Books-open drops
Open your books on your terms. We’ll hold the line.
For artists with a waitlist longer than a calendar: announce a timed opening, cap the applications, and choose your next months of work from one queue.
The old way
The Notes-app screenshot
“Books open Friday!” posted to Instagram, then chaos. Every drop starts with a story post and ends with two hundred unread DMs.
The Google Form
A form bolted onto a link-in-bio, answers piling into a spreadsheet, no cap, no dedupe, no way to reply without copy-pasting emails.
The guilt pile
Briefs you never answered, clients who never heard back, and the vague dread of opening books again next season.
Announce a window, not an avalanche
Schedule a booking window with an open and close time, in your timezone. Your public booking page shows the countdown and flips to accepting applications at the moment you chose — while you sleep, tattoo, or stay off the app entirely.
Set an application cap and the window closes itself when it fills. One hundred and fifty briefs is a season of work; the hundred-and-fifty-first person sees an honest “books closed” instead of shouting into a void.
Every brief, structured, in one queue
Applicants describe the piece — placement, size, budget, style, reference images — in a structured form you configure. No more scraping details out of DM threads.
Review the queue when you’re ready: shortlist maybes, accept the projects you want, decline the rest. Accepting rolls straight into your normal pipeline — consult request or deposit hold. Declining sends a kind, templated email you wrote once.
From drop to deposit without leaving the board
Accepted applications become appointments on your kanban board with the whole brief attached. Deposit requests, waiver links, and reminders all flow from there — the drop is the front door to the same pipeline that runs the rest of your practice.
Straight answers
- Can clients book instantly during a drop?
- Your call, per service. Drops are usually request-based — you review before anything lands on your calendar — but instant-book services stay instant.
- Do applicants need an account?
- No. Nobody ever needs an account. They apply from your public page and hear back by email.
Your next drop can run itself
Set up in under ten minutes. Your clients never need an account.
7 days free, then from $25 CAD/month. Cancel anytime.