Stop chasing performers.
Start making the art.
Podium is the modern way to staff every rehearsal and performance — build your roster, send offers people answer from their phone, fill the gaps automatically, and track pay. One platform, every discipline.
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Built for your art form
Podium speaks your language — chairs and sections, roles and covers, voice parts and worship teams. Choose your world and see how it fits.
Staffing shouldn't be a second full-time job
However you make it, the admin looks the same — and it eats the hours you'd rather spend on the work itself.
The email spiral
“Can you play Saturday?” becomes forty reply-all threads. You’re CC’ing people who already declined, and nobody’s sure who’s confirmed.
The spreadsheet maze
Your master roster lives in three spreadsheets, a notes app, and someone’s memory. Finding the right person for an open seat takes longer than the seat is worth.
The payment chase
“Did I pay them for the last one?” You’re digging through a payment app at 11pm trying to reconstruct who’s still owed.
The text avalanche
“What time?” “Where do I park?” “Can someone sub for me?” Your phone never stops, and you’ve become a 24/7 help desk.
There's a better way.
From first offer to final payment
Podium handles the details of staffing so you can keep your attention on the performance.
Your roster, finally organized
Import your people in minutes. Track skills, contact info, pay preferences, and W-9 status. Filter by section, role, region, or your own tags — and find the right person in seconds.
- Import from a spreadsheet in minutes
- Custom tags: first-call, section leaders, subs
- Skills, sections, and roles that fit your art form
- W-9 and pay preferences on file
Offers they actually answer
Send a professional offer in one click. People see the dates, the place, and the pay — and accept or decline right from their phone. No app, no login, no “did you get my email?”
- One-click offers with dates, venue, and pay
- Accept or decline in a tap from any phone
- Expiration dates and automatic reminders
- Cascade to the next person when someone passes
Staffing you can see
See who’s confirmed, who’s pending, and who hasn’t answered. Fill open seats, save your go-to lineups as presets, and staff a whole project in a single pass.
- Confirmed, pending, and open at a glance
- Save go-to lineups as reusable presets
- Cascade offers down your call order
- Conflict warnings before you double-book
Payments you can actually track
Know exactly who’s been paid and who’s waiting. Track pay per service, collect W-9s, send confirmations, and export at tax time — no second system, no shoebox.
- Per-service pay and leader fees
- W-9 collection and 1099 export
- Automatic pay confirmations
- A full, exportable audit trail
Your performers will thank you
Every performer gets a free portal — one login to see the work from every group they play, sing, or dance for. Fewer questions in your inbox, faster answers on every offer.
- One calendar across every group
- Accept or decline in a tap
- Sync to Google, Apple, or Outlook
- Set pay preferences and W-9
- Request a sub when life happens
- Works on any device
The performing arts run on freelancers
Podium is built for the thousands of organizations that hire per performance — not the handful that can afford six-figure enterprise software.
Staffing a full program used to take me most of an afternoon between emails, texts, and updating the spreadsheet. With Podium, I sent the entire call in under 15 minutes and could immediately see which chairs were filled.
I expected to spend the first week explaining a new system to everyone. Instead, performers opened the offer on their phones and accepted or declined without creating an account. Almost everyone responded the same day.
Before Podium, our roster lived in a spreadsheet, old email threads, and three people's memories. Now I can see who was called, who declined, who's confirmed, and what still needs to be filled — without asking anyone for an update.
Start free. Grow into it.
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