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 status menu in the app header (in the menu on a phone) sets what clients see: Available, In the booth, Booked until a date, or Away until a date. Clients see a change within a minute. 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.

• Orders nobody at your studio has opened yet are in bold, like unread email, and the number on the Inbox tab counts them. Open one, or do something to it (move it to Recording, perform it, send its reads, change its needed-by date, reply to the client) and it turns regular. The order that opens by itself when you arrive is read once it has been in view for about two seconds. When the client replies, asks for a re-read or approves a script, the order is bold again. To bring an order back to bold, use Mark as unread in its ⋯ menu or press U. It is the same for everyone at the studio, and it is separate from the amber badge for new messages from a client.
• The bell at the top of the page lists what happened while you were away: a client asking for a re-read or approving every read and, for admins, someone asking to send scripts or a client changing its profile. The number is how many you have not opened. An alert is bold until you open it or press Mark all as read, and each one leads to its order or the Clients page. Notification settings, from the bell or your account Settings, turn any kind off for you. The emails your studio address already gets are not affected.
• Search finds clients, emails, references and words in the scripts.
• The client filter beside the tabs shows one client’s orders, on the list and the board.
• Press Ctrl K anywhere in the inbox to jump to an order or a client, or to do something to the open order: perform it, move it to Recording, send its reads (it asks you first), change its needed-by date, move it to another stage, copy its scripts or move it to the trash. Type to narrow the list.
• Move an order to another stage, or to the trash, and a bar at the bottom of the page offers to undo it for a few seconds. It waits while you point at it or have focus in it. Sending reads can’t be undone, which is why it asks first.
• Select (beside Filters, or X on a focused order) turns on Select mode, to deal with several orders at once. Click or press Space on orders to pick them, Shift and click for a run, Ctrl A for all of them, or use the mark beside a group’s name. A bar appears at the bottom of the list with Move to Recording, Put on hold, Mark read (or Mark unread when the picked orders are all read) and Move to trash, and Esc leaves the mode. In the Trash it offers Restore and Delete forever, which asks first and lists the orders. One Undo puts the whole batch back, order by order, and leaves alone any order that changed in the meantime.
• Enter order (beside Select, or in the Ctrl K palette) types in a script that reached you by email, fax or phone. Pick the client and who sent it, say how it reached you, add the needed-by day and time if there is one (it is kept as you enter it, even sooner than your usual promise), paste each script with its length and read style, and press Add to inbox. The order arrives like any other, with the client’s notes and pronunciations and its price from your rate card. It says who entered it and how it reached you, and it is already read. Nobody is emailed unless you tick the confirmation copy. Anyone on your team can enter orders.
• Got the script by email? Forward it to your studio’s orders address (it is on the Enter order page and under Order emails in Studio settings) from your own address or your studio’s. In a minute it waits on the Enter order page, and the bell tells you: who first sent it (and their client, when they are on your list), the subject, your note, and the text in Script 1, ready to cut down or split. Enter it, or Dismiss it. The Enter order button shows how many wait. Files attached to the email are named but not brought over, so open them in your email. Mail to that address from anyone else is thrown away.
• Copy a script with or without its (directions). The ⋯ menu beside Perform copies them all at once, replies to the client in Gmail or your mail app (already addressed), saves a studio-link sender as a client and moves the order to the trash.
• The list is sorted by what needs you next: Due today, Late, Re-reads asked for, New, Recording, then Waiting on clients. Work you can still save (Due today, including rush orders due today) comes before work that has already slipped (Late), so you never start the day on the pile you cannot rescue. Late and Due today are your own deadlines, so they only hold orders you still owe: each row says its stage and, when late, how late (7h late, 2d late). An order on hold or waiting on a client keeps its own group however old its date is, and none of those opens on its own. On hold and Done are folded away until you open them, or until a filter asks for them. A search shows one flat list, newest first. Done, the trash and search results come under date headings (Today, Yesterday, the rest of this month, then one for each earlier month; the trash goes by the day an order was deleted), and a click on a heading folds or opens it, with the older months in Done folded to start with. The date at the top right of a row is when the work is needed, or nothing if it has no deadline; in Waiting on clients and On hold it is when the order came in, and hovering a row shows both in full.
• Due today, Late, Re-reads asked for, New and Recording each say how long their scripts take to read, added up (for example “3:10 to read”), and the open order shows its own total beside the needed-by date. It is an estimate from each script’s length, not a timer.
• Stats shows scripts per week, the lengths clients ask for most, and who sends the most.
• Deleted orders wait in Trash for 30 days, then they’re gone for good.

Right-click and keys

Right-click an order on the list or the board (or use its ⋯ button on a touch screen) to move it to Recording, open Perform, send reads (it asks you to confirm first), copy the client link, move it to another stage, change its needed-by date, mark it read or unread or move it to the trash. Hover a client’s name to see their details, phone and pronunciations.

The first stop on every page is a “Skip to content” link that jumps past the header. In the inbox the second is “Skip to orders”, which goes straight to the open order’s row on the list (or a card on the board), so Tab, Tab, Enter puts you among your orders. The list is one stop for the Tab key, so you can reach the open order in a few presses. Tab into the list, then use the arrow keys to move from order to order. The first stop in the list is a “Skip to the order” link that takes you straight to the open order. The board is one stop for Tab as well, with the arrow keys between its cards.

R, P, S and U work on the open order from anywhere in the inbox, except while you are typing in a field or have a menu or sheet open. With a row or a board card focused, they act on that row’s order instead. Press ? in the inbox for this list.

The single-letter keys (R, P, S, U, X, Z, / and ?) can be switched off for the device you are on, if they clash with speech input or an assistive tool. Open the list with the ? button beside Select (or Ctrl K, then Keyboard shortcuts) and use the One-key shortcuts switch at the top. Ctrl K, the arrow keys, Enter, Space and Esc keep working, and so does every button.

Today, due dates and the calendar

Today’s plan at the top of the inbox shows what to do next: how many orders are due today or already late, how long they take to read in total, who is first up and why, and a button that opens that order in Perform. It states facts only, so it never guesses when you will finish. Beside or under it, small links count what you are waiting on. Every count counts orders, and tapping one shows exactly the orders it counted; links with nothing to count hide, and when there’s nothing at all it says All clear.

• Each order shows when it’s needed, with an icon and a word (Due or Late). The chip is coral only when the order is late, brighter within 24 hours, and quiet once it’s done. Rush orders say so.
• A Late order also has a coral bar down the left edge of its row, to find it in a long list. The chip and the row’s name still say how late.
• The fit gauge shows how a script’s length sits in its window: three boxes with at most one lit, and a word beside them. In range lights the left one green, Close (the last tenth of the window, so one more sentence goes over) the middle one yellow, and Over by 12 the right one coral. Short by 18 lights none and is blue. On a script it is always there; on a list row it appears only when a script isn’t comfortably in range, for the worst script of the order, so an order that fits says nothing extra.
• Change needed-by date or Set a needed-by date on the order moves it, and the change is noted on the order.
• Filters (beside the search) narrow the list by stage (including holds gone stale), by Late, Due today or Due this week, and by Re-reads asked for or Waiting on clients. The board adds quick pills and Sort by due date.
• The Calendar tab shows every order on the day it’s needed, by month or week, with air dates marked. Click one to open it. 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. That approves the sender and anyone they copied, and files their orders under the new client.

For a US FM station, type its call letters and press Look up: the frequency and city of licence fill in from the FCC’s public records. Add the branding and format yourself.

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. Choose who (everyone who hasn’t been invited yet starts ticked), add anyone else, which approves their address for this client, and change the opening line if you like. The email goes out in your studio’s name with your logo, and replies go to your delivery address. It only says what is true of that client: the line about pronunciations and notes appears once you have added them, and the line about a six-digit code only when the link asks for one.

If an invitation email bounces, is marked as spam or cannot be sent, the person’s line says so in words, with the reason, so you can check the address or reach them another way. A delivered invitation says that too.

The Clients page then shows when each person was invited and when their first order came through the link, so you can see who has switched. Someone invited in the last 10 minutes isn’t emailed again, and one client can send 20 invitations an hour.

Client logos on your page

Switch on Show client logos on my page (Studio settings, under Client page intro) and your clients can upload their own logo from their edit link and choose to show it. Those logos stand on your studio link, in the left-hand column of a wide screen under “Works with”, 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, and if you replace or remove a client’s logo it comes off until the client uploads their own and chooses again. With the switch off, none appear and your clients aren’t offered the choice. The Clients editor says where each client’s logo stands.

Requests and history

When someone asks for access, you get an email and a count on Clients. Approve adds only that address and emails them their link; Decline sends nothing. Clients can edit their details and pronunciations themselves, and each client’s History shows who changed what. Orders already sent never change.

Moving clients over from email and fax

Your regulars send scripts by email or fax because it works. They will move when the first step is easy and the new way clearly helps them, so build the conversation around what they get. Take it one client at a time, starting with the ones who send you the most.

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 against the spot’s window while they type, so a 0:30 spot is a 0:30 spot before it reaches you.

A copy straight away

The page emails them every script they send, and anyone they copy on the order gets one too.

Notes that stay put

Their pronunciations and notes for the voice stay on their link, so they don’t repeat them with each order. They can edit them themselves.

When to expect it

Your turnaround and booth status are on the page, and they choose a needed-by time against your promise.

A clear answer on the reads

Reads come back on a page where they play each one, approve it, or highlight the words they want read again.

No account

Nothing to sign up for. On a client link 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 again and again, and Order again starts a new order from an old one.

Why your own page helps

An email address only receives. Your page also shows who you are (your logo, welcome line, bio and demo reel), what you promise (your turnaround, rush, and whether you’re Available or In the booth) and what you need (the lengths you take and the read styles you offer). A client who has never worked with you can see how to order before they type a word.

Give regulars their own client link, not your studio link. It already carries their voice notes, pronunciations and delivery format, and their orders file under their name. Keep your studio link for your signature, your website and new people, and when one of them becomes a regular, use Save as client on their first order.

Step by step

1. Get your page ready. In Studio settings add your logo, a welcome line and your turnaround, and check the lengths and read styles you offer. Then open your studio link in a private window and send yourself a script, to see what a client sees and what arrives in your inbox. Move that test order to the trash afterwards.
2. Set up your busiest regulars. Press New client on the Clients page, or use Save as client on an order they have already sent through your studio link. Add the people who send you scripts, or a whole domain such as wnrk.com, and fill in the pronunciation guide and notes for the voice before you tell them. Leave access on Approved contacts only.
3. Send each one their link. Press Invite on the client’s row and the app emails their people the link, with what a client gains, in your studio’s name. Or copy the link with Copy link and send it the way they already reach you: the email, a line on your fax cover sheet, or a call followed by the email.
4. Be there for the first order. Reply to the new-scripts email as you always have, then send the reads from the inbox. That is the first time they meet the approve and re-read page, so tell them it is 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. A cut-off date is up to you; the fax line has a place for one.

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 emailed to an address you approved, and that device is remembered for 30 days. If a client still doesn’t like the code, choose Anyone with the link in that client’s Access settings. Anyone who has the link can then send scripts as that client, so keep it for a client you trust to keep the link private.

“My boss wants a copy.”

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

“We fax from the traffic system.”

If the copy is generated and faxed automatically, there is nobody to type it into a page. Keep taking those faxes, and ask who writes or approves the copy: that person can use your page. If a client has nobody who can get online, keep taking their faxes too.

“Can’t I just email it?”

Yes, and a script that arrives that way is still a script: take it, then reply with their link (the last message above). What changes is that the page counts the length for them and the order arrives with their notes and pronunciations already on it.

“Someone new started on our team.”

They ask for access from the client link and you approve them on the Clients page. Or add the whole domain, such as wnrk.com, once, and everyone there can get a code.

Perform mode

Press Perform on an order to read it full screen. Rec counts you in 3-2-1 and starts the timer, and the bar turns coral if the take runs long.

Settings (the sliders icon) are saved on each device: text size or Fill the screen, line spacing and width, a count-up or count-down timer and its size (in the toolbar, or a big Large 128 px or Extra large 256 px square at the top centre of a window that’s big enough), the count-in, showing directions, showing pronunciations, jumping to re-reads, and keeping the screen awake. The info icon shows the client’s voice notes, delivery and pronunciation guide.

On a computer you can record right here. Press Record here, then Set up recording and allow the microphone. Check the room for three seconds, then Rec records while you read. Stop shows the take with its waveform and four small badges for peak, average level, loudness and room noise: green passes, yellow passes but is close to a limit, red misses it and grey is for reference. Hover over a badge to see all four full cards. A take that misses a check can still be used. In the Record here panel you can make the badges smaller or turn them off: the live meter stays, and your studio still keeps each take’s levels. Once you’ve turned recording on, it comes back on next time where your browser allows it, until you press Turn recording off. Use this take files it as the script’s Dry (or Produced) read, and Record again keeps the old take beside the new one. Phones use Upload read instead.

Under Edit this take you can drag across the waveform (or type a start and end) and Keep only this or Delete this, add a fade in or out, change the level or Normalize to your peak limit, and Undo, Redo or Reset. Your recording itself never changes until you press Use this take, and the checks follow the edited audio. Takes are kept in this browser for a week, so a closed tab doesn’t lose them: on a shared computer, delete them when you’re done.

Delivering reads

Send finished reads back through SendScripts.to instead of attaching files. Clients listen, download, approve, or point at the words to redo.

1. 1Under each script in the inbox, drop the dry and/or produced read (WAV, AIFF, MP3 or FLAC, up to 200 MB). In Perform, Upload read appears after Stop.
2. 2Before it uploads, the browser listens to the file: if a read with music under it lands in the Dry slot (or a bare voice in Produced), it asks before sending it, and can move it to the right slot.
3. 3Each file is named by the client’s naming rule, and its length shows against the spot. A new upload becomes the next version; earlier ones stay under “earlier versions”.
4. 4When every script has a read, press Send reads. The client and everyone they copied get a private link, and the order moves to Delivered.

Upload the new take and the request is marked done (kept as history), then press Send re-reads to email the client. A new take of an approved script needs approving again.

• Uploaded the wrong file? The bin icon next to a read deletes it, after you confirm, and the take before it comes back. Deleting a take the client approved takes the approval with it.
• Reset the link, in the Client link menu beside “Reads sent”, replaces a link that’s been passed around. It asks you to confirm first. The old one stops working, and the client and anyone they copied get the new one.
• Audio never passes through your app: uploads go straight to private storage, and play and download links last 30 minutes.
• Once an order is approved, earlier takes are deleted and the approved reads are kept for your chosen time (Studio settings), with an email 3 days before they go. The order and its history stay.

Working with a producer

Invite a producer under Your team at the bottom of Studio settings and give them the Producer role. A producer sees one page, the punchlist, and none of your inbox, clients, prices or invoices. Each spot of an order for produced audio is a cart on it: the client’s name and format, the script and your notes, when it is needed, the dry read to download and a place to drop the Produced file back. The cart says in words where the spot is: Waiting for voice, Ready to produce, In production or Sent back.

Give a client a default producer in the Clients editor and its orders go straight to that producer. Without one, every producer is told and the first to press Take this order gets it. Producers are told when an order arrives and when the voice is in for every spot, by the bell, by email, or both, and a producer can also ask to hear as soon as the first spot is ready. You can put a producer on an order, or take them off, from the order in your inbox, and the Production page in the header shows you what they see.

When a producer sends a Produced file back, the order is bold in your inbox again and the bell tells you when every spot is back. Nothing goes to the client until you press Send reads, and a producer never sees the client’s thread.

Want time to listen before the client gets the produced file? Under Turnaround in Studio settings, “Producers send the produced file” asks for it 1 to 48 hours before the needed-by time. Your producers then see a “Produce by” time.

A producer can ask you something on the order’s Producer thread, under the client’s Messages. You get a bell alert and an email, the order is bold again, and your answer goes to the producer only: the client never sees that thread. A producer can also give an order back, and you are told who and why. It goes back up for grabs for the others, and your timeline records who took it and who gave it back.

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, in your currency, plus a rush surcharge and one for produced reads (a percentage or a fixed amount). Not sure where to start? Press Start from a template for a ready-made card (local radio by length, the same price for every length, professional non-union radio, or station imaging), fitted to your lengths; the figures are starting points from public rate guides, and nothing is saved until you press Save.

A default price per script covers any length without its own price, so every order is priced from the day it’s sent. Switch on Same price for every length to charge one price whatever the length. Clients can mark a script as a tag (a short add-on line, like a dealer tag) when they write it, unless you switch that off under Script lengths; it shows as Tag everywhere and is billed at your tag price, or left for you to price when you have none.

An order minimum brings a small order up to your minimum with its own Order minimum line; you can waive it on an order. A re-read policy gives clients some free client-change re-reads per script, within a number of days of delivery, then adds a pickup fee. When you upload a new take for a re-read, say who caused it: My fix (always free) or Client change. While a client change would still be free, Client change is already selected for you. Once it would add a pickup fee, nothing is selected: you are shown the fee, and the upload slots wait for you to choose, so a fee is never added by a default you did not look at. A take recorded in Perform asks the same thing in the Upload read panel.

A client can have their own prices on the Clients page, including their own default and tag prices, or a monthly retainer: a set amount a month, with an optional cap of scripts and a price for each one past it. Retainer orders are priced at nothing (and have no order minimum), and each invoice adds one Retainer line per month; you can bill a retainer month even with no orders. Each script keeps the price it had when it was sent.

If you take directed sessions, choose how you charge for them under Directed sessions in Studio settings: No fee, a Flat fee (once per order or once per script), or By the hour, with a minimum (30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours) and billing steps (15, 30 or 60 minutes). A service’s patch fee is added on top of any of them, and the settings show the price line clients will see. Switch on Retainers include directed sessions to charge a client on a retainer nothing for sessions; with it off, they pay on top.

For a session by the hour, enter its length in the order’s price panel after the session: the fee is worked out as you type, rounded up to your step and never below your minimum. Until you do, the order isn’t billed, and Invoices lists it with a note to enter the session length. You can change or remove any session fee until the order is invoiced; the invoice shows the session and any patch fee on lines of their own. Each order keeps the terms it was sent with, so changing your rates later never changes past orders.

Every order shows its price in the inbox. Change a script’s price or pickup fee there, with a note like Discount or No charge, 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, with every priced order ticked. Switch on Include delivered orders not yet approved to bill work once its reads are sent. For a client on a retainer, tick the months to bill too.
3. 3Create it. The invoice gets your studio’s next number (like DDV-2026-0001, with the prefix you set under Invoices in Studio settings) 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.

Already bill your clients another way? Turn off Bill clients through SendScripts.to under Billing in Studio settings: prices, the rate card, invoices and earnings are hidden for you and your clients, new directed sessions carry no fee, and nothing is deleted.

Stats shows Earnings: approved work not billed yet, what you’re owed, what’s overdue, and billed and approved amounts by week and by client. If you own more than one studio, switch to All my studios to see them together and side by side. Payment terms, your invoice number prefix and how to pay you go under Invoices in Studio settings.

Messages

Every order has a message thread under its scripts. Write a message and press Enter to send it (Shift+Enter for a new line), point it at one script, or attach files. The sender, everyone they copied and the client’s approved contacts can answer.

Messages go out by email, with ones sent close together grouped into one. Anyone can answer by replying to that email, and the reply shows up in the thread marked “via email”. Unread messages show as a badge on rows and cards, a card on Today, and an Unread messages filter.

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.
• Read styles: offer the standard ones or add your own. Switch on “Clients must pick a read style” to make it required.
• Who can use your studio link: anyone, or Request access.
• Directed sessions: switch on Take directed sessions to let clients ask to direct their read live. List the services you take sessions on (up to 10), each with what clients connect to (your handle, link or number), an optional patch fee and an Offered switch, and drag to reorder them; at least one must be offered. Choose whether clients must give a session time, and whether your handles show on your client page (off, clients get your handle once the order is sent). A request shows on the order in the inbox and in Perform, with the client’s handle and a copy button. Switching it off hides sessions from clients and keeps your services for next time. How you charge for sessions is under Rates and invoices above.
• Rate card and Invoices: your prices, surcharges, currency, payment terms and how to pay you.
• Recording levels: the limits a take is checked against when you record in Perform (peak, average level and room noise, in dBFS, so the numbers are negative). A take that misses one can still be used. The results show on the read in your inbox as Passed or Missed, and clients never see them.
• Keep approved audio: how long reads stay after a client approves them, 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 logo, intro, reel, turnaround, rush and work status: see Your page above.
• Your team: invite admins, members and producers by email, see who is in the studio and who hasn’t joined yet, and cancel an invitation. Admins also get Clients, Invoices and Studio settings; members work the inbox; producers see only the punchlist. The owner changes roles from the same list.

More than one studio

One login can run several studios: a commercial studio and an audiobook one, a studio under a company name, or one for each voice you manage. Open the studio name in the header and choose New studio. You switch between studios from the same menu, and Studios under your account settings lists them all.

Storage and billing

Nothing is billed during the beta, and there is no limit on how many studios you can add. When billing starts it will be one subscription for your account, not one for each studio. Storage, active clients and seats are pooled across every studio you own, so a quiet studio’s room covers a busy one, and a person who works in two of your studios counts as one seat. Audio is kept per studio, but all of it counts toward the same storage.

Your first studio is included in the plan; each extra studio, with its own link and brand, will be a paid add-on. If you reach a limit, only new client links and new uploads pause until you add room or archive old audio. Client pages, orders and delivery pages keep working.

Emails you’ll get