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title: Active vs. Inactive
description: "When creating or editing an artist as a studio account you can choose to set your artist **active or inactive.** Depending on what you chose your artist or will not be showing into your calendar or appointment bookings. This feature…"
url: "https://tattoogenda.com/docs/active-vs-inactive/"
updated: "2023-08-30"
category: Artists
---

# Active vs. Inactive

When creating or editing an artist as a studio account you can choose to set your artist **active or inactive.**
Depending on what you chose your artist or will not be showing into your calendar or appointment bookings.

This feature exists to make you effortlessly find your artists without seeing those artists who might be on holiday, are guest artists or not always available into your studio or who are simply **not returning to your studio but you do not wish to loose related data** **such as customer history, customer spending and more**. The data related this artist remains into your software when you set them on inactive.

![](https://tattoogenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DEVIDER-TG-02-31-1024x96.png)

**ACTIVE**

**IN**ACTIVE****

**✓**

Showing into the calendar

**✓**

Able to select in calendar

**✓**

Able to select in payments

**✓**

Showing up into filters

**✓**

Showing up customer list

**✓**

Active in artist list

**✓**

All related data still saved

**VS.**

✖ 

Showing into the calendar

✖ 

Able to select in calendar

✖ 

Able to select in payments

✖ 

Showing up into filters

✖ 

Showing up customer list

**✓**

**Inactive**in artist list

**✓**

All related data still saved

![](https://tattoogenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DEVIDER-TG-02-31-1024x96.png)

**Into the artist list you can see inactive artists as gray background and active artist with the normal white background**

![](https://tattoogenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ACTIVE-VS-INACTIVE-01-1024x497.png)

**You can filter in artists for active or inactive artists**

![](https://tattoogenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ACTIVE-VS-INACTIVE-13-1024x493.png)

**An inactive artist does not show up in search lists in projects**
You can see that Your other artist name here is not in this list

![](https://tattoogenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-146-1024x494.png)

**An inactive artist does not show up in search lists in customers**
You can see that Your other artist name here is not in this list

![](https://tattoogenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-147-1024x495.png)

**We can see that when we search for 'your other artist name' we cannot find this artist when inactive**

![](https://tattoogenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ACTIVE-VS-INACTIVE-12-1024x494.png)

![](https://tattoogenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DEVIDER-TG-02-31-1024x96.png)

You still have a problem or a question?
You can find a little link below called **'Still stuck? How can we help!'**

Written by
**Sharice Vandenhende**

By **Tattoogenda**