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How RunABand works, in 34 short articles.

Getting started

Accounts, bands, and invitations.

Creating an accountSign up, confirm your email address, and log in for the first time.Creating a bandWhat a band credit is, how many you start with, and how to get more.Joining a bandHow invite links work, and the difference between a regular member and a sub.

Running a band

Gigs, people, songs, money.

GigsTrack a booking from first enquiry through to played, and see who is actually turning up.Members and subsAdd people to the roster, including players who never sign in, and bring in a sub for one night.Songs and set listsKeep the song library, build ordered set lists from it, and print one for the stage.Your band's venuesThe address book of places you play, and how it differs from the public venue directory.AvailabilityMark the dates you cannot play, and see the whole band's conflicts on one calendar.Payments and mileageRecord what a gig paid, who has been paid, and how far you drove.Reports and exportsGet your payments and mileage out of RunABand as CSV or PDF.

Pro features

Booking, agreements, and your public page.

Plans and ProWhat the Pro plan unlocks for a band, and how a band gets it.Booking and agents (for bands)Connect with booking agents, control what they can do, and understand what puts a gig on your calendar.AgreementsBuild reusable contract templates and send them to be signed for a gig.Your public pagePublish a shareable EPK with your bio, photos, songs, and stage plot.

Running a venue

RunAVenue: your calendar, your nights, your numbers.

RunAVenue: running your venueClaim your listing, put dates on the calendar, and work with booking agents.Kinds of night, and settling oneThe four kinds of night a room runs, what you record at the end of one, and what settling locks.Ticket salesPrice tiers, who sold what, walk-ups, and how tickets become the door figure.Break-even, and how a show is sellingThe two readings on a booked night's page: what it has to take to cover itself, and where the tickets are against your other shows.Staff, and what a night costsTrack who worked, what they were paid, and what a night actually cleared. Costs only — this is not payroll.Sound engineersThe one staff role with a login: your own schedule, your own pay, the stage plots, and covering for each other.Your actsThe room's own record of everyone it books, on the platform or not, with their whole history attached.Importing a calendar you already haveBring your old bookings in from a calendar export or a spreadsheet, see exactly what it would do, and then commit.Seasons, trends and which acts drawYour year month by month, what a normal night looks like, and which acts beat it.Booking paceHow full the months ahead are against how full this room usually gets them, weekday by weekday.What each person can seeYour numbers are yours. Exactly who sees what, and the one figure that leaks by arithmetic.Putting your calendar in your phoneSubscribe to your venue's dates, or to your own shifts, from any calendar app.Running the night itselfTonight, the door list, walk-up sales and settling up — the parts you do standing on your feet.Advancing a show, and the act's own linkSending an act their times and details, and giving them a page they can read without an account.More than one act on a nightAdding a support act, what a bill commits you to, and why a shared night counts differently.

Booking agents

Representing bands and working a venue's calendar.

Who can book a venueHow owners and booking agents share one venue calendar, and who gets told about what.Working as a booking agentGet approved, connect with bands, and send them dates.Representing a venueAsk to book for a venue you do not own, what you are certifying, and who approves it.

Account

Your login, settings, and fixes.

Your account and settingsChange your name, password, and appearance, and subscribe to your gig calendar.TroubleshootingFixes for the things that most often go wrong.