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Getting started

The first hour with Festinato: sign-up, payment, onboarding, and getting your first artist into the mobile app.

1. Sign up

Visit festinato.app/signup and pick:

  • a tenant id — three to thirty-two lower-case letters, digits or dashes. This becomes your subdomain (<tenant_id>.festinato.app), the slug your mobile app uses, and the channel your push notifications fan out on. Pick carefully — it is not changeable later.
  • a festival name as displayed to attendees
  • an admin email — receives the welcome mail and is seeded as the back-office admin user
  • a tier — see pricing

After clicking Continue to checkout you land on Mollie's hosted payment page. Year one is billed up front (annual fee plus the setup fee where applicable); the recurring subscription starts twelve months later.

2. Provisioning

Once Mollie confirms payment, the back-office is built for you in under a minute. You will receive a welcome email with your login URL — https://<tenant_id>.festinato.app/web — and a one-time password.

3. Onboarding wizard

Your first login drops straight into a five-step wizard:

Step What you create
Welcome Short intro and brand check
Edition The current festival edition with start + end dates
Venue Your first venue, auto-linked to the edition
Artist Your first artist, marked booked and linked to the edition
Slot Slot the artist at the venue with a start and end time

On Finish the wizard releases the landing action so the next refresh takes you to the normal back-office. You can re-run it later from Settings → Technical → Actions → Window Actions → Festinato — Onboarding.

4. Mobile app

The Festival Hub app lists your festival in its picker the moment your edition is flagged Publicly discoverable (Community tier and above).

For a branded build — your own bundle id, your own icon, your own colour — your account manager produces signed .aab / .ipa artifacts on demand and delivers them to your App Store Connect and Play Console accounts. See Mobile app for what each flavour looks like.

5. Day-to-day

  • Push notificationsPush-Benachrichtigungen in the back-office. Compose a message, attach an optional deep link to an artist or venue, click Jetzt senden. Fan-out is automatic across branded direct tokens, the Hub Android topic, and direct APNs for Hub iOS.
  • Artists, venues, slots — same flow as the wizard, just from the Festinato menu.
  • Sponsors, fundraising, volunteers — dedicated menus under Festinato.

Need a hand? Mail your account manager or support@festinato.app.