The affordable, modern alternative to bloated tour software. Keep your tours, advances, travel days, schedules, rooming, setlists, guestlists, VIP stats and crew info in one clean place – for both Backoffice and Portal.
* Currently in private beta. Backoffice for managers & tour managers, Portal for band, crew, drivers and support acts. Request access below.
AdvancingBud is band-scoped and role-based. Tour managers build tours, shows and advances in the Backoffice; band, crew, drivers and support acts open one link on their phone and instantly see where to be, when, with who – no 20-page manuals required.
Build full advances that actually live and breathe: schedule, travel party, rooming, setlist, guestlist, VIP stats, contacts and notes all hang off the same show. Share it safely via the Portal and still export clean, professional PDFs when you need to print or email.
Know exactly who is travelling and where everyone is sleeping. Define travel parties per show, assign people to hotel rooms, and pull up a clear rooming list in seconds – for yourself, the hotel, or the nightliner driver.
One scrollable timeline of shows and travel/off days. “Go to today”, hide past shows, live search, weather badges, VIP counts, guestlist totals and quick links to schedule, rooming, setlist and show info. Drivers, band, crew and support acts each see only what they should.
Build per-show setlists with songs, announcements and notes. Give the band, FOH, LD and crew a clear “Tonight’s show” view in the Portal, complete with cues and VIP moments – no more hunting through old PDFs or photos.
Centralise your guestlist per show. Band members submit their guests, tour management keeps control and exports a clean door list. Vendure VIP integration surfaces capacity and sold numbers, so you know exactly how busy tonight is – and many more small touches like tasks, notes and weather.
Let your team sync from one source of truth – we’ll handle the messy spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads.
Perfect for one-off shows, festivals or trying AdvancingBud on your next short run before committing to a subscription.
For single acts and first tours.
For active bands and regular touring.
For management & production companies.
We are currently inviting select bands, tour managers and agencies to use the platform on real tours of 10–40 shows. Leave your details and we’ll talk about how AdvancingBud can slot into your next run.
"AdvancingBud finally cleaned up our tour spreadsheets and WhatsApp chaos."
— Blackbriar"Other platforms are becoming too expensive for emerging artists. AdvancingBud lets me provide a professional advancing workflow to smaller bands without breaking the budget."
— Sophia V., Tour ManagerNeed something else? Contact Support