StageLink vs Beacons for music artists
Beacons is a creator-monetization platform, and a genuinely broad one. This page exists for a narrow question: whether it covers what a live music booking actually requires. Mostly it does not — and almost everything else on this table, it wins.
| Feature | StageLink | Beacons |
|---|---|---|
| Link in bio page | Yes | Yes |
| Technical rider | Yes Built from an equipment catalogue, free plan included. | No |
| Media kit / press kit | Yes An EPK for bookings: bio, play history, contacts and rider, with a print view. | Yes A daily-updating media kit for brand deals, on the free plan. |
| Tour dates | Yes Own events, emitted as event structured data. | Yes Embedded from Bandsintown and Seated. |
| Custom domain | No Pages live at stagelink.art/name. | Yes Included from their paid Creator plan. |
| Selling digital products and courses | Partial Merch only, through Shopify or Printful. | Yes Products, courses and memberships, natively. |
| Email marketing | Partial Captures addresses and exports them. | Yes Sends campaigns from the platform. |
| AI writing and design tools | Partial Bio generation for the EPK. | Yes A broad AI suite across the product. |
| Roster page for bookers and labels | Yes | No |
Compared against Beacons's public pricing page, last checked 2026-08-29. Source
When Beacons is the better choice
Choose Beacons if you sell digital products, courses or memberships, if you want email campaigns rather than just address capture, if you need a custom domain, or if their AI tooling is useful to you. Their media kit is on the free plan and updates itself. For a creator whose income comes from brand partnerships rather than shows, it is the better product and it is not close.
Two documents with the same name
Both products have something called a media kit, and they are for different transactions.
- Beacons builds a kit for brand deals: audience figures, engagement, rates. The reader is a marketing manager deciding on a sponsorship.
- StageLink builds an EPK for bookings: bio, play history, press, contacts and the technical rider. The reader is a promoter deciding on a date, and a technician reading what you need in the booth.
Neither is a worse version of the other. If your income comes from brand partnerships, their document is the one you want.
The rider is the actual gap
A venue needs to know which media players, which mixer, which monitors. StageLink builds that from a catalogue of real equipment so a venue reads model numbers rather than interpreting a sentence, and it ships on the free plan.
Beacons has no equivalent, which is not an oversight — a creator platform has no reason to model booth equipment.
Where this costs you
The honest summary is that moving from Beacons to StageLink means giving up custom domains, native product and course sales, email campaigns and the AI suite, in exchange for a rider, a booking-oriented press kit and a roster page.
That trade is worth it if you play shows. It is a bad trade if you do not.
Does Beacons have a press kit?
Yes, and on its free plan. It is built for brand partnerships rather than bookings, so it leads with audience and rate information instead of play history, contacts and technical requirements.
Can I show tour dates on Beacons?
Yes, embedded from Bandsintown or Seated. The difference is ownership rather than presence: StageLink stores the dates itself, so you can enter one that is not on a ticketing platform yet, and publishes them as event structured data.
Can I use both?
Some artists do — Beacons for selling, StageLink as the link they send to promoters. It costs you maintaining two pages, so it is only worth it if both sides are genuinely active.
Does StageLink support custom domains?
Not yet. Pages live at stagelink.art/yourname. If a custom domain is a requirement, Beacons includes one from its paid Creator plan and StageLink cannot match that today.
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