Every booking follows the same path. This is the map — each step links to the detail.
The six milestones
Request → Offer → Payment → Confirmed → Event → Complete
You'll see this bar on the Progress tab of any booking.
Step by step
1. A client sends a request. They've filled in a form on your profile with their date, time, location, occasion, and any extras they want. Status: Event Requested.
Your move: Accept or Decline. See Accepting or Declining a Request.
2. You accept. A conversation opens with the client and the proposal builder becomes available. Status: Create Offer.
Your move: build and send the proposal. See Building a Proposal: The Five Steps.
3. You send the proposal. Status: Offer Sent.
Your move: none. The client reviews it. It expires on the date you set.
4. The client accepts. A payment is created. Status: Awaiting Payment.
Your move: none — but the date isn't yours yet. Nothing is held until they pay.
5. The client pays. Status: Event Confirmed. The date is blocked on your calendar and can't be double-booked.
Your move: prepare. Sort out arrival time, load-in, and the running order in the conversation.
6. The event runs. Status flips to Event In Progress automatically at the start time.
Your move: handle any extension request. See Event Extensions: Approving Extra Time.
7. It completes. Status: Event Complete. We ask the client for a review, your completed event count goes up, and the money follows your plan's payout schedule.
Where it can stop
- Event Declined — you turned it down
- Offer Rejected — the client didn't accept your terms. You can revise and resend
- Expired — your offer lapsed. You can send a new one
- Event Dropped — the client withdrew. No charges applied
- Event Canceled — the client cancelled a confirmed event after the cancellation window
See Every Proposal Status, Explained.
Where the money sits
A payment is created when the client accepts, collected when they pay, and released to your bank after your plan's payout delay. On a deposit booking, the remainder falls due 7 days before the event. See How Money Moves Through DJfindr.
The two steps that decide most bookings
Responding fast to a request, and sending a clear itemised proposal. Clients usually approach several DJs, and the proposal they act on is often simply the first good one to arrive.