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 drop, 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 drop, not an avalanche
Schedule a drop with an open and a close time — to the minute, in your timezone. Your public booking page counts down to it and flips itself to accepting applications at the moment you chose, while you sleep, tattoo, or stay off the app entirely.
Set an application cap and the drop closes itself when it fills. One hundred and fifty briefs is a season of work; the hundred-and-fifty-first person sees an honest “this drop is full” 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 the maybes, accept the projects you want, decline the rest. A decline sends a kind, templated email in your name — with room for a note of your own — so nobody is left unanswered.
From drop to deposit without leaving the board
The drop is the front door to the same pipeline that runs the rest of your practice. Book an accepted applicant the way you book anyone, and they are a client and an appointment on your kanban board — with deposit requests, waiver links, and reminders flowing from there.
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.
- Does accepting an application book the appointment?
- No. Accepting is a decision, not a booking — you still agree a date with the client. The brief, the references and your notes stay on the application while you do.
- 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.