A working act is a small business with a strange schedule. The money is real, the paperwork is real, and yet most of it lives in a phone full of half-remembered offers and a group chat that scrolls too fast.
Offers and holds you can actually see
Inquiry, holding, offer out, confirmed. A show moves through stages just like any deal, and the fastest way to lose a good date is to double-book it or forget to reply to a promoter. Seeing every offer and hold on one board keeps the calendar honest.
What the band actually gets paid
Guarantees, door splits, deposits, per-player fees, the money in live music is anything but simple. Keeping your rates ready to quote, and letting payouts split cleanly by player, means the settlement at the end of the night is a calculation, not an argument. The BizSimple for musicians and bands page has the detail.
Getting booked
A promoter deciding between acts wants to see you are a professional. A press kit with your bio, music, and past shows, on a link they can open, does more than a paragraph in an email ever will. When the enquiry lands, it goes straight into your pipeline.
Keep it light
You did not pick up an instrument to become an administrator. A lean core, contacts, a shows pipeline, and invoices, with a press kit and setlists there when you want them, keeps the business quiet so the music stays loud. That is how BizSimple is built by Impartial AI Tech.