How it works
From first contact to signed contract
WAM supports the whole journey of an artistic booking, up to payment. Here is how it works, step by step.
Create your account
Sign up with your email and a password, or with Google (and with Apple in the iOS and Android apps, once available). Choose your profile: artist or contractor. You confirm your email with a code and accept the terms and privacy policy.
Complete your profile
Artists add a biography, category, instrument, languages, career credits, media gallery and availability. Contractors describe their organisation and authorised representative.
Verify your identity
Submit the requested documents from the app. A member of the WAM team reviews them and we notify you of the result. Once verification is approved, chat and contracting are enabled, and your profile shows the Verified badge.
Find opportunities
Contractors search for artists with filters, review their profiles and save their favourites.
Talk
Talk directly in WAM chat, in real time, sharing images, videos or PDFs. You will be notified of new messages.
Prepare the contract
From the artist’s profile, the contractor taps Hire and chooses between generating the contract from the WAM template or uploading their own contract. They review the draft and send it.
Negotiate
The artist can accept, reject or request changes. When accepting, they choose how to be paid. The contractor responds to changes by publishing a new version. Every version remains available for reference.
Final approval and signature
When both parties approve the same final version, simple electronic signature is enabled: the contractor signs first and then the artist, with a handwritten on-screen signature. The signed contract can be downloaded as a PDF.
Payment
Once both have signed, the contractor receives by email the instructions to transfer the fees to WAM, with no surcharge, within the deadline set in the contract. WAM pays the artist minus a 5% platform fee, according to the option they chose: when the transfer arrives, or with an advance, which also carries 6% of the net amount advanced.
After the event
Once the event date has passed, either party can mark the contract as completed. The contractor can then leave a review of the artist, from 1 to 5 stars, which is shown on the artist’s profile.
Important. Fees and the payment deadline are agreed between artist and contractor and recorded in the contract both approve. WAM’s bank details only arrive by email after the signatures and are shown in the contract details; WAM never sends them through the chat.
Start today, from your browser
The iOS and Android apps are on their way. In the meantime, you can use WAM in your browser.