You’re booking a tour. You’re drowning in spreadsheets. Emails from venues pile up. You’re texting the drummer about show times. Someone’s tracking payment info in notes. The bass player is asking which venues pay what. Three people have different versions of the setlist. Nobody knows when they’re actually getting paid.
Booking a tour is chaos.
The real problem: Your best income opportunity…touring…is also your biggest operational nightmare. You’re spending hours on logistics instead of making music. And you’re leaving money on the table because your system is broken.
What If You Could Change That?
TourManager App brings every part of your tour into one place. From finding venues to splitting the money, everything happens in one app.
Here’s How It Works
Start with venue discovery:
- Access a crowdsourced database of venues built BY musicians FOR musicians
- Find venues that fit your style, capacity, and location
- See real data from other bands who’ve played there (payment, draw, crowd size)
- Filter by region, capacity, and genre
Plan your tour:
- Map your route geographically (optimize travel between shows)
- Track which venues you’ve contacted and their status (pending, confirmed, negotiating)
- Coordinate with your band—everyone sees the same information
- See exactly how much money you’re making on the tour
Execute your shows:
- All logistics in one place (load-in times, tech requirements, setlist, directions)
- Contracts and agreements attached to each show
- Band members know exactly when they need to be where
- Track what actually happened (attendance, setup issues, notes for next time)
Get paid (automatically):
- Venues pay you directly through the app (no more chasing people for payment)
- Automatic payment splitting to band members (drummer gets their cut instantly)
- You see exactly how much each show made
- Financial records for taxes
Real Example
The Old Way (Chaos):
- You email 10 venues
- 3 respond over the next week
- You coordinate dates via texts and Instagram DMs
- Drummer keeps asking when the shows are
- 2 venues confirm, but payment terms are unclear
- Gig happens, you wait 6 weeks for a check
- Check bounces
- You call the venue 5 times
- Eventually get paid $200 instead of $300 (no paperwork)
- No idea if you made money or lost it
The TourManager Way:
- You search for venues in your tour region (20 venues show up)
- You see which ones other bands recommend and what they paid
- You book 2 venues directly through the app
- All band members get notifications of confirmed shows
- Tech requirements auto-populate (they use the same stage setup as last time)
- Venues pay through the app before you leave (payment cleared)
- App automatically splits $300 between you, drummer, and bassist
- By end of tour, you have real financial data and notes for next time
Same tour. One takes 40 hours of coordination. One takes 4.
Who Benefits?
Solo musicians can finally track gigs in one place and get paid reliably.
Bands can coordinate shows, split money fairly, and see real financial data.
Touring musicians can find venues that actually pay and avoid the ones that don’t.
Music promoters can discover new talent and book shows efficiently.
Venue owners can track touring acts and manage bookings.
The Vision
TourManager does three things:
- Brings all your tour data into one place (venues, bookings, logistics, contracts)
- Automates the stuff that kills your vibe (payment splitting, coordination, record-keeping)
- Gets you paid faster (direct payment processing, no more chasing venues)
You’re not just playing better shows. You’re actually making money from your music instead of losing it to logistics chaos.
Ready to tell us how you currently book tours and where the biggest pain points are? The survey below will help us understand exactly what musicians need most from TourManager.
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