Song request apps
DJ Intelligence runs the office. GigTag sits on the mic stand
The paperwork wins the booking, but the gig is where the next one starts. GigTag covers that moment: a tag on your mic stand that takes live requests, shows your dates and lets guests enquire while you play. If you were looking at DJ Intelligence, which runs the office side of an events company, GigTag is the piece that works in the room.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
DJ Intelligence runs bookings. GigTag works the room
DJ Intelligence manages quotes, contracts and planning before an event. GigTag does not replace that. It adds what happens at the gig itself: live requests from your song list, your next dates, and a way for guests to enquire on the spot. For a small act it may be all the admin you need.
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Requests on the night
Planning lists are made weeks ahead. GigTag hears from the room as it is tonight: guests scan the tag, pick from your song list, and the request appears in your live queue mid-set. It complements the must play list a client prepared in DJ Intelligence, and catches what nobody planned.
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Guests become enquiries
Every function is full of people who will book entertainment themselves one day. With a GigTag on the mic stand they send a booking enquiry from their seat, on the free plan, with no commission. You hear from them while the music is still in their ears, not days later.
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Light admin for small acts
A solo act or duo often needs an enquiry form and an invoice, and little more. GigTag has both: the form on the free plan, and on Pro invoices in your own design that clients pay online. DJ Intelligence is sized for companies with staff, contracts and planning portals.
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No app, no login for guests
A GigTag page opens in the browser from a camera scan. Guests need no app, no account and no access code, so a request or an enquiry takes moments. DJ Intelligence's portal is for the client who has booked, who logs in to plan their event in detail.
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A public page for your dates
GigTag shows your next gig and weekly residencies to anyone who scans, with links to your socials, website and music. For a band that plays public gigs between functions, the tag keeps both audiences in touch with the act through one permanent code.
In short
DJ Intelligence and GigTag, in four lines
- DJ Intelligence is office software for DJ and event companies: quotes, contracts, planning forms and client portals.
- GigTag works in the room, taking live requests from your song list into a queue.
- Guests send booking enquiries from the tag on your mic stand, with no commission and no login.
- Choose GigTag for the gig itself, and keep DJ Intelligence if your company needs contracts and planning.
Side by side
GigTag vs DJ Intelligence, topic by topic
Getting booked
Enquiries from the people watching you
People who are watching you send a booking enquiry from your page. The form is on the free plan and opens from the tag on your stand.
DJ IntelligenceIts site describes an availability checker and instant quotes on the company's own website, so a client can check a date and ask for a quote without waiting.
The paperwork
Keep DJ Intelligence for contracts and planning
On Pro you send invoices in your own design, and clients pay them online. You manage them from the website or the GigTag app.
DJ IntelligenceContracts and other documents are built from templates, filled with event details and signed by the client with an e-signature, according to its site.
Choosing the music
Your own song list, live at the gig
Your song list is on your page. Fans request from it at the gig, or from anything if you have opened requests.
DJ IntelligenceClients search the company's music library and build lists such as must play, play if possible and do not play, and can import songs from Spotify.
Guest requests
Requests during the set, in a queue
Anyone in the audience scans the tag during the set and sends a request, which appears in your live queue.
DJ IntelligenceInvited guests add requests before the event using a group code or a QR code. Requests are tallied and ranked by popularity, its site says.
Running a team
Band members and several acts, one account
Band members can join the band, and on Pro one account can hold more than one act, each with its own page and code.
DJ IntelligenceIts site describes staff scheduling with controlled logins, client records, automated emails and texts, calendar sync and reports for the business.
The quick view
| GigTag | DJ Intelligence | |
|---|---|---|
| A QR code your audience scans | Yes, one that never changes | – |
| Song requests from the crowd | Yes, on Pro | Yes |
| 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 | Yes |
| 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 DJ Intelligence, not that it is missing: see what DJ Intelligence offers above, or ask on its site.
A DJ Intelligence alternative
Where GigTag is different from DJ Intelligence
Before the event, or during the set
DJ Intelligence does most of its music work before the day: the client builds lists and guests add requests ahead of time, so the DJ arrives prepared. GigTag works in the room. A fan scans the tag on your mic stand mid-set, picks a song from your list, and it appears in your live queue. One is planning for a booked event. The other is a pub crowd deciding what they want to hear next.
Who the page is for
DJ Intelligence's portal is for the client who has hired the company. They log in with an email and password to plan their event. GigTag's page is for the audience, who are strangers until they scan. It opens in the browser with no account, and shows your next gig, your residencies, your links and a booking enquiry form. Those are two different moments in a working musician's week.
The size of the paperwork
A DJ company with several staff and a diary of weddings needs contracts, timelines and scheduling, and DJ Intelligence is built for that. A solo act or a covers band often sends less: an enquiry, a conversation, an invoice. GigTag has a booking enquiry form on the free plan and, on Pro, invoices in your own design that clients pay online. It is sized for the paperwork a small act sends.
A night with GigTag
A function band at a company dinner
The contract was signed weeks ago and the timings are fixed: speeches, awards, then you. What nobody planned is which songs this particular room wants at eleven at night. The tag on the mic stand answers that. People scan it from the dance floor, your page opens in the browser, and they pick from your song list. The requests build up in the live queue on the keyboard player's phone, and the band chooses from it as the set unfolds.
A company dinner is a room full of people who organise other events. One of them scans the tag and sends a booking enquiry for a summer party before the night is over. Others follow your socials, and a few add your next public gig to their calendar. The following week you pick up the enquiry on the website. If the job is a simple one, GigTag Pro lets you send an invoice in your own design that the client pays online. The same tag goes to the next function.
About DJ Intelligence
What is DJ Intelligence?
DJ Intelligence is booking, planning and management software for event companies. Its site names mobile DJs first, along with photo booths, bands, photographers, planners and venues. The tools plug into the company's own website: an availability checker, instant quotes, contracts with e-signatures, online payments, planning forms and an event portal where each client logs in. Behind that sit client records, staff scheduling, automated emails and reports. Its site says it has managed over one million events since 2002.
A couple planning a wedding visits the DJ company's website, checks the date, gets a quote, signs and pays. They then log in to plan: timelines, forms, and a music list sorted into must play, play if possible and do not play. Its site also describes a guest request system, where invited guests add requests before the event using a group code or a QR code, and the most popular rise to the top.
- Where
- United States
- Website
- djintelligence.com
How DJ Intelligence works
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Add the tools to your site. The company adds DJ Intelligence's forms to its own website, such as an availability checker and a quote request, styled to match. Its site says they work on mobile too.
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Take the booking online. A prospective client checks the date and receives a quote. They sign the contract with an e-signature and can pay online, and the booking is recorded in the system.
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Plan with the client. The client logs in to an event portal and completes what the company assigns: planning forms, a timeline and music lists such as must play and do not play.
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Run the event. Staff are scheduled to the event with their own logins, and the completed forms can be printed or saved as PDF for use on the day.
Who DJ Intelligence is for
Mobile DJ companies. The headline on its site is planning software for DJ companies. A firm with several DJs can take enquiries through its website, quote, contract and collect payment, then let each couple or client plan the music and the timeline in a portal.
Other event services. Its site lists many other trades it supports, among them photo booths, photographers, videographers, event planners, caterers and venues. Each can use the same booking forms, contracts, payments and client portal for its own kind of event.
Bands on the function circuit. Bands and musicians are on its list of services. A function band that handles its own wedding bookings could use the availability checker, contracts and planning forms as a DJ company does, with clients choosing music from the band's own library.
The verdict
GigTag or DJ Intelligence: which should you choose?
The bottom line
For the gig itself, choose GigTag. Its strongest reason is that it works in the room: live requests, your dates and booking enquiries from the people watching you, with nothing for them to install. DJ Intelligence is still the right system for a DJ or events company that needs quotes, contracts, planning forms and a client portal on its website, and GigTag does not replace it. A solo act, duo or small band may find GigTag covers everything it sends.
They do different jobs and can sit side by side. A function band with a busy wedding diary could run its contracts, planning forms and client portal through DJ Intelligence on its website, and still put a GigTag on the mic stand so guests on the night can request a song, follow the band and send an enquiry for their own event.
- Step 1
Keep the office where it is
Carry on running website enquiries, quotes, contracts and planning forms through DJ Intelligence, as your company already does for all the events it has booked.
- Step 2
Add a tag for the stage
Create your act on GigTag, enter your song list and gigs, and put the tag on the mic stand so guests can request songs on the night.
- Step 3
Let the room enquire
Guests who want to hire you send an enquiry from your GigTag page on the night. Move the serious ones into your usual booking process afterwards.
Choose GigTag if
You are a live act that wants the audience in the room to request songs, see your dates and enquire about booking you, with a simple invoice to follow.
Start freeDJ Intelligence may still suit you if
You run a DJ or events company and need quotes, contracts, planning forms and a client portal built into your own website.
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
DJ Intelligence and GigTag: what people ask
Something else? Ask us. A person reads every message.
Do I need GigTag if I already use DJ Intelligence?
They cover different moments, so many acts will want both. DJ Intelligence handles the booking and the planning before the event. GigTag handles the event itself: a tag on your mic stand that takes live requests into a queue, shows your next dates, and lets guests send a booking enquiry on the night, with no commission taken.
Is GigTag better than DJ Intelligence for a solo act or duo?
For a small act, GigTag is usually the better fit. It is free to start, gives you a printed tag and a page with your gigs and residencies, takes enquiries from the people watching you, and on Pro sends invoices that clients pay online. DJ Intelligence is built for event companies that need contracts, planning forms and staff scheduling.
What is DJ Intelligence used for?
DJ Intelligence is used by DJ and event companies to take bookings and plan events through their own websites. Its site describes availability checks, quotes, contracts with e-signatures, online payments, planning forms, timelines, music request lists and a client portal, with staff scheduling and reporting behind them. Its site says it has managed over one million events since 2002.
Is GigTag a replacement for DJ Intelligence?
Not really, because they do different jobs. DJ Intelligence manages an events business from first enquiry to final planning form. GigTag faces the audience at the gig: a QR code on your mic stand for song requests, your dates, your links and a booking enquiry form, plus invoices on Pro. A company that needs the first may still want the second on stage.
Can bands and musicians use DJ Intelligence?
Its site lists bands and musicians among the event services it supports, alongside DJs, photo booths, photographers and planners. It suits an act that runs like a company, with contracts, planning forms and a client portal on its own website. A solo act or duo that mainly wants the audience to request songs and enquire is the case GigTag is made for.
How do song requests differ between DJ Intelligence and GigTag?
With DJ Intelligence, clients and their invited guests build request lists before the event, so the DJ can prepare. With GigTag, anyone in the audience scans the tag during the set and picks from the act's song list, or any song if requests are open. It appears in the act's live queue straight away. Requests are part of GigTag Pro.
Does DJ Intelligence have a guest request system?
Yes, according to its site. Event guests use a group ID, with an optional access code or a QR code, to add music requests before the event. Requests can be public or private, are tallied and ranked by popularity, and the host can remove unsuitable ones. GigTag's requests happen live, from the tag on the mic stand during the set.
What are the DJ Intelligence song charts?
Its site describes three dozen top song charts showing the most popular songs in each genre, inside the music tools clients use to build their request lists. They help a couple choose music before their event. On GigTag the songs on offer are the ones in your own list, which fans request from at the gig.
Is GigTag a booking agency?
No. GigTag is not a marketplace or an agency and does not find clients for you. It helps the people already watching you to get in touch: they scan the tag on your mic stand and send a booking enquiry from your page. What you do with the enquiry, and what you charge, is up to you.
How do I invoice a client for a gig?
With GigTag Pro you create an invoice in your own design from the website or the GigTag app, and the client pays it online. It follows naturally from the booking enquiry form on your page, which is on the free plan. Pro is AED 30 a month in the UAE, £11.99 in the UK and $15.99 elsewhere.
Looking for DJ Intelligence itself?
This page is GigTag's. DJ Intelligence's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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DJ Intelligence is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about DJ Intelligence 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.
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