Giornata

Who it’s for

For people who work by the day, and have to know at the end of the month what they did.

Giornata comes out of live entertainment — concerts, conferences, events, rental companies, tours, production, rigging — and works for anybody who works by the day, by the job and by the engagement.

Audio technicians

Different rental companies, different rates, days that change the night before, and months with forty dates.

Every date stays attached to the right company and to the rate that applied that day.

Video and LED

Long builds, rehearsals, shows, night strikes and travel wedged between two dates.

Build, show and strike stay distinct jobs, not one undifferentiated day.

Lighting

Prep days at the warehouse, focus, performance, and shifts that end after midnight.

A job that ends at three in the morning stays the day it really was.

Direction and production

Several jobs open at once, with different clients and different money terms.

Client, job and tour are separate levels, and the figures add up where that makes sense.

Stage and backline

Last-minute calls, repeated days, and overtime that nobody remembers at the end of the month.

Repeated days are logged in one go, and extras stay attached to the right day.

Rigging and exhibitions

Conferences and trade fairs with short builds, many suppliers, and expenses paid up front out of pocket.

Expenses to be reimbursed stay separate from the ones that remain at your charge.

Touring crew

Weeks away, time zones, travel days, and stretches where the calendar is the only memory.

The tour is a container, and at the end you know what you have earned and what you still have to report.

Co-operative members

Shifts assigned by the co-operative, statements that arrive later, and days across several sites in the same month.

You keep your own version of events, day by day, and at the end of the month you have something to compare the figures against.

Freelancers and travelling professionals

Work by the day or by the job, across different clients, under contract forms that keep changing.

One professional memory, and it stays yours when the clients change.

Whose it is

Giornata is yours, not the client’s.

Rental companies, productions, co-operatives and contracts all change. The record of your work does not: there is one of it, and it stays on your side.

Who it is not for

Better said up front.

  • It is not a management tool for the clientIt is not there to organise somebody else’s crew or to hand out calls.
  • It is not invoicing softwareIt tells you what you have earned and what you still have to report. Your invoices stay where you make them today.
  • It is not a stopwatch time trackerWork is measured in days, shifts and jobs, not in minutes you start and stop.

If you recognise yourself, Giornata does the rest.

Start logging days as they happen. When the time comes to report, the work is already there.

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