Hot CuesThe client portal
Six months of planning, under your name the whole way.
Your couples live in the portal from the deposit to the last dance — so it carries every trick the big planner apps sell, minus their logo on your client's screen.
The brand engine
One hex value, and the whole thing is yours.
Pick your color once and every screen a client sees repaints — the sign-in page, the planner, the printed sheet. Every derived shade is contrast-checked, so nothing you choose can quietly make it unreadable. Covers and banners are settable per company, per template, or per single event.
Your sign-in page
Clients arrive at a door with your logo on it, not ours. Hot Cues is the machinery behind the curtain — the relationship stays yours.
Covers, banners, even GIFs
Headline media per section, per event. A planner a couple enjoys opening is a planner that gets finished.
Video where it helps
Loom, Vimeo and YouTube welcome videos play right where you placed them — a face and a voice before the first meeting.
What a couple actually does in it
From the invite to the review, without ever leaving your planner.
- The invite
A link, not a login to invent
They get a link to your sign-in page — your logo, your color, your name on the door — and a code to their inbox. No password, no app store.
- The agreement
They read, they type their name, it's booked
The contract you sent sits in the portal with the date, venue and quote already in it. A typed name signs it, and the deposit invoice arrives in the same breath.
- The planning
Questions in the order the day runs
The questionnaire is built from their own timeline — only the moments that need an answer, asked the way the day happens. Skipping the bouquet toss removes the question and the cue.
- The music
Must play, play if possible, never
They pick songs against real moments, tier them by how much they mean it, and share a guest link so the aunts can request from their own phones.
- The meeting
They book you when you said you're free
Your open windows become concrete slots in the portal. Booking one blocks it for the whole company — no double-booked consult, no link-out to a scheduling app.
- After
The thank-you, and your review link
When the night's done, the portal points them at your review page — the ask arrives while the memory is still warm.
Everything the fancy planner apps do
The parity list, stated plainly.
- Buttons that do thingsPayment links, review asks, schedulers — custom buttons on any section, with every tap tracked so you know they looked.
- Contact captureWedding party and vendors with phone, email and socials — one tap pulls them straight from the couple's own contacts.
- Notify MeThe moment a client accepts a quote, signs the contract, grabs an upsell, or submits a form — you know.
- Messages that send themselvesThirty days before, three days after for the review ask — written once, in your words, sent on time every event.
- Forms you designYour own questionnaires and intake forms, built in the app, answered in the portal, filed on the event.
- A DJ-only layerInternal notes, the venue book and setup photos live behind the curtain — clients never see the machinery.
The mini-site they send their guests
The aunts get a link too — and you get the requests in tiers.
Every event has a shareable guest page the couple can put on the invitations: their welcome note, the venue if they choose to show it, and song requests that land in your sheet already tiered. It shows nothing beyond the party's name until the couple opts in — the DJ decides what's public, the couple writes the words.