Arkive How Arkive works

From first hello
to final encore.

A clear process for the work, the people, and the payment. See how a booking moves from agreement to delivery.

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Made for South Africa’s creative economy.
Three creative professionals planning an event togetherBuilt around your next moment.

The details behind a great moment.

Good energy.
Better protected.
How trust becomes action

From promise to cleared payout.

One sequence carries every deal — booking, offer, contract, secured funds, delivery, release. The same protection whether it's a stage, a screen or a service.

Phase 01

Vault

Capital is committed and secured before anyone lifts a finger.

  1. 01
    Booking

    A booking is created

    Talent or a promoter opens a booking in-app — date, venue, scope. Every party is KYC-verified before a single rand moves.

  2. 02
    Offer

    A formal offer is sent

    Fee, date and deliverables issued as a single time-stamped record — replacing WhatsApp threads and verbal promises.

  3. 03
    Negotiation

    Terms are agreed in-app

    Fee, deliverables and rider negotiated inside Arkive. Agreed terms flow straight into the contract — nothing re-keyed.

  4. 04
    Contract

    A binding contract is generated

    Auto-generated to South African performance and labour law, signed digitally by both parties before any money is placed.

  5. 05
    Vault

    Funds are placed in trust

    Booker funds the deal into a TradeSafe, FSCA-regulated trust account — ring-fenced and Liberty-insured until delivery is verified.

Phase 02

Verify

Delivery is proven, not assumed.

  1. 06
    Delivery

    The work is delivered

    The show happens or the deliverable ships. Milestones tick off in real time against the contract on one shared ledger.

  2. 07
    Confirmation

    Delivery is confirmed

    Talent confirms with biometric check-in and GPS attendance inside the venue radius — cryptographic proof of the right person, in the right place.

Phase 03

Release

Money moves on proof, and reputation compounds.

  1. 08
    Payout

    Funds are released

    Payout releases through a three-factor gate — PIN, biometric and six-digit code — and clears to the bank in one to two business days.

  2. 09
    Reputation

    Both parties are rated

    Talent and booker rate each other. Reputation compounds on-platform — reliability becomes an asset every future booking can price in.

Vault · Verify · Release

Three movements. One continuous chain of custody.

Strip Arkive down and three movements remain. The same sequence governs a single creator post and a national headline set — every artist, promoter and brand held to one standard, with money and proof moving in lockstep.

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Movement 01 · Capital secured

Vault

The booker funds the deal into a TradeSafe, FSCA-regulated trust account. Capital is ring-fenced and insured — it cannot be spent, withdrawn or re-routed while the booking is live.

Movement 02 · Delivery proven

Verify

The show happens or the deliverable ships. Talent confirms with a biometric check-in and GPS attendance, and contract milestones are marked complete — cryptographic proof the work was done.

Movement 03 · Paid & cleared

Release

A multi-factor gate releases the funds the moment delivery is verified. Payment clears to the bank in one to two business days — automatically, every time, with no invoices to chase.

Built different

Four rules the rail never bends.

Non-negotiable

Funded bookings only

No booking goes live until the money is in the vault. Talent never performs on a promise — if you can see the booking, it is already funded and insured.

Governed

Milestone-tracked

Every deliverable is a checkpoint on one shared ledger. Progress is visible to both sides in real time — never buried in a chat thread or a forgotten spreadsheet.

Secured

Multi-factor release

Funds move only on a three-factor gate: PIN, biometric and a six-digit code. No single person, on either side of the deal, can release capital alone.

Accountable

Full audit trail

Every offer, signature, check-in and release is time-stamped and immutable. When it is time to reconcile — or to resolve a dispute — the record is already complete.

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Timing

A booking, from first tap to cleared payout.

Every deal moves through the same clock — onboarded in 48 hours, funded before it goes live, paid within days of the show.

  1. T · 0

    Signed & committed

    KYC-verified parties sign a binding smart contract inside the app.

  2. + 48 hrs

    Onboarded & funded

    Agencies, labels and brands live inside two business days. Funds vaulted at TradeSafe.

  3. Show day

    Delivered & verified

    Biometric & GPS check-in inside the venue radius closes the delivery milestone.

  4. + 1–2 days

    Paid & cleared

    Three-factor release fires automatically. Funds land in the bank within two business days.

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One rail, end to end.
Put your next booking on it.

Onboard your talent roster, agency or promoter operation and run every deal through the same regulated sequence. Onboarding completes in under 48 hours.

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Your next big moment starts here.

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