BANDcore
What if your merch table had a back office?
What if you could see every sale in real time from the stage? What if fans paid on their own phone and you never needed a card reader? What if your biggest fans carried a scrapbook of every show and you could message them from backstage?
What if you ran your band like a boss?
One Subscription. Two Apps.
Bands get BANDcore. Their fans get FANcore — free. Built to grow together.
BANDcore
bandcore.band
Your subscription. Your back office. Your operating system. All at your fingertips.
MERCHcore
Your merch booth, on your phone. Snap a photo, AI tags it. Fans pay on their phone. Your boothtender logs in with a 4-digit code. You watch sales roll in from the stage. No hardware. No card reader. No spreadsheet at 2am.
TOURcore (Headliner & Arena — coming soon)
Upload your tour. Manage routing. Advance your shows. Settle your nights. Ship merch from home base while you're on the road. One platform, every city, every venue.
ROADy (every tier, day one)
Your AI band advisor. He's seen a thousand tours. He knows what worked in Cleveland last time, what your margin looks like tonight after fees, and which boothtender came up short on the till. Always on. Always yours.
FANcore
fancore.band
Free for your fans. Built for you. Bundled with your subscription.
The fan app you've never been able to give them. Every fan who buys merch, scans your QR, attends your show — captured. Pulled into FANcore. Permanent. Yours.
What your fans get inside:
A personal scrapbook of every show. Every shirt, every autograph, every memory. They FLASH you messages from the crowd. You DROP merch in their pocket. You FLYER tour announcements straight to them. They collect the bands they love like baseball cards.
Fans live in FANcore between shows. They watch your videos directly in the app — your latest releases, live recordings, whatever you upload to YouTube. They get push notifications when you DROP merch, when you FLYER tour news, when you announce a show in their city. Every show, every drop, every alert — straight to their pocket. No algorithm. No middleman.
ROCKy
Lives in their pocket — the AI music historian. The Professor of Music. Every genre. Every generation. Every question — answered. Tells your fans the story behind your latest album, who produced it, who played on it. Deepens the relationship every time they open the app.
You don't pay for them. They don't pay for it. Everyone wins.
Your fans are not your fans.
Spotify owns them.
Live Nation owns them.
Instagram owns them.
You played a sold-out room last night. You walked away with $4,000 in merch. You went home and you couldn't name a single fan who bought something. You don't have their email. You don't have their phone. You don't know which fans came back for the second show.
The platforms made it that way on purpose. They sit between you and your audience. They take a cut of every relationship — even the ones they didn't help create.
That's not a music career. That's a rental agreement.
FANcore changes that.
Every fan who buys from your booth is captured. Every fan who scans your QR is captured. Every FLASH message, every DROP open, every FLYER read — captured. Permanent. Yours.
Spotify can shadow-ban your release tomorrow. Instagram can change its algorithm next week. Live Nation can charge whatever they want for the venue. Your FANcore database is yours. Forever.
You don't rent your fans anymore. You own them.
Meet ROADy
Your AI band advisor. Always on tour with you.
ROADy isn't a chatbot. He's a roadie — the one who's seen a thousand tours, knows what works in Phoenix at 1am, remembers what merch sold last time you played Cleveland, and tells you when your boothtender is short on the till.
Ask him anything:
“How should I price the new Tour Tee?”
“Who's my biggest fan in Denver?”
“What's my margin tonight after Stripe fees?”
“What sold out last time I played St. Louis?”
“Drive time from tonight's venue to tomorrow's load-in?”
“Should I take this guarantee or push for a door split?”
ROADy lives across MERCHcore, FANcore, and TOURcore. He sees your sales, your fans, your tour. He knows your band the way a 20-year tour manager would — except he's been with you since the first show.
Included on every tier. From Garage to Arena. From day one.
How It Works
Load Your Merch
Snap a photo of each item. Our AI reads it — name, category, size — and logs it instantly. Set your price, enter your cost basis, and your inventory is live. No barcodes. No SKU spreadsheets. Camera in, merch out.
Hire Your Boothtender
Your friend, your roadie, your partner — anyone can run your booth. They log in with a 4-digit code. Tap the item, tap the size, show the fan the QR. Done. They don't need to know your margins. They just need thumbs.
Fans Pay On Their Own Phone
Fan scans the QR code. Pays on their phone — Card, Venmo, Zelle, or Cash. No card reader. No dongle. No “do you have Square?” The fan's phone IS the payment terminal.
Capture Every Fan
After checkout, every fan gets an invite to FANcore — a personal scrapbook of every show. Autographs, photos, setlists, merch receipts. You get their email and phone. They get a reason to come back. That's not a transaction — that's a relationship.
Watch It All From Stage
Every sale hits your dashboard in real time. Running total. Items sold. Fans captured. Low stock alerts. When the set ends, your P&L is already done — gross, cost of goods, boothtender pay, take-home. You never touch a spreadsheet.
A better way to buy merch.
Fans don't want to lug a vinyl through the crowd. They want it on their porch when they get home.
Walk to any merch booth at any show. There's a fan staring at the vinyl, the hoodie, the signed poster — wanting it, but doing the math on whether they want to carry it through three more bands, the bar, the parking lot, the train ride home.
That fan walks away.
You lost a sale that wasn't a money problem — it was a logistics problem. They wanted the merch. They just didn't want to carry it.
BANDcore solves this.
Fan walks up. Picks up the Tour Tee. Scans your QR. The checkout shows the tee — and right below it, your full catalog: the vinyl they want, the hoodie in three sizes, the signed poster they don't want to roll up at 11pm.
They tap to add. Address entered once. One payment.
Boothtender hands them the tee. The vinyl ships from home base while you're still on the road. The fan walks back into the show with their hands free, knowing the rest is already on the way to their door.
One scan. One payment. Two ways to take it home.
Without BANDcore
You sell what fits in their pocket.
You miss what fits in their suitcase later.
With BANDcore
You sell every fan their full wishlist.
Booth gets the impulse buys. FANcore gets everything else.
The booth handles the night. FANcore handles the morning.
Why not them?
Three kinds of tools exist for bands today. Here's what each one gets wrong.
vs. Square. vs. Shopify POS.
They sell calculators. We sell a platform.
Square processes payments. Shopify runs an e-commerce store. Both are fine tools — for sandwich shops and t-shirt printers. Neither knows what a setlist is. Neither captures the fan who bought the shirt. Neither remembers what sold in Denver last summer. Neither gives your fans a free app.
Bands aren't sandwich shops. Bands are touring businesses with fans, inventory, and cities. We built BANDcore for that.
vs. MerchCat.
They optimize the booth. We optimize the relationship.
MerchCat is a real merch POS — built for the table, focused on the sale, designed to settle the night. Honest tool. Good for what it does.
But the sale at the booth is the smallest part of what happens between you and a fan. The booth is one transaction. The fan is a lifetime. MerchCat ends when the fan walks away. BANDcore is just getting started.
We capture the fan into FANcore. We ship them what wouldn't fit in their pocket. We FLASH them when you're back in their city. We DROP merch into their phone six months later. The booth was the first page. We wrote the rest of the book.
vs. atVenu.
They serve the venue. We serve the band.
atVenu is the incumbent at major venues — and it works exactly how you'd expect a tool sold to venues to work. Venues use it for reporting. Venues set the workflows. Venues control the data. The band fits into the venue's system.
We flipped it.
BANDcore lives on your phone. Your data, your dashboard, your fan database, your decisions. The venue still gets what they always got. But the platform you use is yours — not theirs.
The other tools were built for everyone else. BANDcore was built for you.
Pricing
Flat monthly rate. Pricing that scales with you, not against you.
Opener
per month
+ 0% on card sales
- Everything in Garage
- FANcore + Flash
- ROADy AI Band Advisor
Touring
per month
+ 1.0% on card sales
- Everything in Opener
- Online Store
- Shipping + Meet & Greet
- ROADy AI Band Advisor
Headliner
per month
+ 1.49% on card sales
- Everything in Touring
- TOURcore (coming soon)
- City Intelligence
- Priority Support
- ROADy AI Band Advisor
Arena
per month
+ 1.99% on card sales
- Everything in Headliner
- White-Label Branding
- Custom Domain
- API Access
- Dedicated Account Mgr
- 24/7 Support
- ROADy AI Band Advisor
We don't cap your shows. We don't cap your crew.
Upgrade when you need more tools — not because we said so.
You built the band.
Now run it like a business.
BANDcore is the operating system for working musicians.
FANcore is the free app your fans get.
One subscription. Two sides. From the booth to their doorstep.
Every city. Every dollar. Every fan.
$29/month. Cancel anytime. ROADy from day one.