Soundslot vs Jammed
Jammed is the closest thing to a direct competitor: a UK product built specifically for rehearsal studios, by people who clearly understand them. This page is a read of where the two differ rather than a list of things we do and they do not.
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What they have got right
Jammed is rehearsal-specific, not a general scheduler wearing a studio hat, and it shows in the feature set: bookable staff, booking approvals, multi-location, point of sale and automatically charged deposits are all there. They ship quickly.
If you are choosing between two products that both understand what a rehearsal room is, you are already past the hardest part of this decision. Most studios' real alternative is a spreadsheet.
Where the two differ
| Feature | Jammed | Soundslot |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Rehearsal studios. | Rehearsal studios, and hourly creative space generally. |
| Your public site | A booking front end for your studio. | Hosted themes or your own HTML, on your own domain, with the booker built in. |
| Point of sale | Built in. | Not built, and not planned. Cash and terminal takings are marked paid against the booking. |
What we do not do that they do
Point of sale. If selling strings, sticks and drinks over the counter through the same system matters to you, that is a real gap here and it is not planned. We record cash and terminal takings against bookings instead of becoming a till.
They are also a longer-established product with more studios on it. Being newer is not a feature.
A fair way to choose
Ask both for the storefront. Put your own studio's name, rooms and rates into each and look at what a customer sees on a phone. That is the part a band actually experiences and it is the clearest difference between the two.
This page quotes no price for the other product. Theirs change, and a figure typed here would be out of date within a month. Read it on their own site, then read ours.
Your studio. Your next chapter.
Both products will hold your bookings. Pick the one whose front of house you would be happy to put on a poster.
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