Musician pages and link-in-bio
Beacons and GigTag: followers online, audiences in the room
When you play to a room, you need a way for strangers to become followers, regulars and clients before they finish their drinks. GigTag gives you that: one printed code on the mic stand, opening a page made for the gig. Beacons, which you may have been considering, is a link-in-bio page for creators, and the stand is a different place from a bio.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
What GigTag gives a live act beyond Beacons
Beacons is described as a creator's page with a store built in, reached from a social profile. GigTag is reached from a tag on your mic stand, and what it offers is the business of a gig: song requests, your next date, a booking form and invoices, behind one permanent code.
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Built for performers, not profiles
GigTag starts from a simple fact about live work: the audience is looking at you, not at your social profile. So the code goes on the mic stand and the page deals with the night in hand. Beacons is built for creators whose audience arrives online, which is a different starting point.
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The audience does almost nothing
A guest scans the tag with their camera and your page opens in the browser. There is no app, no account and nothing to download. In a café or restaurant, where people did not come to see you in particular, that low effort matters a great deal.
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Requests while you play
On Pro, fans choose from your song list or ask for anything if you open requests, and you see each one in a live queue on your phone. A creator's store sells to followers at any hour. A request queue works in the one hour that counts for a live act: the set itself.
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From enquiry to invoice
Your page carries a booking enquiry form on the free plan, and GigTag takes no commission on bookings. When an enquiry becomes a job, Pro lets you send an invoice in your own design that the client pays online. The selling a live act does is bookings, and that is what GigTag handles.
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Free to start with one act
The free plan includes your tag design and print file, your page, your links, every gig and residency and the booking form, for one act. You can hang a working tag on your stand before paying anything. Pro adds requests, invoices, more than one act and tips with 0% taken.
In short
Beacons and GigTag, in four lines
- Beacons is a creator's link-in-bio page, with a store and other tools built into it.
- GigTag is made for live acts: a printed code on the mic stand that a whole room can scan.
- The page opens in the browser with no app, and offers requests, gig dates, links and a booking form.
- If your audience is in the room, choose GigTag, and keep a bio page for what you sell online.
Side by side
GigTag vs Beacons, topic by topic
Where the link lives
On your mic stand, in front of the audience
The link is a QR code printed on a small tag for your mic stand. People in the room scan it and your page opens in the browser.
BeaconsBeacons is a link-in-bio page, so its home is the link in a creator's social profile, where followers tap through from a bio.
Selling and being paid
Invoices clients pay online, and tips with 0% taken
GigTag is not a store. On Pro you send invoices that clients pay online, and fans can tip into your own Stripe or Ziina account, with 0% taken.
BeaconsIt is described as having a store built into the page, suited to a creator selling digital products from a bio link.
Tools around the page
Request queue, gigs, enquiries and invoices in one account
Around the page sit a live request queue, your gigs and residencies, booking enquiries and invoices, all managed from the website or the GigTag app.
BeaconsIts description mentions other tools built in alongside the store. This page keeps to that summary, so look at its site for the detail.
Who it is for
Solo acts, duos and bands who play live
Live acts: a solo performer, a duo or a band. Band members can join the band, and Pro allows more than one act on one account.
BeaconsCreators. More exactly, it is described for a creator with an online audience who sells digital products through the link in their bio.
A printed code
A custom tag and print file on the free plan
The tag design and print file are on the free plan. Print it yourself, or order a printed tag. The code on it never changes.
BeaconsSee its site for how it handles this.
The quick view
| GigTag | Beacons | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Beacons, not that it is missing: see what Beacons offers above, or ask on its site.
Beacons or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from Beacons
Arriving from a table, not a profile
A Beacons page is reached from a bio: someone taps the link under your name. A GigTag page is reached from a chair. The act has one permanent QR code on a small tag on the mic stand, a guest points their phone at it, and your page opens in the browser. There is no app, no account and nothing to download, which matters when the person scanning came out for dinner, not for you.
What a visitor is invited to do
A creator's bio page invites a follower to browse and buy. A GigTag page invites a listener to join in with the set. They can request a song from your list, see your next gig and weekly residencies, add a date to their calendar and follow your socials and music links. Requests reach a live queue on your phone while you are playing. Song requests are part of Pro.
From a scan to a paid booking
Live work grows by word of mouth, and the mouth is usually in the room. GigTag puts a booking enquiry form on the page your audience scans, on the free plan, so a guest planning a party can ask about a date before the bill arrives. On Pro you can then send an invoice in your own design, and the client pays it online.
A night with GigTag
A café session for a singer with followers
You post covers online during the week and play a café on Sunday afternoons. Your followers know where to find your links. The people drinking coffee in front of you have never heard of you. You hang your tag on the mic stand before the first song. A couple by the window scan it out of curiosity, and your page opens in their browser with no app and nothing to sign up for. They can see who you are, follow your socials and check when you are next here.
You have opened requests for the afternoon, so on Pro they can ask for anything, not only songs from your list. One comes in while you are tuning and appears in the queue on your phone. Near the end, a regular asks whether you would play her mother's birthday, and you point at the tag. She sends a booking enquiry from the same page. The people who came for coffee leave with your next date in their calendars, and your bio link carries on serving your followers.
About Beacons
What is Beacons?
Beacons is a link-in-bio page for creators. Like other pages of its kind, it gives you one address to put in your social profiles, and behind it sit the things you want followers to find. What marks it out in its own description is that a store and other creator tools are built into the same page, so the link in your bio can sell as well as point. We have kept this description short and general. For the full list of what it does, see its site.
In practice a creator sets up the page, adds links and products, and shares the one address wherever their audience follows them. Visitors arrive from a profile, a post or a video, look around, and either click through or buy. It is a tool for an audience that finds you online, and the person it is described for is a creator selling digital products from a bio link.
- Where
- Worldwide
- Website
- beacons.ai
How Beacons works
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Make your page. As with any link-in-bio page, you start by creating the page itself: one address that will hold everything you want your followers to be able to find.
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Add links and a store. You add your links, and because a store is built in, you can offer digital products on the same page. See its site for the other tools it includes.
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Put it in your bio. You place the address in your social profiles. Followers who tap it arrive on your page, where they can follow a link or buy from you.
Who Beacons is for
Creators with a following. Beacons is described as a page for creators. That means people whose audience finds them through social platforms and needs one dependable place to land when they tap the link under a profile name or a post.
Selling digital products. The person it is described as suiting is a creator who sells digital products from a bio link. With a store built into the page, the link in a profile can lead straight to something a follower can buy.
Links and selling together. Its own description mentions other tools built in alongside the store, so links and selling live on one page. We have not listed those tools here. Its site is the place to see what they are and how they work.
The verdict
GigTag or Beacons: which should you choose?
The bottom line
For a musician who earns from live work, GigTag is the one to choose. The strongest reason is that it meets your audience where they actually are, in the room, with a single scan that needs no app. A creator who sells digital products to online followers is still better served by a page like Beacons in their bio. If you are both, run both, and link each page from the other.
If you are a creator who also gigs, there is room for both. Keep Beacons in your bios for the things you sell online, and put GigTag on the stand for the nights you play. Link each page from the other. If you do not sell digital products and your work is live, a GigTag page already holds your socials, website and music links.
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Decide what each is for
Give Beacons the online job: the link in your bios and anything you sell to followers. Give GigTag the live job: the tag, the requests and the bookings.
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Set up the tag
Create your act on GigTag, add your gigs and links, and design the tag. Print it or order it, and take it along to your next gig.
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Link the two pages
Put your Beacons address in the website or links section of your GigTag page, and put your GigTag page in your bio link. Followers and audiences can now cross over.
Choose GigTag if
You earn from playing live and want one code on your stand that lets the room request songs, see your next gig and send booking enquiries.
Start freeBeacons may still suit you if
You are a creator who sells digital products from your bio link to people who follow you online.
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.
Why would a gigging musician choose GigTag over Beacons?
Because the audience at a gig scans what is in front of them, and GigTag is made to be that thing. One printed code opens a page with your next gig and residencies, your links, a booking enquiry form and, on Pro, song requests. Beacons is described as a creator's link-in-bio page with a store, which suits selling to followers online.
Is GigTag worth having if I already have a Beacons link in my bio?
Yes, if you play live. A bio link serves people who look you up. A GigTag serves people who are watching you and have not looked you up yet. It gives them a reason to scan during the set, and it gives you requests on Pro, saved dates and booking enquiries. Your Beacons link can sit among the links on the page.
What is Beacons?
Beacons is a link-in-bio page for creators, with a store and other tools built in. You share one address in your social profiles and followers find your links and products there. This page keeps its description brief. For details of its features and for its prices, go to the Beacons site.
Is GigTag a replacement for Beacons?
Only for a musician whose audience is at gigs. GigTag is a permanent QR code on a tag for the mic stand, and a page with your next gig, residencies, links and a booking enquiry form, plus song requests on Pro. It is made for live acts. Beacons is described as a page for creators selling from a bio link.
Does GigTag have a store like Beacons?
No. GigTag is not a store, a streaming service or a membership platform. The money side of GigTag is about live work: invoices on Pro that clients pay online, and tips by card or Apple Pay into your own Stripe or Ziina account. GigTag takes 0% of tips.
Can I link my Beacons page from my GigTag page?
Yes. A GigTag page has room for your socials, your website and your music links, so you can add your Beacons address there. Someone who scans the tag at a gig can then reach whatever you sell online. It works the other way too: add your GigTag page as a link in your bio.
Is GigTag only for bands, or can a solo performer use it?
A solo performer can use it, and so can a duo or a full band. The free plan covers one act. Band members can join a band on GigTag, and Pro lets you keep more than one act on one account, which helps if you perform alone on some nights and with others at weekends.
What does the audience see when they scan a GigTag?
Your act's page, opened in their phone's browser. It shows your next gig and weekly residencies, your socials, website and music links, and a booking enquiry form. On Pro it also offers song requests. A fan can also leave a tip by card or Apple Pay. Nothing has to be installed first.
Do I need a big online following for GigTag to be worth it?
No. GigTag works with whoever is in the room, whether or not they have heard of you before. That is the difference from a bio link such as Beacons, which is reached from your social profiles. A tag on the mic stand gives a first-time listener a way to follow you, come back or book you.
Can creators who use Beacons take live song requests with GigTag?
Yes, if you perform in front of people. Song requests are part of GigTag Pro. Fans scan your tag and choose from your song list, or ask for anything if you open requests, and each request appears in a live queue on your phone during the set. Your Beacons page is unaffected and stays in your bio.
Looking for Beacons itself?
This page is GigTag's. Beacons's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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See all comparisonsBeacons is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about Beacons 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.