The Sonos Pro dashboard, without the Sonos Pro bill.
Every location on one screen. An approved library only you control. Schedules by zone and hour, and a guard that takes a speaker back when a phone hijacks it. $19–39 a location instead of $35–70 — because we never sell you music. Spotify, Apple Music, or any commercial service you already hold.
We don't sell music. We make the music you already pay for easy to manage.
Sonos Pro bundles remote management with its own licensed catalogue — you pay for both whether you want their music or not. Curator unbundles it: connect the commercial service you already have a license with, and pay only for the management layer on top.
Side by side.
| Sonos Pro | Curator | |
|---|---|---|
| Licensed commercial music | Bundled — Sonos Backgrounds or a partner service, priced in | Any service you hold — Spotify, Apple Music, or a commercial provider. We never sell music. |
| Remote dashboard, all locations | Included | Included |
| Start or change music from the dashboard | Included | Included — from the approved library; reaches the speakers over the Sonos cloud connection, rolling out by location |
| Schedule by hour, day or week | Included | Included — with the music, on/off, and temporary schedules |
| Zones with their own volume ceiling | Included | Included — and the ceiling is enforced, not just alerted |
| Speaker health, alerts, remote restart | Included | Included — the same speaker monitoring the office product runs on |
| Reclaim a hijacked speaker automatically | Not offered — Sonos can only flip a setting on the speaker | Included — on by default, and it gives up before it starts a fight |
| Price per location | $35–70/mo | $19–39/mo (planned) |
The monitoring layer is real and running.
It's the same monitoring stack the office product runs on — proven on office Sonos, extended to every location.
An approved library, and play-this-now
Only what the administrator approves is offered on the dashboard — start it right now, on any zone, at the volume you choose, or by schedule. Staff never pick.
Every location, one screen
Group your locations and see them together: which speakers are answering, what's playing where, what needs attention, and which schedule is running. Open any one to change it.
Zones and schedules
Name the speakers, then tell each zone what to play by weekday and hour — from the approved library, shuffled if you like, at its own volume — or go quiet or off. Switch a schedule off without losing it; give a holiday one an end date.
Every speaker's health, live
Which speakers are answering, what each one is playing and whether it's up to date — the same monitoring the office product runs on.
Alerts when something breaks
A location goes offline, a speaker drops off, volume past the ceiling — sent to whoever's on call.
Remote restart
Restart a speaker at any location without sending anyone over.
An audit log
Who changed what, when, across every location. Exportable.
Guard mode
An employee's phone takes a store speaker during scheduled hours? The zone takes it back, tells the manager, and stops after three rounds an hour so nobody's fighting a machine.
Standardize
Set up the flagship once, then make every other location like it — zones by room name, schedules, ceilings, alert rules.
What turns this into a full Sonos Pro replacement.
A public API
For the building-automation and AV-integrator tools (Crestron, Lutron, Control4, Home Assistant) that already talk HTTP.
Before you get in touch
- Do you sell licensed commercial music?
- No. Connect the service you already use — Spotify, Apple Music, Soundtrack Your Brand, Qsic, Rockbot, whichever — and Curator manages the speakers and the schedule around it. Sonos Pro can only bundle its own catalogue; Curator works with any of them.
- Do I need new hardware?
- Use your existing compatible Sonos speakers. Current setup also needs a computer that stays on at each location: install the Hivequeue app, sign in, and choose the location. After setup, managers use the browser dashboard to oversee their locations.
- Can my customers or employees add songs or vote?
- No. This product has no queue, no voting and no public add link — that's Hivequeue, a different product for a different kind of room. Curator is manager-only: you set the schedule and the zones, and that's what plays.
- Is this available yet?
- Zones, schedules, the all-locations view, speaker health, alerts, remote restart, guard mode, standardize and the change log are real and running today. The public integrations API is still in the works. Starting an approved item from the dashboard reaches the speakers over the Sonos cloud connection, which is rolling out location by location. Open the console with your existing account, or tell us about your locations and we'll reach out when the rest is ready.
Running Sonos across more than one location?
Tell us how many locations and what music service you use — we'll reach out with the right plan for you.
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