Every gig leaves paperwork. GigFee does it on the way home.

• Business days, properly counted. Weekends and national public holidays both push the date out, so a gig played at Christmas does not quietly fall due on Boxing Day.
• Twenty days for a person's first contribution, seven after that, tracked per person rather than per invoice.
• Last year's rate on last year's invoices. The rate comes from the invoice date, so reopening an old one does not rewrite what a client was sent.
• On top of the fee, or inside it. Both are real arrangements, and the app does the arithmetic either way.
• A door deal or a private household owes none. Mark it and no figure is produced, whatever the rate says.
• A ledger, not a reminder. Every contribution, what has been paid, what is late, and which payment covered it.

A $500 Saturday, GST registered

Fee, ex GST

$500.00

GST

$50.00

The client pays

$550.00

Super at 12% of the fee Paid to your fund by whoever booked you

$60.00

Worked out on the fee with the GST taken off, and deliberately outside the total: it is not money added to the invoice, which is the part most people have to check twice.

• 7 business days

  From the day you are paid, for every contribution after the first.

• 20 business days

  For the first contribution you ever make for a given person.

• 12%

  The super guarantee rate for 2025–26 and 2026–27.

If you would rather read the rules than take our word for it, the five guides work the sums through and name every source, including what payday super does to a $300 pub gig and who owes it when you invoice for the whole band.

• Receipts, filed on the spot

  Photograph it, or attach the PDF. The file is copied into the app, so it still opens at tax time even if the original is long gone, and it goes into your backup with everything else.

• Categorised for the return

  Gear, strings, rehearsal rooms, fuel, travel, phone, software, promotion, lessons, insurance, stage clothing, wear and tear. Added up by category in Reports and in your spreadsheet export.

• Cash recorded as cash

  Say how an invoice was paid and see the year's cash income as its own figure. Cash income is income, and every report here counts it as such.

• Off the books, on the record

  Mark a gig off the books and GigFee stops asking you for an invoice. No GST is charged and no super worked out, the fee stays out of the tax figures, and it is still reported under its own heading so nothing goes missing.

• The diary carries through

  Bring bookings in from your phone's calendar, see what is ahead, and find the gigs you played but never invoiced. Projected earnings for the month or the financial year.

• A spreadsheet your accountant can use

  Invoices issued, bills you were sent and expenses you recorded, a table each with the GST broken out, in CSV or Excel. With every invoice PDF in the same archive if you want them.

The figures you carry to your accountant

GST collected and GST paid, super shown against the gigs that attracted it, deductions by category, and the travel claim worked out at the rate each trip was entered at. By financial year, by quarter, or across the lot.

Whether a particular amount is business income, or a particular purchase deductible, is your call and your accountant's. GigFee keeps the record and does the arithmetic. It does not make that judgement for you, and it says so where that matters.