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Account and roles

You do not need an account to browse: the calendar, the map, venue and label pages are public. An account only matters once you want to add shows yourself or look after a label. Accounts are handed out by hand — drop us a line at info@diytracker.ch saying who you are and what you do.

Once you are logged in, the black backstage bar appears at the top. Anyone allowed to add shows sees Submit and Genres there. If you look after a label, you also see Labels — your dashboard with your labels, their shows and the numbers behind them.

Adding a show

Submit takes you to the form. Date, venue and the bands are required; everything else — doors, price, ticket link, flyer, description, genres — makes the entry better but is optional.

Pick the venue from the list. If it is not there yet, choose "new venue" and fill in name, address and town — the form rejects incomplete new venues. For something running over several days, tick the festival box and set an end date; the show then appears on every day it runs.

If you look after a label, you can attach the show to it right away in the Label field. Shows entered by hand go straight into the calendar — they do not wait for approval. If you spot a mistake later, tell us; only admins can correct entries.

Creating and managing labels

"Label" here does not only mean a record label: it is the name you put shows on under — a collective, a booking crew, an association, a venue team or an actual label. One account can hold several labels, for instance if you book for two crews.

Create one under Labels → New label. The name is required; on top of that come a description, a logo, a website, two social links and a contact address. All of it ends up on the public label page, so the contact address is public too. Names are unique — if one is already taken, get in touch instead of creating a misspelled variant.

You can only edit and delete your own labels. Deleting one leaves its shows in the calendar; they simply carry no label afterwards.

The public label page

Every label gets its own page at /label/name/ with the logo, the description, your links and all upcoming shows. The page stays up even when nothing is coming — so you can hand the link around before the first date is set.

Careful when renaming: the address is derived from the name. Rename the label and the address changes — the old link stops working, including on flyers already printed.

At the bottom of the label page there is a calendar subscription (.ics). Anyone who subscribes gets your shows in their own calendar, later changes included.

Claiming shows

Part of the calendar is collected automatically from public sources. That is why your shows are often already listed before you enter anything — just without a label. Claim an event attaches such an entry to your label: it then shows up on your label page and counts towards your statistics.

You can claim upcoming shows that do not belong to a label yet. The list is searchable, and entries matching your label names are suggested at the top. If it turns out not to be your show, hand it back with Release on the dashboard — either way it stays in the calendar.

The In review — likely yours block shows collected entries still waiting for an admin to approve them. They are not in the calendar yet and therefore cannot be claimed — once approved, they appear in the claim list.

Numbers and notifications

The dashboard shows how often each show's page was opened. Views are opens of the event page, visitors are daily unique IP addresses, and the small curve covers the last 30 days. Bots and crawlers are filtered out. These are trends, not exact measurements — enough to tell whether a link you shared did anything.

Copy link gives you the full address of a show for stories, newsletters or chat.

At the very bottom you can switch email notifications on and off. They go out when an admin edits a show carrying one of your labels, so a correction to a date or a venue does not pass you by.