What we finance, and who funds it
We arrange tattoo and body art studio equipment financing through Canadian banks and specialised leasing institutions. Artist stations, chairs and lighting, autoclaves and sterilisation equipment, ventilation and air filtration, reception, retail and complete studio fit-outs, and laser removal and aftercare equipment all qualify, new or used. A full studio build can be carried on one structure, which is how most owners prefer to open rather than assembling equipment station by station.
Sterilisation and ventilation are the licence
An autoclave with validated cycles, proper sharps handling and real air filtration are what a health inspection is actually checking. They are also the costliest items in a build-out relative to their visibility, which is exactly why they get deferred by owners funding an opening out of savings. Financing the compliance equipment properly is the difference between opening on schedule and opening on appeal.
Stations are capacity, and capacity is bookings
A studio earns per artist per chair. Adding a station is adding a revenue line, and it is a small enough increment that owners often fund it badly — out of cash that the business needed elsewhere. Structuring a station properly keeps the expansion from starving the operating account, and resident-artist models make that capacity decision regularly rather than once.
Laser removal is a separate business inside the studio
Adding removal equipment brings a second service with its own fee schedule, its own training and its own regulatory considerations, and it is typically the largest single purchase a studio will make. It also finances cleanly, because the demand is usually already visible in enquiries the studio currently turns away. Applications above $250,000 require financial statements; a station or an autoclave is far lighter paperwork. Tell us the studio and the build, and we structure it around the opening date.
