Booking and agents (for bands)

Booking works in both directions, and the two halves are priced differently. Being approached is free: connecting with an agent or venue, and taking a date they offer you, works on any plan — the room reaching out is the one paying. Going looking is Pro: advertising the dates you want filled, and browsing venues to ask for their open nights.

Connections

Nothing happens between a band and an agent until there is an approved connection. Either side can ask; the other side approves. You can see and end your connections from the band's Booking page.

What lets someone put a gig on your calendar

This is the setting worth understanding. When a connection is approved, it carries a slot-requests permission. With it switched on, a venue manager can book your band into one of their dates, and that writes a confirmed gig straight onto your calendar.

• It is deliberate — it is the same standing consent that lets you request their open dates.
• It only applies to managers you have an approved connection with. Nobody else can reach your calendar.
• Turn slot requests off for a connection and they can no longer book you; the connection itself stays.

If a confirmed gig appears that you did not enter, it came from a venue or agent you are connected to with slot requests enabled. The gig names where it came from, and turning that permission off stops it happening again.

Open dates and requests

• Advertise dates you want to fill, so connected agents can see what you are looking for — and so you show up when a room is looking for someone free that night.
• Browse the venue directory and ask a venue for one of its open nights.
• Dates a venue offers you arrive on your Booking page, with a badge in the sidebar. Taking one books it — a confirmed gig, then and there.