Good work.
Great organisation.
The tools to bring your bookings, agreements, campaigns, and payments together. Built around the way creative work happens.
Made for South Africa’s creative economy.
Built around your next moment.Your work, connected.
Good energy.Better protected.
Thirteen tools, one regulated workflow — from first offer to final release.
Smart Contract Payments
Every booking fee is ring-fenced in a regulated, insured trust account and released only on verified delivery — neither party is ever exposed to the other's default.
Artist Verification
Biometric capture and KYC confirm every party is exactly who they claim to be. No ghost profiles, no showday identity disputes.
Digital Contracts
Legally binding terms are auto-generated for each booking, calibrated to South African law, and signed before a single rand moves.
Wallet
Cleared balances, active smart contract holds, and pending payouts in one regulated ledger — every rand accounted for, in real time.
Instant Notifications
Real-time alerts the moment an offer lands, a milestone clears, or funds release. Nothing waits in an unread inbox.
Booking Calendar
Availability, pencilled holds, and confirmed dates in a single view — synced across your whole team.
Analytics
Earnings, campaign spend, and booking performance rendered as clean dashboards — the numbers behind every decision.
Secure Messaging
Negotiate and coordinate inside the platform, on the record. Every message is retained as part of the booking's audit trail.
Negotiation
Structured offers and counter-offers replace lost WhatsApp threads, with every term versioned and traceable.
Event Timeline
Every milestone and deliverable tracked from brief to completion, so no obligation slips between the cracks.
Milestone Payments
Release funds in stages as deliverables land — a deposit on confirmation, the balance on delivery — each tranche gated by verification.
QR Check-ins
GPS and QR attendance verification confirm talent is on-site on showday before any release is triggered.
Team Management
Manage multiple artists, assign roles, and automate commission splits across your whole roster from one account.
Three features that turn a booking into a guarantee.
Thirteen tools run the day-to-day. Three do the heavy lifting — the ones that convert a promise into a guarantee both sides can bank on.
Smart Contract Payments
Every booking is funded up front into a Standard Bank trust account via TradeSafe — FSCA-regulated, Liberty-insured. The capital sits ring-fenced and visible to both sides, releasing only once delivery is verified.
Digital Contracts
The instant terms are agreed, Arkive attaches a legally binding contract calibrated to South African labour and performance law. The terms that govern the release are the exact terms both parties signed — no side deals, no ambiguity.
Milestone Payments
For tours and multi-part campaigns, funds release in tranches as deliverables land. Each stage is gated by verification, so payment always tracks progress — never the other way round.
The same toolset, tuned to how you work.
Talent
Artists, comedians, creators, MCs and DJs — funded bookings only. Show up, deliver, and get paid in 1–2 business days.
Brands
Procurement-grade smart contract for influencer and ambassador campaigns. One funded pool, many creators, verified milestones.
Promoters
Lock deposits, hold cancellations, and reconcile every show on a single ledger — with KYC'd talent only.
Agencies & Managers
A whole roster on one regulated rail, with auto-routed commission splits and audit-ready quarterly statements.
Fans
Discover talent, buy tickets and merch, and support the creators you love — safely, on the same trusted rail.