Gig, band and website tools
Music Glue for your store, GigTag for the night itself
A crowd that has never heard of you will not search for your store. It might scan a code. GigTag puts one on your mic stand, opening a page where people can follow you, save your next gig, request a song and enquire about booking you. If you were looking at Music Glue to sell to fans, this is where the room can become fans first.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
What GigTag does for a band before Music Glue can
Music Glue is built to sell to people who already want what you make. GigTag is built for the step before that: the first meeting, at a gig, with someone who has just heard you. It gives them one easy action, and it gives you their follow, their request or their booking enquiry.
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First contact with new listeners
A festival or support slot puts you in front of people who do not know your name. One scan opens your page in the browser with your socials, website and music links. A store is built for the fan who comes to buy. The tag is how a stranger at the barrier starts down that road.
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They know where you play next
Your next gig and weekly residencies are on the page, and people add them to their calendars from the scan. GigTag does not sell tickets, so point your links at wherever you do. What it gives you is an audience that has the date, which is the first step to a ticket.
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Requests bring the set alive
On Pro, the crowd chooses from your song list and each request joins a live queue. Someone who has asked for a song has a reason to stay for it. That exchange happens on the night, in the room, and it gives a new listener a small stake in your set.
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Paid work from the audience
Selling records is one income. Being hired is another. The booking enquiry form on your page is on the free plan, GigTag takes no commission on bookings, and on Pro you can invoice the client in your own design and be paid online. The tag makes that second income possible from the same crowd.
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Nothing to stock or ship
The only physical thing is the tag itself. Print it from the print file on the free plan, or order one, with free delivery in the UK and in Dubai. The code never changes, so the same tag does every show on the run and every show after it.
In short
Music Glue and GigTag, in four lines
- Music Glue is an e-commerce platform for selling music, merch and tickets from an artist's own store.
- GigTag works on the night: a scan from the crowd opens your page, with no app or account.
- It brings in what a store is not built for: live requests and booking enquiries from the audience.
- Our recommendation: sell through your store, and put a GigTag on the stand at every show.
Side by side
GigTag vs Music Glue, topic by topic
What fans can buy
Keep Music Glue for selling. GigTag brings requests and follows.
Nothing is sold on a GigTag page. Fans request songs on Pro, follow you, save a gig or send a booking enquiry.
Music GlueIts site describes music, merchandise and tickets sold in a single transaction from the artist's store, with bundles, pre-orders and fan club memberships.
Tickets and dates
Dates fans can save. Keep Music Glue for tickets.
GigTag lists your next gig and weekly residencies for people to add to their calendars. It does not sell tickets.
Music GlueTickets are sold direct to fans, with presales that can be linked to a music purchase, and ballot and VIP options.
Where it lives
On your mic stand, in front of the crowd
The page opens in a browser from the printed QR code on your mic stand. GigTag has no custom domain.
Music GlueThe store is branded for the artist and hosted on the artist's own domain, with several currencies and languages supported.
Knowing your audience
See what they request and who enquires
You see what people request in the live queue and who sends a booking enquiry. Fans need no account to use the page.
Music GlueIts site stresses that the artist owns the customer data, with insights, analytics and sales reporting that updates in real time.
Getting it to fans
One tag to carry, printed once
The only physical item is the tag: order it printed, with free delivery in the UK and Dubai, or print your own.
Music GlueOrders can be sent from its warehouses in several regions, made through print on demand or fulfilled by the artist.
The quick view
| GigTag | Music Glue | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Music Glue, not that it is missing: see what Music Glue offers above, or ask on its site.
Music Glue or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from Music Glue
Before the show and during it
Music Glue's part in a gig comes first: it sells the ticket. GigTag's part starts once people are inside. They scan the tag on your mic stand, your page opens in the browser, and they can request a song, follow you or see where you play next. No app, no account. One brings fans through the door, the other gives them a way to reach you from their seat.
A store versus a booking form
Music Glue is a shop: music, merch, tickets. GigTag is not a store and sells none of those. What a visitor can do on your GigTag page is ask to hire you, through the booking enquiry form on the free plan. For function bands, duos and solo acts who live on private bookings, that enquiry from a wedding guest is the thing they came for.
Fans who know you, strangers who do not
People reach a Music Glue store because they already follow the artist. People reach a GigTag page because they happen to be in the bar. That is why the page is built for first contact: your name, your next gig and weekly residencies to add to a calendar, your socials and music links. The printed code never changes, so the tag keeps working gig after gig.
A night with GigTag
A band on a small festival stage
It is a field, a second stage and an afternoon slot. Most of the crowd has drifted over from the food stalls and has no idea who you are. The tag is fixed to the centre mic stand, facing out. Two songs in, you tell them your name and point at it. People near the front scan the code. Your page opens in their browsers with your socials, your music links and your website, and the next dates where they can see a full set.
Festival crowds move on quickly. Some people follow you. Some save your next gig to their calendars. On Pro, a request for a song on your list lands in the live queue, and you play it while the person who asked is still at the barrier. Someone who books music for a village fete sends a booking enquiry before the next act starts. When you come off stage and open the GigTag app, the enquiry is there. The tag comes off the stand with the cables and goes on to the next show.
About Music Glue
What is Music Glue?
Music Glue is an e-commerce platform built for the music industry. Artists sell music, merchandise and tickets direct to fans from a store in their own branding, and keep the customer data. Its site addresses artists and managers, record labels, agents and merchandise companies. The store can sit on the artist's own domain and sell in several currencies and languages, for acts with fans in more than one country.
In practice a fan can buy a record, a shirt and a ticket in one transaction. Campaigns such as pre-orders and ticket presales can be tied together with bundles, and sales can count towards the charts. Merch is fulfilled by the artist, by print on demand or through its warehouses. Its site also describes fan club memberships, and dashboards showing sales as they happen.
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Website
- musicglue.com
How Music Glue works
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Open a branded store. The artist or their team sets up a store in the artist's own branding, on their own domain. Its site says the store is mobile-responsive and the artist owns the customer data.
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Add products and tickets. Music, merchandise and tickets are listed together, so a fan can buy all three in one transaction. Bundles and fan club memberships can be added alongside.
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Run a campaign. Pre-orders and ticket presales are set up as campaigns. Its site gives the example of an album pre-order that gives the buyer early access to tickets.
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Fulfil and report. Orders are fulfilled by the artist, through print on demand or from its warehouses. Dashboards and reports show sales as they happen, and sales can be reported to the charts.
Who Music Glue is for
Artists and managers. Acts with an audience that already buys from them. Its site describes direct sales with ownership of the customer data, so the artist and manager know who their buyers are and can offer music, merchandise and tickets together.
Record labels. Labels running release campaigns. Its site describes campaign management for pre-orders, sales reports delivered to the inbox and a sales dashboard, with sales that qualify for chart reporting, so a release week can be followed as it unfolds.
Agents and merchandise companies. Agents use its ticketing, which its site says includes technology to prevent fraud and options such as ballots and VIP tickets. Merchandise companies can follow sales across several artists' stores with central analytics and international support.
The verdict
GigTag or Music Glue: which should you choose?
The bottom line
Add GigTag to your stage, whatever you sell and wherever you sell it. The strongest reason is that it works on people who are not fans yet: one scan at a gig gives them your links and your next date, and gives you their requests and enquiries. Music Glue is the one to keep for a branded store with music, merch and tickets, which GigTag does not offer. Acts with something to sell and gigs to play should run both.
They do different jobs and can feed each other. If you sell records, merch or tickets through Music Glue, add your store to the links on your GigTag page, so someone who scans the tag at a gig can find it afterwards. Music Glue handles the selling. GigTag handles requests, dates and enquiries on the night.
- Step 1
Keep selling in your store
Your Music Glue store stays the place for records, merch and tickets. Make sure its address is on your website, where fans expect to find it.
- Step 2
Point GigTag at it
On your GigTag page, add your website and music links, so that a scan at a gig can lead a new listener to the store afterwards.
- Step 3
Use the tag at every show
Put the tag on the mic stand, mention it once or twice, and let the page handle follows, saved dates and booking enquiries while you play.
Choose GigTag if
You play to rooms where people are meeting you for the first time, and want them to request songs, follow you and enquire about bookings from one code.
Start freeMusic Glue may still suit you if
You have fans who buy from you and want one branded store for music, merch and tickets.
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
Music Glue and GigTag: what people ask
Something else? Ask us. A person reads every message.
Is GigTag better than Music Glue for a band with no fanbase yet?
It is the more useful first step, because it is built for meeting people and not for selling to them. At each gig the audience can scan your tag, follow you, save your next date and send booking enquiries, on the free plan. Once people are looking for your records and shirts, a store such as Music Glue has its moment.
What do I miss at a gig if I only have a Music Glue store?
A way for the room to respond on the spot. With GigTag on the mic stand, people can request a song on Pro, follow your socials, save your next gig to their calendar and send a booking enquiry, from one scan in the browser. Your store carries on selling. The tag gives tonight's audience a route to it and to you.
What does Music Glue do?
Music Glue is an e-commerce platform for the music industry. Its site describes branded stores where artists sell music, merch and tickets direct to fans, with bundles, pre-orders, fan clubs, fulfilment and sales data. It serves artists and managers, labels, agents and merchandise companies. See its site for prices and terms.
Can I sell merch or tickets through GigTag instead of Music Glue?
No. GigTag is not a store and does not sell tickets, music or merchandise. It is a QR tag for your mic stand that opens a page for song requests, gig dates, links and booking enquiries. You can link out from that page to wherever you do sell, including a Music Glue store.
I am in the UK and looking at Music Glue. Does GigTag work here too?
Yes. In the UK, GigTag Pro is £11.99 a month or £119.99 a year, a printed tag is £24.99 with free UK delivery, and you can print your own for nothing. Song requests, gigs, links, enquiries, invoices and tips all work in the UK, with tips going into your own Stripe account.
My fans buy through Music Glue. What do they need to use my GigTag?
Only a phone. They scan the QR code on the tag and your page opens in the browser, with no app and no account. From there they can request a song if you are on Pro, save your next gig to their calendar, follow your links or send a booking enquiry.
How do I reach a festival crowd that does not know my band?
Give them something to do while the song is still in their ears. A GigTag on the mic stand lets them scan a code and open your page in the browser, where they can follow your socials, open your music links and save your next gig. No app or account is needed, which suits a crowd that is passing through.
Can fans buy tickets by scanning a GigTag?
No. GigTag does not sell tickets. It shows your next gig and weekly residencies, and fans can add them to their calendars. If you sell tickets elsewhere, such as through a Music Glue store, your website and links on the page can lead people there. The scan gets them to you, and your store does the selling.
What does Music Glue offer for merch fulfilment?
Its site describes several routes: print on demand, fulfilment from its own warehouses in a number of regions, and self-fulfilment by the artist. It also describes customer service for orders. See its site for how each works and what it involves. GigTag has no merchandise side at all: its page is for requests, dates, links and enquiries.
Is a QR tag useful if we only play a few gigs a year?
It can be, because the code is permanent. You design the tag once, and it works at every gig after that, however far apart they are. The free plan covers the tag design and print file, your page, links, every gig and the booking enquiry form for one act, so quiet months cost you nothing.
Looking for Music Glue itself?
This page is GigTag's. Music Glue's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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Music Glue is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about Music Glue 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.