thetourboss.com

What it is

Tour Boss is a tour management platform built for touring teams. It aims to bring day sheets, nearby hotel information, promoter advances, settlements, e-signatures, and multi-tour management into one system. The site emphasizes that it is “built by a roadie,” which suggests a stronger focus on vertical industry workflows rather than general-purpose project management.

Core features and collaboration

Its standout feature is the real-time day sheet: when schedules change, crew can be notified via web push, and time adjustments can automatically cascade to later items. Under the hood, it uses Supabase Realtime WebSocket to keep the browser up to date. The Roadie mobile dashboard shows the day’s schedule, hotel, travel, contacts, navigation, and other key details, making it useful for on-site staff who need quick access to information.

For collaboration, Tour Boss supports roles such as TM, PM, artist, crew, agency, and promoter-guest. Promoters can be limited to access for a single show, and collaboration is organized around 12 advance sections, including hospitality, production, ticketing, VIP, and deal terms. Settlement visibility can be controlled by role, day-sheet editing is also role-restricted, and the site mentions database-level RLS.

Pricing, security, and integrations

Pricing information is limited. The site only confirms a 14-day free trial, no credit card required, limited to one trial per email address. It mentions an Agency tier but does not publish pricing. For integrations, Tour Boss can automatically pull nearby hotel information via Google Places and Foursquare, and it supports .ics calendar subscriptions for Apple, Google, and Outlook.

On security, Tour Boss offers audit logs, TOTP 2FA, and e-signature audit trails. Signatures record the email address, IP, user-agent, and document SHA-256. However, the site does not disclose compliance certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR.

Pros, cons, and who it’s for

The main advantage is that its feature set closely matches real touring workflows, especially real-time sync, the promoter portal, multi-currency settlements, PDF/CSV exports, and the multi-tour agency view. The downsides are that official pricing is not transparent, native iOS/Android push notifications are still under app store review, and some location-data features depend on an API key or the Agency tier.

Tour Boss is well suited to tour managers, production managers, artist teams, agencies, and teams that frequently handle schedules, hotels, settlements, and promoter advances. For smaller domestic teams, Feishu, DingTalk, or WeCom combined with spreadsheets, calendars, and approval workflows may be cheaper alternatives, though they will be much weaker in terms of complete industry-specific workflows.

Access from China

The main content does not directly state whether Tour Boss is accessible from mainland China, but the registration page says “No VPN / proxy access,” which may affect users who need a proxy to access the service. Payment methods are not disclosed. Domestic teams should verify access stability, account registration, payment, and the availability of map/location services before purchasing.