Free makeup artist booking software that stops three people asking for the same Saturday

Your open dates on a page anybody can look at, a deposit that holds the one they want, and the trial booked at the same time as the day itself. No more answering four enquiries about one Saturday in September from memory, weeks apart, and hoping you have not promised it twice.

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Free forever plan
A deposit holds the date
No card required

A makeup artist blending with a brush on a seated client’s cheek, an open kit and a ring light beside them

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Bridal on the day3h · from 06:30$400.00

Trial1h 30m$120.00

Bridal party45m · per faceBook

Dates leftSat 14 SepSat 5 OctSat 19 Oct

Booked online

6:20 AM

While you were on a job

Deposit

$100.00

25% held the Saturday

Date already booked

Off the page

Nobody asks about it again

How it works for you

Built for a diary where the booking is a date, not a half hour

Every one of these is about a Saturday months away, which is the only kind of booking a wedding artist really takes.

A page showing the dates you genuinely still have

Put your open dates where people can see them instead of answering the same question forty times. A date somebody takes disappears the moment they take it, so you are never holding two conversations about one Saturday without knowing it.

Your booking page →

Everything you need to quote, answered at the booking

On the paid plans you write your own questions and they come in with the enquiry: the venue, the getting-ready address, how many faces, what time she has to be in the car, whether anybody wants lashes. You stop having that conversation in eleven messages.

Booking forms →

A deposit is what makes a date actually yours

Take a deposit or the full price at the point of booking through a payment provider you connect, and the date is only held once it has gone through. That is the whole difference between a booking and somebody who said they were probably going to.

Take payments →

The trial and the wedding go in as one arrangement

A trial is its own service at its own length and price, booked weeks before the day and against the same client record. Both appointments carry their own confirmation, and their own reminder on the paid plans, so neither of them is the one everybody forgot.

Services and durations →

Your hours are not nine to five

A six thirty start is a service, not an exception

Bridal makeup starts before most software thinks a day begins, and it runs on the days most software assumes you are shut.

Set the hours you actually work per day (a six thirty Saturday, a closed Monday, evenings for trials) and nothing outside them is offered to anybody.

Block a whole date when you are already committed to a wedding, and it stops appearing on the page rather than sitting there waiting for somebody to ask about it.

Hours and booking rules →

Between the enquiry and the day

Nobody forgets a wedding, but everybody forgets the trial

Months pass between a deposit and a wedding, and the appointment that goes missing in them is always the trial.

A confirmation goes out when she books, and on the paid plans a reminder before each appointment, both carrying a link to move it, so a trial that has to shift shifts rather than quietly not happening.

The wedding date itself stays exactly where it is, and everything sits on one client record you can open the night before.

Reminders →

Sunday, 7:40pm

Three people have asked about the fourteenth of September

Twenty to eight on a Sunday. You are on the sofa with your phone, working back through the weekend’s enquiries: two Instagram DMs, an email from a wedding directory and a message from somebody a previous bride passed your details to. Three of them are asking about the same Saturday in September.

You have said yes to one of them, tentatively, eleven days ago, and she has not paid anything or confirmed anything since. Nothing about that conversation is written anywhere except in the message thread it happened in.

Picktime puts the dates you have left on a page and takes a deposit at the point somebody books, so a Saturday is either genuinely held or genuinely open. Nobody has to remember what was said eleven days ago.

3Enquiries about the same Saturday

11 daysSince a tentative yes, with nothing paid

Getting started

Your dates bookable before the next enquiry arrives

Put in what you actually sell

Bridal on the day, the trial, a bridal party per face, an evening look, a photoshoot: each with its real length and its real price. Getting the lengths right is what stops the page offering a party of six in ninety minutes.

Write the questions you always end up asking

Venue, getting-ready address, how many faces, the time she needs to be in the car, lashes or not. Set the deposit that holds a date and how late somebody may move a trial, and block the dates you already have weddings on.

Put the link where brides are already looking

Your Instagram bio, your website behind a Book Now button, your Google Business profile and the reply you send to every directory enquiry. From then on the answer to a date question is a page rather than a message.

AI receptionist

You are on a job at six in the morning. It still answers.

A wedding artist is unreachable for exactly the hours when brides are getting married, which is when the next bride is at a wedding watching you work.

Picktime’s AI receptionist answers around the clock, asks what date and what she needs, captures her details and turns the call into a confirmed booking or a consultation, against the same availability your page uses, so it cannot offer a Saturday you are already committed to.
It handles several calls at once, hands over to you when it should, and every call is transcribed into your dashboard, so an enquiry taken while you were on a job is something you can read in the car.

How the AI receptionist works →

06:10Incoming call
Saturday 06:10On a call

Caller06:10
Hi, are you free for a wedding on Saturday the fifth of October?
AI receptionist06:10
The fifth of October is free. How many faces, and where are you getting ready?
Caller06:11
Me and four bridesmaids, at home.
AI receptionist06:11
Thank you. That is booked from 06:30, and the details are on your confirmation.

Sat 5 Oct, 06:30Bridal on the day · bride plus 4Booked

Transcript savedTo read in the car

What it costs

Start free. Pay when you are booking a team rather than a diary.

The free plan is a plan, not a trial. There is no date at which it stops, no card to add, and nothing that quietly turns off in a fortnight.

Free, and it stays free

What an artist working alone gets without paying

Your own booking page, showing the dates you really have
Clients book, move and cancel it themselves
Your hours and blocked dates, respected on the page
Client records, with every booking on one name

Start free

When there are more of you

What the paid plans add

Your own questions answered at the enquiry
A second artist, with her own diary
More than one area or studio, each on its own hours
Reminders before the trial and the day, by email or text
Two-way sync, so a booking lands in the calendar you already watch

See what each plan includes

Works with what you use

It fits the calendar in your bag and the places brides find you

Nothing gets typed in twice

A booking lands in the calendar already on your phone, and the paid plans sync it both ways, so when it moves there it moves here. Payments run through PayPal, with Stripe and Square on the paid ones, and the booking link goes on the Instagram and Facebook profiles brides are already scrolling when they decide who is doing their makeup.

All 36 integrations →

It works from a hotel room

Picktime runs in a phone browser with nothing to install, and there are iOS and Android apps, which matters when the office is a kit bag and the desk is whatever room you are getting the bridal party ready in.

The Picktime app →

Questions

Makeup artist booking: common questions

How do you take bookings as a makeup artist?

The version that scales is a page rather than a conversation: your real services and prices, the dates you genuinely still have, your questions answered at the enquiry and a deposit taken at the point of booking. That turns a Saturday into something either held or open, with nothing in between.

Which booking apps do makeup artists use?

Most freelance artists want three things: a link for the bio, a deposit at booking and a calendar on the phone. Picktime does all three free for an artist working alone, and the client’s side needs nothing installed: it is a link that opens in any browser.

Is there free booking software for a freelance makeup artist?

Picktime’s free plan covers your own booking page, a confirmation by email on every booking, your hours and blocked dates, and client records, with no card and no end date. It is a plan rather than a trial.

Can I take a deposit to hold a wedding date?

Yes, and it is the point. Set a deposit, a percentage or the full price per service through a payment provider you connect, and the date is only held once the payment has gone through. Until then it stays on the page for somebody else.

Can I book the trial and the wedding at the same time?

Yes. The trial is its own service at its own length and price, booked weeks ahead against the same client record as the day itself. Both carry their own confirmation, and on the paid plans their own reminder, so the trial is not the one that quietly disappears. A tattoo consultation ahead of the sitting is the same two-stage shape, and booking the consultation before you start drawing works through that one.

Can I set a six thirty start on a Saturday?

Yes. Hours are set per day, so a Saturday can start at half past six while a Tuesday starts at ten and a Monday is closed. Nothing outside the hours you set is ever offered to anybody.

Can I block out a date I am already booked for?

Yes. Block the date and it stops appearing on your page entirely, so nobody enquires about a Saturday you have already sold. Unblock it if the booking falls through and it comes straight back.

How to get bookings as a makeup artist?

Getting the enquiry is marketing, and for most artists that is Instagram, photographers and planners passing your name on, and being on a venue’s supplier list. What a booking page does is stop you losing the enquiries you already have. The gap between somebody asking and somebody paying is usually a week of messages about dates, and that week is where a Saturday goes to whoever answered faster. A link that shows the dates you genuinely still hold, with a deposit taken while they are still keen, closes it.

What is the best booking system for a beauty salon?

A salon is a different shape from a freelance artist: several people on one floor, chairs and basins they share, and services of wildly different lengths. What decides it there is whether the system can hold the stylist, the chair and the basin on one booking rather than treating the room as unlimited. Our beauty salon scheduling page works through that properly.

What is the best booking software?

Nobody can answer that without knowing what is being booked, and it splits three ways. One person’s time is the easy case and almost anything handles it. A room, a chair or a piece of equipment held alongside the person is where most tools quietly fail, and a session with a set number of places on it is the third. Picktime does all three on one calendar, and that is the only argument for it we would make.