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The questions to ask, and the page that locks it

Pick the kind of gig and get a question set tuned to it — then turn the answers into a one-page booking confirmation you can send. Nothing is hosted, nothing is submitted, and no enquiry is captured anywhere.

Your question set12 questions

The controls need JavaScript. The wedding question set is rendered below either way — it is the same one the builder starts from, and it is readable, printable and copyable as it stands.

Each set asks different things because the gigs are different — a club wants the booth spec, a wedding wants the ceremony.

The question set · Wedding
  1. 1Your nameRequired · Short text · maps to a Kadens lead field
  2. 2EmailRequired · Email · maps to a Kadens lead field
  3. 3PhonePhone · maps to a Kadens lead field
  4. 4DateRequired · Date · maps to a Kadens lead field
  5. 5Venue or areaShort text · maps to a Kadens lead field
  6. 6Names of the coupleRequired · Short text · maps to a Kadens lead field
  7. 7Rough guest countNumber · maps to a Kadens lead field
  8. 8What do you need covered?Required · Choice — Reception only / Ceremony + reception / Ceremony, canapés + reception / Not sure yet
  9. 9Do you need an MC?Choice — Yes / No / Not sure yet
  10. 10Budget you are working toShort text · maps to a Kadens lead field
  11. 11Anything else the couple wants coveredLong text · maps to a Kadens lead field
  12. 12How did you hear about me?Short text · maps to a Kadens lead field

The config is the real thing — the same JSON shape a Kadens enquiry form is stored as, so a set you build here can be imported rather than retyped. Nothing you do on this page creates a form or captures an enquiry.

Show the form config (JSON)
{
  "version": 1,
  "branding": false,
  "questions": [
    {
      "key": "contact_name",
      "label": "Your name",
      "type": "text",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "key": "email",
      "label": "Email",
      "type": "email",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "key": "phone",
      "label": "Phone",
      "type": "phone",
      "required": false
    },
    {
      "key": "event_date",
      "label": "Date",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "key": "location",
      "label": "Venue or area",
      "type": "text",
      "required": false,
      "placeholder": "Booked or just a suburb — either helps"
    },
    {
      "key": "couple_names",
      "label": "Names of the couple",
      "type": "text",
      "required": true,
      "placeholder": "Ava & Sam"
    },
    {
      "key": "guest_estimate",
      "label": "Rough guest count",
      "type": "number",
      "required": false
    },
    {
      "key": "coverage",
      "label": "What do you need covered?",
      "type": "choice",
      "required": true,
      "options": [
        "Reception only",
        "Ceremony + reception",
        "Ceremony, canapés + reception",
        "Not sure yet"
      ]
    },
    {
      "key": "mc_required",
      "label": "Do you need an MC?",
      "type": "choice",
      "required": false,
      "options": [
        "Yes",
        "No",
        "Not sure yet"
      ]
    },
    {
      "key": "budget_note",
      "label": "Budget you are working to",
      "type": "text",
      "required": false,
      "placeholder": "A range is fine"
    },
    {
      "key": "message",
      "label": "Anything else the couple wants covered",
      "type": "long_text",
      "required": false
    },
    {
      "key": "how_heard",
      "label": "How did you hear about me?",
      "type": "text",
      "required": false
    }
  ]
}

Why a form beats a DM

Not because DMs are unprofessional — because they arrive incomplete. Someone asks “how much for the 14th?” and you spend four messages establishing it is a wedding, five hours, in Geelong, with a ceremony. A form gets you to the quote in one round trip, and it gets you there while they are still interested.

The other half is comparability. Fifteen enquiries in the same shape can be sorted, answered in a batch, and turned into a follow-up list. Fifteen conversations in three apps cannot, and the ones you forget are the ones that book somebody else.

How long the form should be

Shorter than you want it to be. Every question is a place to stop, and someone who stops at question fourteen is worth less than someone who finished a form that did not ask about parking. Ask what you need to quote and put everything else in the reply.

The sets on this page run to around ten questions, and about six of those are the same every time: who you are, how to reach you, when, and where. The occasion-specific ones are where the set earns its keep — and they are genuinely different, because the gigs are.

What each set asks, and why

Wedding

The price moves on coverage and hours before anything else, so the set asks what is being covered before it asks about guests. MC duties are a separate question because they are a separate job, and half the couples asking do not yet know they need one.

  • Your name · required
  • Email · required
  • Phone
  • Date · required
  • Venue or area
  • Names of the couple · required
  • Rough guest count
  • What do you need covered? · required
  • Do you need an MC?
  • Budget you are working to
  • Anything else the couple wants covered
  • How did you hear about me?

Private party

The occasion is the first question because a 21st and a 60th are different nights with the same headline. The finish time is on it because a house party has a council noise limit and a venue does not.

  • Your name · required
  • Email · required
  • Phone
  • Date · required
  • Venue or area
  • What is the occasion? · required
  • Rough guest count
  • What time does it need to finish?
  • Budget you are working to
  • Anything else the host wants covered
  • How did you hear about me?

Corporate

Two questions here exist entirely for getting paid: who the invoice goes to, and whether the venue is providing AV. Corporate clients answer both without blinking and both change the quote.

  • Your name · required
  • Email · required
  • Phone
  • Date · required
  • Venue or area
  • Organisation · required
  • What is the event for?
  • Expected attendance
  • Is AV provided by the venue?
  • Who does the invoice go to?
  • Anything else the organiser wants covered
  • How did you hear about me?

Club / venue gig

A promoter does not want a wedding questionnaire. What matters is the set, the booth and the fee, so that is the set — and asking what is in the booth up front is how you find out you are bringing your own mixer.

  • Your name · required
  • Email · required
  • Phone
  • Date · required
  • Venue or area
  • Venue or promoter · required
  • Set length
  • Set time
  • What is in the booth?
  • Fee
  • Anything else the booker wants covered
  • How did you hear about me?

Festival / live show

Production questions, not venue questions: the stage, the backline, and whether travel is covered. A festival is a site you have never seen and will not get to walk before you play it.

  • Your name · required
  • Email · required
  • Phone
  • Date · required
  • Venue or area
  • Festival or promoter · required
  • Stage
  • Set length
  • Backline and monitors provided
  • Is travel or accommodation covered?
  • Anything else the promoter wants covered
  • How did you hear about me?

General event

The fallback. Wide enough to quote from, short enough that somebody who is not sure what they are planning still finishes it.

  • Your name · required
  • Email · required
  • Phone
  • Date · required
  • Venue or area
  • What kind of event is it? · required
  • Rough guest count
  • Budget you are working to
  • Anything else the host wants covered
  • How did you hear about me?

The confirmation sheet, and what it is not

Once the gig is agreed, one page goes back: the date, the times, the venue, what you are delivering, the fee, the deposit, and when the balance is due. Its job is to make the agreement legible to somebody who is not you, six weeks later, when they are deciding whether they asked for a ceremony PA.

It is not a contract. It carries no terms, no cancellation clause and no signature, and it should not be treated as one. Kadens sends real contracts with e-signature on the Working DJ plan; this sheet is the confirmation that sits alongside one, or the thing you send when a contract would be overkill for a two-hour club set.

What this tool deliberately does not do

Each of these is either a Kadens feature or a thing nobody should build into an anonymous page. Both kinds are named rather than half-shipped.

Host the form, or take a single enquiry
No form is published and nothing is submitted. An anonymous visitor’s enquiry landing in a table with no account attached is data with no owner and no deletion path, so it is not collected at all.
Email you the answers
There is no email field on this page. The artifacts download; nothing is sent anywhere.
Take a deposit
The sheet states one. Collecting it needs an account, a payment processor and a refund story — all three are the product’s, not a free page’s.
Replace a contract
No terms, no clauses, no signature. A confirmation sheet records what was agreed; it does not make it enforceable.

Questions

What should a DJ booking enquiry form ask?

Enough to quote, and no more. A name, a way to reply, a date, a location, and the three or four things that actually move the price for that kind of gig — coverage and guest count for a wedding, booth spec and set length for a club. Every extra question costs you enquiries, which is why each set on this page stops at around ten.

Does this page host my form or collect enquiries?

No. It produces a question list you can print or paste, and the form config as JSON. Nothing is submitted anywhere and no enquiry is captured — an anonymous visitor’s enquiry sitting in a table with no owner is data nobody is responsible for, so it is not collected at all.

What is the config for?

It is the real stored shape of a Kadens enquiry form, not an export format invented for this page. So a set you build here can be imported after signup rather than retyped, and the answers land in real fields instead of being flattened into one message box.

What is a booking confirmation sheet?

The one page you send once a gig is agreed: date, times, venue, what is included, the fee, the deposit and when the balance is due. It is not a contract — it does not carry terms and nobody signs it. It is the artifact that stops the “I thought that was included” conversation happening on the night.

Does it take the deposit?

No. The sheet states a deposit; it never collects one. There is no payment on this page at all.

What do I get by signing up?

Two things, at two different rungs. A free account hosts the form at a real address, so answers arrive in one inbox already sorted instead of scattered across your DMs. Working DJ makes the hosted form your question set with your branding rather than the default one. A printed question list still means copying answers by hand — that is the honest difference.