Put Your Gig Availability on Your Own WebsiteA free widget that shows your live GigXchange dates on your own site, in your colours, always current, with a straight line from your visitor to a booking.
TL;DR. Your live dates, on your own site, in about 2 minutes
Your live GigXchange availability can now sit on your own website. Open the app, go to Availability, tap “Embed on your Website”, pick a style and a theme, and copy one small snippet into your site editor. Visitors see exactly which dates you have free, it stays up to date on its own, and anyone who wants a date clicks straight through to book you on your GigXchange profile.
It takes about 2 minutes, costs £0, and works in the embed block of WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Carrd and Bandzoogle. Part of the v0.3.5 release, out today, 4 July 2026.
- 2 minutesFrom open to live on your site
- £0To use, like the rest of the toolkit
- 2Styles: full calendar or compact strip
- 300+Artists already on the platform
- 40 citiesCovered across the UK
- 24 hoursA day, up to date on its own
Someone lands on your band’s website and wants to know one thing: are you free on their date? Most act websites can’t answer it. The gigs page was last updated in March, the contact form goes to an inbox you check on Sundays, and the person planning a wedding or a festival slot moves on to an act whose availability they can actually see.
From today, that question answers itself. Your live GigXchange availability, the same calendar you already keep in the app, can sit on your own website: your free dates, your booked dates, always current, with one click from “they’re free that Saturday” to a booking request on your profile. It ships in v0.3.5, out today, alongside the rest of the release on the release notes page.
Why Your Website Should Show Live Dates
Your own website is where serious bookers end up. I’ve gigged the UK circuit since 2009, and the pattern has never changed: the venues and private clients with real budgets do their homework. They find you on social, then they look for your site, and what they find there decides whether they get in touch. A dead gigs page reads like a dead band.
A live availability calendar flips that. It shows you’re working, it shows you’re organised, and it removes the single biggest piece of friction in the enquiry: the three-email dance of “are you free on the 14th?”, “sorry, booked, what about the 21st?”. The visitor checks the date themselves, then arrives in your inbox already knowing you’re available. Those are the enquiries that convert.
Until now that meant maintaining two calendars: the real one and the one on your website. The widget collapses them into one. You keep your availability in GigXchange the way you already do (it takes seconds to mark a date available, on hold or booked), and every site the widget lives on reflects it immediately, 7 days a week, without you touching a thing.
How to Set It Up (About 2 Minutes)
The short version: pick, copy, paste. Here it is step by step. You’ll need a free GigXchange account and a website editor that takes an embed block, which nearly all of them do.
- Open “Embed on your Website”: in the app, go to your Availability page, or your profile edit page, and tap the button. You’ll find it next to your availability calendar.
- Pick a style and theme: full calendar or compact strip, dark or light. The live preview shows exactly what your visitors will see before you commit to anything.
- Copy the code: one tap on Copy code. The snippet is small and self-contained; you don’t need to understand it, just carry it to your site.
- Paste it into your site editor: add an Custom HTML block in WordPress, an Embed block in Squarespace, or the equivalent in Wix, Carrd or Bandzoogle. Paste, save, done.
Two placement tips from testing it on real sites. The full calendar earns a page of its own: a Bookings or Availability page where someone planning ahead can browse whole months. The compact strip works harder than it looks on a homepage: visitors see your next free dates without scrolling, which quietly says “this act is gigging and bookable” to everyone who lands there.
One honest limitation: link-in-bio services like Linktree and Instagram profiles don’t allow embeds of any kind. There, share your GigXchange profile link instead; it carries your availability, your music, and your reviews in one place.
See It Live (And Grab the Code)
These are the real widgets, running live on this page, pulling my own availability the same way they’d pull yours. Click any date and you land on the profile behind it. Under each one is the snippet shape it copies from; your exact code, with your own profile in it, comes from the “Embed on your Website” button in the app.
<iframe src="https://gigxchange.app/embed/availability/your-profile-slug" style="width:100%;max-width:420px;height:538px;border:0" loading="lazy" title="Your act - live availability"></iframe> <a href="https://gigxchange.app/profiles/your-profile-slug">Book this act on GigXchange</a>
<iframe src="https://gigxchange.app/embed/availability/your-profile-slug?format=strip" style="width:100%;max-width:420px;height:272px;border:0" loading="lazy" title="Your act - live availability"></iframe> <a href="https://gigxchange.app/profiles/your-profile-slug">Book this act on GigXchange</a>
What Your Visitors Actually See
A clean calendar in GigXchange colours, no login, no clutter. Available dates read clearly against booked and held ones, and the whole thing is sized to sit neatly inside your page rather than take it over. Anyone browsing your site sees it instantly; nobody needs an account just to look.
When a visitor clicks through, they land on your profile with everything a booker needs to say yes: your music and videos, your verified reviews from completed bookings, your typical fee range if you choose to show one, and a message button. From there the booking runs the way every GigXchange booking does: agree the details in chat, sign the digital contract, and handle payment through Stripe if you choose to settle through the platform. Most members settle directly and pay nothing; a flat 5% applies only when a booking is paid through GigXchange, a fraction of the roughly 20% a traditional agency takes, as covered in the commission-models guide.
And because the widget is doing the showing, your website finally earns its keep between gigs. Pair it with the rest of the free kit (your tools, the Rate Calculator for pricing enquiries, the Gig Directory and Open Mic Finder for finding your next dates) and the site you already pay hosting for starts sending you work instead of just describing you. For more on building that stack, read the complete UK gigging toolkit and getting paid as a UK musician.
Built for Artists, Works for Everyone
Artists will use this most, a band site with live dates is the obvious win, but the widget belongs to any member with a public profile. A venue can show artists which nights are open for programming. An agent can surface a headline act’s calendar on the agency site. A promoter can show which event dates still need a bill. If you keep availability on GigXchange, you can put it anywhere the web reaches.
It joins a toolkit that’s grown a lot this release: the June platform update covered the groundwork, and today’s v0.3.5 adds this widget alongside opening the platform to public and business bookers. The app is a free download on the Apple App Store and Google Play, or it runs in any browser; the Android launch post has the install details.
As of 4 July 2026, the availability widget is live for all GigXchange members as part of Mainstage v0.3.5.
Frequently Asked Questions
Annual refresh commitment
This guide was published on 4 July 2026 and is refreshed every July. Feature details and setup steps change as we ship, so we verify this post regularly, so annual verification matters. We re-verify every reference, recommendation, and data point once a year. Next scheduled refresh: July 2027. If any claim is outdated before then, email support@gigxchange.app and we will update it within 24 hours.
