Recording Studio Management Software
Sonido Software brings together the most common business management tools used by recording studios today into a single, intuitive, end-to-end platform.Â
Everything you need is at your fingertips to better manage your business – With Sonido’s recording studio management software, you hold the power to better organize your studio and leverage a more efficient workflow for optimal results.
Lead Management
Sonido helps you stay on top of all your current leads, avoiding the costly mistake of letting them fall through the cracks.Â
With Sonido, you can create new leads with relevant primary contact, band/group details and project details, document ongoing conversations and notes, track lead stages from start to finish, set up To Dos with follow-up reminders, convert leads to new studio projects, and more.Â
Contact Management
Having all your studio contacts and their information housed in a single system is powerful.
With Sonido, you can keep track of people, bands/groups and companies, review their record details, document ongoing conversations and notes, set up To Dos, and review their project history with your studio.
Studio Scheduling
Keeping track of your studio sessions is simple with the Sonido calendar. Not only can you book single or recurring studio bookings across one or more studio spaces, but you can also add additional details, such as team member assignments, custom event types, connect project songs to sessions, set booking reminders, and more – all of which integrates into robust Sonido reporting and client billing.
Sonido also offers a customizable online booking system that you can embed within your website for client booking requests. Sonido becomes your full studio scheduling system!
Client Online Bookings
Allowing your clients to book or request studio time from your website is simple.
With Sonido, you can highly customize an effective booking form, with your own service packages, rates, and engineer and room selection based on availability. You can collect key project details during the booking process for a better idea of what to expect from the client.Â
If you require a deposit upon booking, Sonido can capture that payment upfront for you, as well as send out custom email messages for the booking confirmation, a booking reminder 24-hours prior, and automated communications for any changes to the booking date and time or cancellations.
You can even brand the booking form to match your website, and adding a 1-line code snippet to your website is fast and convenient.
Project Management
Managing you studio projects is made easy with Sonido Software. From tracking project timelines, documenting conversations and key project details and referencing project song information, to creating tasks for team members, storing project files for easy access, and much more.Â
With Sonido, you have a full project management system specifically designed for your studio production efforts.Â
File Review & Delivery
One of our more popular features within Sonido is the ability to share audio links for clients to review within the Sonido File Review Portal.Â
With Sonido, you no longer have to hunt down all your client mix revision requests in long email threads, text messages and social posts. Instead, our File Review Portal makes it easy to share protected audio files with clients, capture their feedback in a transparent review portal, manage the audio versions in playback, and more.Â
You also have large file transfer for sending your final audio files, stems, session photos or other necessary files to clients in large batches.
Studio Financials
Sonido helps you to effectively track your financials and studio profitability.Â
Create custom quotes to send to prospects or other contacts for review, convert quotes to invoices or create your own custom invoices to request payment from your clients.Â
Sonido also makes it easy to collect payments from clients using our payment processing partner.
You also have access to financial reports to track overdue invoices, your revenue by project or month, outstanding invoice balances, and more!
To Dos & Tasks
When it comes to managing studio tasks, Sonido’s To Dos can help you stay one step ahead and complete your daily checklist.Â
You can effortlessly create To Dos for Projects, Leads and Contacts, or even general To Do tasks. You can assign a To Do to yourself or any team member through delegation, and the global To Dos view makes it easy for each user to see all their assigned To Dos from one place.
With To Do reminders, assigned users receive notifications prompting them to take the next steps.
Project Time Tracking
Tracking studio time doesn’t have to be complicated. With Sonido, you can create your own tasks, set hourly rates, and track time against project tasks with ease.Â
Time entries are recording through an automated task timer, or through many time entries. Within a project, you can see all recorded time, and you can even effortlessly add tracked time to invoices for capturing payment on projects.
Dashboard & Reports
To keep your studio business running in tip-top shape, you need access to business performance reporting.Â
Sonido provides an intuitive performance dashboard that shows your business highlights. You account also has access to over a dozen reports, ranging from lead performance and referral sources, invoice and revenue reports, booking and schedule reports, and even a custom report builder to create your own personalized analytics.
Equipment Management
Keep track of all your studio assets and equipment like a pro with Sonido Equipment Management.
You can add each piece of your studio equipment to a database, including important details such as equipment categories, photos, brand and model names, serial numbers, current equipment status (Available, Maintenance), descriptions, and more.Â
