Run the businessside of music
Setdesk is the diary for a booking agency, a manager or a self-managed artist. A booking holds its contract, its invoice, its advance sheet and its fee, and the promoter opens each one from a link.
The diary
Every artist, one month
Every artist on one month grid, each show in the state its booking is in: an enquiry outlined, a hold dashed, a confirmed show filled, a contract's check, a settled fee in green. Two holds on one date are marked as a clash, and a second confirmed booking for the same artist on the same date is refused by the database. The same month is on your phone, with tonight at the top.
October 2026
- Kagiso Deep
- Static Wren
- AyandaHold 1
- Kagiso Deep
- Kagiso Deep
- Static Wren
- Kagiso Deep
Contracts and invoices
Written from the booking
A booking starts as an enquiry or a hold and moves through confirmed, contracted, completed and settled. Its contract is written from the booking's own terms and its invoice is numbered in sequence with VAT stated, so nothing is typed twice, and the advance sheet, the itinerary and the calendar entry sit on the same page.
Money
Fee, commission, net
The money page reads the same records as the diary: the fee, the commission and the net for every booking, with the forecast, the commission owed and anything overdue at the top. A foreign fee shows in its own currency with the rand beside it, and whether a member sees money at all is a permission the database enforces.
The promoter's side
A link, no account
The promoter opens the contract from a link, as a page and as a PDF, and signs it online when it is on your own wording or an agreement you upload, both on Pro. The link is one of a kind, it expires after thirty days and it can be revoked from the booking. Invoices and advance sheets travel the same way, and an invoice can be paid by card from its page. The built-in wording is still under legal review, so a contract on it can be read but not yet signed.
Promos and demos
An answer in one tap
A promo is a private streaming page per recipient, with no account on their side. The workspace sees who opened it, who played it and how far, track by track, and each recipient answers in one tap: playing it, might play it, not for me. The master is offered only to the people you choose, and only after they answer. Demos come the other way: Send a demo on your public page lands one in your demo inbox, where it stays streamable for 14 days.
Who it is for
Three desks, one diary
Plans follow how many artists, people and campaigns a workspace runs; Pro adds your own contract wording and artist statements. A self-managed artist grows into an agency without moving anything.
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The roster
A booking agency
You hold a roster's dates in your head and a promoter on the phone. Setdesk puts every artist on one month grid, refuses a second confirmed booking on the same date, and writes the contract and the invoice from the booking's own terms.
- Start on Free
The act and the office
A self-managed artist
You are the act and the office: the enquiry, the fee, the invoice and the chasing. The whole product runs for one artist on the free plan, with a public page at your handle that takes enquiries and demos.
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The release and the roster
A label or a manager
You have a release going out and a list of people who should hear it first. A promo is a private streaming page per recipient, and each one answers in one tap: playing it, might play it, not for me.
Trust
What you can rely on
Each of these holds however the product is used, because it is built into where your data is kept, not left to a setting on a screen.
- 01No double booking. A second confirmed show for the same artist on the same night is refused outright, not flagged and left for someone to notice.
- 02Your data stays in your workspace. Nobody outside it can see your bookings, your contacts or your money.
- 03Your files are never at a public address. Every PDF and every master is fetched through an address made for that request, which stops working within minutes, so one copied and passed on leads nowhere.
- 04Every change to a contract or a fee is recorded, with who made it, when, and what it said before and after.
- 05A person's data is theirs. When a contact asks, their record is exported as a file or erased from their page, as POPIA requires, and a member can delete their own account.
The security page says how each of these is built.
Pricing
One artist is free
R499.00 a month for a roster and a team, R1 499.00 for an agency of any size. The diary, the paper and the money are on every plan; Pro adds your own contract wording and artist statements, Agency adds access per module, and otherwise the price follows how many artists, people and campaigns you run.
Every workspace starts on Free, with no card. When the second artist or the second seat arrives, the plan changes in settings and nothing you have is touched; if a payment ever fails, the plan stays on for seven days while you change the card, then drops back to Free, and nothing is deleted.
Prices include VAT.
Start with next month's shows
Sign in with your email; a code does the rest, and there is no card to enter. An empty diary offers a sample month, so you can read a working desk before you type your first booking.