Client
Identify the buyer and decision-makers.
Collect the contact, organization, role, and who handles on-site coordination.
- Client and main contact
- Planner or venue contact
- Response channel and deadline
Describe your acts and booking needs. Makeform creates an entertainment booking form for the event schedule, venue, audience, budget, production needs, and client contact details.
Route booking requests to email, Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a booking scenario, adjust the details, and send the prompt to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Couples and planners requesting a live band
Format
Detailed inquiry with schedule and music preferences
Prompt size
299 chars
Example form structure
Detailed inquiry with schedule and music preferences
Contact name, email, and phone
Wedding date and performance schedule
Venue address and setting
Music preferences and key songs
Total entertainment budget
Suggested routing tags
Availability check
Budget review
Production follow-up
Ask separately for venue access, guest arrival, performance start, and set length.
Step 1
Inquire
client, event, date, venue, and preferred act
Step 2
Qualify
budget, audience, schedule, and production fit
Step 3
Review
availability, travel, equipment, and follow-up
Step 4
Respond
send the next step with the complete brief in view
A better first inquiry
Collect enough context to check the calendar, understand the room, review the offer, and identify production questions.
Collect the event, timeline, address, audience, preferred act, and deadline together.
Show DJs equipment questions, bands stage details, and specialty acts audience questions.
Tag submissions by act, region, event, or budget, then notify the right contact.
For different entertainment rosters
Generate a baseline for your roster, then edit its language, choices, and required fields.
Capture lineup requests, set lengths, special songs, stage size, backline, sound contact, travel, and accommodation details.
Ask about music direction, announcements, microphones, lighting, venue equipment, setup windows, and event milestones.
Qualify audience ages, content preferences, performance area, ceiling or power needs, accessibility, and indoor or outdoor conditions.
Let clients select an act or request recommendations, then route the inquiry by roster, location, date, and budget.
Build the request flow
Describe your roster and booking process, edit the generated questions, and publish the form.
Name the acts, service area, scheduling details, production questions, and budget needs.
Add roster choices, reorder the timeline, set essential answers as required, and reveal act-specific questions only when they apply.
Submit realistic requests to check the labels and follow-up branches.
Share or embed the form, send notifications to the booking inbox, and use consistent submissions as the starting point for each response.
Inquiry methods compared
Structured requests make dates, offers, locations, and production needs easier to compare.
Field guide
Use these six sections to turn an availability question into a practical event brief.
Client
Collect the contact, organization, role, and who handles on-site coordination.
Event
Ask what is being celebrated, attendance, age range, and the act's role in the program.
Schedule
Capture access, setup, guest arrival, performance, breaks, finish, and load-out times.
Venue
Ask for the address, setting, performance area, access route, parking, and venue contact.
Budget
Ask whether the amount covers only performance or also travel, equipment, and other expenses.
Production
Collect sound, lighting, power, stage, microphone, backline, and hospitality information.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for performers, managers, and agencies setting up a consistent inquiry process.
It is an inquiry form for requesting a performer. It collects contact, date, schedule, venue, audience, act, budget, production, and travel details for review.
Start with contact, event type, date, venue, guest count, requested act, performance times, budget, and event notes. Add production and travel questions when relevant.
No. Label it as an availability request or inquiry. The performer or agency reviews the event, budget, and production details before communicating the next step.
Yes. Add roster choices or a recommendation option. Conditional paths can show different questions for bands, DJs, speakers, comedians, magicians, or family performers.
Use a currency field or realistic ranges. Clarify whether the amount covers only performance or also travel, lodging, equipment, taxes, and other expenses.
Yes. Add file uploads for site plans, stage plots, schedules, or production briefs, plus a text field for the production contact.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting form responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge, so you can build and use the inquiry workflow without a response cap on the free plan.
Notify the booking inbox and track act, date, city, budget, and status consistently. Route responses to Slack, Google Sheets, or connected workflows when useful.
Turn availability questions into complete event briefs.