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coil vs Tattoodo. Their client. Or yours.

Tattoodo is a marketplace with a booking app attached. Clients come to Tattoodo, get matched to artists by style and budget, and book. Tattoodo Books is free to join because the client pays a $10 fee on every booking by default. coil is the other way around: it's your site at your own address, your client never pays a coil fee, and you pay one flat bill a month. One brings you strangers and charges them. The other runs the clients you already have and hands you the ones your page brings in.

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The honest read

  • Tattoodo charges your client, not you.

    Free to join. $10 per booking, paid by the client at checkout unless you choose to cover it. And when a new client finds you on Tattoodo's marketplace, Tattoodo takes 20% of that first session. That's how a marketplace stays free: the person getting tattooed pays the platform, and so does the first session.

  • coil charges you, and your client pays coil nothing.

    $59 a month solo. No fee to the client, no cut of the deposit. Your client sees your name, your address, your price, and nothing else.

  • Tattoodo brings strangers. coil runs your book.

    Tattoodo's artist finder can send you people who've never heard of you. coil doesn't do that yet. What coil does is everything after the first message: deposit, consent, aftercare, the waitlist, the tip, the touch-up.

The price difference.

 CoilTattoodo

  • What the artist pays

    Plus 20% of the first session with each new client who finds you on Tattoodo's marketplace.

    $59/mo solo$0/mo

  • Booking fee on the client

    Tattoodo adds a $10 booking fee at checkout by default. coil adds no booking fee; the card fee, if you pass it on, goes to Stripe.

    $0$10

  • Cut of your work

    None on your own clients. 20% of a new marketplace client's first session, and $75 if a Tattoodo booking is finished off it.

    0%0–20%

  • At 10 bookings a month

    $59 from you, $0 from clients$0 from you, $100 from clients

  • At 30 bookings a month

    Someone pays either way. On Tattoodo it's the person in the chair.

    $59 from you, $0 from clients$0 from you, $300 from clients

  • Shop with several chairs

    On coil, chair 9 and up are free.

    $49/chair, 2-chair minimum, $392/mo at most$0

  • Card processing

    Tattoodo takes card, Apple Pay, Klarna and Affirm and pays out same day.

    Stripe standardHandled by Tattoodo

Feature by feature.

 CoilTattoodo

  • Your own site at your own address

    Tattoodo gives you a profile on tattoodo.com. coil gives you yourname.coil.tattoo, built from your photos.

    YesPartly

  • A marketplace that sends you new clients

    Tattoodo's artist finder matches clients by style and budget. coil has a public directory; it is small today.

    PartlyYes

  • Booking form: size, placement, refs, budget, dates

    YesYes

  • Answers booking requests in Instagram DMs

    Tattoodo's form opens in the DM thread. coil answers the DM from your account within a minute with a link to your own page.

    YesYes

  • Deposits and full payment by card

    YesYes

  • Klarna and Affirm at checkout

    NoYes

  • Deposits by Venmo, Cash App, Zelle or PayPal

    YesNo

  • Tips prompted at checkout

    coil texts a tip link on the day.

    YesYes

  • Keep the deposit on a no-show

    YesYes

  • Reminders before the session

    YesYes

  • Digital consent form with state rules

    YesNo

  • Aftercare texts on a schedule

    YesNo

  • AI reads healing photos

    YesNo

  • A business phone number for client texts

    YesNo

  • Cancellation waitlist that texts itself

    YesNo

  • Touch-up credits

    YesNo

  • Healed-photo reward

    YesNo

  • Reviews on your page

    YesYes

  • Flash at fixed prices

    YesYes

  • Shop roster, commission splits, payout sheet

    YesNo

  • Apprentice bookings wait for your approval

    YesNo

  • Client book is yours to export

    On coil every inquiry, deposit and review is yours and moves with you. On a marketplace the relationship runs through the marketplace.

    YesPartly

When Tattoodo fits you better

If your books are empty and you'd rather have strangers than a slow week, Tattoodo can send them, and you pay nothing until one books. And if you tattoo in a city where Tattoodo has real traffic, a profile there is a free listing. Nothing stops you from running both.

When coil is the right call

If you already have clients and want them to stop paying a middleman, coil is the one that costs them nothing. If you want the site to be yours, at your own address, with your consent form, your aftercare texts, your waitlist and your reviews, that's coil. A shop can't run on Tattoodo at all; coil runs the roster, the splits and the payout sheet. And when you leave a shop, your whole book leaves with you.

Questions

What people ask.

Is Tattoodo Books really free for artists?
Free to join, yes, but not free. There's no subscription; instead the client pays a $10 booking fee at checkout on every booking by default, unless you cover it yourself. When a new client finds you through Tattoodo's marketplace, Tattoodo also takes 20% of that first appointment. Bookings through your own Tattoodo link have no commission. coil is the opposite: you pay $59 a month solo and your client pays no booking fee.
Does coil bring me new clients like Tattoodo does?
Not the way a marketplace does. coil has a public directory at coil.tattoo/discover and your site is built to rank for your name, your shop and your city. But Tattoodo's artist finder is a real source of strangers, and coil doesn't pretend otherwise. coil is for running the clients you have and the ones your page brings in.
Can I use both?
Yes. Keep a Tattoodo profile for the marketplace and put your coil address in your bio. Clients who find you through Tattoodo pay the $10; clients who find you through your own page don't.
Does Tattoodo have consent forms or aftercare?
Tattoodo Books covers the booking, the deposit, reminders and tips. Consent forms, aftercare texts, healing photo replies and the cancellation waitlist are coil features Tattoodo doesn't list.
Are these prices current?
Checked October 2026 against Tattoodo's own help center (the Platform fee and Commission articles, last updated October 2025): no subscription, a $10 fee per booking paid by the client by default, and 20% of a new marketplace client's first appointment. coil is $59 a month solo, $49 a chair in a shop, and chair 9 and up are free. Both can change; check before you decide.
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