bookster.fr

What It Is

bookster is a Booking and Management Platform for the music industry, especially DJs, artist managers, and booking agencies. It aims to bring artist career tracking, show bookings, contracts, invoices, tour schedules, and financial reporting into a single webApp, reducing the need for management teams to switch between spreadsheets, email, e-signature tools, and finance software.

Core Features and Collaboration

In terms of feature coverage, bookster focuses on the live-event booking workflow: users can manage artists, contacts, events, venues, locations, and bookings. It supports booking multiple artists under the same event and consolidating them into a unified contract and invoice. On the finance side, it can generate invoices, track payments, and supports EUR, GBP, and USD. For contracts, it provides contract templates, email sending, and its own e-signature capability. For team management, the platform offers custom roles and permissions, and can display statistics and financial analytics by artist, agent, and filters, making it suitable for internal collaboration within booking agencies.

Pricing and Trial

Pricing is based on the number of users, and all plans are marked as offering “Access to all features.” Standard costs €29.99/month or €329.99/year for 1 user; Business costs €59.99/month or €659.99/year for up to 5 users; Pro costs €99.99/month or €999.99/year with unlimited users. All plans include a 14-day free trial. If not cancelled after the trial ends, it automatically converts into a paid subscription. Payments and subscription management are handled through Stripe.

Integrations, Security, and Deployment

Information on third-party integrations is relatively limited. The available text explicitly mentions Stripe for payment processing, Geoapify for address autocomplete, and that users need to configure their own SMTP servers such as Gmail or Outlook to send contract and invoice emails. Data import mainly relies on CSV. Deployment appears to be as a cloud-based webApp, with no self-hosting option found. On security, the terms mention user responsibility for account passwords and state that payment information is not collected by bookster, but there is no disclosure of ISO, SOC, GDPR practices, encryption, or backup mechanisms.

Pros, Cons, and Who It’s For

Its strengths are a clear vertical focus and coverage of the core workflow for booking agencies, from scheduling and contracts to invoicing. Mid- to higher-level teams can also collaborate through its permissions and analytics modules. Its weaknesses are limited disclosure around integrations, API details, and security/compliance, while email delivery requires users to bring their own SMTP setup. Payment, tax, and localization support for non-European users is also unclear. It is best suited to DJ management companies, small to mid-sized booking agencies, and teams that need unified management of multi-artist tours, contracts, and invoices.

Access from China

No information is provided about access from mainland China, so its availability is unknown. Since payments rely on Stripe and email may depend on Gmail/Outlook, actual usage could be affected by network and payment conditions. Teams operating primarily in China may want to compare it with a combination of local CRM, collaboration, e-signature, and finance/invoicing SaaS tools.