How to use Gigg

Finding your way around. In the app, the bar along the bottom of a phone (or the dock along the top of a computer) has Home, Songs, Setlists and Shows. Everything else is under More. Below, “More → Booking” means open More, then Booking. Some things are for owners and admins only; those are marked.

Getting started

Start a band, or join yours

• Create an account, then create your band — it takes a minute.
• If your band is already on Gigg, find it and ask to join instead. An owner or admin approves you under More → Members, in Requests to join.

Bring the others in

• More → Members → Invite someone makes an invite link to send to a bandmate, as a member or an admin.
• Add someone without an account (same page) puts subs and occasional players on the roster so you can book them, without them signing up.
• Roles: owners and admins can change settings, money, booking and the band page; members see and use everything else.

Set the band up (owners and admins)

• More → Settings: the band’s name, bio and header photo, its links, and — important — its timezone, so every time in Gigg is your local time.
• The band home shows a setup checklist until the basics are done.

Songs and charts

Songs is the band’s repertoire. + New song adds one; Import brings in several at once.

• The details: key, tempo, time signature, length, capo and who sings it. Look the song up online to fill in key and tempo. Add your own fields (tuning, who plays keys…) with Song fields, and tag songs to filter the list.
• Charts: paste chords or tabs (ChordPro works) and they transpose on the fly. Or add PDF charts — one per part, like “Horns” or “Lead sheet”.
• Our recording: upload the band’s own take and mark the verse, the solo and the big stop so everyone can jump to them. A Mixer takes separate tracks (drums, bass, vocals) so each person can turn their part up or down.
• Metronome on each song, with tap tempo and the song’s time signature.
• Proposed songs (at the bottom of Songs): suggest a song for the band to learn and let everyone weigh in.
• Retire a song you don’t play any more to keep it out of the way without losing it.

Setlists

• Setlists → make a new one and drag songs into order. + Add a set break splits the night into sets; each set shows its running time.
• Duplicate a setlist to try a variation without touching the original, and star the ones you use most. All songs is every song in one list.
• Print makes a big-type stage copy: one song per line, a set per page.
• Attach a setlist to a show so the show, its day sheet and its song requests know what you’re playing.

On stage

Open a setlist and press Run through for stage mode: each song’s chart, typed or PDF, one after another.

• Turn pages with a tap, the keyboard or a Bluetooth page-turner pedal; it moves down a screen, then on to the next song.
• Auto-scroll at five speeds, A− / A+ for the text size, full screen, and the screen stays awake.
• Save offline keeps the setlist’s charts on your phone for rooms with no signal. Signing out clears them.
• Play along plays the band’s recordings in setlist order, with a metronome and count-in for songs that don’t have one — a whole rehearsal in your headphones.

Calendar, practices and polls

• More → Calendar has gigs, holds, practices and who’s away, as a Month or a List.
• + Practice plans a rehearsal; everyone says if they’re coming. Add songs to work on, each with a note, and the practice’s page runs them through in stage mode or play-along.
• + Event adds anything else: an event, a day you’re unavailable, or a band blockout when nobody can play. Away days show up next to show dates and poll answers.
• Subscribe gives you a private link that puts the band’s calendar into your phone’s calendar app.
• More → Polls → + New poll: offer a few dates and everyone answers yes, maybe or no. Clashes show next to each date, and Gigg nudges whoever hasn’t answered.

Shows

Shows → + New show adds a gig. Import brings in a list from a spreadsheet (CSV) or a calendar file (.ics). Open a show to see everything about it.

• Hold or confirmed: a hold is pencilled in with the venue. Members see it; the public doesn’t until it’s confirmed. Give a hold a “release by” day and Gigg reminds you.
• Times: load-in, soundcheck, doors and on stage, plus parking and hospitality notes.
• Ticket or RSVP link and an Entry line (“$10 at the door”, “Free entry”): fans see a Tickets button and the entry line wherever the show is listed in public. Untick “Show on the public band page” for a private gig.
• Poster: upload the gig’s poster (JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP, up to 5 MB) on the show’s page, and it shows next to the show wherever it’s listed in public.
• Who’s playing: ask each member if they can play; anyone marked away that day is flagged. If a spot is empty, offer it to a list of subs one after another, or to all of them at once — the first yes gets it. Subs without an account answer from a private link.
• Checklist: the band’s standard list is copied onto each new show to tick off, with a reminder the day before listing anything still open.
• Guest list with plus-ones, and files like the contract, rider or a parking map (band only).
• Day sheet: one printable page with the schedule, the venue and your contacts there, the deal, the lineup, the guest list, the setlist with keys and what’s still to do.
• Song requests: turn them on and print the QR card for the stage. The crowd picks from your songs on their phones and you watch the list live.
• Afterwards, note what you actually played: skipped songs, encores and requests. It feeds each song’s “last played”, and Gigg nudges you the morning after.

Booking

More → Booking has five tabs:

• Inbox: requests from your public booking page. Log every reply and call, set a follow-up reminder, and Book it to turn a request into a hold on the calendar.
• Pipeline: every request and show on one board, from first message to paid. Cards move on their own as you reply, book, play and log the money.
• Find venues: venues on Gigg ranked for your band — how close they are, whether they fit your draw, and whether bands like yours have played there.
• Press kit (owners and admins): your pitch, genres, draw, video, press quotes and tech notes, shown on your public booking page once you publish it.
• Stage plot: drag the band and gear onto the stage, fill in the input list, and Print tech rider for the venue’s sound engineer.
• Downloads: the public booking page ends with a Downloads section. It has the press kit (the page itself, saved as a PDF), the tech rider, your logo and your press photos. To make a photo a press photo, open it in More → Media and tap Use as a press photo; it’s then offered full size to anyone, so it becomes public.

More → Contacts keeps promoters, bookers and press, linked to their venues. More → Venues is the directory and map of venues, with what each one has paid you.

Money and merch

• A show’s Money page: the deal (guarantee, door split, deposit and when the balance is due), the fee and expenses, and the pay split — equal, by percentage or fixed, with a band fund and anyone else paid on the night.
• More → Earnings → + New entry logs income or an expense, with a photo of the receipt. Repeating logs rent and subscriptions by itself.
• Invoices: email the venue a link to an invoice they can print or save as a PDF, and mark it paid. Set your details and how to pay under More → Settings → Invoices.
• Summary gives the year and month at a glance; the members’ page shows who’s still owed and each person’s statement for tax time.
• More → Merch: what you sell and how many are left; log the sales from each show’s table.

Your public page and fans

• Every band has a public page at gigg.live/b/your-band with the bio, links, upcoming confirmed shows, photos and videos (More → Media) and members. Add the links under More → Settings → Links.
• Logo and colour: in More → Settings → Logo and colour, upload your logo (a PNG with a see-through background looks best) and pick your colour. The logo goes beside the band’s name on its public pages and the colour on their buttons and links. A light colour is darkened a little on buttons so the text stays readable.
• Shows on your own website: More → Settings → Share your shows gives you a box to paste into your site, plus calendar and data feeds. They update by themselves.
• Fan list: fans sign up on your band page and confirm by email. Owners and admins see the list and download it for their mailing service under More → Fans.
• More → Requests: song requests from the band page any time, and the songs asked for most.

Running the band

• More → Chat: one conversation for the band, with threads, channels like #gear or #booking, photos, reactions and @mentions.
• More → To-dos: jobs for someone by a day; overdue ones show on the band home.
• More → Equipment: the band’s gear and who owns what.
• More → Activity: who added, changed or deleted what, by day.
• Several bands? Switch between them from the band’s name at the top.
• Your data (owners and admins): More → Settings → Download everything saves the band’s shows, songs, setlists, money and more as spreadsheets that open without Gigg.

Your account and phone

• Tap your initial at the top right, then Your account: your name, light or dark theme, Notifications (turn them on for each phone or computer you use) and your password.
• Put Gigg on your home screen: in your phone’s browser, use Share → Add to Home Screen (iPhone), or the menu → Add to Home screen or Install app (Android). It opens full screen like any other app.

Stuck, or missing something?

Gigg is still in testing, and every feature started as a real band’s question. If something doesn’t work, or your band keeps asking for something Gigg doesn’t do, write to info@gigg.live.