Can I use Covered Beauty just for consultation forms?
Yes. When you sign up, choose Consultation forms when we ask what you want first. Your Forms page then opens with the ready-made forms and three steps: pick a form, choose how clients fill it in, and get your first one filled in.
You don’t need treatments, opening hours or bookings for any of it. When you want clients to book online too, it’s already there on the same plan.
Which ready-made forms are there?
There are 22 ready-made forms, each a starting point you read through and make your own. They include:
- Lashes and brows: lash extensions, lash lift, lash tint, brow tint, brow henna, brow lamination and brow wax
- Nails, waxing and electrolysis
- Tanning: spray tans and sunbeds
- Skin: facials and skincare, dermaplaning and LED light therapy
- Aesthetics: injectables, semi-permanent makeup and microblading
- Massage and body treatments
- Ear and body piercing
- A new-client medical history form, and a general treatment form for anything else, such as hair extensions
Most open with a short note for the client on the treatment’s main risk. Every one asks for their name, date of birth and address, then the treatment’s own questions. The tint, henna, lamination and lash lift forms ask about a patch test. Forms such as sunbeds and injectables ask whether the client is under 18. Where aftercare matters there’s a tick to agree to it. Every form ends with a tick to confirm their answers, then their typed signature and the date.
Each one opens with a note saying it’s a starting point, not a finished or legally checked document. Read it through and check it against your insurer’s requirements before you switch it on. That note is just for you: clients never see it, and it isn’t printed on their signed form. Want to start from scratch? Build your own from short text, long text, dates, yes or no questions, tick boxes and information text.
Not sure what to ask? Read what to put in a lash consultation form.
What are the other ways to do consultation forms?
Paper record cards
They’re cheap to print, but they can go missing, they need locking away, and nobody can fill one in before they arrive. Moving from paper? Keep the cards you have for as long as your insurer asks, and start new forms online.
A general form builder
Jotform is a form builder for every kind of business, with consultation form templates among many others. Its free Starter plan allows 5 active forms, 100 submissions a month and 10 signed documents a month.
Source: Jotform pricing, checked 21 October 2026.
Consent form apps
Faces says it’s free to use, with no card needed, and has over 200 insurance-verified consent forms. It’s built for aesthetic clinics and healthcare practices, and lets them find prescribers and order from pharmacies alongside bookings.
Source: Faces, checked 21 October 2026.
Insync Consent, from Insync Insurance Solutions Ltd, is listed on the App Store as free and designed for iPad, with insurer-approved treatment consent forms, aftercare, a bookings calendar and a client directory.
Source: Insync Consent on the App Store, checked 21 October 2026.
Our ready-made forms aren’t approved by an insurer. If yours gives you approved wording, type it into a Covered Beauty form.
Booking systems with forms
Fresha lists consultation forms and patch tests among its features. Booksy includes custom forms and liability waivers. Phorest sends consultation forms before a visit from its Grow plan, and Timely from its Boost plan. For every option side by side, read the best salon booking software in the UK.
Sources: Fresha UK pricing, Booksy UK pricing and Phorest UK pricing, checked 12 October 2026, and Timely pricing, checked 10 October 2026.
Questions about consultation forms
Can I send a consultation form without a booking?
Yes. Choose the client and the forms, then email the link from Covered Beauty or copy it into WhatsApp or a text. The link works for 14 days, only for that client, and you can cancel it at any time. Their signed form lands on their record.
Do clients need an app or an account?
No. They open the link on their phone, answer the questions, tick to give their consent and type their name to sign.
Can clients fill in a form on my iPad in the salon?
Yes. Set a kiosk PIN, then use Hand to client. The iPad shows only their forms until someone from your team enters the PIN.
Do returning clients have to fill in the whole form again?
If the form came with their booking and they filled in the same form in the last 6 months, they see their previous answers, confirm nothing has changed and sign again. Patch test questions never carry over, so they answer those again every time. Forms sent as a link or handed over on your tablet are filled in fresh each time, so nobody holding the device sees someone else’s answers.
Can I use my own wording or my insurer’s?
Yes. Edit any ready-made form word for word, or build your own from short text, long text, dates, yes or no questions, tick boxes and information text.
How long are signed forms kept?
7 years from the appointment, or from the day it was signed for a form filled in without a booking, while your account is open. You can print or download any signed form as a PDF, and export your data at any time. If you ever leave, export your forms within 30 days of your account ending, as our terms say, so you still have them for your insurer.
Is there a free trial?
Yes, a week free with no card needed. Forms are included on both plans, from £9 a month.