Booking sites and agencies
Indie on the Move plans the route. GigTag meets the crowd.
On a tour you booked yourself, each show has to do two jobs: go well tonight and make the next visit easier. For that you need the crowd to follow you and the bar owner to know how to reach you. GigTag does both from one code on your mic stand. If you were looking at Indie on the Move to plan the route, add this for the shows.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
Why bands using Indie on the Move add GigTag
A venue database is built for the planning. GigTag is built for the shows. One scan of the tag on your mic stand gives a first-time crowd your music, your socials and your next dates, and gives the people who book rooms a direct way to ask you back.
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A first-time crowd can follow at once
In a new city nobody knows your name. They scan the tag from their bar stool and your page opens in the browser, with no app or account, showing your socials and music links. A venue database gets you into the room. GigTag gives the room a way to stay with you.
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Return visits start with a saved date
Your page lists every gig ahead, and a listener can add one to their phone calendar on the spot. When the route loops back, the people who saved it already know. Planning tools work on where you go. This works on who comes to see you.
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Bookers ask you back from the floor
The bar manager, a local promoter, someone with a private party: each can send a booking enquiry from your page, on the free plan. It reaches you in the GigTag app and GigTag takes no commission. A database is for you contacting venues. The tag lets venues contact you.
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Print it yourself, start free
The free plan includes the tag design and a print file, so you can print the tag at home before the van leaves. It also covers your page, links, every gig and the enquiry form for one act. Keep your planning tools as they are, and add this beside them.
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The same code next year
The printed code never changes. The tag from this tour works on the next one, and so does every photo a fan took of it. If the band is renamed, old links still work. Each tour needs fresh planning. The tag carries over as it is.
In short
Indie on the Move and GigTag, in four lines
- Indie on the Move is a US venue database with booking tools, made for touring bands.
- GigTag works at the show: one scan gives a new crowd your music links, socials and next dates.
- Bar owners and promoters can enquire directly from your page, and GigTag takes no commission.
- Our advice: plan the route with the tools you like, and put a GigTag on the mic stand every night.
Side by side
GigTag vs Indie on the Move, topic by topic
Finding venues
Keep Indie on the Move for venue research
GigTag does not find venues. It starts once you have a show, with a tag on the mic stand for the audience.
Indie on the MoveThis is its main job. Indie on the Move is a US venue database, a place for touring bands to look up rooms they could play.
Booking the show
Enquiries from bookers who saw you play
GigTag is not a booking tool for venues. Bookers who see you play can send an enquiry from your page, directly to you.
Indie on the MoveIt offers booking tools for touring bands alongside the database. Its site sets out what those tools are and how they are used.
Who it is for
Solo acts, duos and bands alike
Any live act, solo, duo or band, that plays to an audience and wants that audience to follow, come back and enquire.
Indie on the MoveTouring bands, and in particular acts planning dates across the United States who need to know which venues to approach.
Where it works
Works in every country you tour
Every country. The page, gigs, song requests, enquiries, invoices and tips work anywhere.
Indie on the MoveThe United States. It is a database of US venues, which is why bands planning tours of America are the ones who turn to it.
At the show
Scan, follow, save the date, enquire
The audience scans the tag and your page opens in their browser. They follow you, save the next date or send an enquiry.
Indie on the MoveSee its site for how it handles this.
The quick view
| GigTag | Indie on the Move | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Indie on the Move, not that it is missing: see what Indie on the Move offers above, or ask on its site.
Indie on the Move or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from Indie on the Move
Research at home, scans on the road
Indie on the Move is used before the tour, to find rooms and contacts. GigTag is used at each show, by the audience. A small tag with your QR code sits on the mic stand. Someone at the bar scans it mid-set and your page opens in their browser, with no app or account needed. They see your socials, your music links and where the tour goes next.
A new city every night
On a self-booked tour, most rooms are full of people seeing you for the first time. You get one set to turn them into followers. With GigTag, one scan gives them your links and your upcoming gigs, which they can add to their calendar for the next time you come through. The code is permanent, so the same tag works in every city and on next year's tour as well.
Bookers who find you at a show
A venue database is for you contacting venues. GigTag opens the other direction. A promoter, a bar owner from the next town or someone planning a private event can scan the tag and send a booking enquiry on the spot. It arrives in the GigTag app or on the website. The enquiry form is on the free plan, and GigTag takes no commission on the booking.
A night with GigTag
A weeknight taproom show on a self-booked tour
A Wednesday in a brewery taproom, somewhere between two bigger cities on a tour you booked yourselves. There is no stage, only a corner with a rug, and three bands on the bill. Your tag is on the mic stand. The room came for a beer as much as for music, so you keep the talking short: one mention of the code after the opening song. People scan it from their stools. The page opens in the browser, no app required, with your music links, your socials and the dates still ahead.
You are on Pro for the tour, so your songs are listed, and a request for the slow one from your last record arrives in the live queue between numbers. Someone whose friends live in the next city on the list adds that date to her calendar. At the end of the night the taproom's manager scans the tag and sends an enquiry about a weekend slot on your way back. You read it in the GigTag app at the motel. Tomorrow the tag goes up again in another state, unchanged.
About Indie on the Move
What is Indie on the Move?
Indie on the Move is a US venue database with booking tools for touring bands. It is made for acts that arrange their own shows: independent bands working out a route, city by city. A venue database earns its keep in the research stage, because finding the right rooms and the right contacts is one of the slowest parts of planning a tour. This page keeps to those basics. For the full list of what it offers, see its site.
A band planning a run would turn to it at the start of the process, when the cities are pencilled in and the venues are not. That work is done at a desk, weeks or months before the first date. Everything after it, from loading in to playing to meeting the audience, happens on the road. That second stage is where GigTag begins.
- Where
- United States
- Website
- indieonthemove.com
How Indie on the Move works
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Look up venues. A touring band turns to the database to find venues in the United States that it could play. See its site for how the search works.
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Use the booking tools. Indie on the Move offers booking tools for touring bands alongside the database. Its site is the place to see what each of those tools does.
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Plan the tour. With venues and contacts in hand, the band plans its run of dates. From there the work moves away from the desk and out onto the road.
Who Indie on the Move is for
Bands planning a US tour. Its purpose is plain: a venue database for touring bands in the United States. An act mapping out a run of American dates is the reader it is built around. See its site for the regions and details it covers.
Acts that book themselves. Booking tools for touring bands point to acts that arrange their own shows. If your band handles its own bookings, a database with tools around it is aimed at you. Its site sets out what those tools are.
Bands needing venue contacts. Planning a tour means knowing which venues to approach. A venue database exists to shorten that search, so a band looking for places to play in a city it has never visited is the kind of act it serves.
The verdict
GigTag or Indie on the Move: which should you choose?
The bottom line
If you play shows, bring a GigTag. The strongest reason on a self-booked tour is that most of each room is hearing you for the first time, and one scan lets them follow you and save your next date with nothing to install. GigTag does not find venues or contacts. A band planning a US run still needs that research done, which is what Indie on the Move is for, so use both in turn.
Use them in sequence. Plan and book the tour with a venue database such as Indie on the Move. Then add each confirmed date to your GigTag page, put the tag on the stand, and let the audience do the rest. GigTag does not find venues or clients, so it replaces nothing in your planning. It makes each night you booked count for more.
- Step 1
Plan with the database
Use Indie on the Move while the tour is still a list of cities: find the venues, make contact with them and confirm each of your dates.
- Step 2
List the tour on GigTag
Add every confirmed date to your GigTag page and check your links. Print the tag from the free print file, or order a printed one.
- Step 3
Hang the tag nightly
Put the tag on the mic stand at each stop and mention it once. The same code serves the whole tour and the next one too.
Choose GigTag if
You have the dates and want every room on the tour to leave with your links, your next gig and a way to book you.
Start freeIndie on the Move may still suit you if
You book your own US tours and need a venue database and contacts to plan the route.
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
Indie on the Move and GigTag: what people ask
Something else? Ask us. A person reads every message.
Is GigTag better than Indie on the Move for a touring band?
They are used at different stages, so a touring band is better off with both. GigTag is the one built for the show itself: a permanent code on the mic stand that opens your links, dates and booking form in a browser. Indie on the Move is a US venue database for planning. GigTag does not do venue research.
Why add GigTag to a tour planned with Indie on the Move?
Because planning ends when the tour starts, and the audience is still to be won. With GigTag on the mic stand, each crowd can follow your socials, open your music links and save your next date in one scan. Bar owners and promoters can enquire directly. The free plan covers it, and you can print the tag yourself.
What is Indie on the Move?
Indie on the Move is a US venue database with booking tools for touring bands. Independent acts turn to it for venues and contacts when planning their own tours. This page keeps to those basics, so for the full list of tools, and for prices, see its site.
Does GigTag help me book a tour like Indie on the Move?
No. GigTag is not a marketplace or an agency, and it does not find shows for you. It gives your act a permanent QR code on a custom mic stand tag. At each show the audience scans it to follow your links, see the next gig, request songs or send a booking enquiry.
Does GigTag work at US shows planned with Indie on the Move?
Yes. Your page, gigs, links, song requests, booking enquiries and invoices work in every country. In the US, Pro is $15.99 a month, and you print your own tag from the free print file: printed tags ship to the UAE and the UK only for now. Tips work in the US too, into your own Stripe account, with 0% taken by GigTag.
Touring with Indie on the Move: do I need a new GigTag code for each date?
No. Each act has one permanent code. You add or change gigs on your page from the website or the GigTag app, and the printed tag stays the same. If you rename the act, old links keep working, so tags and photos of the code from earlier shows still lead to you.
Who is Indie on the Move for?
Touring bands. It is a US venue database with booking tools, so it suits independent acts that plan their own tours and need to know which venues to approach. This page keeps to what could be confirmed about it. For a full picture of its tools, and anything about joining, go to its site.
Can I use Indie on the Move and GigTag on the same tour?
Yes, and they do not overlap. One is used at a desk before the tour, to find venues and plan dates. The other is a tag on the mic stand at each show, for the audience. Add your confirmed dates to your GigTag page so anyone who scans sees where you play next.
How do touring bands keep fans from each city?
Give each crowd a way to follow you before they leave. With a GigTag on your mic stand, people scan once and get your socials, your music links and your upcoming gigs, which they can add to their calendar. When you announce a return to that city, they already know where to look.
Can a bar owner book my band from a QR code?
They can send you the enquiry. Your GigTag page has a booking enquiry form, so a bar owner or promoter who sees your set can scan the tag, fill in what they have in mind and send it. You get it in the GigTag app or on the website. The form is on the free plan.
Looking for Indie on the Move itself?
This page is GigTag's. Indie on the Move's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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Indie on the Move is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about Indie on the Move 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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