Make your gig public and share the link

A private gig is only seen by your band, which is right while you're still planning it. When you're ready for the audience, tap the button at the top of the gig page, which shows Private or Public, and choose Public: the gig gets its own page on live.stagefriend.app, at an address made from your band and the gig's name. The same switch is in the gig's three dots as Public page, and in Edit, where you choose between Private and Public. You can also make a gig public when you create it, and if you open the Votes or Requests tab in the menu while the gig is still private, it offers Make public right there.

Choose Private again to close it, and within a few minutes anyone who opens the link sees a page-not-found message rather than the gig. Only band members who can edit the gig can change this; the others see whether it's public or private.

Once the gig is public, Share link at the top of the gig page opens your device's share menu, so you can post the link to a band chat, social media or an email in one go. Where there is no share menu, the button is Copy link and the link goes to your clipboard instead. Copy link is also in the gig's three dots, for when you just want the link, and the menu you use to move between songs has Share link in the gig's three dots too. To check the page before anyone else sees it, Open public page in the gig's three dots, or on a computer the small open button beside Share link, shows it exactly as your guests will.

Your band also has a page with all its public gigs, upcoming and past: live.stagefriend.app followed by your band's address, which the owner sets on the band page. That's the link for a bio or a website, since it always shows the next gig.

In the room itself a link is hard to pass around, so a public gig also has a QR code that guests scan with their phone camera, with no app needed. Open it with the QR button at the top of the gig page, with QR code in the gig's three dots, or on stage from the menu, where the gig's three dots have QR code too. The card above the code tells guests what they can do, and it follows what you have turned on: Scan to vote and request songs when both are on, or just voting, requests or the setlist when that is what the gig offers.

Full screen fills the screen with the code, for a phone or tablet on a stand by the stage, and a tap anywhere closes it. Save image makes a picture of the card for a poster or a table card: on a phone it opens the share menu, so you can save or send it, and on a computer it downloads. The QR code only exists while the gig is public, so make it public first, and change the gig's web address before you print, since the code points at it.

Some audiences like to know what's coming, and a setlist on the page gives them something to look at before the band starts. Turn on Show setlist under Configuration, and guests see the gig's songs, set by set with a break between the sets if your setlist has them. Leave it off if you'd rather keep a surprise or two, since voting and requests work either way.

The gig's link ends in a short address made from the gig's name, such as live.stagefriend.app/your-band/this-gig. Under Configuration, Gig address lets you change that last part to something shorter, or easier to read out from the stage, using at least three lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. Old links stop working when you change it, so do it before you share the link or print the poster, and do it with a connection, since the address is checked online. With the link out, turn on song voting or song requests, and read what your guests see before the doors open.