Add session players to your roster — the payout splits itself
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Invite talent you already work with onto your listing as a bookable add-on. When a booking happens, SESH splits the payout automatically — no invoicing, no Venmo requests.
If you've ever tried to add "and an engineer" to a booking, you know the actual friction isn't finding someone good — it's what happens after. Someone has to invoice someone. Someone has to remember to pay them. If it's a regular thing, that's a standing bit of admin nobody asked for. Roster exists to remove that specific problem.
What it does
Roster lets independent talent — session players, mixing engineers, vocal coaches, anyone you already work with — become a bookable add-on directly on your own listing. A guest booking your room sees the option to add them, at whatever rate they've set, right there in the same checkout. When the session's confirmed and paid for, SESH splits the payout automatically: your share lands in your account, their share lands in theirs, at the same time, with no invoice in between.
Who can be added — deliberately not anyone
This isn't an open marketplace of strangers you can staple onto a booking. Getting someone onto your roster requires a mutual follow first — you follow each other on SESH — and then an invite, which they have to accept. That's a real gate, not a formality: it means everyone on your roster is someone you already chose to work with, not someone SESH matched you with. The same reasoning that keeps SESH out of the middle of a guest booking applies here — SESH facilitates the payout, it doesn't introduce you to anyone you didn't already pick.
Once accepted, they're bookable on that listing (or that whole facility, your choice when you invite them) with zero per-booking friction from then on — you don't re-invite them every time.
Why the payout split matters more than it sounds
The alternative to this is what most studios already do informally: the room gets paid, and the host pays the engineer out of pocket, on their own schedule, by whatever method is easiest that week. That works until it doesn't — a busy month, a forgotten Venmo, an engineer who stops trusting that they'll actually get paid promptly. Splitting it at the source, automatically, the same moment the room's own payout happens, removes the part that actually breaks trust between working musicians.
Getting started
From your Manager Dashboard's Roster tab, follow the talent you want to add, send an invite scoped to a specific listing or a whole facility, and wait for them to accept. From there it's live — no further setup per booking. Roster is a Premium and Top Shelf feature; see the full plan comparison for what else those tiers unlock.
Compare plans, or read about what makes a good hire if you're building your roster for the first time.