Set your show up in about ten minutes

Open FlyCue and name the show

Go to the app in any browser and sign up. Whoever creates a show is its Admin, and the Admin is the only role that can add people to it or import over the top of it. Roles are granted show by show, so being the Admin here says nothing about any other production. Open Show Details and fill in the production name and whichever credits you want on the printed paperwork: director, designer, head mechanist, fly supervisors, venue, dates.

Build the flying plot

On the PLOT tab, add a line set for every bar you're using. Bar number, what's on it, a type, weight, working load limit, distance to the setting line, and a colour so it reads quickly. Anything over the WLL turns red. If you already have a schedule in a spreadsheet, import it as CSV instead of retyping it — or drop in the venue's own hanging plot PDF and let FlyCue read the table out of it. Save the result as one of My Venues and the next production in that house starts from the house rig instead of a blank page.

Name your dead positions

In Settings, add the intermediate trims you use for each bar — Dead 1, Dead 2, whatever your house calls them. Once they're named you can pick them as an action in a cue rather than writing out a height every time.

Write the cue stack

Switch to CUES and add a cue for each moment. Give it a cue number, the scene or moment, and any calling notes. Then add its bar moves — each one a bar, an action (IN, OUT or a named dead), a speed and the operator who takes it. Add dividers for House Open, Act 1 and Act 2, drop a holding slide in where the interval falls, and drag to reorder or hit Sort by Cue # to tidy up.

Set home positions

Open the rig view and use Set Home Positions to tell the visualiser what's already in before the show starts — usually the legs, the borders and whatever masking or smother lives dead in at the back. The rig drawing builds every move from there, so it only reads true if this is right.

Bring the crew on

This is the step a licence buys. Everything up to here works on the free tier, on the one machine you built it on; a show code, live sync and Button Mode are what turn it into something the whole crew is looking at.

Read the six-digit show code out over comms and any FlyCue account holder can be added to the show as an operator — set a custom code if the random one is awkward to say. Their own account costs nothing, whatever tier it's on. Operators fire GO and BACK, use Fullscreen and Button Mode and print their own cue sheet; they can't change a thing. Editors get all of that plus the plot, the cues, the colours and the deads. For anyone who only needs to fire, copy the Button Mode link and have them save it to their phone's home screen: it opens straight into a two-button GO / BACK remote. Anyone who just needs to watch joins with the code and lands in Fullscreen Mode, no account required.

Run it — and print it

Switch the desk to Show so nobody can edit mid-run, and put Fullscreen Mode on the monitor at the rail. Whoever holds the book fires the cues — the corner or the fly floor, it lands the same either way. If you need to jump, go to the cue and FlyCue runs the stack forward to get there so no move is missed. When you need hard copy, print the flying plot and the fly cue sheet — per operator if you like — and download the show file as a backup.