Guide · Contacts & crew

Contacts & crew

Last updated 13 June 2026

Two different kinds of people keep a band moving: the ones you deal with to make shows happen, and the ones who actually work them. ArtistHQ keeps each in its own place.

Contacts

Contacts is your address book for everyone around the band — promoters, venues, agents, press. Each contact has a role and a company, so you always know who someone is and who they're with.

The point is to keep them close. When you're advancing a show, the people you've saved are one click away, so you're not digging through old emails to find the promoter's details.

Crew

Crew is your roster of the people who actually work your shows — front-of-house, monitor engineer, driver, and so on. Each crew member has a day rate, so you know what they cost before the date arrives.

You assign crew to specific shows. Whoever you put on a date is the crew working it, at the rate you've set.

How crew pay flows into Money

Once crew are assigned to a show, their pay flows straight into Money — no double entry. The Band Bank keeps the running picture of who's been:

• Earned — what's owed for the shows they've worked
• Paid — what you've already handed over
• Unpaid — what's still outstanding

That way payday is just reading off a number, not rebuilding it from memory.

Need a hand? Email hello@artisthq.app.