Release history What's new in Beam

Businesses can set the hours a deal can be used, so shoppers can claim a happy hour deal now, redeem it tonight. If their notifications are on, they hear when it opens.

Invite a manager or staff member so they can help run your beams from their own phone, without sharing your login.

See your upcoming and past beams on a calendar and plan your week of deals at a glance.

Start a beam, save it as a draft, and come back to finish and send it when you are ready.

Send a link to a place you love, and when they join Beam and post their first deal, you move up a reward level or hear about their deals first.

Once your business is verified, Beam hands you a short post with your link, ready to share on Facebook, Instagram, X or Nextdoor, so your regulars know where to find your deals.

Every business gets a Beam Page, its own link and QR code, that you can customize with a photo, headline and light or dark look, with stats on visits and installs from each place you post it.

Nearby opens on a full-screen map: swipe the deal cards at the bottom and the map zooms to each spot, or switch to a list with one tap.

Shoppers can redeem a deal themselves at the counter, either on location or by entering the store's Counter PIN, and both sides see a clear Redeemed ticket.

Your Counter PIN now shows in Settings, on your Dashboard and on the redeem screen, and you can choose whether customers redeem at your place or you come to them.

Print your Beam QR code in every size you need, including a 5x7 table tent, so customers can scan it right at your counter.

Share any beam to your social accounts straight from your Dashboard, and every new customer who joins from a share is credited to you.

New businesses see a short welcome video that walks through how Beam works, and you can replay it any time from Settings.

The beam builder shows how many people you will reach and what it costs, even with unlimited redemptions, and the price now reflects how long your beam runs.

Add your home ZIP code in Profile so deals near home still reach you, even if you have not opened Beam in a while.

Invite friends to Beam and earn 10 Glow Points for each friend who joins.

Beam now installs its improvements in the background as soon as they are ready, so you get new features without waiting for an App Store update.

A Back button on every screen, logo upload works, phone numbers format as you type, permission prompts take you to Settings, switching modes or logging out works the same everywhere, and a fresh install has the newest features from its first launch.

Tell us about a problem from any screen, add a screenshot or a quick voice note, and get our reply right on your phone.

Get a notification when someone installs Beam through your link and the new customer is credited to you.

Bring new customers to Beam and move from Bronze to Silver to Gold, with a lower price on every beam as you climb, and your progress shown on your Dashboard.

The beam builder now shows the Growth plan allowance you have already paid for, so you know when a beam costs you nothing extra.

Smoother Google Business Profile checks, your chosen claim window is saved properly, expired claims no longer block you from claiming a deal again, and clearer messages when something goes wrong.

If a friend shares a deal from across town and you tap Claim Deal while you're too far away, Beam keeps it for you. Claim it again once you're near the shop to get your code.

Nearby now marks the deals you have already claimed or used, so you do not tap into something you already have.

The shopper's screen updates within a few seconds when a deal is redeemed at the counter, so both of you know it went through.

A faster, simpler first screen, customers shown clearly on the business live map, and a number of smaller fixes.

Add a photo to your beam straight from your camera or your photo library.

Scanning a customer's QR code to redeem a deal now works every time, an old expired claim no longer stops you from claiming a new deal, and error messages are clearer.

A Scan customer button now sits right on your live beam, so redeeming a customer's deal is one tap away.

Verification tells you how your business was verified, a valid code shows a check mark, your referral QR code scans properly, and the app keeps the right look for shoppers and businesses.

Glow Points now unlock three levels: climb to hold more deals at once, up to 10, and get early access to limited deals before everyone else.

Verify your business by connecting your Google Business Profile, taking a quick call to your listed number, or uploading a business document, and your phone number stays protected until you are verified.

You see a plain merchant agreement before you publish your first offer.

A deal a friend shares with you now opens with its photo and a live count of how many are left, and you can close it like any other screen.

Businesses are no longer charged for people a beam cannot actually reach.

The Beam logo looks the same everywhere, and a problem that stopped some people from finishing business signup is fixed.

Nearby now uses your location properly, so the beams you see are genuinely close to you.

Let Beam tell you about a deal nearby even when the app is closed; it is optional, off by default, and you can turn it off any time in Profile.

Shoppers can enter the invite code of the business that told them about Beam, or arrive through its link, and that business earns beam credits for the new customer.

The price shown while you build a beam now matches what you are charged.

The beam builder saves your work as you go, so nothing is lost if you step away.

Speed and stability fixes throughout, and the redeem screen leads with the scanner.

See time-limited deals from restaurants, cafes, bars, shops and services around you, on a map or a list, filtered by the categories you like.

Claim a deal with one tap and show your code at the counter to redeem it.

Send a deal to a friend and it opens right in their Beam app.

Earn Glow Points as you use Beam.

Create a deal, pick how far it reaches, how long it runs and how many people can claim it, with help writing the offer, then send it to people nearby.

A beam's price is set by how many people it reaches, not how big the circle is, and small beams cost a flat $5.

Track claims, redemptions and how each beam is doing on a live dashboard and map.

Check a customer's code at the counter to redeem their deal on the spot.

Top up your beam credits securely right in the app.

Deal countdowns show the right time, and a Google Business Profile that was disconnected and reconnected now shows as connected.