Your website, now taking bookings
Paste one snippet and your own website shows your live availability — visitors see the dates you're free and book you direct through GigXchange. Two layouts, dark or light, always current. Free with every profile.
Stop saying “DM me for dates”
Sign up free, set your availability, paste the snippet once.
Last updated: 7 July 2026
How it works
From invisible availability to a self-serve booking funnel — four short steps, one of them a paste.
Mark when you can play
Your availability lives in the same calendar as your confirmed bookings — so it's honest by construction.
Layout and theme
Full calendar or compact strip, dark or light — previewed live before you copy anything.
One snippet, any site
Copy the embed into your website, EPK or blog. No plugins, no code knowledge, ~420px wide.
Direct, protected
Visitors click a free date through to your profile and book you direct — contract and payment handled.
Everything in the widget
A live window onto your calendar — not another thing to keep updated.
Set your dates once
Mark the dates you can play in your GigXchange calendar — the same calendar your bookings already live in, so it never contradicts itself.
Paste one snippet, done
Copy a small embed snippet into your website, EPK page or blog — no plugins, no developer, works on any site that accepts HTML.
2 layouts to fit any page
A full monthly calendar for your booking page, or a compact strip that tucks under your bio — both drawn in the GigXchange house style.
Dark or light
Match the widget to your site with a one-parameter theme switch. It draws its own frame, so it sits cleanly on any background.
Updates itself, everywhere
Change your availability once in the app and every embed on every site updates — no stale “DM me for dates” ever again.
From free date to booked gig
The widget links visitors straight to your GigXchange profile, where they can message and book you direct — contract and payment included.
Share availability in messages
Negotiating dates with a venue? Drop your live availability straight into the conversation instead of listing dates by hand.
No maintenance, ever
The embed is a live window onto your profile — nothing to re-export, re-upload or remember after the first paste.
Why “DM for dates” is costing you bookings
The case for showing your availability where people already find you.
Friction kills enquiries
Someone planning a wedding or a venue night shortlists several acts in one sitting. If your site answers "are they free on the 14th?" instantly and the next act's site says "message us to check", you just became the easy choice. Every extra step — finding the contact form, waiting for a reply, the back-and-forth — is a place the enquiry can die quietly.
A calendar that can't lie
Hand-maintained availability pages rot: the gig gets booked, the website doesn't get told. The widget reads the same calendar your confirmed GigXchange bookings already live in — so a date that's just been booked disappears from every embed at once, and you physically can't double-advertise a sold night.
Put it where the decision happens
The full calendar layout belongs on your booking or contact page — the place someone lands when they're seriously checking dates. The compact strip earns its keep everywhere else: under the bio on your homepage, in your EPK, at the foot of a blog post. Two layouts, dark or light, both about 420px wide, both from the same snippet with one parameter changed.
The click-through is the whole point
A visible free date is only half a booking — the widget links through to your GigXchange profile, where the visitor can message you and confirm direct. That route comes with the things an email thread doesn't: an auto-generated contract, protected payment, and 0% commission on your fee. The gig then lands in your calendar, which updates the widget, which keeps the loop honest.
Five minutes, once
Set availability, copy, paste — the step-by-step guide covers WordPress, Squarespace, Wix and friends. After that there is genuinely nothing to maintain. Pair it with the UK Gig Rate Calculator so that when the enquiries come, your quote is as ready as your calendar.
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Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the usual queries.
Be the act that’s easy to book
Set your availability once, paste the snippet once — then let your website take enquiries while you play.