We built DJ Manager because we needed it and it didn't exist.
It started as a booking form on a DJ website in Devon. It became the platform that runs mobile DJ businesses in 37 countries. Here's how that happened.
Simple. We want mobile DJ businesses to run properly.
Not just be managed, but actually run. Where the bookings happen automatically, the contracts sign themselves, the payments collect themselves, and the staff show up informed. Where the owner has space to think about the business instead of being buried inside it.
Every feature we build, every improvement we make, every decision we take about what DJ Manager does next comes back to that. Does this help a mobile DJ run their business better? If yes, we build it. If not, we don't.
We're not trying to be the biggest business management platform in the world. We're trying to be the one that mobile DJs trust completely.
We started South West Photo Booths in 2013.
Not because we had a grand plan for building a software company. We'd been building websites for events businesses as developers, kept seeing the same problems everywhere, and figured we could do it ourselves. We launched South West Photo Booths, started taking bookings, and discovered very quickly that running the business was nothing like delivering the events.
The enquiries, the contracts, the payments, the staff, the follow-ups. All of it manual. All of it eating time. All of it pulling attention away from the part of the job we actually enjoyed.
We tried everything available at the time. Booking tools built for salons. CRMs built for agencies. Scheduling software built for hospitality. None of it fit. Every tool was borrowed from a different industry and bent into shape, and the joins showed every time a booking came in that didn't behave the way the software expected.
So from 2017 the booking system we'd built for ourselves started being used by other local photo booth and DJ businesses too. That's what grew into the platform.
So we built something that would.
- 1A basic booking form
- 2Availability checks
- 3Automated confirmations
- 4Payment handling
- 5Contract generation
- 6Staff assignment
By the time the pieces were assembled, it wasn't a booking form anymore. It was a platform. And other photo booth and DJ operators started asking if they could use it too.
The humans behind DJ Manager
30 operators, engineers, designers and support pros, obsessed with making your business run smoother.
Ismail
Partnerships
Adriana
Customer Success
Ahmet
Front End Developer
Alex
Customer Success
Chris
Support
Christina
Marketing
Ciara
Project Manager
Dijana
Quality Assurance Tester
Elvira
Backend Developer
Guxim
Front End Lead
Ismail
Partnerships
Adriana
Customer Success
Ahmet
Front End Developer
Alex
Customer Success
Chris
Support
Christina
Marketing
Ciara
Project Manager
Dijana
Quality Assurance Tester
Elvira
Backend Developer
Guxim
Front End Lead
Isra
Backend Developer
Ivanna
Customer Success
Ivana
Front End Developer
James
Support
Krystelle
Support
Mc
Support
Murat
Backend Developer
Shqipe
Frontend Developer
Veton
Project Manager
Vlerant
Backend Dev Ops
Chris Collins
Founder & CEO
Isra
Backend Developer
Ivanna
Customer Success
Ivana
Front End Developer
James
Support
Krystelle
Support
Mc
Support
Murat
Backend Developer
Shqipe
Frontend Developer
Veton
Project Manager
Vlerant
Backend Dev Ops
Chris Collins
Founder & CEO
Thirteen years, one obsession
Tap a year to see what happened.
v2 lands
DJ Manager version 2 launches. 37 countries. 14 languages. 6,500 operators. 700k bookings processed. $500+ million payments collected. One platform, still built by people who run a mobile DJ business themselves.
Most software companies build for a market. We built for a problem we had personally.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. When you've actually chased a contract through your own inbox, texted your own staff at midnight, and done your own finances in a spreadsheet held together by hope, you build differently. You know which problems actually hurt and which ones just look important on a feature list.
Every decision in DJ Manager, from the way a proposal gets sent to the way a staff member clocks in on event day, comes from that place. Not from a product manager's assumptions about what mobile DJs need. From operators who know, because they are one.
We sat with 30+ operators
Before we wrote a line of v1, we went through their workflows in detail.
We asked the real questions
What takes the most time? What causes the most stress? What do you wish happened automatically?
We never stopped asking
Every feature in v2 exists because operators asked, described the problem, and confirmed we solved it.
Thirteen years. One job.
v2 is not v1 with a fresh coat of paint.
It's a full rebuild, done properly, informed by everything we learned running version 1 for over a decade with 6,500 operators across 37 countries.
We know what the gaps were. We know what operators needed that version 1 couldn't deliver. We know what frustrated people and what they loved. Version 2 is the answer to all of that, built on infrastructure that will carry DJ Manager forward for the next decade rather than the next few years.
It took longer than we said it would. Good software usually does. But we'd rather ship something that works properly than something that ships on schedule.
Built by DJs. Trusted by DJs.
Used by 6,500 DJs across 37 countries. If you run a mobile DJ business and you're not on DJ Manager, try it. 14 days, no card required, most operators are set up and taking bookings the same day.