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RunAVenue: running your venue

Claim your listing, put dates on the calendar, and work with booking agents.

RunAVenue is the venue owner's side of RunABand — the same platform bands use, seen from the other side of the booking. To sign up, choose Get started on the home page and then follow “Own a venue? Sign up here” at the bottom. Once you are in, claim your venue's listing from the directory. An admin reviews the claim, since claiming a listing is a statement about a real-world relationship.

Putting dates on the calendar

  1. Set your booking defaults once — usual start and end time, and whether new dates accept band requests.
  2. Add recurring templates for the nights you always run, then generate dates from them.
  3. Add one-off dates directly to the calendar.
  4. Open a date to bands, and connected bands can ask for it.

Working with booking agents

Booking agents can ask to represent your venue. You are the one who approves it — you are the authority on who books your room.

  • Requests to represent your venue arrive for you to approve or decline.
  • An approved agent works your calendar alongside you.
  • You can end a representation at any time.
  • You can allocate specific nights to a specific agent — see Who can book a venue.

The tabs across the top

  • Calendar — your dates, and everything that happens on one of them.
  • Pace — how full the months ahead are against how full this room usually gets them. See Booking pace.
  • Recurring slots — the patterns you generate dates from.
  • Acts — everyone you book, and what each of them did here. See Your acts.
  • Staff and costs — who worked, and what the night cost in people. See Staff and what a night costs.
  • Trends — season by season, and which acts actually draw. See Seasons, trends and which acts draw.
  • Reports — payouts, with CSV and PDF export.
  • Settings — your listing, booking defaults, and your calendar feed.

Money, briefly

  • Record the deal for a night — a flat fee, or a percentage of the door.
  • Settle the night: door, bar, food, heads through the door. See Kinds of night, and settling one.
  • Mark payouts as paid, and export them as CSV or PDF.

Claiming and editing your listing is always available. The booking calendar is a separate, paid capability that an admin switches on for your account.

Everything you record about a night is yours. Bands never see any of it, and a booking agent working your calendar sees only what an act was paid on a flat fee. See What each person can see.

Related

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.Your actsThe room's own record of everyone it books, on the platform or not, with their whole history attached.Seasons, trends and which acts drawYour year month by month, what a normal night looks like, and which acts beat it.Who can book a venueHow owners and booking agents share one venue calendar, and who gets told about what.