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What's New

The latest features and improvements in NABA, newest first.

Event timelines stay in time order

Events & Gigs

  • An event timeline on the web now always reads top to bottom in time order. Adding an entry drops it straight into the right spot instead of landing at the bottom, and changing an entry’s time moves its card immediately — no need to close and reopen the event to see the real order.
  • The same goes for the gig view, the printable version, and the timeline you email to your band, so everyone reads the day in the order it actually happens.
  • If you’ve arranged a timeline by hand in the iOS app, that arrangement is still yours and stays put in the app — the web just shows those same entries in time order.
Major release

Share your gig calendar — and post about it

Publish your upcoming shows at your own link, turn them into a ready-to-post image in a few clicks, and find answers faster with a new FAQ page.

Events & Gigs

  • You can now publish a public calendar of your upcoming gigs at your own link, so fans, venues, and bookers can see where you’re playing without you sending anyone a list. Build one from the new Promotion section of the menu: name it, pick which of your bands appear on it, set its colors, logo, and background image, add a message plus your contact and social links, then share the link or embed the calendar on your own site.
  • You decide whether that page turns up in search results — it stays out of them unless you switch search listing on.
  • Every event now has an owner-only switch for whether it shows on your public calendars. New events are included by default, and anything still marked tentative is never shown publicly, so nothing goes out before it’s confirmed.
  • Gigs on your public calendar lead with the venue’s photo where we have one and fall back to your band photo, so the page reads at a glance instead of as a list of dates.
  • A new Social Posts screen, also under Promotion, turns those gigs into something you can post: pick the days you want to promote, uncheck any gig you’d rather leave off, and download a finished image of the rest. Add band-name labels when the poster covers more than one band, use a calendar’s logo or upload your own, and know that the preview on screen is exactly the image you’ll get.

Demos

  • You can skip the guided tour whenever you like — and if you skip it and later change your mind, you can start it again from Settings → Account Settings.

Earnings

  • Event financials worksheets are now dated by the day the gig actually happened rather than the day the worksheet was created, so worksheet lists and approval emails line up with your calendar.

Platform

  • A new FAQ page answers the questions we get asked most — getting started, availability and scheduling, calendar invites, and who can see your contacts and venues. You’ll find it in the main menu.
  • Emails from Naba — invites, approvals, event changes, and the rest — now match the look of the app, so they’re easier to scan and easier to spot in a crowded inbox.

A notification inbox for everything happening on NABA

A new bell and inbox bring your updates into one place, guided demos now end where you actually want to go, and the homepage got a cleaner look.

Platform

  • A new notification bell and inbox (`/notifications`) bring availability requests, event changes, team invites, and more into one place — grouped by day, with quick filters for Requests, Team, and Events. Opening the inbox doesn’t clear your unread count on its own; it clears once you’ve actually acted on something, so you never lose track of what still needs a response.
  • Team invites can be accepted or declined right from a notification card — no need to track down the invite elsewhere.
  • Our homepage and venue landing page have a cleaner, calmer look — flat warm surfaces in place of the old glow effects — with the same "Keep booking personal" pitch.

Demos

  • Finish a guided demo — the core app, CRM, or venue portal — and the exit button now takes you where you actually want to go: straight to your dashboard if you’re already signed in, or to sign-up if you’re not.
Major release

A warmer NABA — new look, faster pages

NABA has a brand-new look — warm, editorial, and easier to read — and the app is noticeably quicker, especially your calendar.

Platform

  • NABA has been redesigned end to end: a warm cream-and-terracotta palette, a new typeface set, and cleaner cards and tabs across every screen — dashboard, events, teams, setlists, money, and more. Everything works exactly as it did; it just reads better and feels calmer to spend time in.
  • Dark mode was redrawn from scratch to match, so late-night gig prep is easier on the eyes.
  • Pages load faster across the board — the app now sends less data over the wire and defers heavy pieces (like PDF viewers) until you actually need them.

Events & Gigs

  • The calendar opens noticeably faster. It now loads only what a month view actually needs, pulls your Google Calendar in a single request instead of many, and fetches an event’s full details the moment you open it.
  • Team photos on your calendar tiles now load as fast, lightweight thumbnails and are pre-warmed as the page opens — so a photo-filled month paints almost instantly instead of filling in tile by tile.
  • Your public venue calendar pages load faster for the people you share them with.

A sharper gig calendar — photo events, team load-in times, and smarter scheduling

Your gigs now look like your gigs: photo-first calendar tiles, a load-in time you set once per team, faster ways to add people, and a scheduling picker that keeps your event length intact.

Events & Gigs

  • Your NABA gigs now show up on the calendar as photo tiles — your team’s photo, the venue name, the event, and the time — so a busy month reads at a glance instead of as a wall of look-alike blocks.
  • Set a default load-in time once per team — say 1h 30m before the gig — and NABA suggests it automatically on every new event for that team, and shows it consistently on the calendar, in your emails, and in calendar invites.
  • Adding someone to a gig who isn’t in your list yet? A quick “Create contact” or “Invite bandmate” shortcut now appears right there, prefilled with the name or email you just typed — no need to leave and start over.
  • Duplicating a gig now brings the whole lineup with it — every person, with their roles, individual pay, and who was published — so recreating a recurring show is a single step instead of rebuilding the roster by hand.

Platform

  • The date-and-time picker is smarter: change a gig’s start and the end moves with it to keep the same length, and end times now stay on the right day instead of landing before the start.
  • Events on the same day now hold a stable order on the calendar, so editing one no longer reshuffles the rest.

Venue portal polish — free white-glove setup and a sharper tour

Would rather we set your venue up for you? Ask for free white-glove onboarding — plus a clearer guided tour and a safer signup.

Platform

  • Don’t want to build your calendar from scratch? Reach out for a free personalized demo and white-glove onboarding — we’ll set up your rooms, bands, and first month of shows right alongside you, completely free of charge.
  • The venue landing page now speaks to every kind of spot that hosts live music — restaurants, bars, coffee shops, breweries, wine bars, and more — not just music-first rooms.
  • Signing up a venue is safer: if your venue already has an account — including one our team pre-built for you — you’re now guided to ask an existing owner for an invite, instead of accidentally taking over or duplicating that setup.

Demos

  • The guided venue tour now shows how one venue can run several rooms — each with its own weekly showtimes — and ends with a one-tap way to create your own venue.
Major release

Introducing the Venue Portal — a home for the rooms that book live music

Venues can now create their own NABA account to run a public shows calendar, book bands, track their budget, and share polished social posts — plus new team photos and a faster calendar for everyone.

Platform

  • Run a venue? Create a free venue account in seconds and get your own public, photo-first live-music calendar on your own link — ready to share anywhere or embed right on your website.
  • Book bands straight from a monthly calendar: set up your rooms and their weekly showtimes once, then fill open slots in a couple of taps, with the band’s details, pay, and set times prefilled for you.
  • Save reusable band profiles — photo, bio, contact info, and default pay — so booking a repeat act is instant, and spin up a weekly residency or copy a whole month forward in one click.
  • Keep the money in view: set a monthly booking budget and watch your spend against it in real time, with a per-band and per-room pay breakdown you can export to a spreadsheet.
  • Design a share-ready social post of your upcoming shows — choose the dates, background, your logo, and fonts, then download a clean vertical image for Instagram, stories, or anywhere else.
  • Your first 8 shows are on us; unlimited booking is $29.99/month, and any owner on the venue can manage the subscription.

Demos

  • Curious before signing up? Take a guided, no-account tour of the venue portal — book a show, set a budget, make a social post, and preview the public calendar, all with sample data.

Events & Gigs

  • Add a banner photo to any team and choose exactly how it’s cropped, so your team page feels like yours.
  • The events calendar now loads every one of your Google Calendar events — even on very busy calendars that previously stopped showing events past a certain point — and opens a little quicker while doing it.

Roles for your profile, your teams, and every gig

Say who plays what — add roles to your profile, your team roster, and each person on a gig, and see them right inside the calendar invite.

Events & Gigs

  • Give each person on a gig their role — Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Sound Engineer, and dozens more — with up to six per person, so everyone knows exactly what they’re playing.
  • Roles now show up right inside the Google Calendar invite, next to each name, so your bandmates can see the whole lineup without opening NABA.
  • Add a whole team to a gig and NABA fills in everyone’s roles for you — using each person’s team defaults, their profile roles, or what they most often play on that team.
  • Build a call list of subs and extras for a team — people who aren’t full members — and give them default roles so they’re ready to drop into a gig.

Platform

  • Add your instruments and roles to your profile and drag them into the order you want, with your main role first — NABA remembers them and suggests them automatically wherever you’re added.
  • Pick from a shared catalog of common roles or create your own on the spot; a new one becomes instantly available everywhere.

Calendar invites for non-NABA bandmates, a faster calendar, and a getting-started guide

Invite bandmates who aren’t on NABA to a gig with a real Google Calendar invite, open your calendar faster, and find your footing with a new getting-started checklist.

Events & Gigs

  • Add someone who isn’t on NABA to a gig and send them a real Google Calendar invite by email — with RSVP buttons and a calendar file — so they can drop it onto their own calendar in one tap.
  • See at a glance whether each invited guest has accepted or declined, along with when they responded; a decline automatically switches their invite back off.
  • The events calendar now opens noticeably faster — your NABA events appear right away while your Google Calendar events stream in a moment later, instead of waiting for everything at once.

Platform

  • New to NABA? A getting-started checklist on your dashboard now walks you through the first key steps — create a team, add your people, schedule your first gig, and more — and tucks itself away for good once you’re up and running.

More control over availability requests — plus a Safari quote fix

Turn down individual dates on an availability request, skip the phone field, see gigs booked at the right time, and open quotes reliably in Safari.

Events & Gigs

  • When someone asks for your availability, you can now decline individual dates while keeping the rest open for booking — and undo a decline if you change your mind.
  • Booking a date from an availability request now schedules the gig at the correct local time, no matter where our servers run.
  • Phone number is now optional when requesting availability or sending an availability link — only a name is required.
  • The availability notification badge now clears once every requested date has been booked or declined, so it no longer lingers on requests you have already handled.

Earnings

  • Total pay for an event now saves the moment you enter it, so the “Split Evenly” and per-member pay tools work right away — no need to save and reopen the event first.

CRM

  • Fixed an issue where clicking a quote — by its title or the "View PDF" button — did nothing in Safari. Quotes and their PDFs now open every time, on every browser.
  • The same fix applies to opening PDF quotes and file attachments from a deal, so those open dependably in Safari too.
  • Pipeline stage colors now show reliably on the CRM dashboard’s pipeline bar and legend.

Platform

  • Event financials worksheet lists now load in pages, so they stay fast even when you have a lot of worksheets.

Clearer availability conflicts and a new comparison

Availability sharing again shows your bandmates' busy times, and a new homepage section shows how naba stacks up.

Events & Gigs

  • Fixed the availability view so it once again shows your teammates' existing commitments — making it easy to spot scheduling conflicts before you lock in a date.

Platform

  • A new "How naba compares" section on our homepage puts naba side-by-side with other band tools — highlighting the things only naba does, like per-player Google Calendar gig details and client song requests.

Smoother sign-up and easier event tabs

A more reliable first-time setup and a clearer way to move between the tabs on an event.

Platform

  • Fixed a rare issue where finishing sign-up — especially right after accepting a band invite — could fail with an unexpected error. Getting started is now smooth and reliable.

Events & Gigs

  • The tabs across the top of an event (Overview, Setlists, Financials, and more) now show subtle arrows when there's more to scroll to, and glide more smoothly on phones and tablets.

Smarter contracts, easier onboarding

Less busywork around contracts, a simpler way to bring bandmates on board, and hands-on help whenever you want it.

CRM

  • Send contracts for signature and let NABA automatically remind signers who haven't finished yet — no more manual nudging.
  • Get a confirmation the moment a contract is fully signed, and renew or re-send a contract in a single click.
  • Expired contracts are now clearly flagged so nothing slips through the cracks.
  • Intake forms can send an automatic, personalized reply when someone submits — drop in merge fields like their name so every response feels hand-written.

Platform

  • Invite your bandmates by email even if they don't have a NABA account yet — they'll get a link to join your team the moment they sign up.
  • New members get a quick guided tour right after signing up, so they know where everything is from day one.
  • Need a hand getting set up? Our team can now help you directly inside your account — only with your permission, and you can revoke access anytime.
Major release

The CRM is here

Our biggest update yet — a full client-management CRM, interactive demos you can try without an account, and smarter earnings tracking.

CRM

  • Track every lead and booking through a visual pipeline, from first inquiry to confirmed gig.
  • Manage your clients in one place, with their history, contacts, and linked deals.
  • Build and send professional quotes and contracts, and share a branded client portal.
  • Capture new inquiries with embeddable intake forms that can create a deal automatically.
  • Save time with email templates and automations that handle routine follow-ups for you.
  • See how your business is doing with a pipeline analytics dashboard.
  • Available as a subscription with a 60-day free trial — no card required to start.

Demos

  • Explore the core app and the CRM with realistic sample data — no account needed.
  • Take a guided tour that walks you through the highlights of each.

Earnings

  • Set and publish each member's pay for a gig; their pay also shows up on their synced Google Calendar event.
  • A new earnings overview on your dashboard shows your take-home for this week, month-to-date, and year-to-date — and reflects finalized event financials.

Setlists

  • Smoother drag-and-drop when building and reordering your setlists.
  • Create standalone setlists you can duplicate and reuse across gigs.

Platform

  • A refreshed look for our website.
  • Manage your subscription anytime under Settings.