Book the Perfect Artist for Your Event
Discover amazing talent and book verified artists for unforgettable experiences. We hold your payment safely until the event, every booking comes with a signed contract, and you're fully refunded if the artist doesn't show up.
- ✓ Escrow payments
- ✓ Verified Pros
- ✓ No-show guarantee
Browse by category
Find exactly the kind of act your event needs.
How it works
Booking talent or getting booked — here’s the whole journey, start to finish.
Create your account
Sign up — or log in to your existing account. Takes a minute.
Post your gig
Share the date, place and budget — or just describe it and let AI shape the brief for you.
Accept a proposal
Matching artists send you quotes. Compare them and accept the one that fits best.
Pay safely
We hold your payment in escrow and only release it to the artist once they’ve shown up and performed the full gig.
Escrow protectedCreate your account
Sign up — or log in — and set up your act and profile.
Find gigs that fit
Browse open gigs and send a proposal for the ones that suit you.
Get accepted
The client reviews your proposal and accepts the quote.
Get paid
The client pays upfront into escrow — the funds are released to you after you’ve performed the gig.
Paid after the showWhy book through GigMeUp
The protection you don't get when you book a friend-of-a-friend.
Escrow you can trust
Funds held until the event is done. No deposit-and-vanish.
Verified Pros
KYC, reviews and booking history visible upfront.
No-show protection
Full refund and we help broker a replacement.
Real contracts
Auto-generated performance agreements, e-signed and audit-logged.
More gigs. Faster pay. Less admin.
Get listed alongside South Africa's verified live acts, get matched to gigs that fit, and get paid 24 hours after the show.
- ✓Faster payouts — paid 24h after the gig, not net-30.
- ✓Friendly Dashboard — easy to navigate personalised dashboard with calendar, contracts, invoices, in one place.
- ✓Lower commission for repeat customers — loyalty pays.