dates)
- PartlyYes
Separate booking windows (home, guest spot, convention, flash day)
coil: per-date availability plus a guest-spot page. Mind Your Ink's windows are cleaner for a traveling artist.
- YesNo
Deposits by card
- YesYes
Deposits by Venmo, Cash App, Zelle or PayPal
Mind Your Ink leaves payment entirely to you.
- YesYes
Digital consent forms
- YesNo
State consent rules (attestations, ID upload)
- YesYes
Deposit and appointment reminders
- YesPartly
Aftercare texts on a schedule
Mind Your Ink lists aftercare in its automations; coil runs a full drip through week twelve.
- YesNo
A business phone number for client texts
- YesNo
AI reads healing photos
- YesNo
Cancellation waitlist that texts itself
- YesNo
Tip link on the day
- YesNo
Touch-up credits
- YesNo
Healed-photo reward
- YesYes
Reviews on your page
- YesYes
Flash shop
- YesPartly
Shop roster, commission splits, payout sheet
Mind Your Ink has shared calendars and booth management.
- YesNo
Apprentice bookings wait for your approval
- YesPartly
Your address and clients stay yours if you leave the shop
When Mind Your Ink fits you better
If you just want requests to stop coming in as DMs and you already have a way to take money you like, Mind Your Ink does the request part very well and stays out of your wallet. If you book a few pieces a month, $5 each is cheaper than $59. If you travel a lot and want separate booking windows for home, guest spots and conventions, theirs are cleaner than coil's. And it has 84 public reviews averaging 4.9; that's real.
When coil is the right call
If you book more than twelve a month, coil is cheaper and the bill never moves. If you want the deposit taken by card without leaving the page, a business number instead of your cell, aftercare texts sent for you, healing photos read for you, and a waitlist that fills a cancelled slot by itself, that's coil. A shop with a roster, splits and a payout sheet needs coil. And when you leave a shop, everything goes with you.
Questions
What people ask.
Does Mind Your Ink take a cut?
Does coil take deposits by card?
Which one is better for a traveling artist?
Which one is better for a shop?
Are these prices current?
Try it
See coil with your own work.
Drop in a few photos and coil builds your page before you pay a dollar. Then the first 30 days are free.
- See your site before you pay
- 30 days free
- Cancel anytime