WristbandWRISTBAND Western Mass · Coming this fall Get my invite
Live music · Western Mass · Doors open this fall

It started with
a $2.51 fee.

We were putting on a show in the Valley. $10 tickets. The ticket site wanted $2.51 more on every one of them, from our fans, for nothing. A full quarter of the ticket. We said no. So we built a ticketing platform with no fees at all. Every show in Western Mass, one calendar, and the price on the poster is the price you pay.

Want in when doors open? Leave an email. One invite, no spam.

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We'll send your invite as we get closer to opening night.

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$0fees at checkout
Fall '26doors open
Night Shift: Late Jazz$18 · $18 PAID
The Wrought Iron Revue$15 · $15 PAID
Bell Sessions Open MicFREE · $0 PAID
Your next showNO FEES
A season of shows. What's printed on the band is what left your account. Example shows, not real listings.
How we got here

We saw the fees, then we took action and built Wristband.

Somewhere between a band announcing a date and you getting a barcode, a fee appears.

Not for the band. Not for the venue. For the checkout.

We hit it ourselves. We were ticketing a $10 show of our own when the quote came back with $2.51 stapled to every ticket. A full quarter on top of the price we set.

We could pass it to our fans, the way everyone does. Or swallow it. Neither sat right.

So we teamed up with Studio Five Thirty Eight, a software studio here in the Valley, and built the alternative.

The venue is paid directly as tickets sell, and covers its own card processing, the way every kitchen and barber on Main Street already does.

Not clever. Just what the rest of the world already does.

The fee, by platform

What the big platforms add to a $30 ticket.

Ticketmaster
    At checkout$38.10
    Wristband
    • Ticket$30.00
    • Fees none
    At checkout$30.00 The number on the poster. That is the whole feature.

    Who it's for

    Fans, bands, venues.
    Everyone in the room.

    If you go to shows

    The price on the poster is the price you pay

    • No service fee, no processing fee, no "delivery" fee for an email
    • Every show in the Valley on one calendar
    • Your ticket on your phone, scanned at the door
    If you play them

    Sell your own tickets, keep your own crowd

    • List a show for free, no fee on your fans
    • The people who bought are yours to reach next time
    • One link to share, one page that's yours
    If you run a venue

    Paid as tickets sell, not 30 days after the show

    • Every sale pays out as it happens, into your own account, not ours
    • Scan tickets at the door from any phone
    • Every buyer is a name you can reach again, free
    Doors open this fall

    Be inside before the doors open.

    One email, and we send your invite as we get close. Fans get in first. Bands and venues get set up before opening night.

    You're on the list.

    We'll send your invite as we get closer to opening night.

    Know someone who pays fees? Send them this.