Starfishr for artists

What Starfishr gives you as a performing artist. This chapter covers what the artist portal is, what it costs, how organisers find you, how booking requests reach you and who can see when you are free. The step by step instructions live in the Dutch help center.

What is Starfishr for an artist?

Starfishr gives you a profile, an agenda and one place where your booking requests come in. You keep your own availability, you answer requests yourself and you decide who you work with. Nobody books you without your consent.

Your profile is your shop window on the platform, with your artist name, your photo, your types, your city and your bio. Your agenda holds your bookings and the days you block, and it can be linked to your own iCloud or Google calendar so your gigs show up where you already look. Around that sits your network: connections with other artists and with organisations, the bands or collectives you are part of, and the option to pass a request on to someone else when a date does not work for you.

What does it cost?

The artist portal is free. Your profile, your agenda, your network, passing requests on to a colleague, negotiating a fee and linking your own calendar are all in the free tier.

Pro adds the tools you need when you start orchestrating other people's work rather than performing your own, such as a full CRM, margins and advanced group structures. As long as you are performing, exploring or just starting out, free stays enough.

How do organisers find me?

You get a shareable public profile page you can put in your bio or on social media. Booking organisations also find you straight from their own tool, where they search by name, by type or by city.

You decide how you can be booked. The default is that organisers can reach you directly and that the groups you belong to can put you forward for their own requests. You can also choose to be reachable through your groups only, which hides you from the public directory, or exclusively through one agency, which routes everything through them. A starter and a big name get the same chance to be found, so a complete profile with a good photo is what makes the difference.

How do booking requests reach me?

An organiser sends you a request with the date, the fee and a briefing. You get a notification and find it under Requests, where you accept, decline or make a counter offer. What you accepted lives under Bookings.

Everything you agree on stays in one conversation, so you can ask a question or adjust the amount until you both agree. Your own decision is the line between the two lists: a request moves to Bookings the moment you accept it, and the date is held as an option until the organiser finalises the event. While you are still negotiating, a request does not block your calendar, so you are free to talk to several organisers about the same date and to take another booking in the meantime.

Who can see when I am free?

You decide. Four levels set who can see whether you are free or busy: nobody, the groups you belong to (your collective, your band and an agency that represents you), your groups and your connections, or everyone. A new profile starts on the groups you belong to, and for an artist in no group that shares with nobody.

Two things are worth knowing. First, visibility is only ever about free or busy, never about what you are doing. The details of a booking are visible only to you and to the organisation that made that booking, on every level. Second, anyone who cannot see whether you are free can still send you a proposal, also for a day you are booked. They are told nothing about your calendar, and you accept or decline. Accepting a second booking at the same time is not possible. The one exception to the levels is an agency you work with exclusively: it sees your full calendar, booking titles included, for as long as the exclusivity runs.