Tips and digital tip jars
Tip Top Jar is the jar. Here is what GigTag adds.
A gig gives you a few hours with people who like what you do. In that time you want their requests, a place in their calendar and, now and then, a booking. GigTag gives a live act one printed code that does all three, opened with a phone camera. Tip Top Jar, which you were reading about, is an online jar.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
Beyond the jar: GigTag next to Tip Top Jar
Tip Top Jar is a jar: a page, a link, a dashboard. GigTag is a stage tool. It takes song requests into a live queue, shows your gigs and residencies, carries your links and collects booking enquiries. It takes tips too, into your own Stripe or Ziina account.
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Several reasons to scan
A guest with no thought of paying might still ask for a song, look up your next gig or follow you. A GigTag page offers all of those, plus a booking enquiry form. Each scan is a chance for one of them to happen, and your jar can be among the links.
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Requests during the set
A fan chooses a song from your list, or asks for anything if you allow it, and it shows in the live queue on your phone while you play. You see what the room wants before the next song. Tip Top Jar's messages arrive with payments. GigTag requests arrive on their own.
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A weekly slot people remember
If you play the same brunch or bar each week, your residency sits on your page and guests can add it to their calendar. Gigs and residencies are on the free plan. The tag can stay on your stand all season, since the code never changes.
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From enquiry to invoice
Brunches and bar gigs lead to christenings and birthdays. The booking enquiry form catches those while the guest is still at the table. On Pro you send an invoice in your own design and the client pays online. GigTag takes no commission on bookings.
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A duo, a band or both
GigTag treats your act as an act. A duo has one page and one tag, band members can join, and Pro lets one account hold more than one act, so the duo and the full band stay separate. Tip Top Jar is made for a wide range of people and businesses. GigTag is made for performers.
In short
Tip Top Jar and GigTag, in four lines
- Tip Top Jar is an online tip jar: a page, a link or QR code, and a dashboard for tips and messages.
- GigTag gives the audience several reasons to scan: a request, your next gig, your links, a booking form.
- The GigTag code is printed once, never changes and opens in the browser with no account.
- Our recommendation: point the scan at GigTag, and link Tip Top Jar from it if your fans already tip there.
Side by side
GigTag vs Tip Top Jar, topic by topic
Sharing it
A printed code that never changes
The page is opened by scanning the permanent QR code on your tag. The code never changes, even if you rename the act.
Tip Top JarThe tip page is shared by its link or its QR code, and the site describes widgets for placing the jar on your own website.
Messages from people
Song requests and booking enquiries
The audience sends song requests, which arrive in a live queue during the set, and booking enquiries, which you manage from the website or the app.
Tip Top JarA tipper can leave a message with their tip. The dashboard shows it, and the site says you can reply to and thank them.
Keeping track
Requests, gigs, enquiries and invoices in one app
The website and the GigTag app hold your request queue, gigs and residencies, booking enquiries and invoices, for one act or several.
Tip Top JarOne dashboard shows tips, messages and payouts together, which the site presents as the simple way to see what came in.
Working as a group
Bands, duos and more than one act
A band is one act with one page and tag, and band members can join it. Pro allows more than one act on an account.
Tip Top JarIts site describes tip sharing between the members of a team, meant for groups of people who are tipped together.
Being paid
Tips into your own Stripe or Ziina, 0% taken
Tips go by card or Apple Pay into your own Stripe account, or your own Ziina account in the UAE, with 0% taken by GigTag. Clients pay invoices online.
Tip Top JarTips collected through the page are paid out to you, and the dashboard tracks those payouts. See its site for the details.
The quick view
| GigTag | Tip Top Jar | |
|---|---|---|
| A QR code your audience scans | Yes, one that never changes | Yes |
| 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% | Yes |
| 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 Tip Top Jar, not that it is missing: see what Tip Top Jar offers above, or ask on its site.
A Tip Top Jar alternative
Where GigTag is different from Tip Top Jar
A general jar, a page for acts
Tip Top Jar is made for anyone who is tipped, from a service business to a performer. GigTag is made for live acts and nothing else. The page behind your tag has your song list for requests, your next gig and weekly residencies, your socials and music links, and a booking enquiry form. It works for a solo act, a duo or a band.
Messages after, requests during
A tip on Tip Top Jar can come with a message, which you read in the dashboard. A GigTag request is meant for the middle of the set. A fan chooses a song from your list, or asks for anything if you allow it, and it appears in a live queue on your phone. You glance down between songs and know what the room wants next.
Tips depend on the country
Tip Top Jar is a tipping service first. GigTag is the other way round: tips are one feature among several, and they work in every country. A fan pays by card or Apple Pay, the money reaches your own Stripe account, or your own Ziina account in the UAE, and GigTag takes 0%. The rest of the page does the work a jar does not: requests, gigs and bookings.
A night with GigTag
Sunday brunch for an acoustic duo
It is a long brunch service and you are the duo by the window, playing three short sets. The GigTag tag is on the mic stand between you. Tables turn over every hour, so new people keep noticing it. Someone scans it while waiting for coffee. Your page opens in the browser and they choose a song from your list. It appears in the live queue on the phone beside your setlist, and you fit it into the set you are already playing.
Brunch crowds book things: christenings, birthdays, engagement parties. One table sends a booking enquiry through your page before they have paid the bill. You read it in the break on the GigTag app. Another finds that you are here every Sunday, because the residency is listed, and adds it to their calendar. Your tip jar link sits with your other links on the page for anyone who prefers it to tipping by card on the page. The tag stays in the gig bag for next week.
About Tip Top Jar
What is Tip Top Jar?
Tip Top Jar is an online tip jar. You create a tip page, share its link or QR code, and collect tips wherever you are. Its site speaks to a wide group: creators and performers, service businesses, venues, teams and people running events. The idea behind it, in its own telling, is that thanks should still reach the person who earned them now that fewer customers carry cash.
Day to day, you put the link or code where people will see it, and the site also describes widgets for embedding the jar on a website. Tips arrive with messages, and the dashboard shows tips, messages and payouts in one place. Its site says you can reply to and thank the people who tipped, and that teams can share tips between members.
- Where
- United States
- Website
- tiptopjar.com
How Tip Top Jar works
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Create the tip page. You sign up and make a tip page. This is the jar itself: the place every link, code and widget will send people to when they want to tip.
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Share it. You pass on the page's link, show its QR code, or embed a widget on your own website. The site's line is that tips can then be collected anywhere.
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Receive tips and messages. People tip and can leave a message. The dashboard lists the tips, who sent them and what they said, and its site says you can reply and say thanks.
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Follow the payouts. The same dashboard keeps track of payouts, so tips, messages and money paid out are all in one place. See its site for how payouts are timed.
Who Tip Top Jar is for
Performers and creators. Creators and performers are named on its site among the people a tip jar is for. For them the page works as a standing invitation: a link in a profile, a code on a sign, and messages from the people who gave.
Service businesses and venues. The site also addresses businesses where customers would once have left cash, and venues that want a jar for the people working there. A code at the point where the customer pays or leaves gives them a way to say thanks.
Teams and events. For groups, its site describes tips shared between team members, and it mentions event organisers and fundraisers as well. The idea is one jar for many people, with the sharing worked out for them all.
The verdict
GigTag or Tip Top Jar: which should you choose?
The bottom line
If you perform live, make GigTag the code your audience scans. The strongest reason is that it gives people several things to do, and each one helps you: a request for the set, a gig saved for next week, a follow, a booking enquiry. Tip Top Jar remains a sound choice for collecting tips, and GigTag takes card tips too, into your own Stripe or Ziina account. Keep the jar linked from your page if your fans already use it.
Yes, if your fans already use the jar. Keep Tip Top Jar as your jar, and add its link to your GigTag page. The tag on your mic stand then opens one page with requests, your dates, a booking form and a way through to the jar. If all you want is the jar, Tip Top Jar on its own is the simpler choice.
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Keep your jar
If Tip Top Jar is already set up, leave it as it is. It keeps collecting tips, and GigTag's own card tips can sit beside it.
- Step 2
Give the tag the stage
Put the GigTag tag on the mic stand as the one code the audience sees, with your song list, dates and enquiry form behind it.
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Link the jar
Add your tip page address to your GigTag links. Fans who scan for a request or a date can then follow it to tip you.
Choose GigTag if
You want the audience to do more than tip: request songs, see where you play next and enquire about booking you. Tips sit on the same page and GigTag keeps 0%.
Start freeTip Top Jar may still suit you if
You want an online tip jar with a link, a QR code and a dashboard, and you do not need anything else from the scan.
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
Tip Top Jar and GigTag: what people ask
Something else? Ask us. A person reads every message.
Is GigTag better than Tip Top Jar for a gigging duo?
For the gig itself, GigTag is the better fit. It gives a duo one page and one tag, a song list for requests, a live queue on your phone, your residencies for guests to save, and a booking enquiry form. GigTag takes tips too, into your own Stripe or Ziina account, with 0% taken by GigTag, and you can still link Tip Top Jar.
Why would I use GigTag when Tip Top Jar already has a QR code?
A QR code is only as useful as the page behind it. Behind a GigTag code is a page for your act: requests, gigs and residencies, links and booking enquiries, opened in the browser with no account. The code is printed on a tag in your own design and never changes. Your Tip Top Jar page can be one of the links.
What is Tip Top Jar?
Tip Top Jar is an online tip jar. You make a tip page, share the link or a QR code, and follow tips, messages and payouts in a dashboard. Its site is aimed at creators, performers, service businesses, venues and teams. For prices and supported countries, see its site.
Is GigTag a Tip Top Jar alternative for musicians?
It can be. GigTag takes tips by card or Apple Pay into your own Stripe account, or your own Ziina account in the UAE, with 0% taken, next to requests, gigs and booking enquiries. It can replace a tip jar or work beside one.
Can I put my Tip Top Jar link on my GigTag page?
Yes. A GigTag page has room for your socials, website and music links, and your tip jar can be one of them. A fan scans the tag on your mic stand, requests a song or checks your next gig, and can follow the link to tip you through Tip Top Jar.
How do booking enquiries work if I use GigTag with Tip Top Jar?
Bookings come through GigTag. Someone who enjoyed the set scans your tag and fills in the booking enquiry form with their date and details. You see it on the website or in the GigTag app and reply. On Pro you can send an invoice in your own design, which the client pays online. Tip Top Jar keeps handling tips.
What should a musician put on a QR code at a gig?
More than a payment link, if you can. A GigTag code opens a page with your song list for requests, your next gig and weekly residencies, your socials and music links, and a booking enquiry form. Your tip jar can be one of the links. The person scanning then has several reasons to do it.
Can a duo share one GigTag page?
Yes. A duo is one act on GigTag, with one page and one tag, and both of you can be on it because band members can join an act. If each of you also plays solo, Pro lets one account hold more than one act. The free plan covers one.
How does GigTag handle a weekly residency?
Weekly residencies are listed on your page alongside one-off gigs, and fans who scan the tag can add either to their calendar. Every gig and residency is on the free plan. If you play the same room each week, the same tag can stay on your stand, because the code never changes.
Can I use Tip Top Jar for tips and GigTag for bookings?
Yes, that split works. Tip Top Jar stays your tip page. GigTag takes booking enquiries through the form on your page, and on Pro you can send the client an invoice in your own design to pay online. GigTag is not an agency: the enquiries come from people who watched you.
Looking for Tip Top Jar itself?
This page is GigTag's. Tip Top Jar's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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Tip Top Jar is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about Tip Top Jar 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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