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Turn any festival or event into a game.

Yes — adding a station in your dashboard goes live the moment you save it, and a database trigger creates that station's own QR signing secret automatically, so there's no separate "activate" step to remember or forget. Your already-printed sheets for other stations are untouched — each station's signing secret is independent, so adding a new one never invalidates what you've already handed out. Head back to the QR codes page: every station gets its own printable sheet there, so you only need to print the one new page, not reprint the whole batch. It scans exactly like every other station too — a phone's own camera app opens the check-in page directly, no separate scanner app for you or your vendor to install.

Your first event on BeerZap is $0 — the full product, not a stripped-down trial — for up to 500 attendees. We ask for a card on file so we can tell a real first event apart from someone spinning up a second free one under a different name, but that card is never charged for the free event — you may briefly see a temporary $1 hold that clears automatically, used only to confirm the card is real. It's one free event per organizer, ever; every event after that is a flat, one-time per-event fee sized to your headcount, never a subscription.

It can, and we designed around it rather than pretending it won't happen: every station's capture radius can be tuned independently of the event-wide default, so a station tucked under a pavilion roof or deep in a beer tent can get a wider tolerance than one out in the open. Fifty meters is a solid starting default for most single-tent or single-venue layouts, and you can loosen or tighten any individual station from there once you've walked the actual space. And if that beer tent has a genuine dead spot: a scan or rating made with no signal is saved right on the attendee's phone and uploads automatically the moment they're back in range — anywhere on or off site, not just at one designated Wi-Fi spot. It keeps working on spotty festival Wi-Fi; it just needs a connection eventually, not constantly.

No to both. BeerZap runs entirely in the browser — attendees scan a station's QR code and they're in, capturing and rating within seconds, nothing to install and nothing to update. There's no signup form standing between the scan and the game either: that first scan quietly opens an anonymous session behind the scenes, so an attendee never sees a login screen, never types a password, and never has to hand over an email address just to play.

No — a vendor account never gets attendee-level data. What a vendor sees is the same aggregate information anyone in the room can see: their brewery's live rank, average rating, and ratings count on the public leaderboard, plus the status of their own beer and brewer submissions in your approval queue. There's no capture list, no attendee names, and no individual scan history exposed to a vendor account at any point — that data only ever goes to you, the organizer, and to the attendee about their own activity.

Bring whatever you used to print your QR sheets — laminate them if you're outdoors, since they'll be sitting on a table all day — and make sure your venue has wifi or cell coverage, since every scan and rating is checked by our server as it happens. You don't need to provide any scanning hardware: attendees capture stations with their own phone's camera, so there's nothing for you to hand out or collect back. For the finale, have a laptop or TV on hand — the results and podium screen is built for a projector and needs no login to display, so anyone who can plug in an HDMI cable can run it.