Bands & Recording Artists
Where your fans go after the encore
The official fan club for your band: the album and the demos from the vault, presale codes before anyone else, a numbered fan card they show at the door, and a place where your fans find each other between shows. They pay you directly, every month or once, and the list is yours.
Free to start. We take 9% when a fan pays you, and nothing before that.
Waiting inside
- Albums and demos
- Presale codes
- Fan cards
- Listening parties
- Tour dates
Live demo
Walk through a fan club before you build yours
Low Tide Radio is our made up band, and its fan club is real. Open it and see what a fan sees before joining: the next show counting down, the band, the record, the tour with its ticket links, the merch table and the passes on offer.
The set list
Everything around the music, launched in one place
Seventeen things bands do for the fans who show up, each one a MemberPad feature you can switch on tonight. Pick a song.
Low Tide RadioThe fan club, all year
Set one: the record
Set two: the tour
Set three: all year
Encore
01 / 17 · Set one: the record
The voice memo the album started as
Put the demos, the alternate takes and the song that missed the record out as an album your paying fans hear in full. Everyone else in the fan club gets the first 30 seconds of each song, and any song you mark free plays all the way through.
- Up to 50 songs an album
- Locked to tiers, sold once, or both
- Previews of 15 to 60 seconds
02 / 17 · Set one: the record
Play the record for the people who waited
Press play the night before release day and every fan in the party hears the same moment of the same song, wherever they are, with a chat beside the record. Keep it for the passes that hold the album, or open it to the whole club for one night.
- Everyone hears the same moment
- You run play, pause and skip
- Pass holders or the whole club
03 / 17 · Set one: the record
The video or the tour news, on your fans’ phones the moment it lands
Schedule the drop and a countdown sits on your club home until it lands. The moment it goes up it is pushed to your fans’ phones, and a weekly cap keeps every drop feeling like one.
- Pushed to fans’ phones
- A countdown on the club home
- A few a week, never a flood
04 / 17 · Set one: the record
The booklet streaming never gave you
Write the lyrics, the gear and the story behind every song as a notebook your members read page by page, in the order you set. Include it in a tier or sell it on its own.
- Pages in the order you set
- The same editor as your posts
- Sell it once or put it in a tier
05 / 17 · Set one: the record
Hand the song to the fans who will remix it
Drop the stems in a folder only paying members can open, then run the remix contest in a chat room and let the room vote on the winner.
- Folders locked to a tier
- Up to 50 MB a file
- Or sell the whole folder once
06 / 17 · Set two: the tour
Every night of the run, with doors and the ticket link
Add each show with the venue, the city, doors, a poster and the link to your ticketing company, group them into a tour, and fans find every date on your Shows tab. After the night, the set list and the photos go on the same page.
- Venue, city, doors and a poster
- Grouped by tour on a Shows tab
- Tickets stay with your ticket site
07 / 17 · Set two: the tour
First shot at tickets, for the fans who pay
Give each pass its own code and set the minute the presale opens. Right on time the codes appear on the show for the fans who hold that pass, with a push to their phones, and everyone else sees which pass gets one.
- A code for every pass
- Revealed with a push, right on time
- See how many fans took a code
08 / 17 · Set two: the tour
Stamp the card of every fan in the room
Say a code from the stage, or scan fan cards at the door, and every fan who came checks in. They earn points and a badge for that night, count toward their five and ten night badges, and get pointed to their city’s crew chat.
- A code from the stage or a door scan
- A badge for every night
- Five and ten night badges
09 / 17 · Set two: the tour
Let the city pick the encore
Put three deep cuts in a poll and play the winner that night. Fans only see how the vote is going once they have cast theirs.
- In a post or a chat room
- Results hidden until they vote
- One tap to answer
10 / 17 · Set two: the tour
Twenty spots and a waitlist that runs itself
Make the meet and greet an event for your top tier and cap it at twenty. Past the cap, fans join a waitlist that moves up on its own when a spot opens, and everyone going gets a reminder before doors.
- A cap and a waitlist
- Reminders by push and email
- Shown in each fan’s own time zone
11 / 17 · Set two: the tour
Every night of the tour, from the side of the stage
Share soundcheck, the van and the green room as photo albums members flip through after every show, and put the best shots in a post the same night.
- Photo albums locked to a tier
- Up to 16 photos in a post
- Downloads only if you allow them
12 / 17 · Set three: all year
Open the fan club on the band, not on a feed
Your fan club opens on a club home: your banner with a marquee counting down to the next show, presale, drop or listening party, then the band with a profile for each of you, the record playing right there, the tour with its ticket links and each fan’s own numbered pass. Locked posts stand as backstage doors that name the pass that opens them.
- A marquee of what is next, counting down
- Locked posts as backstage doors
- Sections you show, hide and reorder
13 / 17 · Set three: all year
A numbered card in every fan’s pocket
Every fan gets a number of their own and a card on their phone: their pass, the month they joined, the shows they made it to and a code that renews itself every few minutes, ready for your scanner at the door. Tap a fan’s name and their card opens, favorite song and badges included.
- A fan number of their own
- A code that renews every few minutes
- Shows, favorite song and badges
14 / 17 · Set three: all year
A room for every city on the run
Add a show in a new city and its crew room opens under City crews by itself, free for every fan. They plan the carpool, hold a spot at the barricade and find each other at the merch table, and checking in at the show points them straight to it.
- A room per city, made for you
- Free for every fan
- Photos in the chat
15 / 17 · Set three: all year
Bring a fan up on stage
Open a live room before doors. Fans raise a hand to ask a question, and you choose who comes up on camera with the band.
- Raised hands
- You choose who comes up
- Needs at least one paid tier
16 / 17 · Set three: all year
Teach the riff everyone asks about
Film a lesson for every song, close on the fretboard, and turn the set into a course that saves each fan’s progress as they go. Include it in a tier or sell it on its own.
- Progress saved per lesson
- Lessons can open on a schedule
- Sell it once or put it in a tier
17 / 17 · Encore
Reward the fans who never miss a show
Name the levels yourself, from Walk-up to Legend. Fans climb by checking in at shows, listening to your records all the way through, joining your listening parties and bringing friends who join.
- Level names are yours
- A level can unlock a course
- Switched on by the fan club setup
Low Tide Radio is a made up band, drawn to show what yours could run. The names, prices and numbers in the drawings are invented. Every feature in the set is real, and so is the band's fan club: the demo above opens it.
How the band gets paid
Get paid by the fans who sing every word back
A stream pays a fraction of a cent. A fan club pays you every month, and again every time a fan buys something you made.
Every month
The fan club
Charge monthly, yearly or both, keep a free tier at the door, and decide what each tier opens: the vault, the presale, the meet and greet.
- Monthly and yearly prices
- Free trials, up to a year
- A free tier that is always there
Every sale
The merch table
Sell the shirt, the record and the poster beside the album, the concert film and the tab book, no membership needed. You ship the merch, files and links deliver themselves, and every paid order waits in a queue with the address on it.
- Shirts in every size and color
- Albums, films, folders and courses
- Bought without a membership
Any night
The tip jar
Put a tip jar on your club home and on every fan’s pass. Fans pick an amount or type their own, above a minimum you set, with a note if they like. Selling an album? Let fans pay what they want from your price up.
- Amounts you set, or their own
- Pay what you want on albums
- On the web and the desktop app
Every show
Codes from the stage
Make a code for the tour, say it from the stage or print it on the setlist, and new fans take a discount on a tier or a digital release until the date you set.
- A percentage or an amount off
- Start and end dates
- New fans only, if you like
Do the math
What would your fan club pay you?
That is one tier at one price. A yearly price, a second tier and the merch table all come on top of it.
Fans pay you every month
$2,000
- After our 9%
- $1,820
- That, over a year
- $21,840
- Plays a month to earn $2,000 streaming
- About 500,000
An illustration, not a prediction. Before Stripe's processing fee, which Stripe bills on your own account, and before Apple's commission on fans who join inside the iPhone app. The stream figure assumes $0.004 a play, the middle of the range most often cited for the biggest streaming service; real rates move with country, plan and deal.
Your name on the door
Under your band's name
Fans join your fan club, at your address, in your colors, from the link they already tap in your bio. And you bring the list you already have.
- Your own domainPut the fan club on fans.yourband.com. We charge nothing extra for it.
- A front door that sells the clubVisitors see what is next, the band, the first songs on your record by title and what each pass opens, without a single fan's name on the page.
- A band pageA photo, a role and a story for everyone you put in the band, for fans, and for visitors unless you built your own site. Being in the band is for show and gives nobody any powers.
- A link in bio that sellsYour new single, your tour dates, your merch store and an email signup, on one page.
- Bring your mailing listUpload it, and every fan gets an invite and one reminder.
- On every screenAny browser, plus apps for iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, with show reminders, presales and drops pushed to their phones.
- The list stays yoursExport your members whenever you like.
Free for bands
The Band Launch Kit
Forty pages on building a following that shows up, and launching the fan club that keeps them. Yours to keep, whether or not you ever start a fan club here.
- The fan ladder: the one thing to ask for at every step, from stranger to superfan
- Thirty days to doors: a day by day plan for launching your fan club
- Release and tour playbooks, week by week and night by night
- Fifty things to put in your fan club, most of them already on your phone
- Fourteen scripts and five checklists, ready to copy
Straight answers
Before you play the first show
Shirts, yes. Put the shirts, hats, vinyl and posters in your shop with sizes and stock, pack and ship each order yourself (inside the United States for now), and fans buy without an account or a membership. Tickets, no: they stay with your ticketing company, and MemberPad is where your members get the presale code.
Doors at eight
Your fans are already in line.
Build the fan club for free, bring your list over, and open the doors when the first presale is ready.
Free to start · 9% when a fan pays you · nothing monthly