Showwise
Per-show bookkeeping for touring musicians — per diems, mileage, multi-currency, cash gigs.
- BookedTap the venue once
- Captured30s per expense
- SettledClosed at tour-end
Indie tier stays free. Band & Tour match FreshBooks Lite and the MyGigLog free benchmark.
From soundcheck to settled.
Showwise meets you where the work happens: side of stage, gas pump, hotel lobby — not at a desk after load-out.
- 01
Tap in the show
Venue, soundcheck, set time, payout split. Books the gig as a row in your ledger before you leave the parking lot.
- 02
Capture as you go
Receipts, gas, lodging, per-diem — each lands on the right show in 30 seconds. Offline queue, syncs when you have signal.
- 03
Settle at tour-end
Per-show P&L summarizes the run. Per-diem splits distribute. Multi-currency books lock the rate once. Exports to your accountant or sync to Wave.
The pieces a touring act actually uses.
Skip the double-entry accounting class. Every feature maps to something you already do between soundcheck and load-out.
Per-show P&L, not category-blurred totals
Generalist ledgers aggregate by month. Touring musicians need to know what the Friday-night Mercury Lounge gig netted, and whether the run is in the red before the van rolls to Cleveland. Showwise snapshots revenue and cost at each show — a number you can answer on the phone from the merch table.
- Avg latency
- 30s
- Per-show rows
- unlimited
- Currency per show
- rate-locked
Band per-diem splits
Roster-aware splits between members. Track who fronted the hotel and who covered gas, settled to a single statement at tour-end.
Automatic mileage
Tap the venue — the engine records the start, the arrival, the return. IRS 2026 makes the log non-optional; we make it free.
Multi-currency books
Book the gig in euros, pay the hotel in pounds, settle in USD. Rate snapshotted at booking time, so April's rate doesn't rewrite March's show.
Cash & tip-pooling
Cash nights and Venmo tips reconcile against the door count. Tip-pool splits distributed to band, sound, and merch in one tap.
30-second expense capture
Receipt, gas, lodging, merch — quick-add at the side of the stage. Works offline, queues locally, syncs the second you have signal.
You don’t need another small-business ledger.
Wave, FreshBooks, and QuickBooks Solopreneur weren’t built for what you actually do on a tour. They ignore per-gig granularity, the per-diem splits with your band, the cash-night tips you can’t 1099 until the 2026 threshold, and the miles between clubs that the IRS now requires you to log.
- Solo acts who just want per-gig P&L without learning double-entry.
- Bands with a roster who split per diems, hotels, and gas.
- International artists who book one night in euros and the next in pounds.
- Door
- + $1,140
- Sound + load-in
- − $220
- Hotel · 1 night
- − $132
- Gas · 124 mi
- − $46
- Per-diem · 4 members
- − $130
Showwise settled this from a 30-second tap each. Wave took 40 minutes and three spreadsheets.
Matched to gig-tier benchmarks.
Free indie tier, $12 Band, $24 Tour — in line with FreshBooks Lite and the free MyGigLog offering. Switch tiers as the run gets serious; cancel any time.
For solo acts catching under a dozen gigs a year.
- Per-show P&L
- Per-diem splits for one
- Single currency
- 12-month ledger
For working bands on the road — a few weeks a year.
- Per-diem splits for the whole roster
- Automatic mileage logs
- Cash + Venmo tip-pooling
- Quarterly 1099-ready exports
For international tours and multi-currency acts.
- Multi-currency books, rate-locked
- Unlimited roster + tour legs
- Accountant sync (Wave, QuickBooks)
- Priority support before show day
Closed beta opens before the summer run.
Drop your email — we’re onboarding a small wave of indie acts and bands so the ledger matches what you actually do between soundcheck and load-out.
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