For venues

1. 1The basics — title, a short pitch, a cover image, and which type of call it is.
2. 2Who fits — the sphere and genre you want, and instruments if they matter.
3. 3Submissions — what you want to see, how many spots, and whether it pays.
4. 4When and where — the date, the submission deadline, and the location.
5. 5Review and publish. The last step is the artist's view of your listing.

Submissions open in a review screen with one rule running through it: a read is private, an action is public.

Your read

Yes, maybe, or no, plus a private note. The artist never sees it. Neither does anyone outside your panel.

An action

Shortlist, decline or pick. The artist is told. Shortlisting also opens a message thread with them.

A unanimous panel still shortlists nobody. The tally is something you read before deciding, like the match number — it never acts on its own.

• A DemoStop account can be invited to the panel by username. They read submissions and record their own reads.
• Somebody without an account gets a named seat and a six-digit code. One code per person, never one for the whole panel, so every read still has a name on it.
• A read-only link with a password shares the submissions with somebody who does not need to weigh in. They can read; they cannot vote or change a status.

Concert Creator is for a bill rather than a vacancy. You lay out the slots, each one takes its own submissions, and the whole night is organised on one board.

1. 1Download the template that matches what you run — a show calendar, a sports schedule, or private bookings.
2. 2Fill it in and upload it. A PDF form holds twelve rows; anything longer wants the spreadsheet.
3. 3Check the month grid. Anything that could not be read is flagged there, and you can fix rows in place.
4. 4Publish, or save the lot as drafts and publish later.

A posted gig cannot be edited. Artists applied to the pay, dates and criteria they read, and quietly changing those would move the goalposts under people who have already committed time to it.

Cancelling notifies everyone who applied, which is the honest version of the same change. Post the corrected call and they can decide again with the real terms in front of them.