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title: "Review act and talk applications for your event with your team | Ticket Fairy Guides"
description: "Collect act and talk applications in one list with Fai's notes and a score from each reviewer, who scores from their own link with no sign-in. When you accept one, we add it to your event with a draft offer or an agenda session."
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# Review act and talk applications for your event with your team

Fai, your AI teammate, can check sales, update your event or change a ticket when you ask.

For your festival or conference you read hundreds of applications to play and talk proposals, then put the chosen ones into the line-up and the agenda. With shared scores, Fai's notes and a one-click accept, your whole panel works from one list, and a yes becomes a booking straight away.

Takes:  10 minutes

[Watch the video: Review act and talk applications for your event with your team](https://d3lcdr963b5ubl.cloudfront.net/uploads/guides/video/review-act-and-talk-applications-with-your-team/e08f6168a7660956ad5477a23eefc6f16b61b7818971f2796fdf75cc98f69bc9/3b8332e00db56316/guide.mp4) · [English](https://www.ticketfairy.com/resources/captions/guides/guide-review-act-and-talk-applications-with-your-team-3b8332e00db5.vtt)

***Watch how it's done** 3 min 44 s, with captions.*

- [Open Applications](#step-1)
- [Choose how reviewing works](#step-2)
- [Add reviewers to the panel](#step-3)
- [Send each reviewer their link](#step-4)
- [A reviewer's page](#step-5)
- [Open an application](#step-6)
- [Give your own score](#step-7)
- [Sort by the best scores](#step-8)
- [Accept an application](#step-9)
- [Check what was added](#step-10)

## Before you start

- You are an owner, admin or producer on the event. Only those roles can open Applications.
- A form on the event sends its answers to Applications, such as one started from Apply to play or Submit a talk.

1. ## Open Applications
    [Play from here](#guide-video)
   Open the event, select **Operations**, then select **Applications** in the list of sections.

   **Note:** Applications sit under **New**, **Reviewing**, **Accepted** and **Declined**. With none yet, select **Start an apply-to-play form** or **Start a call for talks**.

   ![Applications for an event, with new talks and acts, the reviewers' score, Fai's score and a possible repeat](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-applications--applications.png)    
   *Talk and act applications.*
2. ## Choose how reviewing works
    [Play from here](#guide-video)
   Select **Forms and reviewers**, then choose what **Reviewers see names** and enter a **Note for reviewers**.

   **Note:** Names are hidden on talks and shown on acts unless you change it. With names hidden, reviewers see what was proposed but never who sent it, their email or phone number.

   ![Forms and reviewers for an event's applications, with the forms that fill the list, whether reviewers see names, the note for reviewers and the review panel](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-applications--forms-and-reviewers.png)    
   *Forms and reviewers.*
3. ## Add reviewers to the panel
    [Play from here](#guide-video)
   Under **Review panel**, enter the reviewer's **Name** and **Email address**, then select **Add to the panel**.

   **Note:** Adding someone does not email them. Your teammates on the event can also score from the dashboard.
4. ## Send each reviewer their link
    [Play from here](#guide-video)
   Select **Send link** beside the reviewer.

   **Note:** Their link works for 60 days. The panel shows when it was sent, when they last opened it and how many they have scored.

## A reviewer's page

 [Play from here](#guide-video)

The reviewer opens their link with no sign-in and sees your note and every open application, with how many they have scored. They give each one a score from 1, not for us, to 5, must have, with a comment if they want, and can change a score later. Only you and your team see the scores, and reviewers never see Fai's notes.

![Page a reviewer opens from their link, with each talk proposal to score from 1 to 5 and the names hidden](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-applications--reviewer-page.png)

*What a reviewer sees.*

5. ## Open an application
    [Play from here](#guide-video)
   Select an application in the list, then read what they sent and **Fai's notes**.

   **Note:** Fai gives each application from a form a summary, a score out of 5 with her reasons and, for an act, what they did at your earlier events. **Maybe a repeat** marks one that shares an email or a title with another, with a link to open the other one.

   ![Talk proposal being reviewed, with what was proposed, Fai's notes and score, each reviewer's score and comment, and your own score](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-applications--application.png)    
   *One application with its reviews.*
6. ## Give your own score
    [Play from here](#guide-video)
   Optional: under **Your score**, choose a score from 1 to 5, enter a comment if you want, then select **Save score**.

   **Note:** **Reviews** shows the average and says **Reviewers disagree** when the scores are far apart. Each changed score is kept in the history.
7. ## Sort by the best scores
    [Play from here](#guide-video)
   In the list, choose **Best reviewer score** or **Best Fai score** under **Sort applications**.
8. ## Accept an application
    [Play from here](#guide-video)
   Open the application, select **Accept**, check what it will add, then select **Accept** in the dialog.

   **Note:** An act is added to Artists with a draft offer in Contracts for the fee they asked and an advance started. For a talk, choose when the **Session starts**, its **Length in minutes** and the **Room or stage**, and the speaker is added with a session on the agenda.

   ![Dialog to accept a talk, listing the speaker, the agenda session and the advance it adds, with when the session starts, its length and the room](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-applications--accept.png)    
   *Accept a talk.*
9. ## Check what was added
    [Play from here](#guide-video)
   Read **Added to your event** on the accepted application.

   **Note:** It links to the act or speaker in Artists, the offer or the session and the advance. If a step didn't finish, select **Finish adding**, and nothing is added twice.

   ![Accepted act application, showing it was added to Artists with a draft offer and an advance, and one step still to finish](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-applications--added-to-your-event.png)    
   *What accepting added to your event.*

## Or have it done for you

Fai lists the applications with her notes, the reviewers' scores and possible repeats, scores one for you, moves or declines one, accepts one, and adds, emails, stops or removes a reviewer's link. She shows you each change first and waits for your yes, and she never shows a reviewer's link in the conversation.

### In your dashboard, with Fai

```
Which talk proposals for <EVENT NAME> have the best reviewer scores, and accept Designing for door staff for Saturday at 11 in the Main Hall
```

## Decline or move an application

 [Play from here](#guide-video)

1. ### Decline it

   Open the application, select **Decline**, enter a reason for your team if you want, then select **Decline** in the dialog.

   **Note:** Nobody is emailed, and you can move it back to Reviewing later. Choose **Put on the waiting list** or **Mark as withdrawn** under **Move to…** instead.

   ![Dialog to decline a talk proposal, with an optional reason for your team, and the person who applied is not emailed](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-applications--decline.png)    
   *Decline an application.*

Fai declines or moves an application with your reason, after you confirm. Nobody is emailed.

### In your dashboard, with Fai

```
Decline the lightning talk about ticket scanning for <EVENT NAME>, we already have one on that
```

## Stop a reviewer's link

 [Play from here](#guide-video)

1. ### Stop it

   In **Forms and reviewers**, select **Stop link** beside the reviewer, then confirm.

   **Note:** The link stops working at once, and their scores stay. Select **Send a new link** to let them back in, or **Remove** to take them off the panel.

Fai stops, sends again or removes a reviewer's link, after you confirm.

### In your dashboard, with Fai

```
Stop Sam Lee's review link for <EVENT NAME>
```

## Questions you might have

**Do reviewers need a Ticket Fairy account?**

 No. Each reviewer opens their own link with no sign-in. Teammates on the event can score from the dashboard as well.

**Is the applicant emailed when I accept or decline?**

 Not about the decision. When you accept, Fai gets their advance link ready for you to send from your suggestions. Turn on **Email accepted people their advance link straight away** to send it at once instead.

**Can an applicant change what they sent?**

 Yes, when the form lets people change their answers. They use the private link from their email until you accept or decline them, and if the application is still new or being reviewed, we update it with the new answers.

**Does Fai read talks I add by hand?**

 No. Fai reads the applications that arrive from a form, and checks those for repeats. Score a talk you added with Add a talk yourself.

**What if I accept the same application twice?**

 Nothing is added twice. We make the booking, offer or session and the advance only once, and a second accept only finishes a step that didn't finish.

**Who can see applications?**

 Owners, admins and producers on the event. We keep a note each time someone opens the list or an application.

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