About Tiplor
Tiplor is a digital tipping platform purpose-built for live music. We give artists, venues, hosts, and festivals a one-tap way to receive contributions from fans — without an app, an account, or a card reader.
The moment of "I love this and I want to support it" doesn't go away just because people stopped carrying cash. We built Tiplor to give that moment somewhere to go.
Public funding for live music is tightening. Corporate sponsorship is shifting. Venues are closing. Festivals that have been free for decades are facing real strain. The audience that wants to support the music in front of them is still there — bigger than ever — but the connection between their phones and the artists they came to see has been missing.
That's what our strap line — Love It Live™ — points at. Live music as something worth showing up for, worth supporting, worth keeping alive.
Every Tiplor account gets a permanent URL — tiplor.com/@yourname — and a unique QR code. Display it anywhere fans can see it. Fans scan, tap an amount, and pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or any card. About ten seconds. Works on any smartphone. No app, no signup, no card reader.
Goes directly to the recipient, paid out daily via Stripe.
Flat Tiplor fee. Covers Stripe processing and our costs. No other fees, ever.
From a fan tapping a QR to the artist being paid.
Optionally split tips with a charity of your choice, with a live progress bar fans can see.
Musicians, bands, buskers, DJs, comedians — anyone whose work is paid in appreciation.
Bars, clubs, cafés, and rooms that host live performances.
Open-mic runners, MCs, and curators who bring artists together.
Multi-day, multi-stage events that need digital tipping at scale.
Tiplor is built and run from the Beaches in Toronto's east end. We support 150+ artists with 1,000+ QR scans to date, used at gigs across 5 countries — Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, and Germany. The centre of gravity is still Toronto, especially the East End. That's where we test every feature, on real performers at real shows, before it ships anywhere else.
Our growing partner roster includes Castro's Lounge, The Gull & Firkin, Tara Inn, The Redwood Theatre, Feathers, The Hideout, and — as of 2026 — the Beaches International Jazz Festival.
Tiplor was built in the Beaches by a small team that knew the live-music world from different angles. Peter Quay brings years in live entertainment — from concert booking at Labatt's Blue Live (Kingswood at Wonderland, now the RBC Amphitheater) to a nine-year run with World Vision's 30 Hour Famine, working alongside artists like Bono, Sarah McLachlan, Tom Cochrane, and the Tragically Hip. Shawn O'Quinn brings a background in startups and digital marketing — spanning auto, real estate, and e-commerce — and turned the founding observation into a working platform.
A small team in Toronto with a shared belief that the live-music economy needs better infrastructure to survive the next decade.
