The advance
Venue details, tech specs, production notes, labor calls, and riders for every date, tracked as structured data with statuses and owners instead of attachments in an inbox.
Tour management software
Tour management software that starts with the advance.
Most tour management software is built around the itinerary. Advance with Me is built around the advance: the venue back-and-forth, the tech pack, the labor call, the guest list. Get that right and the daysheets, travel, lodging, and crew access that AWM 2.0 layers on top stay accurate all run long, in a browser, with nothing to install.
- Built by a working tour manager with nearly a decade on the road
- Venues fill in their sections of your advance without a paid seat
- Used on club, amphitheater, and arena runs
The category, defined
What tour management software actually does.
Tour management software is the operational system for a run of live shows. It holds the advance for each date, the logistics around it, and the communication layer that keeps the touring party, the venues, and the local crews working from the same current information. In practice, it replaces the pile: email threads, PDFs, spreadsheets, screenshots, and group texts.
Schedules and daysheets
Day-level schedules the whole team reads, built from the same record as the advance, with clean PDF exports when it is time to distribute the working version.
Travel and lodging
Flights, drives, hotels, and rooming lists managed against the same dates as the shows, so a routing change updates one system instead of four documents.
Guest lists and passes
Pass types, allotments, cutoffs, and approvals, with a clean handoff to the box office instead of a spreadsheet reconciliation at will call.
Crew access
Everyone traveling with the show sees their own day: schedule, travel, lodging. Scoped to what they need, current when it changes, on the web or a phone.
Documents and exports
Daysheets, labor calls, riders, and itineraries as formatted PDFs, generated from live data rather than maintained by hand.
Searching for "tour management software" surfaces two unrelated categories. Travel companies use the same phrase for booking and reservation platforms that sell sightseeing tours and activities. That is not this.
Advance with Me is tour management software for live events: artists, tour managers, production teams, festivals, and venues coordinating real shows. If you sell travel packages, you are in the wrong place, no hard feelings.
Buying it well
Six questions that separate the platforms.
Most tools in this category agree on the basics: schedules, day sheets, travel. The differences show up in the parts of the job that generate the most email. Ask these six questions of anything you evaluate, including us.
1. Is the advance structured data or a PDF graveyard?
If venue specs, labor calls, and riders live as attachments, you still run the advance in email. Look for show-level records with categories, statuses, and owners that daysheets and documents build from.
2. Can the venue work inside it without a seat?
The advance is a two-party job. If the venue cannot fill in their sections directly, every answer still routes through your inbox and gets retyped. Contributor access should be free and scoped.
3. Browser, or installed desktop app?
A web app works on the production-office computer, a borrowed laptop, and an iPad at the loading dock. Installed software works where it is installed and synced.
4. What does the crew actually see?
Crew need their day on their phone, current, and readable offline in a venue with no signal. They should never need a paid seat or a password to get it.
5. Do logistics stay tied to the show record?
Travel, lodging, guest lists, and schedules that live in separate tools drift apart. One date change should update one system, and everything downstream should follow.
6. Is there a real import path?
Mid-cycle switches fail on retyping. Look for imports from the tools and documents you already have: routing sheets, tech packs, confirmations, or a direct importer from your current platform.
How Advance with Me answers them
Built around the part of the job the others treat as an attachment.
Advance with Me answers yes to all six. Each date is a structured advance venues contribute to through a link, in a browser, with AI intake that fills fields from tech packs automatically, and with daysheets, travel, lodging, and guest lists tied to the same record. Crew see their day on the web or the AWM Go iPhone app, offline included, at no charge.
The workflows
See the dedicated pages for tour advancing software, day sheet software, tour itineraries, and guest lists.
Not just tours
Festival production offices run the same workflow at higher volume. See festival advance software and the for festivals page.
Shopping around?
Read the side-by-side with Master Tour, or the honest roundup of Master Tour alternatives, ours and everyone else's.
In their words
From tour managers and production teams already using it.
"Advance With Me has truly made my days so much easier. Being a TM and PM, it helps me streamline my work flows so I don’t have to go digging through a lot of emails for day of show info. It’s very flexible and built for the user that’s on the road. Clubs, Amphitheaters, Arenas — it’s built for it all. I can’t imagine touring without it now."
Peyton Chisholm · Tour Manager, Wage War
"Advance With Me has become an essential part of how we prep for show days on the road with Flatland Cavalry. It takes the chaos out of advancing and puts everything we need — logistics, contacts, production details — in one clean, organized place. It’s saved us time, cut down on day-of surprises, and helped our whole team show up ready to focus on what matters: putting on a great show for the fans."
Joe Adams · Tour Manager, Flatland Cavalry
"Advance With Me is an extremely well thought out and navigable site built by folks who have all toured and really know what it takes to advance a show well. They’ve covered all the bases for every type of show advance, but also left ways to customize exactly what you want to see. At 47, even a dinosaur like me can fly around and learn it."
Jordan Powell · Director of Production, Emporium Presents
Common questions
Tour management software: FAQ
What is tour management software?
Tour management software is the operational system for a concert tour or run of live events. It holds the advance for each show (venue details, tech specs, labor calls, riders), the day-to-day logistics (schedules, daysheets, travel, lodging, guest lists), and the communication layer that keeps the touring party, venues, and local crews working from the same current information instead of scattered emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets.
Is tour management software the same as tour operator software?
No. Tour management software serves live music and event touring: artists, tour managers, production teams, and venues coordinating shows. Tour operator software serves the travel industry: companies selling sightseeing tours, activities, and travel packages, with booking engines and reservation systems. The two categories share a name but solve unrelated problems. Advance with Me is tour management software for live events, not a travel booking platform.
What should I look for in tour management software?
Six things separate the platforms: whether it treats the advance as structured data or just attaches PDFs; whether venues can contribute directly without a paid seat; whether it runs in a browser or requires an installed desktop app; whether crew get mobile access with offline support; whether daysheets, travel, and guest lists stay tied to the same show record; and whether you can import an existing tour instead of retyping it.
How much does tour management software cost?
Most professional platforms price per user per month. Master Tour's Professional plan is listed at $64.99 per month billed annually (per eventric.com, August 2026). Advance with Me starts at $92 per month billed annually ($120 monthly) for Solo, with Duo, Team Starter, and Team Plus plans for teams. Every Advance with Me plan includes the full product, and venues, contributors, and crew never need a paid seat. See current pricing.
Does my crew need their own licenses?
Not with Advance with Me. Only the people who build and manage advances need a Pro seat. Crew join the event roster, sign in with a passwordless magic link, and see a view-only, calendar-first picture of their own schedule, travel, and lodging, on the web or the AWM Go iPhone app, which works offline.
Can I switch tour management software mid-cycle?
Yes, if the platform has a real import path. Advance with Me includes a built-in Master Tour importer: pro Master Tour accounts bring a full tour over in minutes with their own API key, read-only on the Master Tour side. Coming from documents instead, AI import turns routing sheets, tech packs, travel confirmations, rooming lists, schedules, labor calls, and riders into structured data automatically, with everything editable afterward. See switching from Master Tour.
See it on a real advance
The fastest way to evaluate it is to watch it work.
Join a demo with someone who has advanced shows for a living, or head to pricing when you are ready to choose a plan.