From the same workshop
GigFee: the same rules, for one musician
Whose money it is when it lands decides which of these you want.
Sidefill exists because one fee has to reach several people, on time, with the superannuation right. That is a booker’s problem. If you are the person the fee belongs to, it is more machinery than your Saturday needs.
GigFee is the other half: an Android app for a musician invoicing their own gigs. Same superannuation rules, same payday deadlines, same country. One player, one phone, no account required.
Which one
Use Sidefill
You book the act and pay everyone on it.
- The fee arrives as one payment and belongs to several people
- You want the payments to go out, not to be a list you work through
- You need a settlement sheet a client and a player can both read
- Super has to be calculated and paid for people who are not you
- There is a roster, and it is the same names most months
Use GigFee
You are the player, doing your own paperwork.
- The fee lands in your account and it is yours
- You want a tax invoice from your phone before you leave the venue
- You need your own super tracked, in both directions
- You want receipts filed against what you bought, for your return
- You split with three or four people you know, occasionally
If you are both
Most people are. You play your own gigs, and every so often you put a band together for a function and the money comes through you. Those are two different jobs and neither tool pretends to be the other.
Run your own nights in GigFee and the ones where you are paying a line-up in Sidefill. The two are being made to hand work to each other, so a booking made in one will not have to be typed into the other.
GigFee takes the same view of the same rules: its own version of this page sets out the split from the other side, and says “neither” is an available answer.
Calculations follow published ATO guidance. Confirm with your accountant. This is not advice.