A list of shows is fine for record keeping, but when you're planning a season you want to see it laid out on a calendar. This short video shows FairKeep's calendar and its show day planning.
Your Whole Season on One Calendar
Every show you've added appears on one calendar, so you can see busy weekends, gaps, and back-to-back stretches at a glance. That's the view I want when an application comes in for a date and I need to know what else is already booked.
Plan Each Show Day
For each show, you can plan the day itself:
- When to arrive.
- When to set up.
- When you're selling.
- When to break down.
Writing the timeline down ahead of time helps with the early morning of a show, when load-in windows are tight. It also helps when you have a crew, because everyone knows when they need to be there. If you're bringing help, see the crew tracking video for assigning people to shows, and the packing list video for the night before.
Try It Yourself
The step-by-step guide on the FairKeep site walks through the calendar screen by screen, so you can follow along at your own pace. FairKeep is free to start and doesn't ask for a credit card, so you can set up an account and try it with your own shows. If you haven't seen the app before, the two-minute tour of FairKeep covers the dashboard, events, applications, calendar, packing list, reports and integrations in one pass.
I recorded this video on a demo account for a made-up candle company, so the shows, names and numbers on screen are examples, not real data. For the bigger picture of what FairKeep does, see my FairKeep overview, and for the free calculators and tools that sit alongside it, the VendorTools hub.
More short how-tos on the VARØ Industries YouTube channel.