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. | No till for retail items. A session is paid at the desk on a Square Terminal or Stripe reader, or marked paid in cash. |
What we do not do that they do
Point of sale. If you sell strings, sticks and drinks over the counter through the same system, that is a gap here and it is not planned. A session itself can be paid at the desk on a card reader or in cash.
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 sees 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 Theirs change, and a figure typed here would be out of date within a month.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. Open for bookings.
Both products will hold your bookings. Pick the one whose front of house you would be happy to put on a poster.
From $39 a month. 14 days free with a card on file, nothing charged until day 15.