Once you've submitted your enquiry, you're ready to begin managing your booking. Here's how it works:

1. Receive applications

Once you've submitted your enquiry, you'll be taken to your Enquiry page - this is your unique webpage from which you'll be able to manage the booking from start to finish.
You'll then shortly begin receiving applications from available musicians.
You can then compare your applicants by:
- Watching their videos and listening to their recordings;
- Viewing their Encore profiles;
- Creating a shortlist of your favourites. Click here to learn more about creating a shortlist.

2. Communicate with your musicians

Though videos, recordings and musician profiles do help when you're deciding who to book, you'll want to get in touch with your favourites before making your final decision.
On your Enquiry page, you can send messages or call musicians.

Once you know which artist(s) you'd like to book, click the green "Book now" button on their application card and complete the form which pops up by entering your payment details. This will send a message to the artist asking them to confirm that they are able to commit to this booking. Learn more about sending a Booking request here.
- Please note: no Encore booking is secured until you have sent a Booking request.

If you would like to book more than one artist, simply click the "Book now" button on your chosen musician's application cards.

The artist will then be prompted to accept or decline your booking request.
Once the artist has accepted your booking request, your payment will be taken and held securely by our industry-standard payment provider, Stripe (learn more about security here).
- If you book more than a month in advance of your event, we take 30% of your total fee as a deposit, and the remaining 70% will automatically be charged 28 days before the event.
- If your event date is within the next 28 days, you will be asked to pay the full fee upfront.

At this point, your contact details and those of your booked musicians will be automatically exchanged, so you can keep in close contact right up until the gig.
You'll also automatically receive an invoice. To find out where you can download your invoice, click here.

Make sure you stay in close contact with your booked musician right up until the event. You can find our guidelines on how to manage musicians at your event here.
Sit back and relax - if you've chosen to pay via Card payment at checkout, all payments will be transferred automatically by Encore, so you don't need to worry about cash in hand or writing cheques.

You'll receive an email prompting you to review the musicians you booked.
Please review them at your earliest convenience by leaving star ratings and a short note describing your experience of their performance. Learn more about reviewing your musician(s) here.
Note: reviews are very important to our musicians and help ensure that the Encore platform remains a trusted and transparent service for booking musicians.

That's it - if you follow these six simple steps, you should have no problem booking musicians through Encore!

To book again, simply head back to encoremusicians.com. We hope to see you again soon!