Getting Started

Getting started with spinbook

What spinbook is, how the DJ and client portals differ, and how to find your way around on day one.

Updated Fri Aug 28 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

spinbook is the one-stop portal for running your DJ business: bookings, contracts, payments, and event planning, all tied to each event. This guide gets you oriented.

In a hurry? Use spinbook with your AI assistant hands Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini a prompt that walks you through setup step by step.

Two portals, one system

spinbook has two views of the same data:

• The DJ (staff) portal: you and your team. You see every client, every event, and can manage checklists, contracts, payments, and planning.
• The client portal: the couple. They sign in and see only their own event(s): their checklist, their forms, their contract, and what's left to do.

Both portals are branded with your logo, colors, and fonts (set these in Settings).

Creating your account

Sign up at /dj/signup with your name, business name, email, and a password (12+ characters, and nothing guessable like your own name or business name). We email you a confirmation link. Click it to activate the account; it signs you straight in to your new dashboard. Until you confirm, the password won't work (use Resend email on the check-your-email page if it didn't arrive).

Your new dashboard opens with a welcome note and a Getting started checklist: the setup path from new account to shareable business, about 25 minutes end to end. Each step links straight to the right settings page and checks itself off automatically when the real thing is done: review your booking form, set your pricing, make the contract yours, tune the client checklist, open your call schedule, and finally copy your links to share. Adding your logo and colors is on the list too, as an optional step. The card disappears once you finish (or hide it), but until every step is done a small Getting started pill floats at the bottom-right of your dashboard. Tap it any time to open the full checklist. That full version always lives at Settings → Getting started, with time estimates, a guide link per step, and all three shareable links together. You can also put the card back on your dashboard there if you hid it.

Signing in

• DJs log in at /dj/login with an email and password.
• Couples log in at /login with a one-time email link. No password to remember. Every link we email signs them straight in, including the "reset password" one: if a couple ends up on the password-reset page, the emailed link simply takes them to their portal.

Your workspace lives at a slug like your-name (e.g. /your-name/dashboard).

The dashboard

After signing in as a DJ, the dashboard lists every event with a quick progress bar, grouped by status in your own pipeline order (toggle to one sorted list), with a search box and category filter pills to find anything fast. See event status & the lifecycle. Click any event to open its per-event view, where you manage everything for that event in one place. New inquiries from your booking form show up here too.

Your booking link card sits at the top of the dashboard: the full shareable URL with one-click Copy, an Email it button that opens a prefilled email for a client, and the QR code (download or print it for flyers).

The top navigation also gives DJ staff a Calendar (every event and its milestones, with search), a Payments hub (everything owed and collected across the business), and Settings.

Your first steps

The in-app checklist at Settings → Getting started walks you through these in order:

1. Review your booking form: the fields couples fill out to request a date.
2. Set your pricing: turn on instant quotes or list your add-ons.
3. Make the contract yours. Start from the standard DJ agreement.
4. Tune the default client checklist, or keep it as is.
5. Open your call schedule: call types and weekly hours.
6. Brand the portal and add your payment handles in Settings (optional, worth the three minutes).
7. Share your links: booking form, public page, and call schedule. Copying any of them checks off the last step.

Then add your first booking, mark it Booked, and watch the couple's portal light up.

Getting help, and telling us what's wrong

Every page in the portal has a footer with links to these guides, the getting-started page, what's new, and an email address for support. On this help site there's a search box at the top of every page. Press / from anywhere to jump straight into it.

Next to it is the Feedback button, bottom-right on every page. It opens a short form that sends us your note along with the page you were on, so you don't have to explain where you were. You can attach a screenshot by picking a file or pasting an image straight into the box (take a screenshot, then paste).

One thing worth knowing: a screenshot of a portal page usually shows your clients' details. Only attach one if you're comfortable sharing what's on screen. See the privacy policy for how we store it.

Everything sent from your portal, yours and your couples', is listed under Settings → Feedback, newest first, with the page each note came from and any screenshot attached. Each one carries where it got to (Received, On the list, Shipped, or Not planned) and any note we've left on it. Handy when you've put a group of clients through a new setup and want to see what tripped them up. You only ever see your own organization's notes; we read them too.

Checklist

• Review your booking form fields
• Set your pricing (instant quotes or add-ons)
• Customize your contract template
• Tune (or keep) the default client checklist
• Open your call schedule
• Copy and share your booking, public page, and call links
• Add your first booking and mark it Booked