The show model

Every show is six parties meeting on one night. Soundcheck is built on that idea. Learn the six once and the rest of the product falls into place: each feature either belongs to one party or sits on the line between two of them. You run your own business from one corner of the model. The other corners are the people you work the gig with, and Soundcheck gives each of them a way in.

The six parties

Each party answers one question about the show.

Party	Question	Who it is	Examples
Event	When?	The gig itself: its days and its key moments.	A Saturday wedding, a three-day festival, stop 12 of a tour
Venue	Where?	The place, its rooms and stages, and what changes about it for one show.	A club, a hotel ballroom, a church, a festival site
Production	How?	Everything that turns a room into a show: crew, labor, gear, and the work to put it up and take it down.	A sound and lighting company, a house crew, a volunteer AV team
Talent	What?	What people come for: the act on the bill and its appearances.	A band, a DJ, a keynote speaker, a cast
Guests	Who?	The people in the audience: who is on the list and what they see.	Invited guests, ticket buyers, a congregation
Client	Why?	Who the show is for and who pays for it.	A couple, a company, a promoter, a nonprofit

Picture your last show. Who paid for it? Who performed? Who put it up? Whose room was it? Who came? If you can answer those, you already know the model.

The model in one picture

The solid lines are what two parties share: a booking, a show flow, a guest list. The dotted lines show that everything lands on the event. That is why the gig page is the hub of Soundcheck: it is where all the lines meet.

What lives on each line

Most of the product lives on the lines, not in the corners. Each line is an agreement or a document that two parties share.

Between	What passes	Where it lives in Soundcheck
Client and Talent Booking	The client books the act: the inquiry, the price, the agreement and the bill.	Leads, the quote, billing terms and invoices on the gig’s Finances tab, agreements and e-sign
Client and Production Production quote	The client buys the production: what is sold, the quote, and the invoice that follows.	Offerings, the storefront, invoices, agreements
Talent and Production Show flow	What the act needs from the crew and when: the timeline, the songs, the charts and the tasks.	Run of show, setlists, the song library, tasks, files
Talent and Venue Set times	Where and when the act appears: the stage, the slot and the moments around it.	Key times such as doors, set time and curfew, and stages on the venue
Production and Venue Load-in and specs	What the crew needs to know about the room: stages, load-in, curfew, house labor and house gear.	Venues with per-show overrides, key times, the labor call, the gear list
Client and Venue Room and date	Which room on which date, and who to reach about it.	The venue and customer linked to the gig, venue contacts under Collaborators, the calendar
Client and Guests Invitations	Who is invited, and where each list comes from.	Guest lists with sources such as Luma, Eventbrite or a spreadsheet
Event and Guests Attendance	The guest’s side of the night: their list entry, check-in, and the page they open.	The guest list, each party’s guest page, the gig’s live page

Around the lines sit the things that serve every party on a gig: travel that gets people to the venue, sponsors who support the event, and closeout that settles it afterward.

What you can open depends on your plan, your role, and whether an early access feature is on for your organization. Each linked page says what it needs. See Subscription plans.

Where you sit

Your organization runs Soundcheck from one corner. When you sign up you pick a business type: Talent, Production or Venue. That corner is home. The other parties are your counterparties: the people on the other end of each line. Your business type sets the words Soundcheck uses, the order of the sidebar and gig tabs, and the starter templates you get. It arranges and renames; it does not lock you into one kind of show. What you can open still follows your plan and role. See Signup and organization setup.

Talent
Production
Venue

Bands, artists, DJs, and the agencies that book them.Home is Talent. Your own work is the act: its songs, setlists, lineup and calendar. Groups of gigs are called Tours.

Counterparty	What you share with them
Client	The inquiry, the quote, the agreement and the invoice. See Leads and Contracts.
Production	The run of show, the setlist, charts, and files such as a stage plot.
Venue	Set time, soundcheck, load-in and curfew as key times, plus the saved venue record.
Guests	The guest list and music requests when the client hosts invited guests.

Start with Touring bands or Entertainment agencies.

Sound, lighting, video, and the companies that put the show up.Home is Production. Your own work is the crew and the gear: shifts and offers, availability, inventory, tasks and crew payouts. Groups of gigs are called Projects.

Counterparty	What you share with them
Client	What you sell, the quote, the agreement and the invoice. See Offerings.
Talent	The run of show: who is on, when, and what they need from your crew.
Venue	Stages, load-in and access, house gear, and the house crew on the labor call.
Guests	Doors and the public schedule, when the gig has a live page.

Start with Production companies.

Rooms, clubs, halls, and festival sites.Home is Venue. Your own work is the building and its calendar: the venue record, its stages, access instructions and house crew. Gigs are called Events and groups of them are called Series.

Counterparty	What you share with them
Client	Whoever books the room: the inquiry, the agreement and the invoice. On your own nights, you are the client.
Talent	Set times, the stage, and the run of show for the night.
Production	Load-in and access, stage specs and house gear, and how your house crew meets the incoming crew.
Guests	The door: the guest list, check-in, and the live page.

Start with Venue operations.

Who fills each role on a gig

The model is on every gig. Choose Share next to a gig’s tabs to open Who’s who, which asks the same questions:

Role	Question
Client	Who is it for, and who pays?
Talent	Who are people coming to see?
Production	Who puts the show up?
Venue	Whose room is it?
Guests	Who runs the audience or guest list?

For each role you answer Us, Someone else, Same as another role, or Nobody. Those four answers cover every kind of show:

One party can fill two roles. A club that books its own DJs is both the client and the venue. A band that brings its own PA is both talent and production.
A role can be empty. A rehearsal has no guests. A conference breakout with only AV has no talent.

See Who’s who for the details, and Event types for twelve kinds of show filled in this way.

Run your business, and work the gig together

Soundcheck does two jobs at once. It runs your side. Your crew, your gear, your calendar, your clients and your money stay in your organization, in your words. Other parties never see them unless you share them. It lets the other parties in. A show only works when every party has the same plan. Each counterparty gets a way to see and do their part without joining your organization:

Collaborators

Share a gig by email with a planner, a vendor, or the other company on the show. They see only what you share, update their tasks, leave notes and add files. They never edit your gig. If they use Soundcheck too, they can add the gig to their own organization.

Clients

The client portal gives a client their own events, agreements to sign, invoices to review and forms to fill in.

Crew

Everyone you book answers offers from their Mailbox and reads call times, the run of show and venue access in the mobile app. Performers and technicians are booked the same way.

Guests

Guests and anyone else outside the crew follow the schedule and your updates on the gig’s live page. Each party on the guest list can have its own guest page.

Sharing a gig with collaborators, publishing a live page, and the client portal are in early access and are turned on per organization. The client portal is part of the Team plan. Contact info@soundchecklive.io to ask about access.

Three things to remember

Talent is an act, and its people are crew

The act is what a client books and what goes on the bill. The people in it, the drummer or the DJ, are booked as crew with performer positions, the same way an audio engineer is. Talent and production differ by position, not by how they are booked. One set of shifts and offers staffs both.

You sit in one corner, and the others are your counterparties

A venue, a production company, a band and an agency each run Soundcheck from their own corner. Your business type moves the product to your corner. It changes words and order, not what you are allowed to do.

FOH means the mix position

In live sound, front of house (FOH) is where the show is mixed. It belongs to production. In these docs, “front of house” never means the talent or the public side of the room.

Next steps

Event types

Twelve kinds of show, each filled in with the six parties.

Event lifecycle

The states a gig moves through, from Draft to Settled.

Features by party

Every feature, grouped by the party or line it serves.

Key concepts

The terms the rest of the docs use.

Welcome

Core concepts

Getting started

Plans & billing

The six parties

The model in one picture

What lives on each line

Where you sit

Who fills each role on a gig

Run your business, and work the gig together

Collaborators

Clients

Crew

Guests

Three things to remember

Next steps

Event types

Event lifecycle

Features by party

Key concepts