Gig, band and website tools
Gigwell or GigTag? They are built for different people
If you book your own gigs, the people most likely to hire you next are the ones watching you tonight. GigTag gives them one code on your mic stand to follow you, save your next date and send a booking enquiry. If you were looking at Gigwell, check which side of the business you are on: this page is for the one holding the instrument.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
Why self-booked acts pick GigTag over Gigwell
Gigwell is built for the booking business: agencies, managers and buyers arranging tours. GigTag is built for a live act on a stage. If your work is bars, hotels, weddings and residencies that you book yourself, GigTag fits the job you actually do, starts on a free plan and takes no commission on the bookings it brings.
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Built for the act, not the office
Everything in GigTag starts from a performer in front of an audience: a tag for the mic stand, a page fans open in the browser, a live queue on your phone. Gigwell's tools are built around agents, contracts and tour routing. If nobody routes tours for you, GigTag is shaped for your working week.
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Bookings come from the room
Your GigTag page carries a booking enquiry form on the free plan. Someone who has just heard you can ask about their own event before they leave, and the enquiry comes to you directly, with no commission on the booking. For a self-booked act, the audience is where the work comes from.
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One code does several jobs
The same scan gives a fan song requests on Pro, your next gig and weekly residencies to save, your socials, website and music links, and the enquiry form. You then invoice the job on Pro in your own design and are paid online. One printed tag covers the night and what follows it.
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Free to start, simple to run
The free plan includes the tag design and print file, your page, links, every gig and residency and the enquiry form for one act. You manage it from the website or the GigTag phone app. There is no roster to configure and no team to set up before your next gig.
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Solo, duo and band together
Plenty of working musicians play in more than one line-up. GigTag Pro puts more than one act on one account, and band members can join a band. Your solo residency and your wedding band each face their own audience, and you keep them side by side.
In short
Gigwell and GigTag, in four lines
- Gigwell is booking management software for agencies, managers, venues, promoters and touring artists.
- GigTag is built for the act on stage: one code for requests, dates, links and booking enquiries.
- Enquiries come straight from people who have just watched you, with no commission on bookings.
- Our recommendation: if you book your own gigs and play to a room, start with GigTag.
Side by side
GigTag vs Gigwell, topic by topic
Getting booked
Enquiries from the audience, no commission on bookings
People who have just watched you send a booking enquiry from your page, and GigTag takes no commission on bookings.
GigwellIts site describes a venue and festival database with contacts for talent buyers, and a press kit with a built-in booking request form.
The paperwork
Invoices on Pro. Keep Gigwell for contracts and riders.
GigTag has no contracts or riders. On Pro it offers invoices in your own design that a client pays online.
GigwellIts contract builder creates and sends contracts, riders and travel documents, and its tools for artists include document templates with e-signature.
Your dates
Gigs and residencies fans save to calendars
Your next gig and weekly residencies are shown to anyone who scans the tag, and they can add them to their calendar.
GigwellArtists see tour itineraries in a mobile app, gig logistics sync to Google Calendar, and the press kit carries a gig calendar.
Being paid
Invoices paid online, tips with 0% taken
Clients pay GigTag invoices online, on Pro. Fans can tip by card or Apple Pay, with 0% taken by GigTag.
GigwellIts site describes online payment collection with automated deposit reminders and real-time tracking of revenue across all of an agency's shows.
Who it speaks to
Built for the performer and the crowd
The audience on the night, and the act itself, which manages everything from the website or the GigTag phone app.
GigwellIts site addresses agents, artists and managers, venues, talent buyers and promoters: the people who arrange and deliver a show.
The quick view
| GigTag | Gigwell | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Gigwell, not that it is missing: see what Gigwell offers above, or ask on its site.
Gigwell or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from Gigwell
A different person at the keyboard
Gigwell is used at a desk by an agent, a manager or a talent buyer working on dates weeks or months away. GigTag is used tonight, by a stranger with a phone. They scan the tag on your mic stand and your page opens in their browser. They can see your next gig, follow you, request a song or enquire about booking you. No account, no app.
Tours versus the regular gig
Gigwell's tools are shaped around touring: routing, venue research, contracts, riders, ticket counts. GigTag is shaped around the working act with a Thursday residency and a wedding on Saturday. You list your gigs and weekly residencies, and anyone who scans the tag can add them to their calendar. The focus is the room you are in and the people who might come back.
How an enquiry reaches you
In the world Gigwell serves, a booking usually travels between a buyer and an agent. With GigTag, the enquiry comes straight from someone who has just watched you play, through the form on your page. You answer it yourself on the website or the GigTag app, and on Pro you can send an invoice in your own design that the client pays online.
A night with GigTag
An originals band on a support slot
You are on a short run of dates, opening for a bigger act in a club you have never played. Nobody in the room knows your name yet. Before the set you fix the tag to the mic stand, and after the second song you tell the crowd to scan it if they like what they hear. Phones go up. Your page opens in the browser with your socials, your website and your music links, and a list of the remaining dates on the run, which people save to their calendars.
On Pro, your own songs are on the song list, and before the last number a request drops into the live queue for the one in your latest video. You play it. A promoter's friend at the bar scans it and sends a booking enquiry about a night in their town. Others follow you before the headliner starts. In the van you open the GigTag app and find the enquiry waiting. Tomorrow is another city and another audience, and the same tag goes on the same stand with the same code.
About Gigwell
What is Gigwell?
Gigwell describes itself as end-to-end booking management software for live entertainment. Its site addresses booking agents and agencies first, along with artists and their managers, venues, talent buyers and promoters. It brings the paperwork of a booking into one cloud system: contracts, riders, payments and logistics, in place of spreadsheets and paper. It also offers a database of venues and festivals for routing tours and finding the right contact.
An agency uses it to build and send contracts, collect deposits online with automatic reminders, keep artist logistics together and watch revenue across a roster. Its ticket counts tool gathers sales figures from venues into reports. For independent touring artists its site describes a press kit with a booking request form and gig calendar, a contact manager, document templates and a mobile app with tour itineraries.
- Where
- United States
- Website
- gigwell.com
How Gigwell works
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Research the route. An agent or artist searches the venue and festival database by location and capacity, finds the right contact and looks for rooms that fill open dates on a tour.
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Issue the contract. The contract builder produces the contract, riders and travel documents for a show and delivers them digitally, so the paperwork for each date is kept with the booking.
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Collect the deposit. Payments for a show are collected online, with automated reminders when a deposit is due. Its site presents this as the replacement for paper cheques and manual chasing.
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Track the tour. Ticket counts are gathered from venues into branded reports, revenue is tracked as it comes in, and artists follow itineraries and deal details in a mobile app.
Who Gigwell is for
Booking agencies. Agencies with a roster of artists and many shows in play at once. Its site puts agents first, describing contracts, payment collection, logistics and revenue tracking in one cloud system, with dashboards that show growth and where work is getting stuck.
Independent touring artists. Artists and managers who book their own tours. For them its site describes a press kit that updates itself and carries a booking request form, a contact manager linked to email, and templates for contracts, invoices and technical riders.
Venues and talent buyers. People on the buying side of a show. Its site addresses venues, talent buyers and promoters, who handle artist contracts and payments digitally through the same system the agent uses, which keeps both parties working from the same documents.
The verdict
GigTag or Gigwell: which should you choose?
The bottom line
For a solo act, duo or band that books its own gigs, GigTag is the clear choice of the two. It is built for the stage you actually stand on, and its strongest point is the direct line from tonight's audience to your next booking, with no commission. Gigwell is aimed at agencies, managers and touring artists with contracts, riders and routes to manage, and if that describes you, it is the one to look at, with a GigTag on the stand as well.
Most readers will need one or the other. If you are an agent, a manager or a touring artist with contracts and riders to handle, Gigwell is aimed at you. If you play bars, hotels, weddings and residencies and book yourself, GigTag is the nearer fit. An artist who does both could use Gigwell for touring and keep a GigTag on the stand.
- Step 1
Use Gigwell for the tour
Keep routing, contracts, deposits and itineraries in Gigwell, where you or your agent already work on them. None of that changes when you add a tag.
- Step 2
Add the run to GigTag
Put the public dates of the tour on your GigTag page with your links, so each night's audience can see where you are playing next.
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Answer enquiries yourself
Booking enquiries that come through the tag reach you directly. Reply to them on the website or the app, or pass them to your agent if you have one.
Choose GigTag if
You are a solo act, duo or band who books your own gigs and wants the audience in front of you to request, follow and enquire from one scan.
Start freeGigwell may still suit you if
You are an agency, a manager or a touring artist handling contracts, deposits and logistics across many dates.
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 Gigwell for a band that books itself?
For a self-booked band playing regular gigs, GigTag is the closer fit. It is built for the performance: a tag the audience scans for requests, your next date and a booking enquiry form, on a free plan, with no commission on bookings. Gigwell is built for agencies and touring operations. Choose by the work you do.
Why choose GigTag when Gigwell also has a booking request form?
Because of where the form is. GigTag's enquiry form is one scan from everyone at your gig, on a printed tag that never changes, alongside requests, your dates and your links. Gigwell's site describes its booking request form as part of a press kit for touring artists. If your bookings come from people who see you play, GigTag puts the form in front of them.
What is Gigwell?
Gigwell is booking management software for the live music business. Its site describes tools for booking agents, artists, venues and promoters: a contract builder, online payment collection, logistics, revenue tracking, ticket count reports and a venue and festival database. See its site for plans and prices.
Is GigTag the same kind of software as Gigwell?
No. Gigwell manages bookings for agencies, managers, venues and touring artists. GigTag is not an agency tool and it does not find clients or venues for you. It gives a live act one permanent QR code on a tag for the mic stand, which opens a page where fans request songs, see gigs and send booking enquiries.
I manage several acts. Should I look at Gigwell or GigTag?
If you run a roster with contracts and deposits to track, that is the work Gigwell's site describes. GigTag Pro does let one account hold more than one act, which suits a musician with a solo set and a band, or a few acts of your own. It is a tool for the performer, used at the gig.
I found Gigwell while searching from the UK. Does GigTag work here?
Yes. The tag, your page, gigs, links, booking enquiries, song requests and invoices work in every country. Tips work there too, into your own Stripe account, and GigTag takes 0% of them. A printed tag is delivered free in the UK and in Dubai, or you can print your own.
How does a support band get the audience to follow them?
Make it one action. A GigTag on the mic stand gives the crowd a code to scan while you play. Your page opens in their browser with your socials, website and music links, and your next dates to save. There is no app and no account, so it can be done between songs.
Do I need an agent to get booking enquiries?
No. An agent finds and negotiates work for you, which GigTag does not do. What GigTag adds is a booking enquiry form on your page, on the free plan, so people who see you play can contact you directly. If you later work with an agent, enquiries from the tag can be passed on to them.
What is the difference between Gigwell and GigTag?
Gigwell is software for arranging shows: its site describes contracts, payment collection, logistics, ticket counts and a venue database for agencies, artists, venues and promoters. GigTag is a printed QR tag for the mic stand that opens a page for the audience. One is used before the show by the industry, the other during it by the crowd.
Can I use one QR code for a whole tour?
Yes. A GigTag has one permanent code for the act. It is the same at every show, and it keeps working if you rename the act. Add each date to your page and the audience in one city can see where you play next. Every gig is included on the free plan.
Looking for Gigwell itself?
This page is GigTag's. Gigwell's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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Gigwell is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about Gigwell 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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