Who can book a venue

A venue's calendar is not limited to one person. Two kinds of account can work it, and they are peers — neither outranks the other on a date.

• The owner — the account that claimed the venue's listing.
• Representing agents — booking agents approved to book for that venue.

A venue can have both, either, or several representing agents at once. Representation is not exclusive in either direction: an agent books for many venues, and a venue works with many agents. This is also what makes a venue nobody has claimed bookable at all.

Allocating a date to one agent

By default every open date sits in a shared pool that all of the venue's managers can work. When that gets crowded, a date can be allocated to a specific agent instead.

• An unallocated date — anyone who manages the venue can work it.
• An allocated date — only that agent, plus the owner.
• The owner is never narrowed out, because the owner is the one handing dates out.

Who hears about a request

With several people sharing a calendar, notifying everybody would mean everyone triaging requests meant for a colleague. So a request goes to one person, in this order:

1. The agent the date was allocated to, if it was allocated.
2. Otherwise whoever opened the date.
3. Otherwise the venue's owner.

Booking a band that is on RunABand needs that band's consent first — an approved connection with slot requests enabled. Acts with no account here are not affected: they are booked from the venue's own list of acts, or by typing a name. See Your acts.