Changelog
The sample data shown in our interactive previews updates as our founding demo cohort grows. Every change to those numbers is logged here.
October 22, 2026
Your All Fans map finally reads like a map
The Fans tab's map used to render a wall of pins — one per zip code, which for any artist or venue with contacts spread beyond a few cities turned into hundreds of overlapping "1"s. It now groups nearby contacts into real regional clusters sized by how many are actually there — click one to fly in and break it back out into the real cities and zips underneath. Also new: a button to email or text everyone within a chosen radius (up to 500 miles) of any point on the map, not just an exact city match.
October 22, 2026
Free tier: 500 contacts and 1,000 free texts and emails
The free tier's lifetime contact cap is now 500, up from 250. Every free account also gets 1,000 free lifetime texts and 1,000 free lifetime emails to message their own list — both unlimited on Pro. Your Fan Page's "Embed On Your Website" snippet also got a real "On Squarespace?" guide, and YouTube embeds now show a "Watch on YouTube" link through to the real video page.
October 16, 2026
YouTube auto-uploads and channel embeds, fixed for real
Fixed a bug where a real release could get silently misclassified as a Short and dropped from the auto-uploader entirely. The manual YouTube picker now defaults to long-form, a previously-selected video no longer gets stuck un-deselectable, and channel embeds/thumbnails load faster and more reliably on venue and festival fan pages too.
October 15, 2026
Pro+ is purchasable, and extra team seats are real line items
Artists and venues can now buy Pro+ directly through Stripe. Extra team seats ($5/mo each) are charged as a real line item on your existing subscription instead of just a settings toggle, and referral credit for a referred artist now only unlocks once they've actually started touring on StageOwn, not just paid. Also added a one-click fix for the "that email already has an account" error on Create Account.
October 15, 2026
Import contacts straight into your Patron CRM
Venues can now import a contact list directly into their Patron CRM — the same bulk importer artists already use for their fan list, now available venue-side too.
October 13, 2026
Pick your own Link In Bio URL
Artists, venues, and festivals can now set a custom slug for their Link In Bio page instead of the auto-generated one. An old link keeps working too — it redirects to the new one instead of breaking.
October 9, 2026
Shopify and TikTok blocks, more Link In Bio color control
New Link In Bio blocks: pick a Shopify product to feature, and a TikTok channel block that auto-rotates your last 5 uploads the same way the YouTube block already does. The Fan Club opt-in card and the sticky section-nav's active-pill highlight each get their own color picker now instead of inheriting a fixed site color, and social icons are centered as a group instead of left-packed.
October 9, 2026
Venues can now share a public link for any open date
Post an open date and share its own public link anywhere — socials, email, a booking group — so any touring act can see it and express interest with no account required. Negotiating specific terms still takes a free account, and you always get final say before anything actually books — a plain accept no longer locks in a show without your confirmation.
October 9, 2026
"Years & Nights" is now "Date Of Event"
Simplified the naming on a festival's multi-year tracking to Date Of Event, so which year's data you're looking at is never ambiguous. Also: the mobile Waitlist page now shows the signup form before the pricing chart, so visitors see the ask first.
October 9, 2026
Drag to reposition your profile photo
A drag-anywhere focal point picker for your Link In Bio profile photo and background — no more a photo getting cropped awkwardly because the important part landed outside the frame.
October 3, 2026
Stage Points: a real loyalty program, live on every touchpoint
Fans now earn points for voting in a Live Poll (plus a bonus for guessing the actual answer), for being picked in a Drawing, and for showing up to a MicroGiveaway — on shows, venues, and festivals alike. Venues get their own Live Poll and MicroGiveaway tools, built from scratch to match what artists and festivals already had.
October 3, 2026
QR, Live Poll, Merch, Drawings, and Raffles now live under Events
A festival's QR, Live Poll, Merch, Drawings, and Raffles are now organized under Events and scoped to the specific year they belong to, with a real Years landing view to browse past editions and delete one you don't need. Venue opt-ins also now remember a returning fan, the same way show and festival opt-ins already did.
October 3, 2026
Festival QR poster: logo, overlap, and footer fixes
Fixed the festival-wide QR poster's logo aspect ratio, a stage-name/QR-frame overlap, a vanished footer logo, and invisible recap text — plus added a real poster download (not just the bare code) and a recurring-showcase toggle for festival creation.
October 3, 2026
Link In Bio background photos: Fill/Fit controls, and a crash fixed
Background photos can now be set to Fill or Fit with real crop-position controls, instead of one blowing up huge and the other staying tiny. Also fixed uploads crashing into a misleading error — including for HEIC photos that evaded detection — and a background that could go blank on scroll.
October 2, 2026
Bigger link icons, a phone field on Fan Club, and a venue calendar importer
Link button icons now support an XL (88px) size. The Fan Club capture form can collect an optional phone number. And venues can bulk-add shows by pasting dates straight from another site's calendar page.
October 2, 2026
Event Live, and acts with no stage finally show up on it
Renamed Weekend Live to Event Live to match how it actually gets used now — not just one dated weekend. Fixed the real bug behind that: an act added from the new Events tab (below), which usually has no physical stage assigned, used to either vanish from the live board entirely or get mixed up with a real stage if one happened to be named "Main Stage." Every night from Events now gets its own live card, same as any festival's physical stage — who's on now, who's next, real-time fan count, ticking as people scan.
October 2, 2026
A real Events tab — track every night on its own
Built for a recurring showcase or residency that runs on a schedule, not one dated weekend: a new Events tab in your festival sidebar. Pick a date, add that night's acts (name, start time, length — same fields Lineup already has), and get back both per-night tracking and an overview of every night you've ever run, each with its own real fan count and claim-your-fans invites per act. Runs on the same one QR code you already have — no per-night code to print. Acts can also be marked as an activity instead of a performer (an afterparty, a meet-and-greet) with their own location instead of being forced onto a stage. And the Lineup page's date picker is no longer boxed into your festival's original start/end dates — pick any date, and Settings now lets you extend those dates yourself instead of needing to come back to us.
October 2, 2026
A festival account now spans every year it runs
Previously, a second year of the same festival meant a brand new account with no link to last year's — a dead end for a major annual festival or a recurring fundraiser. Now one login spans every year: "Start a new year" on the Lineup page creates a fresh, trackable edition, and you can switch back to any past year to see exactly what that lineup looked like. Nothing changes for a one-time festival that never uses it.
October 2, 2026
Email just the fans from one specific past night
Email Attendees on your festival dashboard can now target one specific lineup instead of always blasting your whole list — pick "Just [band], [date]" from the Send To dropdown and reach only the fans who actually came out that night.
October 1, 2026
Quick Polls can now attach to a specific event
A poll made from your festival dashboard can be tied to one of your own sets instead of floating free under the account — pick it from the new "Attach to one of your events" dropdown when you create one, and it shows right alongside that act in your poll list.
October 1, 2026
Ticket links, scheduled publish, and a pinnable YouTube upload
The create-show page now has a real "Ticket Link" field — shows a proper Get Tickets button on your fan page and upcoming-shows list instead of linking to the show page itself. You can also schedule when a show goes live: pick a future date and it stays private until then, no manual flip required. On Link In Bio, pin one YouTube upload to the top so it stops auto-rotating off as new uploads come in, and scope an embed to just one section (shows only, just your fan intake form, etc.) via the embed code generator's new checkboxes. Placeholder text in every form field is also noticeably fainter now, so it reads as empty instead of filled in.
September 29, 2026
Venue booking gets real: deal terms, room details, and hospitality
Open Dates was a date and a vague deal label — no showtime, no production info, no idea if you needed to bring a kit. Posting a date, inviting an artist, and the offer an artist actually sees now all carry the same full picture: 11 real deal types (guarantee, door split, guarantee vs. door, guarantee + backend, soft ticket, vs. bar, flat, flat + merch, merch-only, bar tab only, plus-plus) instead of 4 vague ones; the actual night — doors, show time, curfew, load-in, soundcheck, set length, slot type, hold-until date; ticketing — price, who sells, deposit, settlement timing; and your room — PA, house engineer, monitors, a full backline checklist, stage size, load-in access, green room, merch table terms, guest list, age policy — plus hospitality (hotel, meal, drink tickets, parking, travel) as real toggles instead of one catch-all notes box. Save your room and hospitality info once and every future posting starts pre-filled with it. Inviting an artist now searches real StageOwn accounts first, with name-and-email staying the fallback for anyone off-platform. And capacity finally defaults to your venue's actual room size instead of a hardcoded 300.
September 29, 2026
Auto-updating YouTube uploads for Link In Bio
Connect a YouTube channel once and pick up to 5 of your real recent long-form uploads from a thumbnail grid — Shorts are filtered out automatically by actual video length, not a guess. The block checks itself daily and rotates in a genuinely new upload, bumping the oldest one shown once all 5 slots are full; an open slot just gets filled, nothing gets removed until it needs to be. Runs on the real YouTube Data API under the hood, so it isn't dependent on guessing how YouTube's public pages behave. Find it under Link In Bio → Blocks → YouTube uploads.
September 22, 2026
Ticket Raffles — run several verified giveaways at once
A new kind of drawing built for a booth actually selling raffle tickets by hand: run any number of prizes at the same time (a rifle, a cooler, whatever), each with its own entry pool. A fan sees the full open list on the same QR they already scanned, picks which one(s) they bought tickets for, and types how many — but it lands as Pending, not a confirmed entry. Your staff checks the physical ticket stub against that count on the new Ticket Raffles dashboard page and hits Verify before it's eligible. When you pick a winner, entries are weighted by ticket count — 20 tickets is 20x the odds of 1, same as a real raffle drum — and only verified entries are in the pool.
September 18, 2026
Live Poll goes festival-wide, plus a shortcut from Weekend Live
Live Poll now works two ways at a festival: scoped to one specific act, or fired at every fan on the festival's page at once, no matter which act they picked. Type a question, hit Start, done — same as Show Night. Setting one up for whoever's on stage right now is also a lot faster: every "on now" stage card on Weekend Live has a Live Poll shortcut that jumps straight in, already pointed at that act, instead of hunting through the full lineup.
September 18, 2026
Live Poll — ask the room something, mid-show
A new kind of poll you can start, change, or stop at any point during the night — unlike the old sign-up poll, which locks in the moment a fan opts in. It rides the exact same QR fans already scanned, so nobody needs to rescan anything; even a fan who scans again later lands straight back on the vote instead of the sign-up form. Results show live on the Stage Screen, every past question gets saved to a Poll History you can reopen later, and there's a matching poster and table tent to print for whenever a round's running. We also caught (and fixed) a side effect: a fan revisiting just to vote was quietly counting as a second QR scan, which made Opt-In Rate look worse than it actually was.
September 17, 2026
Put your Link In Bio on your own website
Pro and Pro+ artists can now embed their Link In Bio page directly on their own site with a copy-paste snippet — same live data (shows, merch, socials, the opt-in form) as the standalone page, just living wherever you already send people. Grab the snippet from the Link In Bio builder.
September 17, 2026
Quick Polls: your own logo, and a fillable "Other"
Quick Polls can now carry their own dark (print) and light (web) logo, independent of whatever Festival logo the account already has — useful for a sponsor-branded poll or one made with no festival attached at all. You can also turn on an "Other" choice so a fan can type their own answer instead of picking from the list; it tallies separately in Results.
September 15, 2026
Founding cohort is closed — join the waitlist for 2027
The hand-selected founding cohort has filled. New artists and festivals can no longer apply for a founding spot — instead, join the waitlist for our public launch, aimed at early 2027. No card, no review period: just your name and email, and we'll email you the moment doors open. Everyone already in the founding cohort keeps their free-for-life Pro plan exactly as promised — this only changes how new people get in the door.
September 14, 2026
Microgiveaways — the surprise prize that finds itself
The big drawing at the encore is one prize a night. Microgiveaways are a stack of small ones running the whole time, on top of it: set a prize for every 20th scan, or for the 1,000th fan, and StageOwn catches the exact moment it happens — live, automatically, no one watching a counter. Two fans hitting the same scan number at once can't both win; the database itself decides, so it's never a race you can lose to a slow phone. The winning fan sees it right on their own confirmation screen, and it pops gold and pulsing on your Show Night board (or the festival Weekend Live board) the instant it fires, so staff can go find them before they leave. Available for shows and festivals now; venues are next. As far as we can tell, nobody else in live music has this.
September 13, 2026
Fan Page is now Link In Bio, plus a real login and zip autofill
Renamed "Fan Page" to "Link In Bio" everywhere it shows up in the app — same builder, same permanent link, just a name that says what it actually is. More useful: fans can now get back into their own Stage Points portal themselves. Head to stageown.com/fan/login, enter the email you scanned in with, and a fresh link lands in your inbox — no digging up an old text or email. Under the hood we replaced the old plain-text link with a signed, expiring one, so a portal link can't be guessed from just knowing someone's email. And the sign-up form got one field smarter: enter your zip and city/state fill themselves in, on the show, venue, and festival forms alike — one less thing to type, not one more.
September 11, 2026
Turn off tonight's giveaway with one tap
A drawing defaults on when you create a show — great for turnout, but we heard from artists who didn't realize it was live until a fan asked about the prize. Every show now has a Fan Drawing / Giveaway card right at the top of its page: one look tells you whether tonight's show is promising a prize and what it is, and one tap turns it off or changes the prize, no matter how long ago the show was created. It's the same control venues and festivals have had on their Tonight boards, now on every artist's own show page too.
September 10, 2026
Fan Page — your own bio-link page, plus a real Inbox
You now get a proper Komi/Linktree-style page of your own — photo, banner, bio, your pick of font and color theme, and a stack of blocks you drag into order: link buttons, a ticket CTA, your socials, a Spotify or YouTube embed, a countdown to your next show. It lives at its own permanent link, independent of your Road Code QR, so it's exactly the thing your Instagram or TikTok bio has been missing. Build it from a phone or a laptop — we tightened the builder's own mobile layout after finding it fought you on a real phone screen. Alongside it: an Inbox that keeps a real record of every broadcast you've sent to your fans, plus click-through counts so you can see what actually got tapped, not just sent.
September 1, 2026
The prize, right where fans can see it
If a show or festival is running a giveaway, fans should hear about it before they scan, not after. The default view of every Stage Screen now names the actual prize, not just a generic "scanning enters tonight's drawing." Festivals got the bigger fix: the giveaway is now promoted everywhere a fan actually looks — a badge on the sign-up form before they submit, a green "you're entered" card after, both festival-wide and per-stage screens, even the live screen during a set. We also shipped a second, reprintable insert card for venues and festivals to tape up next to their durable poster — one that names tonight's specific prize without needing to reprint the whole sign every time the prize changes.
August 19, 2026
Festival Mode is live
The preview from a few weeks back is a real product now. Every festival gets its own full dashboard — Insights, Loyalty, and Settings alongside the lineup and drawing tools already there — plus a self-serve Merch tab to sell straight through StageOwn instead of just linking out to a store. Every stage gets its own cast-to-TV Stage Screen (a giant QR, a live attendee counter, synced winner reveals), and so does the festival as a whole. And because knowing who actually brought an account on shouldn't be a guess, there's now a Referral Tracker showing exactly who used your code and when it converted.
August 11, 2026
Merch became a wishlist — and your imported list finally has real names
Two changes, same spirit: say exactly what's true, nothing more. Merch on the fan page is now a wishlist, not an order — because that's what it always was. Nobody at your merch table is holding a shirt for someone who tapped a button an hour ago; whoever's standing there first gets it. So the page says so now, plainly, before a fan taps in and again on the confirmation screen. Your merch staff got a real way to close out a wishlist item that sold out before they got to it, and every number that touches merch — Show Night, the morning report — now shows what was actually wishlisted next to what was actually sold, instead of quietly counting a hope as a sale. Separately, we found and fixed a real bug in Fan Import: Shopify's actual customer export doesn't use plain "City" or "State" headers, it prefixes everything ("Default Address City," "Default Address Province Code"), so those columns were silently coming back empty no matter what your CSV actually had in it — and a separate parsing collision was chopping full names down to first names only. Both are fixed and verified against a real multi-thousand-row export. Anyone you already imported with blank or wrong data gets backfilled correctly the next time you re-import the same list — nothing's lost, nothing needs deleting first. And because that same city, state, and zip feeds Booked and Radar, an imported fan now shows up on the map in the right place too, not off in the wrong market.
August 10, 2026
Refer a friend, earn exactly what they paid
Every member now has their own referral link — find it on your Billing page, or the banner at the top of your dashboard. Share it with an artist or venue who belongs on StageOwn, and when they convert to a paid plan, you get a credit that matches exactly what they signed up for. Refer someone into Pro and it's the Pro price; into a single Booked one-sheet and it's $10. Not a flat number, not a guess — it's read straight off what they actually paid. Nothing's owed until a real payment happens, so a signup that never converts costs nothing and can't be gamed with a throwaway account. Speaking of Booked: it has a real price now — $10 for a single venue one-sheet if you're not on Pro+, bundled in free if you are. Same week, the small stuff that adds up: the morning report now links straight to the thank-you composer instead of leaving you to go find it, a subscription that lapses gets an honest "your fans and patrons are still yours, export them anytime" email instead of just going quiet, and the pricing page defaults to yearly billing since that's the number most people actually came to see.
August 6, 2026
Import your list and your merch spread straight from Shopify
If you already run merch through Shopify, you no longer have to type any of it into StageOwn by hand. Export your customer list as a CSV and drop it into Fan Import — we read Shopify's exact column names and match your buyers to fan profiles. That import never emails anyone by default; sending the opt-in confirmation to an imported list is a checkbox you choose, not something that happens behind your back. Merch got the same treatment: export your product catalog from Shopify and import it into your Merch Catalog in one pass — names, prices, photos, and every size or color variant grouped correctly, with a review screen before anything is created and a flag on any item whose price differed across sizes in Shopify. And on the fan-facing show page, tonight's merch spread is now a tap-to-shop photo grid instead of a scrolling list — sized to actually show off what you're selling, not just name it.
July 27, 2026
Claim your night — and get paid for bringing the other side
The best thing about a StageOwn night is now the thing you can give away. Venues: name whoever's playing tonight on your Tonight board, and every scan from your always-on QR is credited to them. In the morning, one click sends the band their fan list — "47 people joined your list at your show, claim it free." They keep the fans they drew, you keep every patron, and when that act joins StageOwn a $40 credit lands on your next invoice. Your stage becomes your sales team. Artists: it works the same in reverse. Play a room that isn't on StageOwn and you can send the venue their own copy of that night — you keep everything, they finally see who filled their room, and you earn $40 in credit if they sign up. "Here's the 180 people who came out for us at your place" is a better re-booking pitch than any EPK. Both directions run on the same claim link: it names who's handing over what, expires in 45 days, dies if it's resent, and can't be redeemed twice or by the wrong side. And because the fan opt-in form names both parties before anyone taps join, nobody ends up on a list they didn't agree to. Own the room — and bring the room with you.
July 26, 2026
Festival Mode is coming — and the printables got real
The big one first: Festival Mode. One code per stage that always knows who's playing, an attendee list the festival owns outright, a live board showing which stage is pulling hardest right now, and — the part nobody else can do — every act on the bill gets a claim link that hands them the fans they drew at their own set, free, forever. It's built, it's running, and we're opening it to a small first group for the 2026 season. If that's you, hit Request Early Access on the For Festivals page. Meanwhile, the everyday stuff got sharper: the Printable Assets card now actually prints — a folded 4×6 table tent that reads right-side-up from both sides, and a stage script with copy-to-clipboard lines you can deliver between songs. The Road Code got its own dateless table tent, so one piece of cardstock lives in the merch case all tour. "Email me this QR" genuinely emails you the QR now. Every live screen gained a guided tour that explains what you're looking at. And co-capture — one scan filling the artist's list and the venue's at the same time — went from promise to shipped, with the fan told exactly who they're joining. Own the room. Soon: own the weekend.
July 22, 2026
Road Code — one QR for the whole tour
Touring artists wanted one QR they could print once and never think about again — so we built the Road Code. It's a permanent code that always resolves to tonight's show, matched by date in Texas time so nobody ever lands on the wrong night, and it stays live until 2AM for the after-set stragglers. No show on the books? It still captures the fan on your general list — name, email, city — and points them at your next date, so a scan is never wasted. Set up a whole tour in about a minute with one-tap Bandsintown import (test the connection right in Settings first), then reach everyone you've captured with Email Your Fans — a custom message to your whole list in your branded template, or a personal note on the post-show thank-you. On the venue side, a not-yet-approved room's QR now shows a friendly “getting set up” screen instead of a dead end, and public patron capture stays gated until you're live. One QR, every night. Own the room.
July 9, 2026
The Venue Update
The venue side grew up. Venues now get a real-time Overview built on their own live data, a Tonight board that shows patrons checking in as they scan (new vs. returning) with pending merch orders and one-tap house drawings, and a Stage Screen for the house TV — a giant QR with a live patron counter and a synced winner reveal. Also new: a print-ready Poster Studio for the bar, door, and tables; a first-patron-of-the-night email; a weekly digest upgraded with returning-visitor rate, your best night, and your new patrons attached as a CSV; a shareable weekly recap card for socials; and venue settings that finally save. Own your room.
July 7, 2026
Own the Room — new homepage & positioning
StageOwn's front door grew up. The homepage now leads with what we actually are — the audience ownership platform for live music — and names the problem out loud: every sold-out room is leaking its most valuable asset. New four-beat walkthrough of the loop (create → deploy → run the night → wake up owning the room), a clearer artist/venue co-capture story, and 'Own the Room' language carried across the site and social cards. First real cohort numbers land here after this weekend's three-night run.
July 3, 2026
QR Poster Studio, Night Recap cards, and winner confetti
Show night gets its finishing touches. Every show now has a Poster page — a print-perfect QR poster (venue, artist name, drawing call-out) that prints as exactly one clean page for the merch table, bar, and door. Show Night gained a Share Recap button that renders a branded, Instagram-ready recap image (your fan count in big gold type) right in the browser. Drawing winner reveals now fire gold confetti on both the Command Center and the Stage Screen — frame-rate tuned for venue TVs and respectful of reduced-motion settings. Also shipped: a branded social share card for every stageown.com link, and demo mode no longer pesters the live APIs.
July 2, 2026
Show Night Command Center + Stage Screen
The biggest release since launch. Every show now has a Show Night mode — a live command center showing fan opt-ins as they scan, merch orders as they land (fulfill from your phone at the table), live poll results, and a one-tap prize drawing that picks a random winner from everyone who scanned. Paired with it: the Stage Screen, a big-type display for the venue TV with a giant scannable QR + live fan counter, live poll mode, and a synced winner reveal — pick the winner on your phone, and the name lands on the big screen. The in-app Help & Docs section was also rebuilt with 35+ articles covering setup, show night, merch fulfillment, reports, and troubleshooting.
June 29, 2026
Founding cohort announced
StageOwn officially announced today. We're opening applications for our founding cohort — 15 musicians and 5 venues, hand-selected. Founding cohort members get full access free for life in exchange for feedback that shapes the product. Pricing updated across artist and venue plans. Competitor comparison table added to both marketing pages. Real scannable QR code now live on the /for-artists demo section.
June 18, 2026
Baseline demo cohort numbers
Artist preview shows 3,000+ fans captured and 12 shows live on platform. Venue preview shows 2,841 patron records built and 38 cities tracked. These starting figures are illustrative placeholders meant to showcase the platform's look and feel ahead of our founding cohort going live — not real production data. As real artists and venues onboard, these numbers will be replaced with live figures and tracked here going forward.