Artist Websites, Presales & Fan Apps for Musicians and Bands
An artist's relationship with fans is the most valuable thing they own, and it is scattered across a ticketing platform, a streaming service, a merch store and three social networks, none of which will hand over the list. The fan who has bought every tour is anonymous to the artist who played them.
We build the artist's own home — the site, the presale, the merch, the app — so that a tour announcement, a presale code and a new record all reach the fan from one place that the artist controls, with tickets sold direct where the deal allows and connected to the promoter's platform where it does not.
- Your appnowPresale is openYour code is loaded. San Antonio, Oct 14 — pick your seats before Friday's public sale.
- Your app2h agoSecond night addedOct 15 at the same room. You're first in line as an app member.
- Your app1d agoLast night's setlistPlus the live recording of the encore. Only in the app for 48 hours.
The gap between the ticket and the gate
What goes wrong now, and what the fan never hears about.
Presale codes go out through a platform's email, and the artist never learns who used them
A second night added, and the fans who missed the first find out from a stranger's post
Merch, tickets and music each have their own checkout, cart and login
Live demo · Dana Cram is a fictional artistSee a full artist site we builtA complete artist website — tour dates with presale status, three records with full track lists, merch, a fan app with real-time pushes, and a different loading screen on every page. Explore every section.Open the demoReal-time booking
Two ways to do it for musicians & bands.
Both end with the fan holding a ticket in your app and hearing from you the moment something changes. They differ in who sells the seat and who pays the fee.
Connect what you already sell on
Keep the ticketing platform your fans know. We build the site and the app around it — pulling live inventory, pushing real-time updates, and owning the fan relationship the platform never gives you.
- Live availability and pricing on your own pages, not a redirect
- Fan accounts, notifications and history that are yours, whichever platform sold the seat
- Presales, waitlists and announcements under your brand
- One place for the fan; the platform stays behind the scenes
Best when the platform's reach matters more than its fees, or a contract runs for years yet.
Own the booking end to end
A booking web application, iOS and Android apps, and a back office you control. No per-ticket fee to a middleman, no fan data held by someone else, no waiting on a platform to add the feature you need.
- Seat maps, general admission, tables, passes and season packages
- Checkout with cards, wallets and installment options
- Real-time push to every phone the moment something changes
- Scanning, entry, and reporting built for your doors, not a generic venue
Best when fees are eating the margin, or the fan relationship is the business.
The fan app
What the phone does for musicians & bands.
iOS and Android, built from one scope, with a back office your team runs from the office or from the floor. The first list is specific to your kind of event; the second is in every build.
- Ticketmaster
- AXS
- DICE
- Bandsintown
- Songkick
- Shopify
Platforms these businesses commonly sell through. Naming them says what we connect to, not that they endorse us.
- For musicians & bands
- Presales with codes, windows and limits you set, not the platform
- Tour dates with direct checkout or a connected platform per show
- Merch bundled with tickets in one cart
- Push for announcements, presales, set times and exclusives
- Member tiers — early access, exclusive content, meet-and-greets
- Music and video that keep fans in the app between tours
- In every build
- Real-time push notifications — presales, gate times, delays, changes
- Tickets in the app, on the wallet, and scannable offline
- Live seat maps and availability, updated the moment a seat moves
- Accounts that remember the fan: seats, history, favorites, payment
- Transfer and resale under your rules and your fee
- A back office for pricing, holds, comps, scanning and reports
Start now. Pay monthly. Add nothing for interest.
Put 25% down at signing and spread the rest in equal monthly payments. The total you pay is the price on the proposal.
- Up to 12 months on any project
- 24 months from $15,000
- 36 months from $20,000
Financed projects are hosted on the DataCram platform for the length of the plan.
Questions
Musicians & Bands, answered.
Yes — the app owns the fan even when the platform sells the seat. Announcements, presale codes, merch and content run through it, and each show links to wherever that show's tickets are sold. When a date is self-promoted, the app sells it direct.
It can connect to it or replace it. Connecting keeps your existing store and fulfillment; the app simply adds the cart. Replacing it removes a monthly fee and puts merch, tickets and memberships in one checkout.
No. The first path keeps it. We build the site and app to read its live inventory and sell through it, while the fan account, notifications and marketing become yours. Many clients start there and move to their own booking later, once the fan base is in the app.
Your team posts an update once — from the back office or a phone — and it reaches every fan who holds a ticket for that event within seconds, on iOS and Android, with a copy by email or text for anyone without the app. Updates can be scheduled, targeted by section or ticket type, and triggered automatically by events like a presale opening.
Card processing, hosting, and app store accounts in your name — that is the running cost. There is no per-ticket platform fee, which for most venues is the entire reason to do it. We show you the break-even against your current fees before you decide.
Yes. Owning the booking does not mean leaving the listings. Events can still be listed where fans discover them, with the purchase happening on your own system. Discovery and checkout are separate decisions.
A site connected to your existing platform is weeks. An owned booking web app is a few months; adding the iOS and Android apps runs alongside it. Every project is fixed-price and phased, so you can launch the web booking first and add the apps when the numbers say so.
Tell us how you sell tonight. We’ll show you both paths with numbers.
What you pay in fees now, what each path costs to build and run, and the monthly payment if you finance it. Usually within days, not weeks.