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In current times, life has become very busy, especially in the music industry. From booking various gigs to ensuring studio sessions are booked, it is impossible to manage everything with perfection, but to manage with precision is very possible. The same is the case with  managers or booking agents; they also face difficulty in maintaining schedules, customers, and the production process altogether.  

Booking agency software is a perfect solution. Booking agency software handles all your schedules, offers, business reports, contracts, and much more. That means everything can be organized and managed in a hassle-free way. Online booking agency software enables fast service and instant management.  

In this era of digitalization, other industry sectors are already online or coming to the online platform; the music industry should be the same way. Booking agency software works the same way but builds a bridge with organizers, artists, and musicians on an  online platform.  

The software streamlines the manual process. Where a manager or booking agent may have to reach out themselves to communicate and negotiate with different venues and organizations, booking agency software puts a little ease in the process. Everything from reaching out for appointments with artists, checking the dates of availability to making offers, tracking deposits, and all other parts of the booking cycle taking care of your artists, song writers, and musicians has never been easier.

There are many ways booking agency software can benefit customers. Let’s dig a little deeper into why booking agency software is beneficial for managers and booking agents or agencies.  

Booking Agency Software: The Key to Winning Customers

No more queues

Who likes to wait in long queues? It is very annoying to have to wait your turn to book. But with booking agency software, you can skip the long queues and book directly online in the easiest way. In this busy world, you don’t have time to wait in queues; Thanks to booking agency software, you can book anytime, from anywhere.  

Easy access

The only thing that booking agency software requires is online access.  This allows you to book conveniently on your smartphone, desktop, or laptop. No matter which time zone you’re in or which part of the country you are located, you can book different events for your artists 24/7 in the booking agency software easily. This is especially convenient when you’re booking for a time zone completely different from yours.  

Security

It’s becoming more and more common to encounter financial fraud on online platforms. However, booking agency software allows you to complete your payments safely and securely. This software provides different options to make your payments; Simply select the one that suits you best and proceed with your payments.

Information

Customers are often confused about certain events due to the lack of information about the event. Because of this, many customers fail to show up. Through booking agency software, you’ll have all the information you need to book events, appointments, studio sessions, and all other engagements. This helps managers and booking agents/agencies stay updated and well-informed of current and future events. This helps create a good impression and build trust among the artists and musicians that you’re putting the best interest of their careers first. .  

Service and Support

As booking agency software provides managers and booking agents/agencies with different areas of booking such as events, venues, and much more, features such as user-friendly submission forms, status of contracts, interactive calendar, and much more, all come standard with booking agency software to create a more personalized and streamlined service for users. This level of constant service and support will surely be appreciated by managers and booking agents/agencies.  

Customer satisfaction

Each and every booking effort is in vain if there is no customer satisfaction. Booking agency software customers get all the support they require, and the results are always satisfying, as it cuts out a lot of the grunt work you would face without the software. Customers can also share their reviews and feedback of their experience with the software.  

The music business is international, so your agency needs software that makes the details of doing business across borders a little easier. Our booking agency software works with agencies overseas and aids in business management. Booking Agency Pro supports foreign currencies and tax ID formats, so your paperwork automatically reflects the correct currency. These features come in addition to a full suite of management tools at a flexible price point that makes the software great for agencies of all sizes. 

Key Features of Booking Agency Pro

The software helps with all parts of agency management, from making offers to finalizing contracts, tracking deposits, and creating business reports. Our booking agency software is a full suite of business management tools, users can:

Monitor Offers and Contracts - Send PDFs of offers and contracts, monitor the status of each contract from beginning to end. Venue and buyer information automatically populates from the user’s contact database.

Schedule via an Interactive Calendar – Generate routing sheets, block time to prevent double booking, or review a selected artist’s calendar. Schedule blocks and holds from the calendar too.

Review Reports – Review revenue reports, track money received and money due, and more. Review your most successful shows and make post-show notes.

Manage Customer Relationships – Log your communications with agents and venues, keep deal records, and schedule follow-up activities. Review a history of deals.

The software features a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to find and review the information you need to put together an offer, schedule events, manage gigs, and more. Stop using email and Google docs to handle contracts, offers, and client communications. More than 100 agencies, including ten plus agencies outside the USA, trust Booking Agency Pro to manage their billing and booking services.

Communication and deal management aren’t the only elements of agency work that you can streamline. Several features make marketing easier too. You can sync show schedules with Bandsintown and Songkick. Each Booking Agency Pro customer also gets custom branding, maintenance, secure and reliable hosting, and unlimited data storage. An agency outside the USA would absolutely need the ability to work in their currency and with their tax numbers.

The Best Booking Agency Software Works Across Borders

Working across international borders to manage talent and book gigs can be done if you make a few adjustments to your business practices. If you are buying outside the US, you can get pricing converted to Canadian Dollars, British Pounds, and Euros, among other currencies.

Booking Agency Pro has an artist page that allows users to record an artists’ tax ID in formats that match Canadian and UK usage too – a 9-digit Social Insurance Number (SIN) for Canadians and a 10-digit unique taxpayer reference (UTR) for UK artists. You can specify the currency to use in each transaction, as well as on itineraries wherever costs must be shown. Canadian users will also find a field where they can record any applicable services tax.

YourTempo Offers Custom Music Business Management Software

Marketing your music takes a good deal of work, no doubt about it. Some websites offer platforms to give artists exposure, however, these tools don’t help much with the business side of being a songwriter and musician. Publishing Pro from YourTempo offers a business-oriented platform for artists who want to manage and promote their work through a branded Website.

The Best Platform for Artists Offers More than Exposure

Lots of websites let artists show off their music. Streaming services like Spotify, Pandora, and YouTube Music allow musicians to easily get in front of fans. Where they all fall somewhat short is in managing your catalog of songs.

Getting your songs noticed and used in the industry is much easier if you have a way to pitch them and track your results. Keep track of what you pitched, when, and what the result was. You want to organize your material in a way that makes it easy to pitch and review. Writers do this when they try to sell articles or short stories. Songwriters and performers can do the same.

Your music artist website is no longer your most valuable sales tool. Publishing Pro makes it easy to pitch your music in a way that producers can easily access and see your full catalog. This makes it simple for them to access your best songs and envision how a partnership could aid your artist development.

The Advantages of Publishing Pro

Streaming services help listeners find your music, but that is only a small part of the business. How do you get heard by people who would pay to license your music? This is where Publishing Pro from YourTempo is a huge benefit to musicians. You get a digital music player for all of your songs with your Publishing Pro subscription, but you get several features that are far more valuable for the business side of:

Song catalog – You can add up to 10 versions of a song and export an Excel file of all song information in your catalog

Tracking pitches – Publishing Pro keeps records of what’s been pitched to whom and when

Administration – The administrative panel offers access to a variety of record-keeping functions

Song information – Publishing Pro hosts information about cuts, holds, syncs, and more

Customization – Your Publishing Pro account is customized with your logo

Maintenance and upgrades – Secure data backup, regular maintenance, and upgrades

Built-in player – You can’t sell your songs unless buyers can hear them; Publishing Pro includes a digital player that automatically downloads with each song

Tempo Offers Tailored Music Business Tools

If you want to sell your music, it helps to have the right marketing support. This is why a Publishing Pro subscription is a great choice. We have different pricing plans to suit song catalogs of different sizes.

See you at the International Entertainment Buyers Association Conference!

Are you having a hard time keeping track of contracts with all the cancellations due to COVID-19? Let our music industry software help you! Tempo has the solution for you to navigate this virtual world. Starting at just $59/mo., we can fix this constant worry and help you stay organized with our Booking Agency Pro product or our Talent Buying Pro product. We will be at IEBA in the Omni ballroom Tuesday, October 5th at 11:00am.

Software used for booking gigs by artists of all kinds is the way of the future for the most obvious of reasons; it’s the digital age and everything works through the internet now! Booking shows and venues with an individual artist or booking agent profile on one side and a client profile on the other streamlines communications and connectivity between all parties. Clients can do an array of research about an artist's availability including itinerary before the scheduled date of an event. They can view contracts and choose to speak directly with artists’ managers once they have formed an interest. Both parties can view the status of an event, such as whether or not it has been canceled, an important notifier in this day and age of new circumstances and last minute additions and cancelations.

More important than those things is an artist's ability to, not only have their resume online, but to also broadcast it and search for open venues, while simultaneously being able to answer questions about time, pay, length of session, etc. by just having that easily available on their user profile. Clients can entertain the idea of an artist without having to do more than simply scan their profile. The seamless communication and effective information tools give both parties everything they need to establish an interest and even book a gig.

An artist’s manager can quickly become their booking agent, or they can eliminate the need for a booking agent all together with the streamlined software services.

An artist can accept online bookings, receive notification both through SMS and email through the available apps, accept online payments for gigs, create available coupon codes for general or specific clients, and even integrate the software with social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Google My Business, and others.

The music world has started to hold their breath once again, as the Delta Variant continues to alter more and more plans. According to the LA Times, Florida Georgia Line is the latest of countless major acts to cancel their respective 2021 tour.  The article states that Stevie Nicks, Nine Inch Nails, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Garth Brooks and other artists also have recently scrapped or postponed tour dates as the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to sweep across the United States and abroad.  

To say we’ve come a long way since March of 2020 is an absolute understatement. Not knowing what lies ahead with the Delta variant is scary, but industry is ready to make sure they don’t repeat the history of last year. Venues of all sizes over America are now requiring proof of vaccination or negative test for entry in order to stay afloat through this next big wave. "Certain states' regulations may override our mandate, or a few artists may not want to immediately get on board with the plan," said AEG Presents General Counsel Shawn Trell in the press release. "But we know that using our platform to take a strong position on vaccinations can make an impact." With where things are headed, it’s too early to say that live music is in jeopardy. One thing is for sure, the industry it evolving after an unprecedented and traumatic year.