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Adding a booking link.

The booking link is the URL a venue's talent buyer or a festival programmer taps when they want to book you. It powers the Book button on your artist page and the contact section in your EPK. Two minutes to set up.

Updated May 16, 2026

Why

One URL, every booking inquiry.

Without a booking link, an interested buyer has to dig through your socials looking for a contact email. With one, they tap one button.

The link lives on your public artist page, in your EPK's contact section, and in the auto-generated press PDF. Anywhere a booker would look for "how do I reach this artist", your link is the answer.

Where

Add it on your artist page.

It is a row in the edit panel, on the page itself. Three taps.

1
Open your artist page at /a/<slug> while signed in as its owner. Edit page sits in the corner (or in the gutter beside the page on a wide screen).
2
Open it and find Booking link under Details.
3
Paste your booking URL, then save. The Book button appears on your public page immediately — you are looking at the page while you edit it.

Validation

What we accept (and what we don't).

To protect bookers from broken links and phishing pages, we restrict the booking link to two URL schemes.

https:// URLs. Any normal web URL. We block http:// (insecure) and javascript: (obvious reasons).
mailto: URLs. If your booking workflow is just an email address, paste mailto:booking@yourname.com. The Book button opens an email draft to that address.

Warning

No social media URLs

We don't reject Instagram / TikTok / X URLs technically, but it's a poor booking experience — the booker now has to find your DMs, hope you check them, and lose the message in your unread queue. Use a real email or a Calendly / Airtable form instead.

Where the Book button appears.

Three places. Same URL, different surfaces.

On your artist page — prominent CTA at the top of /a/<slug>. Visible to anyone who visits.
On your EPK — In the contact section of /a/<slug>/press, after the bio and photos.
In the EPK PDF — As a clickable footer link on every page of the PDF. So if a booker prints your EPK and circles it on paper, the digital version still has the link a tap away.

Tip

If you want different booking workflows for different contexts (e.g. self-managed for clubs but agency for festivals), put a routing link in the field — Bandcamp, a Linktree, or a simple split-page on your own site — and route from there.

Best practices

What to link to.

Some options, ordered roughly by booker preference.

A dedicated booking email. e.g. mailto:booking@yourband.com. The most-trusted option for bookers. Set up a forwarding alias so multiple band members can see the queue.
A booking agency / management. Their email or contact page. Standard for any artist past a certain touring scale.
A structured form. Airtable, Typeform, Calendly. Good if you get a lot of inquiries and want to keep them organized. Pre-fill the form with the booker's venue + date if your form supports query-string params.
Your own website's booking page. If you have one. Lets you set the tone before a buyer reads the details.

Note

A short note on response times

A real-world booker treats "no reply in 5 business days" as a soft pass. If you don't plan to monitor the booking link consistently, link to an agency or your management instead — better to route the inquiry away than let it die in an unmonitored inbox.

Claiming your artist page →

Get the keys to the page first.

Your EPK →

Where your booking link surfaces alongside your bio + photos.

Venue booking workflow →

The other side — how venues set up their inbound.

Need more help?

Email support@out4.events for anything that isn't urgent. We're a small team — most replies happen the same day.

Mid-event and need a human right now? DM @out4.events on Instagram — Chris is the on-call.