The build-week shifts, crew meals, the programme and department budgets — one crew list underneath, instead of nine sheets with edit access for everybody.
No sign-up, no email. Free for your crew.
The festival template speaks build week, derig and departments.
Crew add their own skills, arrival dates and diets.
Shifts claimed, catering counted, budgets adding up per department.
Filled in once, by them.
She claims build-day slots — coverage fills
Crew catering counts her from Monday
Her certs are on file before the safety check
The people who put the site up and take it down. Shifts, arrivals, spend.
One stage or dome inside a bigger festival — your own programme, crew and budget.
Where the participants are the programme. Proposals in, a timetable out.
The production sheet has forty editors, six tabs only one person understands, and a version from last year nobody dares delete.
Four documents describing the same forty people — and keeping them agreeing is somebody's whole job.
Today Six production tabs, Submission forms, The crew chat, The budget sheet, Last year's version all route through one person. With Burnbase, everyone reads and updates the same shared base.
Switch the rest off. It calls things what your festival calls them.
Skills, certifications, arrivals, contacts. Departments are teams with their own leads.
Slots across build, show and derig — claimed by the crew, coverage visible.
Proposals in, curated, scheduled by space. Or curation off entirely.
Sets on the same timetable, with links to listen.
Meals scaled to the real crew count, a cooking schedule, one shopping list.
Projected vs actual per department, plus pots anyone can chip into.
Arrival times, gear, sizes — one link, answers attached to the person.
Your application form, one queue, joining links.
Build week and the festival on one calendar.
Who lands when, and spare seats matched.
Creating and collaborating is the point.
The admin shouldn't be what people remember.
Crew, shifts, programme, catering and budgets — one set of records that agree, across every department.
Forty editors and six tabs make one person the keeper. Here each department holds its own piece, on the same crew list.
Build week, derig, crew, programme — every word is configurable, and a template sets them for you.
Actuals come from the ledger as it's written. A department going over shows during build, not in the post-mortem.
You don't need main production to adopt anything. One stage can run on this and the rest can follow.
Free
Every module, everyone in your group. No tiers, no seat counts, no trial that runs out.
1%
Added on top of what you asked for, shown before anyone pays. Your number stays your number.
0%
Bank transfer, payment link, cash in a tin — record them for free and the books still balance.
Paying through Burnbase is optional. It's also the only thing that funds building it — so if it makes your crew's life easier, using it is how you and your members support the platform.
Details on the pricing page.
Nobody learns a new tool during build.
The weeks before are the only ones with slack — and the crew list resets anyway.
Every module above is built and running in the demo. Payments are the exception: the whole flow is there — fees, destinations, receipts — but no money moves yet. Next up includes importing your existing spreadsheet, so a group that runs on one today can switch in minutes rather than evenings.
Tell me what you're organising and when. I'd be glad to help you set it up, meet your crew, and stay reachable while you run it — so it actually goes smoothly.
One list, rarely used — for when real payments land and the big pieces ship.
The demo is seeded: a programme, a week of shifts, a budget with actuals. See what a lead, an organizer and a new arrival each get.
Open the demo