Everything a venue can do on Bandwagon.

A Venue account unlocks the /venue dashboard, Open Slots, take-home offer flow, door check-in, settlement reports, and same-night payouts. Free, forever.

1. 1
   Sign up under the Venue track

   Hit Sign up, pick Venue. The form asks for the venue name, your name, email, password.
2. 2
   Confirm email + complete profile

   From /venue fill in the basics: address, capacity, age policy, genre history, contact info, 3–5 photos of the room.
3. 3
   Connect Stripe for door receipts

   Required only if you want ticket revenue + sponsorship money to flow through Bandwagon (most do). Stripe Connect Express onboarding — 3–5 minutes.

/venue is your home base. At a glance:

• Hero stats:Votes received this month, shows booked in the last 30 days, average door, monthly visit count.
• Trending demand:Which bands fans are voting onto your stage right now, sorted hot to cold.
• Calendar:Booked + held + proposed + open dates on a month view. Click any cell to drill in.
• Sent offers:Take-Home Offers you've sent to bands with their current status.
• Pending door reports:Shows that ended but haven't been settled yet.

Open Slots is your fastest path to filling a calendar. Post a date, set the parameters, let bands come to you.

1. 1
   Click + Post open slot

   From the dashboard hero, hit + Post open slot.
2. 2
   Set the date and slot details

   Date, load-in time, soundcheck window, set length, bill position (headline / support / opener), and base guarantee or door-split offered.
3. 3
   Add filters (optional)

   Genre preferences, minimum draw, region (local-only / regional / touring OK). Filters narrow the application pool.
4. 4
   Publish

   The slot appears on /slots immediately. Bands apply through their /studio.

The biggest difference between Bandwagon and any other booking tool: you can see what fans actually want before you book it.

Vote demand on your venue

• Every band fans vote onto your stage shows up in /venue under Trending demand.
• 50 votes = courtesy email from Bandwagon to your booker.
• 200 votes = auto-DM to your booker with a recommended offer template.
• 500 votes = guaranteed offer prompt with platform-escrowed guarantee.

What to do with the signal

1. 1
   Sort by velocity, not raw count

   500 votes in two weeks beats 2000 votes accumulated over a year. The dashboard sorts by recency-weighted score by default.
2. 2
   Cross-check with calendar gaps

   Pair top-demand bands with your weakest forecasted dates first. That's where the demand signal does the most work for you.
3. 3
   Send a Take-Home Offer

   One click from the demand panel pre-fills an offer to the band.

A Take-Home Offer is the structured booking proposal you send to a band. Better than email back-and-forth — every offer term lives in one structured doc the band reviews in their /studio.

1. 1
   Open the offer composer

   From any band page (or from the demand panel), tap Send offer.
2. 2
   Fill the offer

   Date, set time, bill position, guarantee, door split, hospitality essentials, technical rider acceptance. Bandwagon shows your historical average attendance for similar shows so the band sees an honest take-home projection.
3. 3
   Send + track

   Offer lands in the band's /studio with three buttons: Accept, Decline, Counter. Status updates in your Sent offers panel.
4. 4
   Counter-offer flow

   If the band counters, you see the side-by-side change in your dashboard. Accept the counter or send your own revision. Two rounds of counters is the norm.
5. 5
   Contract

   Accepted offers auto-generate the contract in /contracts. E-sign with the band. Done.

On show night, run /checkinon any tablet or phone at the door. It's a focused, one-job UI: scan tickets, count walks-up, settle at the end.

1. 1
   Open the check-in app

   Sign in with a venue-staff account on a tablet at the door. The calendar shows that night's show — tap to enter check-in mode.
2. 2
   Scan QR tickets

   Bandwagon-issued tickets scan in < 2 seconds. The counter on the dashboard updates in real time. Duplicate-scan blocked automatically.
3. 3
   Mark walk-up sales

   Card or cash walk-ups go through the same UI. Each one is stamped with time-of-sale + amount.
4. 4
   Track comps and guest list

   Comps tap the +Comp button. Guest list pre-loaded if the band sent it through.

After the last band plays, settle the night with a Door Report. It's the official record of what came in and what goes out.

1. 1
   Open the door report

   From the show entry on your dashboard, tap Settle show. The report is pre-filled with scanned attendance, walk-up counts, comps, and the night's cash + card totals from your check-in tablet.
2. 2
   Add the bar take

   Type in the bar's gross + tip-out (if relevant to band's settlement terms).
3. 3
   Confirm guarantee + door split

   Bandwagon calculates the band's payout per the contract (their guarantee + their share of door over the guarantee).
4. 4
   Submit

   Hit submit. Stripe Connect moves the band's share into their pending payout. Settlement complete.

What the band sees

They get a notification with the door report PDF and the payout amount, scheduled to land in their bank account within 24 hours. Disputes (if any) get filed via /messages or the formal refund dispute path through /admin.

Money moves on this rhythm:

• Ticket revenue:Pre-show: Bandwagon holds the funds. Post-door-report: split per contract, band paid within 24 hours, venue revenue settled to your Stripe account on Stripe's daily rolling payout.
• Crowdfund pledges:All-or-nothing — charged only if the show funds. Settled the same way as standard ticket revenue.
• Sponsorship money:Per the sponsorship agreement, typically 50% on signing / 50% post-show. Bandwagon takes 15%; the rest splits band + venue.
• Vendor invoices:If you hire a vendor through /vendors, payment is held in escrow until you mark service delivered.

See all settlement detail under the Payouts panel in /venue. Each line shows the underlying transaction so disputes have an audit trail.

/sponsors is where local brands buy sponsorship placements at your shows. Presenting, stage, merch-insert, VIP-experience, bar — all sliced by show or by month.

How to enable sponsorship at your venue

1. 1
   Publish your sponsorship rate card

   From /venue, open the Sponsorship tab. Set rate by placement type and by typical show attendance. CPM auto-calculates.
2. 2
   Accept inbound brand requests

   Brands browse /sponsors and request placements. You see each request in /venue → Sponsorship inbox. Accept or counter.
3. 3
   Deliver + recap

   On show night, take photos of the placement (signage, merch tables, bar wraps). Upload to the sponsorship record so the brand sees proof of delivery.
4. 4
   Get paid

   Per the agreement. Bandwagon takes 15%, the rest splits band + venue per the show's settlement terms.

/vendors lists every verified service provider in Daytona working with Bandwagon: sound engineers, photographers, videographers, lighting, catering, security.

1. 1
   Browse + filter

   Filter by service type, price range, reviews, availability.
2. 2
   Request a quote

   Send a structured request with show date + scope. Vendor responds with a quote inside Bandwagon.
3. 3
   Hire + escrow

   Accept the quote → payment held in escrow.
4. 4
   Release after delivery

   After the show, mark service delivered. Funds release to vendor same-night via Stripe Connect.

Same flow as bands — you can stream venue-curated events (open mics, multi-band showcases, late-night DJ sets) from /venue or /live using the Go Live button. RTMP URL + stream key, paste into OBS, broadcast.

• Why stream:Expand the audience past the room cap; archive the night as VOD for replays; capture content for next month's socials.
• Monetization:Same tip jar mechanic — viewers tip the performers, 100% goes through. Optional VIP gating ($3–8 per stream).
• Bandwidth:A 1080p 30fps stream uses ~3.5 GB per hour. Plan accordingly if your venue uses metered internet.

Every accepted offer auto-generates a contract in /contracts. E-signed, stored, searchable. Includes:

• Show date, load-in, set time, set length
• Bill position
• Guarantee + door split
• Hospitality + tech rider essentials
• Cancellation terms
• Recording / streaming rights
• Signed-PDF audit trail (IP + timestamp, both parties)

If something goes wrong

1. 1
   Try /messages first

   Most disputes (a band no-showed, equipment damage, contested door count) resolve in a 2-message DM thread.
2. 2
   Escalate via /admin

   If informal resolution fails, file a refund dispute through /admin → Refund disputes. Both parties submit evidence; Bandwagon mediates within 14 days.
3. 3
   Stripe chargeback (last resort)

   For ticketing payment disputes, fans can chargeback through their card issuer — we cooperate with documentation but the mediation track usually resolves faster.

Anything else lives under /settings.

• Multi-venue:If you operate more than one room, add additional venues from /settings → Venues. One account, multiple stages.
• Staff seats:Add bartenders, sound, door staff with limited permissions (door check-in only / settlement-only / full).
• Notifications:Show-day reminders, offer responses from bands, door-report due notices.
• Recurring patterns:Auto-post a recurring slot (e.g. Wednesday open mic) once and Bandwagon publishes the next 12 weeks of that slot.