For live performers
One QR.
Five ways
to tip.
Musicians have been passing a hat since the beginning of time — and lately they’re duct-taping a wad of QR codes to mic stands and amps. The hat just got a single QR code.
What your fans see when they scan. No account. No download.
The situation
The energy is there.
The payment tools
just don’t match
the moment.
Bands lose tips every night because the audience has no easy, unified way to send one.
Your fans are holding their phones. They want to say something real back — beyond applause. But Cash App only works if they have it. Venmo works if you’re on Venmo. Bitcoin Lightning works for the one person in the room who knows what that is. The moment passes. The money stays in their pocket.
What the band needs, what the fan needs, and the bridge between them
You’re on stage
You play.
The room wants
to give back.
You gave them the night. They want to pay you for it — right now, while they still feel it. You need one place to point them, and you need it to work for whoever is standing there.
- One link that covers every wallet in the room
- Something to tape to the mic stand — or run on a tablet
- The money in your account, not ours
They’re in the room
They hear it.
They want to say
something back.
They’re already holding the phone. They’ll pay — but not if it means downloading something, making an account, or finding out you only take an app they don’t have.
- Scan, pick the app they already use, done
- No account, no signup, no redirect
- Five seconds, back to the music
Music Lit is the bridge. One QR code, standing between what you need and what they want to give.
How it works
How it works
Create your page in five minutes
Enter your band name and link your payment accounts. Cash App $tag, Venmo handle, PayPal link. For Bitcoin Lightning, we walk you to Strike if you need it. Your Nostr keypair generates automatically. Done.
Print your QR or set up stage mode
One click prints a clean, high-contrast QR sheet your audience can scan from across a bar. Or load stage mode on a tablet and let the screen light up every time someone taps through to tip.
The crowd tips their way
They scan, they choose their app, they pay. No Music Lit account. No redirect. The money goes straight to your account. We never see a dollar.
Tape it to the tip jar, the mic stand, the merch table. It works with no power and no phone of your own.
Payment rails
Payment rails
US bands · Free · No transaction fees from us · The money never touches Music Lit
The name
Music Lit.
Music Liturgy.
The room’s lit. The set’s lit. That’s the easy half of the name, and it’s the one you’ll say out loud.
The other half is older. Liturgy comes from the Greek leitourgía — public service, the work of the people. Music Liturgy. Music Lit.
Because that’s what a band actually does. Playing to a room is public work — you give the night to the people in it. Music Lit is how that work gets funded: openly, directly, by the fans and listeners it’s for.
The work of the people, funded by the people it serves.
Start collecting
tips tonight.
Free to use. Takes five minutes. Print your QR sheet before your next gig — Music Lit handles the rest, you stay on stage.
Get your free page