Booking sites and agencies
GigSalad finds new clients. GigTag works the room you are in.
At a gig you need the people enjoying the set to be able to do something about it before they leave: book you, follow you, find your next date. GigTag gives your act one permanent QR code on the mic stand that does all of that in their browser. If you came here looking at GigSalad, think of this as the half of the job that happens on stage.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
Why gigging acts add GigTag alongside GigSalad
GigSalad is built for planners who are searching for an entertainer. GigTag is built for a live act on a stage. Every room you already play holds people with parties, weddings and work events of their own, and one scan lets them ask you directly, with no commission taken by GigTag.
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Bookings from rooms you already play
The people at your gig have heard you, which no profile can do for them. With the tag on your mic stand, they send a booking enquiry from your page while the set is still going. GigSalad is built for planners who start by searching, so the two reach different people.
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Direct to you, no commission
A GigTag enquiry comes straight to you on the website or in the GigTag app, and GigTag takes no commission on the booking that follows. You agree the date yourself. On Pro you send an invoice in your own design and the client pays it online.
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Nothing for the audience to install
Nobody at a bar is going to download an app for a band. They point a phone camera at the tag, your page opens in the browser, and that is it. No account either. A marketplace is designed for a planner sitting down to compare options, which is a different moment.
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One code does five jobs
The same scan shows your next gig and weekly residencies for people to add to their calendar, carries your socials, website and music links, takes booking enquiries and, on Pro, song requests and invoices. A marketplace profile is built for one job, being found by planners.
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Free to start, and permanent
The free plan covers one act with your custom tag design, the print file, your page, links, every gig and residency and the booking form. The code never changes, and old links still work if you rename the act, so the tag you print now keeps working.
In short
GigSalad and GigTag, in four lines
- GigSalad is a marketplace where planners in the US and Canada find and book entertainers for parties, weddings and corporate events.
- GigTag turns the rooms you already play into booking enquiries, sent straight to you with no commission taken by GigTag.
- The audience scans one permanent code with a phone camera: no app, no account, and it opens in the browser.
- Our recommendation: put a GigTag on your stand at every gig, and keep GigSalad for planners who have never heard you.
Side by side
GigTag vs GigSalad, topic by topic
Who finds you
Keep GigSalad for planners; GigTag covers the room
The people who find you are the ones at your gig. They scan the tag on your mic stand and your page opens in their browser.
GigSaladGigSalad is a marketplace where people planning parties, weddings and corporate events go to find and book entertainers, so the people who find you are planners searching online.
Where it works
Every country, tips included
The page, links, gigs, residencies, booking enquiries, song requests, invoices and tips work in every country.
GigSaladGigSalad works in the United States and Canada, which is where the planners who use it are looking for entertainers for their parties, weddings and corporate events.
Kind of work
Any live set, weekly residencies included
Any live set works, from a bar gig to a weekly residency. Your page shows your next gig and your residencies for people to add to their calendar.
GigSaladThe marketplace is used for private occasions: parties, weddings and corporate events, where a planner needs an entertainer for a particular date and books one.
Getting booked
A free enquiry form, direct to you
A fan fills in the booking enquiry form on your page. It reaches you on the website or in the GigTag app, and the form is on the free plan.
GigSaladPlanners find and book entertainers on the marketplace itself. Read GigSalad's own pages for performers for the steps on your side before you sign up.
Being paid
Your own invoice, no commission taken by GigTag
On Pro you send the client an invoice in your own design and they pay it online. GigTag takes no commission on the booking.
GigSaladSee its site for how it handles this.
The quick view
| GigTag | GigSalad | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 GigSalad, not that it is missing: see what GigSalad offers above, or ask on its site.
GigSalad or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from GigSalad
Strangers searching, or the room tonight
GigSalad puts you in front of people who are planning an event and have not chosen an act. GigTag starts from the opposite end. Your QR code sits on a small tag on the mic stand. Someone at the bar who has a birthday coming up scans it, your page opens in their browser, and they send a booking enquiry while you are still playing. They already know what you sound like.
One printed code for every gig
A marketplace profile lives online. A GigTag lives on your stand. The code is printed once and never changes, so the same tag works at the bar gig, the brewery, the wedding and the street fair. If you rename the act, old links still work. Nobody downloads an app or makes an account: they point a phone camera at the tag and your page opens.
What the scan does besides bookings
A GigTag page is made for the set itself. People can see your next gig and your weekly residencies and add them to their calendar, and follow your socials, website and music links. On Pro they can request a song from your list, and you see requests in a live queue. Pro also lets you send invoices in your own design that clients pay online.
A night with GigTag
A Saturday at the brewery for a cover band
You load in at the taproom, set up in the corner by the fermenters and hang the tag on your mic stand before soundcheck. Halfway through the first set a group near the front holds a phone up to it. Your page opens in their browser. Nobody asks you for a business card, and nobody has to shout a web address over the drums. One of them finds your next gig and adds it to their calendar. Another follows your socials while you are still playing the chorus.
If you are on Pro, requests start coming in from your song list, and you work down the live queue on your phone between songs. During the break, someone who is planning a company party opens the booking enquiry form and fills it in at the bar. It is waiting for you on the website or in the GigTag app when you pack down. You reply the next morning, agree the date, and send an invoice in your own design that they pay online. The tag goes back in the gig bag for next week.
About GigSalad
What is GigSalad?
GigSalad is a marketplace for booking entertainment in the United States and Canada. People planning parties, weddings and corporate events go there to find and book entertainers, and acts list themselves so those planners can find them. It is built around a client who is starting from nothing: they have a date and an occasion, and they need someone to fill it. Live music is one of the things they come looking for.
In practice it means being found by someone who has not seen you. A planner searches the marketplace, picks out acts that suit the event and books one. This page keeps to those basics. For how profiles, quotes and payments work today, read GigSalad's own pages for performers before you sign up, and see its site for prices.
- Where
- United States and Canada
- Website
- gigsalad.com
How GigSalad works
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A planner has an event. It starts with someone organising a party, a wedding or a corporate event in the United States or Canada who needs entertainment and has not settled on an act.
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They search the marketplace. The planner goes to GigSalad to look for entertainers. Acts that have listed themselves there are the ones that can be found, with live music among the options.
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They book an entertainer. The planner chooses an act and books it through the marketplace. For the detail of each stage, including what performers do on their side, read GigSalad's own guidance.
Who GigSalad is for
Party planners. Someone putting on a birthday, an anniversary or a family celebration who wants entertainment and does not know any acts personally. A marketplace gives them a place to start looking, and gives you a way to be seen by them.
Couples planning a wedding. A couple who need music for the ceremony, the reception or the evening and are comparing options from home. They are choosing months ahead and have not heard you play, which is the situation a marketplace is built around.
Corporate event organisers. A person at a company who has been asked to arrange entertainment for a staff party, a launch or a client evening. They need to find and book somebody suitable, and corporate events are among the occasions GigSalad is used for.
The verdict
GigTag or GigSalad: which should you choose?
The bottom line
If you play live, put a GigTag on your stand. The strongest reason is simple: the people watching you now already know what you sound like, and one scan lets them enquire directly, with no commission taken by GigTag and no app to install. GigSalad is still the right place for reaching planners in the United States and Canada who have never seen you, so the sensible choice for a busy act is both.
Use both. GigSalad is for reaching planners who have never seen you, across the United States and Canada. GigTag is for the people who have: it turns an ordinary gig into booking enquiries, with no commission taken by GigTag. A sensible set-up is a marketplace profile for new clients and a tag on the stand at every show you play.
- Step 1
Keep the marketplace profile
Leave your GigSalad profile doing its job for planners who are searching online. Nothing about GigTag changes it, and you do not need to choose between them.
- Step 2
Make your GigTag page
Set up your act on the free plan: design your tag, add your links and enter every gig and residency. Print the tag yourself or order a printed one.
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Put the tag out
Hang the tag on your mic stand at every show. Enquiries from the room come to you on the website or in the GigTag app, alongside whatever the marketplace brings.
Choose GigTag if
You already play to rooms full of people and want them to book you directly, with one code on your stand that also shows your next gig.
Start freeGigSalad may still suit you if
You want leads from party, wedding and corporate planners in the US or Canada who have never seen you play.
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.
Is GigTag better than GigSalad for a cover band that gigs every week?
For the gigs themselves, GigTag is the tool built for the job. It puts a permanent QR code on your stand so the audience can send a booking enquiry, save your next date and, on Pro, request songs, all in the browser. It does not find new clients, though. GigSalad is built for that, so a band that wants both kinds of work keeps both.
What does GigTag do that GigSalad is not built for?
It works in the room. GigTag gives the audience at your gig a page to open with one scan: your next gig and residencies, your links, a booking enquiry form, and on Pro song requests and invoices you send in your own design. GigSalad is built to connect planners with entertainers online, which is a separate job.
Is GigTag a marketplace like GigSalad?
No. GigSalad is a marketplace where people planning events find and book entertainers. GigTag does not list you anywhere or find clients for you. It gives your act one permanent QR code on a tag for the mic stand, and the people watching you use it to send a booking enquiry, see your next gig or follow your links.
Can I use GigSalad and GigTag at the same time?
Yes, they do different jobs. A GigSalad profile is there for planners searching online. A GigTag code is there for the audience at your gigs. Nothing about one gets in the way of the other, and a guest who liked the set is a natural person to ask you about a party of their own.
Does GigTag work in the United States and Canada, where GigSalad operates?
Yes. The page, your links, gigs and residencies, the booking enquiry form, song requests, invoices and tips work in every country, with tips going into your own Stripe account. Pro is $15.99 a month outside the UK and the UAE.
How do booking enquiries reach me on GigTag compared with GigSalad?
On GigSalad, clients find and book acts through the marketplace, so follow its own guidance for performers. On GigTag, a fan fills in the booking enquiry form on your page after scanning the tag. The enquiry comes to you on the website or in the GigTag app, and you reply yourself. The form is part of the free plan.
Do people need an app to scan a GigTag code?
No. They point their phone camera at the tag and your page opens in the browser. There is no app to install and no account to create. That matters at a bar gig, where people will give it a few seconds at most, and it is a different moment from a planner sitting down to search GigSalad.
Can I print the GigTag tag myself?
Yes. The free plan includes your custom tag design and the print file, so you can print it yourself at no cost. If you would rather have one made, GigTag prints it for AED 100 in the UAE or £24.99 in the UK. Elsewhere we don't ship yet, so ask us first. Either way the code is the same and never changes, so it can sit beside a GigSalad profile for years.
Is GigSalad only for the United States?
GigSalad works in the United States and Canada. It is a marketplace where people planning parties, weddings and corporate events find and book entertainers. GigTag is not tied to a country in that way: everything, tips included, works wherever you play.
What happens to my GigTag code if the band changes its name?
Nothing breaks. The printed code is permanent, and if you rename the act the old links still work, so the tag you already own keeps opening your page. You would update your name wherever else you are listed, a GigSalad profile included, but the code itself does not need replacing.
Looking for GigSalad itself?
This page is GigTag's. GigSalad's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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GigSalad is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about GigSalad 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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