Online booking, on your page and in the marketplace. Your own booking link plus a profile customers can find by service and suburb. You choose whether bookings confirm instantly or wait for your approval.
Booking software for makeup artists, where a bridal party is one date and eight faces
A wedding is not an appointment, it is a morning — a trial months earlier, a five o’clock start, and a number of faces that keeps changing until the week before. Bookka quotes the party rather than pricing it off a menu, takes a deposit that actually holds the date, and does it from your phone.
- No commissionon any booking, on any plan
- From $39 a monthflat, however many staff
- 0% in persononly Stripe’s own rate applies
What makeup artists put up with
If none of these are your week, you probably do not need us.
- A bridal enquiry for “the bride plus maybe five” priced from a menu that only understands one person.
- A date held for months on a direct message and a promise, then released three weeks out.
- The trial booked, loved, and then no record of what was used when the morning comes round.
- A five a.m. start with an hour of driving, charged as though it began when you opened the kit.
- Numbers in the party moving twice between the trial and the day, each change renegotiated by text.
- Everything — enquiries, quotes, deposits, timings — living in Instagram messages you scroll to find.
What changes
Each one is a thing the product does today, not a thing on a roadmap.
The party is quoted, not priced from a menu
Bridal work arrives as a quote request with the date, the numbers and the location, and you answer with a real figure. Nothing is committed until both of you have agreed what the morning actually is.
A deposit is what holds the date
Taken when the booking is made, with the balance due later and your cancellation window shown before she pays. A date held by a paid deposit behaves differently from a date held by a message thread.
The trial’s record is there on the day
Products, shades, what she asked to change — written onto her record, private to you, and in front of you at five in the morning months later when nobody is thinking clearly.
Early starts and travel are part of the price
Both become their own line on the quote rather than goodwill. There is no automatic travel-fee calculator, so the distance is priced by you — but it is priced, agreed and invoiced rather than absorbed.
Everyday bookings take themselves
Events, formals and lessons sit on your own booking page at a fixed price and length, confirming instantly or waiting for your approval, so the small jobs stop needing a conversation.
Paid on the day, from your phone
Card or cash wherever the morning is happening, with no Bookka fee at all, the money landing in your own Stripe account.
What you get
Everything a makeup business runs on, in one place
Instead of an inbox full of enquiries, a notes app of quotes, a bank transfer you have to chase and a calendar that only you can read.
Fill the book
Enquiries arrive while your hands are on someone’s face, and at eleven at night.
A calendar per person. Every team member has their own services, hours and schedule, with roles deciding who sees what. Chair renters and multi-location shops are handled as first-class cases, not workarounds.
Services with options, add-ons and quotes. Length variants that change the price, add-ons that extend the appointment, and a quote request for the jobs that have to be seen before they can be priced.
Get paid
The deposit that holds the date, and the balance on the morning.
Deposits and cancellation policies. Take a per-service deposit at the time of booking, with the balance due on the day. The customer sees the amount and the cancellation window before they pay, and a cancellation inside the window refunds itself.
A point of sale for walk-ins. Ring up services and retail at the counter, take cash or card, or use a WisePOS E terminal. Bookka charges no fee on an in-person payment — only Stripe’s own terminal rate applies, and cash costs nothing.
Gift cards and an online shop. Sell gift cards and products from your booking page, with pickup or post, and refunds and fulfilment tracked in the same place as your appointments.
Bring people back
The bridesmaid who books her own formal is where the next year comes from.
Reminders by SMS and email. A confirmation immediately and a reminder before the day, sent automatically. No-shows are mostly a memory problem, and this is the fix for it.
Bookka Rewards. Points for what people spend or stamps for turning up, redeemed against a catalogue you set. Rewards come off the bill at the till and in the shop.
Campaigns, social and ads. Email and SMS campaigns with single-use promo codes, a scheduler that publishes to Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, and a manager for Google and Meta ads.
Run the place
The admin that happens whether or not you have software for it.
Numbers you can act on. Revenue, bookings, your best services and the regulars who have quietly stopped coming — with exports and custom reports when you need to look properly.
An assistant that does the admin. Ask it about your own figures in plain English. Turn on changes and it will complete bookings, record cash, adjust stock and draft campaigns — confirming before each one and logging every change. It cannot cancel bookings, refund anyone or touch billing.
Xero, and the rest of your stack. Native accounting sync with accounts provisioned on connect, calendar sync so your own diary stays right, and Stripe underneath all of it.
Everything makeup artists need, in one tool
All of it on every paid plan unless the card says otherwise. Where something is limited by plan, the pricing below says so rather than this list hedging each line.
Quote requests for bridal and events
Date, numbers and location come in as an enquiry you answer with a price, instead of a booking made against a menu that cannot describe the job.
Deposits that hold a date
Collected at the time of booking with the balance due later, so a date in your calendar is a date that has been paid against.
A cancellation window agreed up front
Shown before payment and applied automatically, which for work booked a year ahead is the clause that matters most.
Trial notes kept with the client
Shades, products, the brief and what she wanted changed — private to you and readable on the morning itself.
Fixed-price work books itself
Formals, events and lessons sit on your page at a set length and price, confirming instantly or waiting for you to approve.
Add-ons for lashes and touch-up kits
Selected at booking, each adding its own time and money, so the extras are on the invoice rather than in your bag for free.
A page that is yours
One link for your bio taking enquiries, bookings and deposits around the clock, plus a marketplace profile people find by service and suburb.
Second artists on the big mornings
Add team members with their own calendars and rates so a party of eight is two artists working one booking schedule.
Automatic confirmations and reminders
Going out by SMS and email without you remembering, including for the trial that was booked four months earlier.
Pay anywhere, 0% from Bookka
Card, cash or a WisePOS E terminal in a hotel room or a kitchen, with no Bookka fee at all — only Stripe’s own rate, and nothing on cash.
Gift cards and lesson vouchers
Sold from your booking page and redeemed against bookings, with the balance tracked properly.
Where your work comes from
Reporting on revenue and services, plus a scheduler that publishes to Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, which for this trade is the shopfront.
Pricing
One flat price, not one per chair
No commission on any plan, including clients who find you through the marketplace. Paid plans start with a 14-day trial.
Free$0/monthTesting & side hustlers5 bookings per monthUp to 2 team members
Business$39/monthSolo barbers & growing businessesUnlimited bookings & instant auto-confirmUp to 5 team members & 1 location
ExecutiveBest value$69/monthMulti-chair shops & serious businessesEverything in BusinessUp to 20 team members & 2 locations
Booking software for makeup artists, answered
Still curious? Get in touch — we reply fast.
Take it as a quote request rather than a booking. The enquiry carries the date, the location and the numbers as they stand, you reply with a price, and when the party changes you requote before anything is locked in. Trying to express “bride plus five, maybe seven” as a menu item is where most booking apps fall over for this work.
Yes, and it is the single most useful thing here. The deposit is taken at the time of booking with the balance due later, and the client sees both the amount and your cancellation window before she pays. A date held against a paid deposit stops being the soft commitment a message thread creates.
On the client’s record as notes and tags, private to you. Shades, products, the brief, what she asked to change. Months later at five in the morning it is in front of you rather than in a photo roll you are scrolling with one hand. There is no structured face chart — it is free text, so the detail is as good as what you write.
Yes, as lines on the quote or as add-ons on a bookable service. What Bookka does not have is a travel-fee calculator that works the distance out for you, so you set the number. The gain is that it is agreed and on the invoice before the day rather than being something you decide not to raise.
Yes. The dashboard runs on a phone, so you can check the morning’s schedule, take the balance and close the booking from a hotel room. Bookka takes nothing when you take the money on the day — only Stripe’s own rate applies.
Yes. Add them as a team member with their own services, hours and calendar, and roles decide what they can see. Business covers up to five people and Executive up to twenty, with extra staff at $14.95 a month past the included count — so bringing someone in for a season is a small change rather than a different plan.
No. They book or enquire in a browser from your link or your marketplace profile, and the confirmation and reminders arrive by SMS and email. For a trade where most enquiries come from a photo on Instagram, taking the booking without asking anyone to install anything matters.
No commission on bookings, on any plan, including clients who find you through the marketplace. Free for five bookings a month, then Business at $39 a month for up to five people and Executive at $69 for up to twenty. Online card payments cost 2.2% + 30c, all in and GST inclusive on Australian cards. In person Bookka takes nothing at all — you pay only Stripe’s own rate — and cash, your own EFTPOS machine and a gift card being redeemed cost nothing. Everything settles into your own Stripe account rather than ours.
Not quite your trade?
Bookka runs the same way for anything booked against a person’s time. See every trade we have written up.