How bookings work

A booking is a gig your act has been booked for. Unlike a personal gig, a booking is shared. It has a lineup, invitations, private fee splits, a venue confirmation and invoices.

Only owners and managers can create and manage bookings.

Booking statuses

Status	What it means
Draft	Saved but private. Only owners and managers can see it. No one’s been invited yet.
Tentative	Invitations are out. The lineup can see it and respond.
Confirmed	Everyone’s in. giggd confirms it automatically once the conditions below are met, or a manager selects Mark confirmed.
Completed	The gig’s been played.
Cancelled	Called off.

Bookings move forward: Draft → Tentative → Confirmed → Completed. Tentative and confirmed bookings can be cancelled. Drafts can’t be cancelled. Completed and cancelled bookings are closed, so you can’t edit them, change the lineup or respond.

The full workflow at a glance

Create the booking and save it as a draft.
Sort the lineup: remove anyone not playing, add guests.
Optionally preview the fee split while it’s still a draft.
Publish invitations. The booking becomes Tentative.
Publish the allocation so everyone sees their figures.
Members accept the gig and accept their financial proposal.
The booking confirms automatically.
Send the venue a confirmation and they confirm online.
Invoice the venue.
After the gig, select Mark completed, then record payments.

When does a booking confirm automatically?

A Tentative booking becomes Confirmed on its own once all of these are true:

A financial allocation has been published.
The booking has at least one performer.
Every performer has accepted the gig. Guests count once a manager records their acceptance.
Every performer with a giggd account has accepted the current financial terms.

Act owners who are playing accept their financial terms automatically when the allocation is published.

If you haven’t published an allocation, for example on a logistics-only booking, a manager confirms the booking with Mark confirmed.