Gig, band and website tools
Bandzoogle for your website, GigTag for the mic stand
At a gig, nobody types a web address. They will scan a code if it is in front of them. GigTag puts one on your mic stand, opening a page where the audience can request songs, save your next date, follow your links and enquire about booking you. If you were looking at Bandzoogle for a website, this is what gets the room as far as that website.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
Why a Bandzoogle site needs a GigTag in the room
Bandzoogle is built for people who go looking for you online. GigTag is built for people who are already in front of you and have not looked you up yet. It catches them at the moment they are interested, with one scan and no app, and it can send them on to your website afterwards.
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Catches people while they care
Interest is highest during the song they love. A scan takes them straight to your page in the browser, where they can follow you and open your website and music links. A website is built to be visited on purpose. The tag is how someone in a bar becomes one of those visitors.
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Live requests during the set
On Pro, the audience chooses from your song list and their requests arrive in a live queue as you play. That is an exchange with the room in real time, which is a different thing from a site that is there before and after. It gives people a reason to scan in the first place.
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Hired from the dance floor
Your page carries a booking enquiry form on the free plan. A guest can ask about their own event while the band is still on, with no commission on the booking. Bandzoogle's press kit is built for bookers who are researching acts. The GigTag form is for people who have just heard one.
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Your next date, saved
Listing a tour date on a website informs the people who visit. On GigTag, someone at tonight's gig sees your next gig and weekly residencies and adds one to their calendar there and then. Every gig and residency is on the free plan, and the code they scanned stays the same next time.
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A small thing to set up
There is no site to design. You add your act, links, gigs and song list, design the tag and print it or order it. The free plan covers that for one act. It is a modest addition for a band that has already put the effort into a full website.
In short
Bandzoogle and GigTag, in four lines
- Bandzoogle builds a full website for musicians, with a store, mailing list, tour calendar and press kit.
- GigTag is made for the gig: a scan from a seat, and your page opens in the browser.
- It does what a website is not built to do mid-set: live requests and enquiries from the room.
- Our recommendation: have the website, and never play a gig without the tag.
Side by side
GigTag vs Bandzoogle, topic by topic
Your web address
Keep Bandzoogle for your domain. GigTag adds the scan.
GigTag has no custom domain. People arrive by scanning the printed code, which never changes even if you rename the act.
BandzoogleIts site says you publish the website on a custom domain of your own, so the address carries your act's name.
Selling to fans
Keep Bandzoogle for the store
GigTag is not a store. On Pro, clients pay booking invoices online, and fans can tip, with 0% taken.
BandzoogleA built-in store sells albums, singles and track downloads along with physical merchandise, with bundles and discount codes on offer.
Show dates
Gigs and residencies saved from the audience's seats
Your next gig and weekly residencies appear on your page, and fans add them to their calendars. GigTag does not sell tickets.
BandzoogleA tour calendar displays your upcoming events with details and sharing options, and tickets can be sold through the site.
Reaching bookers
A booking form for everyone at the gig
A booking enquiry form on your page lets anyone at the gig ask to hire you. It is part of the free plan.
BandzoogleAn electronic press kit presents the act to bookers, industry contacts and the media, alongside the rest of the website.
Keeping in touch
Follows and links from one scan
Fans follow your socials, website and music links from your page, and can scan the tag again at any gig.
BandzoogleMailing list sign-up forms and email tools let you write to fans directly, with reports on who and where they are.
The quick view
| GigTag | Bandzoogle | |
|---|---|---|
| A QR code your audience scans | Yes, one that never changes | – |
| Song requests from the crowd | Yes, on Pro | – |
| Tips by card or Apple Pay | Yes, on Pro, into your own Ziina or Stripe. GigTag takes 0% | – |
| Booking enquiries | Yes, on the free plan | – |
| Your gigs and weekly residencies | Yes, on the free plan | – |
| Invoices for bookings | Yes, on Pro | – |
| A printed tag for your mic stand | Yes, in your own design | – |
| Works without an app for the audience | Yes, it opens in the browser | – |
A dash means we did not confirm it for Bandzoogle, not that it is missing: see what Bandzoogle offers above, or ask on its site.
Bandzoogle or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from Bandzoogle
A website versus a scan
A Bandzoogle site is somewhere people go on purpose: they search your name, read, listen, buy. A GigTag page is somewhere people land in a moment. They scan the tag on your mic stand and the page opens in their browser, built for the gig: request a song, see the next date, follow, enquire. GigTag is not a website builder and has no custom domain.
What happens during the set
A website is there for people before and after the gig. GigTag is live during it. On the Pro plan, requests from the audience arrive in a queue during the set, picked from your song list or open to anything if you choose. You see them on the GigTag app or website and decide what to play. That back and forth with the room is what the tag is for.
Selling music or filling the diary
Bandzoogle's store is for albums, downloads and merch. GigTag is not a music store. What it brings in is work: a booking enquiry form on your page, on the free plan, for the guest who wants you at their party. On Pro you can send that client an invoice in your own design and be paid online. Different income, different tool.
A night with GigTag
A singer-songwriter's Sunday brunch set
It is a café at midday: families, laptops, people half listening. Your website has everything about you, but nobody here is going to type its address. The tag on your mic stand does that work. You mention it between songs, and the people who are listening scan it. Your page opens in their browsers. They see your website and music links, your socials, and the fact that you play this café every Sunday. On Pro, a few of them request songs from your list, and each request appears in the live queue on your phone.
The café owner's friend is planning a garden party and sends a booking enquiry from the next table. A parent with a pushchair saves your next evening gig to their calendar. Later that afternoon, someone who scanned the tag follows the link to your website, listens properly and joins your mailing list there. That is the two tools doing their separate jobs: the tag caught them in the room, and the site kept them afterwards. You read the enquiry in the GigTag app over a coffee.
About Bandzoogle
What is Bandzoogle?
Bandzoogle is a website builder made for musicians. Its site lists singer-songwriters, bands, DJs, producers, labels and music teachers among the people it serves. You choose a theme, adjust fonts, colours and layout without writing code, and publish on your own domain. The site becomes the hub for everything you do online: your music, your photos and video, your dates and your shop.
Musicians use it to sell albums, singles and merch from a built-in store, post a tour calendar with ticket sales, and add a player so visitors can listen. It includes a mailing list, an electronic press kit for bookers and press, and reports on who your fans are. Its features page also lists crowdfunding and fan subscriptions, for artists who want ongoing support from followers.
- Where
- Worldwide
- Website
- bandzoogle.com
How Bandzoogle works
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Pick a theme. You sign up, choose one of its mobile-ready templates and adjust the fonts, colours and layout with its design tools. No coding is involved at any point.
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Add music and content. You upload albums, singles and tracks, add a music player, and fill the pages with photos, video, a biography and your upcoming dates, so visitors can listen and look around.
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Open the store and list. A store sells music and merch, with print on demand available. A sign-up form builds the mailing list, and the tour calendar can sell tickets.
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Add a press kit, go live. You build an electronic press kit for bookers and press, connect your own domain and launch. Reports then show who your fans are and what they buy.
Who Bandzoogle is for
Bands and singer-songwriters. Artists who want one official home online. Its site describes the website as the hub for a band on the internet, with music players, galleries, a calendar of shows and tools to build a following from there.
Artists selling direct. Musicians with albums, downloads and merchandise to sell. Its site describes a music store and a merch store with bundles and discount codes, and lists crowdfunding and fan subscriptions for ongoing support from their followers.
Teachers, producers and labels. Music professionals beyond performing bands. Its site names music teachers, producers and beat makers, DJs and record labels among the people it serves, each needing a professional site without learning to build one from nothing.
The verdict
GigTag or Bandzoogle: which should you choose?
The bottom line
Keep the website and add GigTag. The strongest reason is timing: the tag reaches people in the room, during the set, when they most want to follow you, hear a song or book you, and it asks only for a scan. Bandzoogle is the right choice for a full site on your own domain with a store and a press kit, which GigTag is not and does not try to be. A gigging act is well served by both, with the tag doing the work at the gig.
Run both and link them. Your Bandzoogle site is the full story: music, shop, press kit, mailing list. Your GigTag page has a place for your website and music links, so someone who scans the tag at a gig can go on to the site later. One is your home online, the other is your handshake in the room.
- Step 1
Build the site first
Get your Bandzoogle website in good shape with music, shop and press kit, since that is where interested people will end up after the gig.
- Step 2
Link it from GigTag
Create your GigTag page and add your website among its links, next to your socials and music links. Then add your gigs and song list.
- Step 3
Take the tag to gigs
Print or order the tag and put it on your mic stand. People who scan it in the room can go on to the website later.
Choose GigTag if
You want something made for the gig itself: a printed code the audience scans to request songs, see your next date and enquire about booking you.
Start freeBandzoogle may still suit you if
You want a full website on your own domain, with a store, a mailing list and a press kit.
GigTag FreeYour page, your tag design, every gig and residency, a booking form. One act.
GigTag ProSong requests, tips, invoices, more than one act. AED 30, £11.99 or $15.99 a month.
GigTag Printed tagFrom AED 100 in the UAE, £24.99 in the UK or €28.99 in the EU, delivered free, with a large size for more; $32.99 elsewhere, plus postage from the UK. Or print your own, anywhere, for free.
Questions
Bandzoogle and GigTag: what people ask
Something else? Ask us. A person reads every message.
Is GigTag better than Bandzoogle for getting gig audiences to follow me?
For audiences at a gig, GigTag is the one built for that moment. They scan the tag on your mic stand, your page opens in the browser, and they can follow your socials, save your next gig or go on to your website. Bandzoogle is built to be your home online. The tag is what brings the room to it.
If I can only set up one this week, Bandzoogle or GigTag?
If you have gigs coming up, start with GigTag: the free plan gives you a tag, a page, your links, your gigs and a booking enquiry form, so the audience at each of those gigs has a simple way to reach you. Build the website next, and link it from your GigTag page.
Is GigTag a Bandzoogle alternative?
Not for building a website. GigTag is not a website builder, has no custom domain and does not sell music or merch. It is a QR tag for your mic stand that opens a page made for the audience at a gig. If you need a full band site and store, Bandzoogle's site describes exactly that.
I already have a Bandzoogle site. Why would I add GigTag?
For the room. A printed tag on your mic stand gives the audience one thing to scan, with no typing and no searching. Your page then offers song requests on Pro, your next gig and residencies, a booking enquiry form and your links, including your website. It complements the site, it does not replace it.
Can I link my Bandzoogle website from my GigTag page?
Yes. Your GigTag page carries your socials, website and music links, so you can point people to your Bandzoogle site from it. Someone who scans the tag during the gig can follow the link afterwards to hear more, join your mailing list or visit your shop there.
Bandzoogle has a tour calendar. How are GigTag's gigs different?
Bandzoogle's site describes a tour calendar on your website with event details and ticket sales. GigTag lists your next gig and your weekly residencies on the page people reach by scanning your tag, and they can add a date to their phone calendar there and then. Every gig and residency is included on GigTag's free plan.
Do I need a website if I have a QR code page for gigs?
They serve different moments. A GigTag page is for the gig: requests, your next date, links and a booking enquiry form, opened from one scan. A website is where you tell the whole story, sell music and hold a press kit. GigTag is not a website builder, so an act that wants both needs both.
How do I get people at a café gig to remember me?
Do not ask them to remember. Put a GigTag on your mic stand and let them scan it while you play. They can follow your socials, save your next gig to their calendar or open your music links straight away, in the browser, without an app. The printed code is the same at every gig you play.
Does Bandzoogle include an electronic press kit?
Its features page lists electronic press kits for presenting an act to industry contacts and media, along with a mailing list, tour calendar, music and merch stores, and fan reports. See its site for the detail. GigTag has no press kit. Its booking enquiry form is for people who have already seen you play.
What does a booking enquiry form at a gig actually do?
It lets a person who is watching you ask about hiring you without finding you afterwards. On GigTag the form is on your page, on the free plan. They scan the tag, fill it in, and the enquiry reaches your account on the website or the app. You reply in your own time and quote as you normally would.
Looking for Bandzoogle itself?
This page is GigTag's. Bandzoogle's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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See all comparisonsBandzoogle is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about Bandzoogle here comes from its own public website, checked on 7 October 2026. Products change: if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
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One code on your stand. Requests, tips and the next gig behind it.
No app for your audience, nothing to download. Free to start.