How to Use an Online Merch Store for Gigs and Never Run Out

We’ve all been there, we wait in line for a looooong time, finally get to the front of the line and that killer shirt we want is gone, not available in your size. You quickly scan the rest on the wall, but often you just leave.

Or sometimes that line is just too damn long. You want to buy some merch but you also want to get clsoe to see your favorite band. You wait and you wait, but the set is about to start and you need to grab a beverage and find your friends, so you give up and leave.

Even worse, at vyb we’ve talked to artists who run out completely on the third night of a seven-city swing. Your fans leave disappointed, you’ve not made nearly what you should on the tour.

Every artist that tours consistently has it – boxes and boxes of unsold merch. Whole storage unit rented to hold oddball sizes of mech you didn’t sell when you were at your show.

To take care of all these problems, at vyb we give you the tools to sell more merch by letting your fans easily buy from an online store at your gigs. Here are the steps to download a QR code or poster that will take your fans right to your online store and buy your merch. Never lose out on a sale!

Step 1: Navigate to My Merch in your artist dashboard.

Navigate to My Merch on your Artist dashboard.

At the top you see a new button, Get QR Code. Click that.

Step 2: Edit Auto-Generated QR code Merch Poster

We auto-generate the poster using your artist name, your banner image and your profile picture.

Note that this is the vyb help account, so the band name is vyb, your band name will be there instead, there is no vyb brandign forced on your poster – lol.

You can replace either image by simply clicking the edit icon in the upper right of the image.

Step 3. Download and Print Poster

If you are happy with the poster, just go ahead and click the download button to get a pdf poster. Print a bunch of these and post them around the merch table. People who are tired of waiting in line can simply scan. Keep a few copies at the merch table so that if you run out of sizes, ask people to simply scan and order online. They’ll receive their order in two to three weeks, so no worries that it won’t show up.

Make your own poster

If you don’t love our dead-simple poster and are feeling creative, click and download the QR code itself. You’ll get a transparent png file that you can add to any poster that you create.

Fans are sent to a mobile-friendly store to buy your merch

Fans will be automatically send to your merch store on vyb, and from their mobile can easily purchase.

Never lose any merch sales

By using your vyb online merch store, you never have to lose out on merch sales or keep buying oddball sizes that never sell. Consider only buying the main sizes and letting people buy XS, 3XL, 4XL online, saving you money.