Advance module

The whole advance, in one afternoon

Send a customisable advance email to every venue at once, track responses in a live dashboard, attach the rider PDF automatically. No more chasing 30 promoters for a WiFi password.

Requires a Gmail account linked to your Load In Suite profile. Sends go from your own address, so replies come back to you.

Everything the advance needs

The advance is where tour managers, production managers and artist teams lose the most time. Load In Suite gathers the whole workflow into one page — contacts, template, send, track, complete.

Per-tour contact list

Add every venue, promoter and production contact for the tour once. Validated as you type so no bounced emails on send.

Customisable email template

Rich-text template editor with merge fields — venue name, show date, artist. Write it once per tour, personalise every send automatically.

Bulk send in one click

Fire the whole advance in one action — every venue gets a personalised email with the right merge fields and any attachments. Test-send to yourself first.

Live response tracker

See at a glance who's replied, who's ghosted, and which fields are still missing. Every response lands in one dashboard — no email inbox scavenger hunt.

Rider PDF auto-attached

Link a rider to the tour and Load In Suite generates and attaches the production-ready PDF on every send. No exporting, no re-attaching, no version drift.

Booking completeness tracker

A per-show checklist: rider sent, response received, tech confirmed, hotel booked. Nothing slips through the cracks in the two weeks before the tour rolls.

See it in action

A closer look at the parts of the advance workflow that save the most time.

Contact input

Add every contact for the tour, once

Enter the venue's advance email, the promoter's email and any CC recipients on each show. Validated as you type so a wrong address is flagged immediately, not after you've sent 30 bounced emails.

Template editor

Write the advance email once

Rich-text editor with merge tokens for venue, promoter, date and artist. Save it as the tour's default template — every venue gets a personalised version without you re-typing anything.

Response tracker

The whole advance, at a glance

One dashboard shows every venue on the tour, whether the advance has been sent, whether they've replied, and what's outstanding. The missing rows are where your day starts.

Attachments

Send the rider — and receive theirs

Attach the rider PDF automatically, plus any tour-wide docs (hospitality, tech pack, catering rider). Every reply's attachments land in the tour's attachment inbox for one-click access.

How it works

1

Add contacts

Paste the tour's venue and promoter emails into the Advance page. Validated inline, saved per tour.

2

Customise the template

Write the tour's advance email once, with merge fields for venue, date, promoter and artist name. Attach the rider PDF automatically.

3

Bulk send from your Gmail

Send the whole advance in one action from your own Gmail account (link it once in your profile). Every venue receives a personalised email with the right attachments — and every reply lands back in your inbox.

4

Track and complete

Follow up on the live response dashboard. Chase the missing ones. Every reply and attachment ends up in one place.

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