Every enquiry, booking, quote and deposit from all over your life, in one calm place. We're creatives, not admin execs. Let Booked&Busy handle the admin while you handle the artistry.
Booked & Busy is a UK CRM and booking app for freelance bridal makeup artists, co-founded by Alfie Tilley and bridal makeup artist Ria (@cardosibeauty). About us
Every job moves enquiry to paid. The next sensible step is always one tap, so nothing drifts and no booking slips.
Branded quotes clients accept in a tap. Deposits and invoices chased for you, so you know exactly what's owed.
Emails and DMs land in one inbox. Real bookings surface, the noise stays quiet.
Trials, weddings and shoots colour-coded at a glance. 6am at a wedding or midnight at your desk.
Enquiries, diary and money aren't three apps and a notebook anymore. They're one calm view that keeps itself up to date.
The parts you only notice once you are running a real book: the bit your client sees, the money you are owed, and the morning itself.
One calm branded link with your name at the top. They accept the quote, agree the terms, send their inspiration photos and see exactly what is owed. No login, no account, nothing to download.
A quote with no answer. A deposit still unpaid. A balance a fortnight overdue. Booked&Busy writes the message in your voice and either sends it for you or waits for your tap. You decide, per rule, and any booking or client can be left out of it.
It reads the conversation and your own rate card and builds the lines. It will only ever use a price you have set or a price you have quoted, never one the client suggested and never one it invented.
Every booking sits at exactly one stage and the next step is one button. Drag it forward and the paperwork follows: dates stamped, links switched on, invoice numbered.
Your own enquiry link for your bio and your website, plus a forwarding address so the enquiries already landing in your email walk themselves into your pipeline.
Who is in the chair, when, and for what. Work back from ready-by and the times fill in reverse, so the last person finishes exactly on time. Your client sees it once the deposit is paid.
Connect your email and add your jobs. Booked&Busy pulls the enquiries together automatically.
Quote, request a deposit, invoice. All branded as you, all in a couple of taps.
Turn up knowing the money, the venue and the party are handled. Do the work you love.
A pricing guide, a printable season planner and a two-minute admin audit. Pick one, pop your email in, and it unlocks straight away.
Indicative price ranges by region for the bride, bridesmaids, trials, travel and early starts, with sources. Plus an "am I undercharging?" check.
Get the guide →✎A printable planner: booking tracker, trial dates, deposit tracker, kit checklist and a monthly Instagram calendar.
Get the planner →◷Eight quick questions. See roughly how many hours and pounds admin is costing you each month.
Take the quiz →Choose one, and we'll unlock it for you on the next page.
Everything in Pro from the moment you sign up, no card needed, and we'll move your bookings over for you. No commission on any booking, ever.
Just starting out? If you take fewer than 20 bookings a month, ask us for 50% off your first year on an annual plan. You can request it from the plans screen inside the app.
Switching is free. Send us your bookings however they're kept, a spreadsheet, another app or a photo of your diary, and we'll set them up for you, usually within a day.
No VAT. The prices you see are the prices you pay.
Founding Artists: the next 20 artists to claim a place get 3 months of Starter free, then the standard Starter price. Cancel before the 3 months end and you pay nothing. You add a card when you claim and nothing is charged during the 3 months. Closes 30 November 2026, or sooner if the places go. See the offer →
Marketplace booking apps charge a monthly fee and then take a cut of every new client they send you. Booked&Busy is a flat monthly price with no commission at all. Move the sliders to see what that means for you.
Only clients the marketplace finds for you carry a commission. Clients who book you through your own link or social media do not.
How we worked this out: monthly fee plus commission on new marketplace clients, before payment processing (all three charge for card payments). Booked&Busy prices are what you pay. Fresha and Booksy add VAT to the prices shown. Fresha: Independent plan £14.95 a month, 20% of a new marketplace client's first booking with a £4 minimum, as listed in UK pricing reported by Setora (updated 2 Sep 2026) and Solovi (updated 27 Jul 2026). Booksy: £40 a month and a 30% Boost fee on a new client's first visit with a £5 minimum, from Booksy's UK pricing page, checked 18 October 2026. Prices change, so check their sites for the latest.
Booked & Busy is a UK CRM and booking app for freelance bridal makeup artists, co-founded by Alfie Tilley and bridal makeup artist Ria (@cardosibeauty). It keeps every enquiry, quote, deposit, contract and invoice in one place. There's a 30-day free trial with no card, then Starter is £15 a month (£132 a year) or Pro £25 a month (£250 a year).
Never. Clients only ever see a clean, branded quote or invoice on a link you send. The admin stays yours.
Yes. Booked&Busy is built mobile-first and works offline, so it's there at 6am at a wedding and at your desk that evening.
Import your current jobs in minutes, at whatever stage they're at, keeping their real dates and deposits.
No. Every new account gets 30 days of everything in Pro, free, with no card needed, and we'll move your existing bookings over for you. To keep adding jobs after that, choose Starter at £15 a month (£132 a year) or Pro at £25 a month (£250 a year). No VAT is charged. If you don't, nothing is deleted: your account is paused, so you can still log in, view and edit every job you've added and get paid on them, and you can subscribe whenever you're ready.
We email you two days before and on the last day. If you subscribe, nothing changes. If you don't, your account is paused: you keep access to everything you added, your client links keep working, enquiries keep arriving in your inbox, and you can pick up where you left off the moment you subscribe. We keep a paused account's data for 3 months, then delete it.
The next 20 artists to claim a Founding Artist place get 3 months of Starter free. You add a card when you claim, and nothing is charged during the 3 months; claim during your free trial and they start when the trial ends. Cancel any time before they end and you pay nothing. Otherwise Starter carries on at the standard £15 a month or £132 a year. Closes 30 November 2026, or sooner if all 20 places go. See the offer.
Everything is private to your account and encrypted. Your book is yours alone.
We built Booked&Busy because the best artists we know spend their evenings buried in spreadsheets and unread emails. You didn't pick up a brush to do admin. So we made the admin disappear.
Try it free for 30 days, no card. Bring your whole book into one calm place tonight.