Bookings

Booking deal section

This guide will show you how to manage different kinds of deals for your agency bookings in Artistu.

Deal page

The deal section is an important aspect for later steps such as creating invoices and agreements.

From your booking details screen, click on the "deal" tab to access the deal section.

Deal section

Speed up your workflow

You can set up Deal templates for your artists to automatically populate these fields with default values.

Artistu presents you with several large standard options that most bookings will have. These are:

  • Performance fees
  • Booking fees
  • Travel
  • Accommodation
  • Other fees

Adding a performance fee

Click on the big square to add a performance fee. You will be presented with a modal to add the details of the fee.

VAT percentage

Artistu will automatically infer the VAT percentage based on the artist you have added to the booking.

Adding a performance fee

Artistu will fill in most of the important information for you, your main action is to update the "Amount" field with the amount of the fee.

Deal section with performance fee

Adding a booking fee

The booking fee is a fee that agencies can use if they want to charge a fee for the booking of the artist. This fee can either be inclusive or exclusive.

Exclusive booking fee

In countries like the Netherlands, the booking fee is usually exclusive. This means that your customer will pay the full amount of the performance fee plus an edditional booking fee.

Exclusive booking fee

Artistu will automatically calculate the amount of booking fee based on the performance fee and the percentage of the booking fee set on the bookings' artist.

Deal section with exclusive booking fee

Inclusive booking fee

For landed deals, the booking fee is usually inclusive. This means that your customer will pay a single agreed amount which you share between the artist and the agency.

When using this setting Artistu will automatically calculate the amount of booking fee and update the performance fee accordingly.

Inclusive booking fee

What that results in is that the performance fee will be updated to reflect the inclusive booking fee.

Deal section with inclusive booking fee

Additional fees

You can also add additional fees to your booking. These include:

  • Travel fees
  • Accomodation
  • Copyrights
  • Crew
  • Catering
  • Management fees
  • Flights costs
  • Parking costs

Adding an additional fee

After adding all that your deal section should look like this:

Deal section with additional fees

Conclusion

Now that you have setup your booking with the most important information, it is time to start adding contacts, creating invoices and getting that contract signed.