Stop juggling tools.
Start running shows.
Overture brings scheduling, contracts, staffing, shift planning, invoicing, and production into one unified platform — with labour-law rules for your workforce built in.
Event management shouldn't feel like this
Every venue knows the pain. The tools you rely on weren't built for how you actually work.
Scattered information
Event details live in spreadsheets, contracts in email threads, schedules in shared docs, and staff availability in someone's head. Nothing connects.
Disconnected tools
You pay for five different platforms that don't talk to each other. Every handoff between systems creates risk, duplicated data, and wasted time.
Manual busywork
Contracts are copy-pasted from templates. Invoices are rebuilt from scratch. Shift plans are checked against labour law by hand. The admin work never ends.
One platform. Every workflow.
Overture replaces the patchwork with a single system designed around how event teams and venues actually operate.
Visual Calendar & Scheduling
See your entire programme at a glance. Drag events across venues and dates. Multi-day productions, space bookings, and resource conflicts — handled automatically.
Contracts & Digital Signing
Build templates with merge tags that auto-fill event data. Send for signing with one click. Get a live notification the moment a client signs, so nothing slips through.
Staff & Crew Management
Drag-and-drop crew onto events, track availability, send notifications, and collect timesheets — all from the same place you manage the show.
Shift Planner · Labour-law compliant
Working Environment Act rules are encoded directly into the planner. Evening loads, rest periods, weekend distribution and averaged working hours are validated in real time as you build the rota.
§ 10-5 readyInvoicing & Pricing
Generate invoices directly from event data with venue rates, resource fees, and marketing packages. No re-keying. No spreadsheet formulas.
Production & Instructions
Lighting, sound, front-of-house, marketing — give every department their own instruction space per event. Changes push to all production dates instantly.
PDF Agreements & Preview
Upload artist contracts, riders, and technical specifications. Preview them inline on the event — no downloading, no hunting through email.
Calendar Feeds
Subscribe to personal, venue, or department calendars from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. Always up to date, automatically.
Notification Centre
A single inbox for contract signings, shift confirmations, and production updates — so the whole team can keep track of what's happened and what still needs attention.
Integrations That Just Work
Connect your ticketing system and sync with existing workflows. An open API lets you pull in event data from any planning tool you already use.
Labour law built in. Because spreadsheets don't know the rules.
Every contract in Overture carries its own rules — evening premium, maximum consecutive evening shifts, rest periods, and averaged working hours under Working Environment Act § 10-5. The planner flags violations the moment you draft a week, not after HR finds them.
- Three presets for averaged working hours — individual agreement (8 weeks / 48 h / 10 h), collective agreement (52 weeks / 54 h / 12.5 h) and Labour Inspection Authority consent (26 weeks / 48 h / 13 h).
- Rolling N-week window that warns when the average breaches the contract's target.
- Minute-precise evening detection — a shift that ends at 17:00 no longer counts as an evening shift.
- Per-employee contract overrides, clearly marked in the "Per employee" tab when someone has their own terms.
What's new in Overture
We ship constantly. Here's what landed in the last few releases.
Two-factor authentication
TOTP via Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password — required for admin accounts. 30-day "trust this device" so you don't enter the code daily.
System push notifications
Bell, chat mentions, contract signings and shift requests arrive as native iOS / Android / desktop notifications, even when the app is closed.
Tap-to-deep-link
Tap a push and land on the exact event tab — task assigned → Tasks tab, chat mention → Production tab. No more hunting after the app opens.
Installable PWA + stay-signed-in
Add to home screen on iOS / Android and stay signed in across reboots and app evictions. A real second-factor in your pocket.
Averaged working hours
Full § 10-5 support in the rota — three legal bases, rolling window, and live alerts as you build the week.
Per-section VAT overrides
Pick a VAT profile, then override venue rental, staff, resources, or marketing individually when a single event needs different rates.
Role-aware staffing
When you pick a staff member, the role suggestions narrow to the roles they can actually hold — primary plus any extras from their profile.
Cross-device notification sync
Mark a notification read on your phone and the desktop catches up on the next poll — server-side merge prevents the lost-update races that plagued the old shared-blob writes.
Results, not features
Here's what changes when your venue runs on Overture.
Weeks of admin work disappear
Contracts, invoices, and staff notifications that used to take hours happen in clicks. Merge tags pull event data automatically — no copy-pasting.
Your whole team sees the same picture
Producers, technicians, front-of-house, and management all work from one live system. No more "which spreadsheet is the latest?" conversations.
Your rota is compliant by default
Labour-law rules are encoded directly in the shift planner. Violations are flagged while you plan — not three months later when HR finds them.
Nothing falls through the cracks
Every event has a full audit trail — contracts, staff assignments, instructions, history. When someone asks "did we confirm that?", the answer is one click away.
Replace five tools with one
Stop paying for a calendar app, a contract tool, a staff scheduler, an invoicing platform, and a project tracker. Overture covers all of it — without the integration headaches.
Your server. Your data. Your rules.
Overture runs on your own hosting — not on someone else's cloud. GDPR-ready by construction, not by promise.
Two-factor authentication
TOTP-based 2FA (Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password). Required for admin accounts and never disable-able by the admin themselves — only another admin can reset on a lost device.
Self-hosted, your infrastructure
Deploys to any cPanel-style hosting in Norway or the EU. Your event data, contracts, staff records, and timesheets stay on hardware you control.
GDPR by design
No third-party data processors. No analytics pings. No external CDN for app code. Personal data never leaves your domain unless you explicitly export it.
Granular roles & permissions
Per-role access on every tab and action. Producers see their events only when you want; staff see their own shifts; admins see everything. Define what each role can read or edit.
Encrypted in transit
HTTPS-only via Let's Encrypt SSL on your domain. Push notifications use VAPID-signed payloads. Trust tokens are random 256-bit values, server-validated with constant-time compare.
Full data export, anytime
Every collection (events, staff, contracts, timesheets) is a JSON blob in your MySQL database. You can dump and migrate at any moment — no lock-in, no proprietary format.
Common questions
Ready to simplify your venue operations?
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