How SendScripts.to works

Your links

Renaming your studio changes its link, and the old one keeps forwarding, client links included.

Your page

Your studio link is your shop front. Fill it in from Studio settings; anything left empty simply doesn’t show.

Booth status

The studio menu (your studio’s name in the header) tells clients whether you’re Available, In the booth, Booked until a date or Away until a date. While you’re Booked or Away, your promise starts after that date.

The inbox

Every order moves through four stages. Change them from the order, or drag cards on the Board.

1. New Just arrived.
2. Recording Your first take in Perform moves it here.
3. Delivered Read and sent back.
4. On hold Waiting on the client. Shows its age, and is marked expired after 60 days.

Finding your way

• The sidebar on the left holds the inbox and its categories, each with how many orders it holds, then Board, Calendar, Stats, Production, Clients and Invoices. The button beside the logo folds it to icons.
• An open order has one main button that is always the next step: Perform, or Send reads once every script has a read. Everything else is in the ⋯ menu beside it, and Details, under the client’s name, shows the rest.
• On a phone, the heading over the orders picks the category, and an open order keeps its main button in a bar along the bottom of the screen.

Working the list

• What needs you comes first: Due today, Late, Re-reads, New, Recording, then Waiting on clients. Due today comes before Late because work you can still save comes first, so you never start the day on the pile you can’t rescue. Each group says how long its scripts take to read, unless the session card above already says it.
• Orders nobody at your studio has opened are bold, like unread email. Opening one, or acting on it, makes it regular, and it turns bold again when the client replies, asks for a re-read or approves. Press U, or use Mark as unread in the ⋯ menu, to make it bold yourself.
• The bell at the top of the page lists what happened while you were away. Notification settings, from the bell or your account Settings, turn any kind off for you.
• Search finds clients, emails, references and words in the scripts. Filters (the funnel beside it) show one client, a due date, or orders with unread messages.
• Moved an order by mistake? The Undo bar at the bottom puts it back. Sending reads can’t be undone, which is why it asks first.
• Select (the tick beside Filters) turns on Select mode, to Move to Recording, put on hold, mark or trash several orders at once. One Undo puts the whole batch back.
• Deleted orders wait in Trash for 30 days, then they’re gone for good.

Adding orders yourself

• Enter order (the round + at the foot of the orders, or in the Ctrl K palette) types in a script that reached you by email, fax or phone. It arrives priced, with the client’s notes and pronunciations, and nobody is emailed unless you tick the confirmation copy.
• Got the script by email? Forward it to your studio’s orders address (it is on the Enter order page) from your own address or your studio’s. It waits on the Enter order page for you to enter or dismiss. Attached files are named but not brought over, so open them in your email. Mail to that address from anyone else is thrown away.

Right-click and keys

• Press Ctrl K anywhere in the inbox to jump to an order or a client, or to do something to the open order.
• R, H, P, S and U move the order to Recording, put it on hold, open Perform, send its reads and mark it unread. Press ? in the inbox for every key.
• Right-click an order on the list or the board for the same actions, or use its ⋯ button on a touch screen.
• If the single-letter keys clash with speech input or an assistive tool, switch off One-key shortcuts in Keyboard shortcuts, in your account menu.

Today, due dates and the calendar

The session card above the orders shows what to do next: how many orders are due today or late, how long they take to read, and a button that opens the first one in Perform. When that order is already open, the card says it is open on the right instead, so the order’s own button is the one to press. When nothing waits, it says All clear. The sidebar counts the rest.

• An open order says when it’s needed (Due Tue 3:00 pm, or Was due and how late). Click the date to change it; the change is noted on the order.
• The fit gauge shows how a script’s length sits in its window: In range, Close (one more sentence goes over), Over or Short, with by how much. On a list row it appears only when a script isn’t comfortably in range.
• Calendar, in the sidebar, shows every order on the day it’s needed, by month or week, with air dates marked. On a phone it’s a list of the days with something on.

Clients

Add each station, network or agency that orders regularly with New client, or turn an order from your studio link into a client with Save as client. For a US FM station, type its call letters and press Look up to fill in the frequency and city from the FCC.

File naming

Give a client a naming rule and each script shows the file name to save the read as, in your inbox and your email.

{STATION}_{DATE}_{REF}_{N} → WNRK_2026-09-28_SB-EFFBSQ_1.wav

Inviting a client’s people

Press Invite on a client to email the people on its list their link, in your studio’s name and with your logo. Choose who, add anyone else and change the opening line if you like.

To bring many clients over at once, press Import a list on the Clients page and paste rows from a spreadsheet or open a CSV. You see everything before it is saved, and nobody is emailed until you press Invite several, which sends up to 50 invitations an hour.

The Clients page shows when each person was invited and when their first order came through the link, so you can see who has switched.

Client logos on your page

Switch on Show client logos on my page (Studio settings, under Client page intro) and clients can upload a logo from their edit link to show under “Works with” on your studio link, up to 12 at a time. A logo appears only when the switch is on, the client uploaded it and the client chose to show it. A logo you add yourself never goes on your page.

Moving clients over from email and fax

Your regulars use email or fax because it works. They’ll move when the first step is easy and the new way clearly helps them. Start with the clients who send you the most, one at a time.

What’s in it for them

Lead with these. Every one is true of every client link, and the messages further down use them.

See the length as they write

A counter shows the spoken length as they type, so a 0:30 spot is a 0:30 spot before it reaches you.

A copy straight away

Every script they send is emailed back to them, and to anyone they copy.

Notes that stay put

Their pronunciations and notes stay on their link, so they don’t repeat them with each order.

When to expect it

Your turnaround and booth status are on the page.

A clear answer on the reads

Reads come back on a page where they play, approve, or highlight the words to read again.

No account

Nothing to sign up for. They confirm with a six-digit code emailed to them, and that device is remembered for 30 days.

Quicker next time

Snippets keep the lines they use often, and Order again starts from an old order.

Why your own page helps

An email address only receives. Your page also shows who you are, what you promise and what you need, so a new client can see how to order before they type a word.

Give regulars their own client link, not your studio link: it already carries their notes, pronunciations and delivery format. Keep your studio link for your signature, your website and new people.

Step by step

1. Get your page ready. Add your logo, a welcome line and your turnaround in Studio settings. Then open your studio link in a private window and send yourself a test script, to see both sides.
2. Set up your busiest regulars. Press New client or Import a list on the Clients page, or Save as client on an order they sent through your studio link. Fill in their pronunciations and notes before you tell them.
3. Send each one their link. Press Invite on the client’s row, or Invite several, and the app emails their people the link in your studio’s name. Or press Copy link and send it the way they already reach you.
4. Be there for the first order. Reply to the new-scripts email as you always have, then send the reads from the inbox. It’s their first look at the approve and re-read page, so tell them it’s coming.
5. Retire the old way gently. Put your studio link in your email signature and set an auto-reply that points to it. When a script still comes in the old way, take it, forward it to your orders address or enter it with Enter order so everything is in one place, and answer with their link.

The messages

Copy a message, replace anything in [square brackets] and send it. Sign in and your studio link and name fill in; until then they read sendscripts.to/your-studio and [Your name]. A client’s link is different for every client, so copy it from the Clients page and replace [their client link].

What you’ll hear back

“I don’t want another login.”

There isn’t one. They confirm with a six-digit code, and that device is remembered for 30 days. If a client still minds, choose Anyone with the link in their Access settings. Anyone who has the link can then send scripts as that client, so keep it for a client you trust.

“My boss wants a copy.”

Every script they send is emailed back to them, and they can copy other people, who get the same email.

“We fax from the traffic system.”

If the copy is faxed automatically, there is nobody to type it into a page, so keep taking those faxes. Ask who writes or approves the copy: that person can use your page.

“Can’t I just email it?”

Yes. Take it, then reply with their link (the last message above). The page counts the length for them and keeps their notes on the order.

“Someone new started on our team.”

They ask for access from the client link and you approve them. Or add the whole domain, such as wnrk.com, once.

Perform mode

Press Perform on an order to read it full screen, in 24 pt type, double spaced. Rec counts you in 3-2-1 and starts the timer, and the bar turns coral if the take runs long. After Stop, the timer says how the take came in against the spot, such as −1s under, +2s over or Short by 0:13 when it falls short of the length.

Settings (the sliders icon) are saved on each device: text size, spacing, the timer and its size, the count-in, and whether directions and pronunciations show. The info icon shows the client’s voice notes, delivery and pronunciation guide.

If F and ? clash with speech input or an assistive tool, switch off One-key shortcuts in Perform’s settings. Space, Page Up and Page Down, the arrow keys and Esc keep working.

Record here

1. 1On a computer, press Record here, then Set up recording and allow the microphone. The level bar is green within your studio’s peak limit, amber past it, coral when it clips.
2. 2To check your setup, press Listen under Say a line and read the line shown. It tells you in words how your level and the room compare with your studio’s limits.
3. 3Rec records while you read. Stop shows the take with badges for peak, average level, loudness and room noise. A take that misses a check can still be used.
4. 4Use this take files it as the script’s read. Record again keeps the old take beside the new one.

Phones use Upload read instead. Five mic technique tests for a clean read.

Delivering reads

Send finished reads through SendScripts.to instead of attaching files. Clients listen, download, approve, or mark the words they want redone.

1. 1Drop the dry or produced read under each script (WAV, AIFF, MP3 or FLAC, up to 200 MB), or press Upload read in Perform after Stop.
2. 2If a file looks like it is in the wrong slot, such as music under a Dry read, you’re asked before it uploads.
3. 3When every script has a read, press Send reads. The client and everyone they copied get a private link. If a read is far shorter or longer than its script, the order and the confirm sheet say so, in case it is the wrong file, and the button says Send anyway.

When the client pinned notes to moments in a take, the order in the inbox offers Download with notes: the take as a WAV with each note as a marker at its moment, so it lands on the timeline of your editor. Its ▾ menu has the same notes as Audacity labels, Audition markers or a Cue sheet (text). For a take that isn’t a WAV, such as an MP3 or FLAC, only the menu is offered, as Download the notes.

Working with a producer

Invite a producer under Your team in Studio settings. A producer sees one page, the punchlist, and none of your inbox, clients, prices or invoices. It holds each spot’s script, your notes, the dry read and a place to drop the produced file back.

• Give a client a default producer and its orders go straight to them. Otherwise every producer is told, and the first to press Take this order gets it.
• When the produced files are back, the order is bold again. Nothing goes to the client until you press Send reads.
• Want time to listen first? Producers send the produced file, under Turnaround in Studio settings, asks for it 1 to 48 hours before the needed-by time.
• Producers can ask you something on the order’s Producer thread. Your answer goes to them only: the client never sees that thread.

Your producers have a guide of their own. Read the producer guide

Rates and invoices

Set a rate card in Studio settings: a price for each length you offer, plus surcharges for rush and produced reads. Not sure where to start? Start from a template; nothing is saved until you press Save.

A default price covers any length without its own, and Same price for every length charges one price for all. Short tags, like a dealer tag, are billed at your tag price.

A client can have their own prices, or a monthly retainer with an optional cap on scripts. Each script keeps the price it had when it was sent, and you can change it in the inbox until the order is invoiced.

1. 1Open Invoices and press Create invoice, or press Create invoice on an approved order.
2. 2Pick the client. Their approved orders that haven’t been billed are listed and ticked. Switch on Include delivered orders not yet approved to bill sooner.
3. 3Create it. It gets your studio’s next invoice number and is emailed with a PDF and a private link.
4. 4When the money arrives, press Mark paid. Unpaid invoices past their due date show as Overdue.

Stats › Earnings shows approved work not billed yet, what you’re owed and what’s overdue. Own more than one studio? All my studios shows them together.

Already bill your clients another way? Turn off Bill clients through SendScripts.to under Billing in Studio settings. Prices and invoices are hidden, and nothing is deleted.

Messages

Every order has a message thread under its scripts. Press Enter to send (Shift+Enter for a new line), point a message at one script, or attach files.

Messages go out by email, and anyone can answer by replying to that email: the reply shows up in the thread marked “via email”. Unread messages show as a badge on the order.

Studio settings

• Where scripts go (empty means your login email) and the email subject.
• Script lengths: each has a window in spoken characters. Switch off the ones you don’t take, and drag to reorder. A client read at a different speed gets its own Pace on the Clients page: Tight fits about 10% more copy into each length, Relaxed about 10% less.
• Read styles: offer the standard ones or add your own, and choose whether clients must pick one.
• Directed sessions: switch on Take directed sessions to let clients ask to direct their read live. List the services you use (up to 10), with what clients connect to, and choose whether clients must give a session time.
• Rate card and Invoices: your prices, currency, payment terms and how to pay you.
• Recording levels: the limits a take is checked against in Perform. Clients never see the results. What the numbers mean, and the published specs for spots.
• Keep approved audio: from a week to a year, or forever. An order with an air date keeps its audio at least until the day after it airs.
• Your team: invite admins, members and producers by email. Admins also get Clients, Invoices and Studio settings; members work the inbox; producers see only the punchlist.

More than one studio

One login can run several studios, such as a commercial one and an audiobook one. Open the studio name in the header and choose New studio; switch between them from the same menu.

Nothing is billed during the beta, and you can add as many studios as you like. When billing starts it will be one subscription for your account, not one for each studio, with storage, clients and seats pooled: a person who works in two of your studios counts as one seat. Each extra studio will be a paid add-on. If you reach a limit, only new client links and new uploads pause; everything else keeps working.

Your subscription

Billing hasn’t started yet, so nothing is charged. This is how it will work when it does.

One plan with every feature, $29 a month, covering every studio you own. Founding studios pay $19 a month for as long as they stay subscribed.

A new studio starts with a 30-day free trial, with no card needed, and you’re reminded before it ends. Subscribe from Settings › Billing at any time. There’s one free trial per email address.

If the trial or a subscription ends, your studios become read-only. Nothing is deleted. You can still use the inbox, download reads and send invoices, and clients can still play and approve their reads, but your links take no new scripts and uploads pause. Subscribe and everything carries on.

Payments are handled by Stripe: Manage billing, in Settings › Billing, changes your card, shows your invoices or cancels. Only the owner pays, never the people you invite.

To hand a studio to someone else, make them its owner in Studio settings › Your team. Their account pays for it from then on, and you stay on as an admin.

Keep your account safe

Your account holds your clients’ details and scripts, and the payment details on every invoice you send, so a password on its own isn’t much of a lock.

• Turn on two-step sign-in in Settings › Security. After your password you type a code from an authenticator app on your phone. Save the recovery codes it gives you somewhere safe.
• Add a passkey on each device to sign in with your fingerprint, face or PIN. It can’t be phished, but your password still works alongside it, so keep two-step sign-in on too.
• Use a long password you don’t use anywhere else, and ask the people you invite to turn on two-step sign-in too.

Emails you’ll get