GigFee

GigFee›Which one is for you

Two tools, one problem

GigFee or Sidefill: which one is for you

They come from the same workshop and they solve the same mess from opposite ends. Which one you want depends on one thing: whose money it is when it lands.

If the fee lands in your account and it is yours, you want GigFee. If the fee lands in your account and most of it belongs to other people, you want Sidefill. Plenty of musicians are the first on a Tuesday and the second on a Saturday, which is why the two are being made to talk to each other.

GigFee

For the player doing their own paperwork.

  • You invoice for yourself, or for a band you front
  • You want a tax invoice from your phone at the end of the night
  • You need your own super tracked, in both directions, and the deadlines counted properly
  • You want receipts filed against what you bought, for your own return
  • You split a fee with three or four people you know, and you would rather it did not become a group chat
  • Everything lives on your phone unless you switch backup on

What GigFee does

Sidefill

For whoever books the act and pays everyone on it.

  • You book acts, or run an agency, or lead a roster somebody else pays you for
  • The money arrives as one fee and has to reach several people, on time, with the super sorted
  • You want the payments to actually go out rather than be a list you work through
  • You need a settlement sheet a client and a player can both read
  • You are doing this often enough that "I will sort it on Monday" has stopped being true

What Sidefill does

If you are both

Most working musicians are. You play your own gigs and you also put a band together for the odd function, and the paperwork for those two is genuinely different work.

Use GigFee for the nights that are yours and Sidefill for the ones where you are paying a line-up. They are built to hand work to each other, so a gig booked in one will not have to be typed into the other.

Both are Australian, both are built around the same super rules, and both are made by the same person. If you are not sure which fits, say what your week looks like and you will get a straight answer, including "neither" if that is the honest one.

Worth reading either way