Put your QR code on the counter and earn free credits
Your referral QR lives in the app under Referrals. Print it, tape it by the till, post it to your socials. Every customer who installs Beam from your code pays credits into your balance, which go toward your plan's bill. Bring 10 new people onto Beam in a calendar month for $50 off their plan, or 20 for $100 off.
It compounds. The customers you bring in see everyone's beams, including yours, every night after.
Write the beam in plain words
"Drinks half price for the next 2 hours." That is the whole craft of it. No design work, no image to make, no approval queue to wait in. Nothing is priced per person: on Standard or Plus, a beam is one of your plan's beams for the month.
Keep it simple. One clear offer beats a clever one. People are deciding while they walk.
Set how far it goes and how long it runs
Drag the radius to cover your block or your whole neighbourhood. Drag the timer for two hours or all evening. The price stays the same whatever you set: every beam reaches everyone nearby, up to 25 miles.
Start with your happy hour. Listing it is free, and it tells you fast whether your regulars are listening. Send a beam when you want new faces.
Beam it, and watch it work
The moment you launch, every Beam user inside your circle can see it. Reach, claims and redemptions climb on your dashboard while it runs, so you know within minutes whether it landed.
Reach is how many saw it. Claims is how many locked it in. Redemptions is how many walked through your door.
They check in at the counter
A customer arrives and checks in on their own phone. Beam checks they are at your place, and they show the beam at the counter. Your staff do nothing: no codes, no register. You can turn on a staff PIN for a beam if you want one.
Prefer to scan? Open the Validate tab, tap Scan QR Code, and point the camera at their screen. Screen too dim? Type the six characters instead.
The counter moment, in detail
- Check-in leads, scanning is optional. By default the customer checks in on their phone and your staff do nothing. If you scan, the Validate tab opens on a Scan QR Code button, and the six-character field underneath is there for when the camera cannot cope.
- No extra hardware. The phone or tablet already on your counter is the scanner. Nothing to buy, nothing to plug in.
- Three possible answers. Ready to Use means honour the beam and complete the redemption. Already Used means that claim has been redeemed. Expired or Released means the claim lapsed, so ask them to claim it again while the beam is still live.
- One use per claim. Once you complete a redemption, the code is spent and cannot be redeemed a second time, so a passed-around screenshot is worth nothing.
What it costs, in plain terms
- Your happy hour is listed free. Your happy hour or weekly special stays up on Beam for good, at no cost. Standard is $50 a month for 2 beams a month, Plus is $100 for 4. No contract.
- Every beam reaches everyone inside the radius you pick, your customers included. Nothing is priced per person. Bring 10 new people onto Beam in a calendar month for $50 off their plan, or 20 for $100 off.
- Beam takes nothing at your register. Not a percentage, not a per-redemption fee. What the customer spends is yours.
- You choose the discount. Nobody makes you go half price. A free side with any main works too.