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Both are flat-monthly tattoo-specialty software. Both pitch on no-cut. The product philosophies diverge sharply from there. Keep The Fees ships the traditional shop operating stack — booking, commissions, inventory, payroll with 1099 generation, analytics. Coil ships the AI + portability stack — vision-model healing watch, AI style-fit, AI pricing coach, cancellation waitlist auto-fill, healed-photo bounty, apprentice mode, the URL that follows you to any shop for life. Coil is cheaper for small shops. Keep The Fees is cheaper for 3+ chair shops on subscription math. The feature gaps are wide on both sides.
The honest read
Coil is the AI + portability bet.
Healing watch, style-fit, pricing coach trained on your jobs, auto-fill waitlist, apprentice mode, the portability moat. None of which Keep The Fees ships.
Keep The Fees is the operating-stack bet.
Inventory tracking, full payroll, 1099 generation, deeper analytics. None of which coil ships yet.
Both are flat-monthly and no-cut.
Neither takes a percentage of deposits, tips, or balances. The cost difference is the per-chair math — coil wins under 3 chairs, KTF wins above.
Public artist site + URL
Custom domain
Qualified inquiry form (body location, refs, budget)
Stripe-Connect deposits + tips
Digital consent + signed waivers
Aftercare SMS drip
Roster + commission tracking
AI healing watch (vision-model photo reads)
AI style-fit score + AI pricing coach
Cancellation waitlist — auto-fills the slot
Healed-photo bounty + touch-up credit ledger
Two-stage drawing deposit
Per-artist Twilio number for client SMS
Apprentice mode (mentor approval queue)
Portability moat — URL stays with the artist
60-second IG sync (OAuth → site generated)
Convention booth QR + lead capture
Referral code system
Inventory management (needles, ink, jewelry)
Full payroll system
1099 form generation for contractors
Deep analytics + custom reports
If your shop's operating bottleneck is inventory + payroll + reporting — you spend Sunday counting needles, calculating 1099s by hand, and pulling per-artist revenue reports out of spreadsheets — Keep The Fees ships that stack and coil doesn't yet. Same goes for shops at 3+ chairs where the flat $99.99 subscription math beats coil's per-chair scaling. KTF was built around the operating-stack pain; if that's where you feel the most friction, they fit you better.
When coil is the right call
If your shop's operating bottleneck is the inquiry → drawing → healed-photo loop — you sort 50+ DMs a week, draw four hours for clients who flake, lose touch with everyone six weeks after their session, and watch good artists leave with their URLs gone — coil ships that stack and KTF doesn't. The AI features alone (healing watch, style-fit, pricing coach) recoup an artist's evenings every week. The portability moat is the recruiting tool that gets the good ones to say yes to your shop in the first place. Under 3 chairs, coil is also cheaper.
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