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Custom website for tattoo studios
A custom website for a tattoo studio costs from $4,500 one-time at Nabee Studio, or $499/mo for 24 months with maintenance and hosting included. Unlike a template, it's designed around how a tattoo studio actually operates — removing the manual touchpoints (Managing booking requests through Instagram and other social DMs) that template sites force on you.
A tattoo studio website has to sell the artists individually, because that's how clients choose. The single most important structural decision is per-artist portfolios — separate galleries and pages so a client falls for a specific artist's style and can request that artist directly. A single blended gallery, which most studio sites default to, actively works against the way tattoo booking happens.
Paired with the portfolios is a booking-request flow built into the site, tied to each artist, that collects the idea, references, placement, and a deposit. This pulls the entire booking process out of Instagram DMs and onto a system the studio controls — which protects the artists' time and the studio's calendar at once.
The reality for most tattoo studios
Artists' distinct styles blur into one gallery
Clients pick an artist by style, but a single mixed gallery hides who does what. Per-artist portfolios let a client find the right artist and request them directly, which is how tattoo booking actually works.
Booking lives in Instagram DMs
Running bookings through DMs floods artists, buries requests, and mixes business with social. A real booking-request flow tied to each artist captures the idea, references, and placement without living in a social inbox.
No-shows because deposits aren't collected
Without a required deposit, booked slots evaporate as no-shows and cost the artist a day's income. A deposit collected at booking dramatically cuts no-shows and filters for serious clients.
What does it cost?
One scoping pass, one fixed number — no hourly billing. A studio needs a portfolio-and-booking website with per-artist scheduling and deposits, not a logged-in platform — the workflows are inquiries, deposits, and appointments that fit a well-built site.
- Website — from $4,500 one-time (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included.
The monthly plan totals somewhat more than paying up front — that's the honest trade for spreading the cost and having us operate everything for two years. Details in the payment plan guide and on the pricing page.
Start a project — one scoping pass, a fixed number within one business day.
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Common questions
- How much does a website for a tattoo studio cost?
- From $4,500 one-time at Nabee Studio (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included. One scoping pass produces a fixed number — no hourly billing.
- What should a tattoo studio website include?
- Beyond presenting the business: the workflows that remove manual work — per-artist portfolios and booking request with deposit — plus the integrations tattoo studios actually use.
- Who maintains the website after launch?
- We do. The Maintenance Plan ($299/mo, included in the payment plan) covers hosting, SSL, security, backups, updates, and small content changes — you never inherit a server login you didn't ask for.
- Is a template or website builder good enough instead?
- Sometimes — if the site just needs to exist and you're happy doing the manual work a template can't remove. The honest comparison is in our custom vs website builder guide.