Help for beta users, venue owners, bartenders, and sponsors

Common tasks

• Check in from the home page + menu.
• Edit venues from admin or owner flows, then use Find happy hour on website under the website field.
• Use your public profile settings to control what others can see.
• Follow bartenders and venues to receive activity notifications.

Troubleshooting

• If a screen looks old after an update, use Refresh app and reopen the PWA.
• If your role looks wrong, sign out and back in, then reopen Profile.
• If notifications stop working, revisit notification permission settings and rebuild subscriptions.
• If location keeps feeling wrong, verify device location permission and then reopen the app.

Roles and packages

• Patrons can follow, check in, post, and rate.
• Bartenders can maintain their public profile, post drinks, and upgrade to Bartender Pro.
• Venue owners can manage venue details, hours, and upgrades.
• Corporate sponsors can manage corporate identity and advertising plans.

Friends vs. Following

• Following is one-way and needs no approval - it's how you keep up with a bartender or venue's activity and get notified about their public check-ins.
• Friends is mutual - send a request from someone's profile, they accept it from the Social tab, and only then are you friends. Friends can see each other's phone number; nobody else can.
• Manage followers, following, friends, and pending requests all from Profile → Social.
• Your own public profile has to be turned on (Profile → Account → "Show my public profile") for other people to find and follow you through search or the Lists tab - it's off by default.
• In person with a friend? Profile → Account → "My QR Code" shows a code they can scan to send you a friend request instantly, no searching needed.

Tag Team check-ins (bartenders)

• At your own venue, tap Tag Team next to Check In to invite another bartender working there to check in together.
• They get a notification, plus a prompt - on that venue's page, or on their Home screen - to accept or decline. Nothing goes out to anyone else until they accept.
• Once accepted, it notifies the venue's followers plus both of your followers and friends, so you reach each other's audience too.
• Either of you can add shared drink specials for the night, and either can end the session early with End Tag Team.

Creating an ad

• Sponsored placements are managed from the admin/corporate tools available to your account - look for a "Sponsored" or "Ads" section.
• Each ad has a title, body, image, action link, and a target audience (locale, platform, role, and optionally location and radius).
• Ads can be scheduled with a start and end date, and given a priority so more important campaigns are shown first.
• You can see impressions and clicks for each active placement from the same screen.

Public profile vs. check-in visibility

• These are two separate switches - it's easy to mix them up.
• Public profile (Profile → Account) controls whether other people can find and open your profile at all, through search or Lists. It's off by default.
• Check-in visibility (also Profile → Account, plus a per check-in choice) controls whether a specific venue check-in shows up publicly, separately from your profile itself.
• Turning on public profile doesn't make your check-ins public, and public check-ins don't make your profile public - each one only does its own job.

Blocking someone

• Open their profile and use the block icon in the top right.
• Blocking has two independent switches: stop them from following you, and stop them from sending you friend requests. Turn on either or both.
• Blocking doesn't notify the other person.

Check in with a drink

• After checking in to a venue, you'll be prompted to log a drink too - add a photo, a name, and optionally credit the bartender who made it.
• Pick from bartenders already at that venue, choose "not sure," or add a new bartender inline if they're not listed yet.
• Logging a drink is optional - you can dismiss the prompt and just check in.

Notification settings

• Notifications are split into separate toggles - happy hour alerts, new venues nearby, bartender shift starts, posts from bartenders you follow, checked-in-nearby alerts, new followers, friend requests, and Tag Team activity from bartender friends - so you only get what you actually want.
• Find them under Profile → Notifications, and also on the Notifications screen itself.
• If push notifications stop arriving, check your device's system notification permission first, then revisit these in-app toggles.

Need a human?

If something still feels off, use the in-app feedback or bug-report flows so the report includes context from the app version you are on.