Show Pocket

About

Show Pocket is for AV crew: the people who get a booking email on Tuesday, a schedule change on Thursday, and a per diem question three weeks after the show wrapped. Freelance or on staff. It holds the booking, the days, the bag, and the money, and it stops you retyping any of it. YOUR BOOKINGS, ON THEIR OWN If your company's crewing system gives you a personal calendar link, paste it once. Every booking becomes a show with its dates, your position, the project manager and the labor coordinator, and a date that moves there moves here with the old one still on record. GET A BOOKING IN WITHOUT TYPING Share a booking email or a vendor booking page straight into the app. Dates, venue, room, rate, PO and contacts are read out of it. Or import from your calendar, which finds booking codes in your event titles. Or paste the email. Or type it. Nothing is required except, eventually, a job code. WHEN SOURCES DISAGREE, IT SAYS SO A booking confirm says one date and the calendar block says another. That is normal in this job, and most apps quietly pick one. Show Pocket shows you both, and who said what, so you decide. It also catches double bookings before you are standing in the wrong city, and nudges you about holds that have gone stale. HOURS, OVERTIME, DOUBLE TIME Log what you actually worked and the split is done for you, using that booking's own thresholds, because a ten-hour day is common and eight and twelve both turn up. Fill a long show forward in one tap. Walk into the venue and the clock offers to start; walk out after a full day and it wraps. PER DIEM THAT SURVIVES BEING QUESTIONED Federal rates are built into the app and looked up from the venue postcode, so the locality is exact rather than a guess from a city name. Every day draws the full rate, travel days included. Mark the meals a client provided and they come off that day. Set your home base and nearby work is treated as a local hire, where there is usually nothing to claim. PACKED FROM THE DATES A Pack tab for the trip you are leaving on. Shirts, socks and the rest counted for the days away, up to your laundry rule. The kit for your role. The short list you always forget. Back-to-back shows pack as one trip. OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS Flights, car rides, parking. Each one dated, filed where your books file it, and marked billable or not. Scan a receipt with the camera, pick a photo, or share one from Mail, and the amount, date and merchant are read out of it. A Lyft statement with several rides becomes several expenses. INVOICE WITHOUT RETYPING Export straight into QuickBooks Online, one line per day, dated, with overtime against the day it happened. Or send a PDF invoice with your logo. Point each role you work at what it bills as, once, and every invoice after that is a file you import. ON STAFF? PAID BY THE HOUR Switch to On staff and the Invoices tab becomes Hours: this pay period, time and a half and double time by your company's rules, after tax, with a timesheet to send. Put the company's shops in and walking in starts the clock on a shop day, no booking needed. YOUR MONTH, AT A GLANCE A calendar showing every booking across the month, holds included, so the next question about your availability takes a second to answer. Put your shows on the phone's calendar and share it with the people at home. NO ACCOUNT. NO SERVERS. NOTHING COLLECTED. There is nothing to sign up for. Your bookings live on your phone and sync through your own private iCloud account, which means the developer cannot see them. Not as a policy, but because there is no server for them to reach. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party code of any kind. Built dark, because it gets used in dark rooms during shows. Made by a working video engineer, for the way this trade actually runs.