Live
Discovery that moves with the night
Show up in bar search, city pages, maps, Happening Now, deals, events, and the moments guests are actually deciding where to go.
Built only for kava bars
More regulars.Fuller nights.One home for your whole bar.
HappyKava brings discovery, community, Smart Deals, ordering, marketing, loyalty, staff tools, and multi-location operations together in one platform built around how kava bars actually work.
No hardware required Free listing Plans by location
$0to claim your bar
1source of truth
3role-based staff levels
0special hardware required
Kava bars are not generic restaurants.
Your bar is a third place, a stage, a living room, a community board, and a business—all at once.
You should not need a directory app, a design app, a loyalty app, a messaging app, a website tool, a job board, a game platform, and three spreadsheets just to keep that community growing. HappyKava is the connected layer underneath it all.
The actual owner portal
Open one screen. Know what needs attention.
See discovery performance, live operations, messages, orders, your plan, sponsored opportunities, and exactly what guests see—without hunting through five systems.
- Action-first dashboard
- Live bar + staff context
- Guest storefront preview
- One path into every workspace
Live portal workspace · Not’cho Mama’s Kava Bar
Discovery + exposure
Be where guests look before they choose tonight’s bar.
Keep the facts trustworthy, then layer on the live reasons to visit: the deal, the event, the energy, the job, the story, and the community waiting inside.
Happening NowLive reasons to visit
BestKavaBar.comConnected exposure
Connected ecosystem
HappyKava + BestKavaBar
Connect your current bar details with HappyKava discovery and the wider BestKavaBar.com ecosystem—without managing disconnected profiles.
Live
A jobs board built for this industry
Publish kavatender and bar-team openings where people who already understand kava culture can find them.
Pro
Turn a great visit into the next review
Use Review Growth tools, guest signals, and follow-up workflows to build the reputation your bar has earned.
New guests from beyond the neighborhood
Turn exploration, road trips, and kava crawls into first visits.
HappyKava does more than help nearby guests choose tonight. Passport and TravelRoot give motivated kava drinkers a reason to discover your bar while they explore a city, complete a tour, or plan the next stop on a much bigger trip.
Live
A digital kava tour
HappyKava Passport
Put your bar in front of high-intent explorers who are actively looking for their next stop. Participating guests discover eligible bars, visit in person, and redeem digitally through the same staff-friendly validation flow your team already understands.
- A clear reason for a first visit
- Digital redemption through Kavatender Mode
- A natural path from explorer to Regular
Live
Travel Mode in the HappyKava app
TravelRoot
TravelRoot helps guests build kava road trips, local bar-hopping routes, and multi-stop crawls. Route-aware discovery can surface your bar alongside current hours, deals, events, menu clues, and Passport participation when it fits the trip.
- Route-aware bar discovery
- Local crawls and long-distance trips
- Live reasons to choose your stop
Route-aware discovery Digital validation First visit Future Regular
Smart Deals
A discount is forgettable. A perfectly timed reason to come in is not.
Create offers with schedules, personal windows, QR paths, staff validation, limits, and the guest context needed to turn promotion into real visits.
HappyKava Owner Portal · Smart Deals
Live
Your offer. Their schedule.
Always Happy Hour
Let guests lock in a participating offer and redeem through a clear, staff-verifiable personal window.Pro
Make a slow hour move.
Dynamic Happy Hour
Use plan-aware offer controls for demand-shaped happy hours and smarter visit incentives.Plus
Right now means right now.
Pop-Up Deals
Launch a timely offer when you want to fill the first seats, reward the room, or create a reason to come over now.Rolling out
A promo people want to play.
Spin the Bula Wheel
Create a branded wheel campaign, share its QR, and turn prizes into secure Deal Passes your staff can validate.Built for the shift, not the screenshot. QR and numeric validation, role-aware staff tools, replay safeguards, and clear redemption history help protect the offer and keep the line moving.
Community + retention
Help people feel like regulars before everyone knows their order.
Keep the belonging alive between visits. Give your community a home for progress, conversation, announcements, rewards, and the little reasons to walk back through the door.
THE REAL PRODUCT
“A place where people know they’re welcome.”
Regulars loyalty
Build tiered, bar-specific Regulars programs with rewards, progress, staff validation, and analytics that encourage the next visit.
Bar group chats
Keep your people connected before, during, and after the night with community conversations and owner moderation.
Announcements + push
Reach followers and nearby guests with events, offers, live updates, and timely announcements—with plan-aware limits and controls.
Digital gift cards
Create prepaid demand, give guests an easy way to share your bar, and track the program from purchase through redemption.
Built-in experiences
Give them something to talk about on the ride home.
HappyKava turns the phone from a distraction into part of the room—with playable, customizable experiences that create ritual, friendly competition, and another reason to return.
WORLD-CLASS · BUILT IN
BULA BINGO LIVE
Schedule sessions, run the room, reward winners, and repeat—all from the bar portal with a guest experience designed for live kava nights.
- Live host studio
- Branded cards + prizes
- Repeatable programming
LIVE · ONLY AT YOUR BAR
BULA RUSH
A location-based mobile game with local leaderboards, bar-hop play, friendly competition, and custom MAX concepts built around your scene.
ROLLING OUT
SPIN THE BULA WHEEL
Build a prize wheel, share a campaign QR, and turn the result into a Deal Pass with staff-ready validation.
Marketing + AI studio
From ‘we should post that’ to published, printed, and promoted.
HappyKava turns the information you already manage into usable marketing—and AI helps you get the setup done before the next rush.
ONE GROWTH ENGINEChoose the outcome.
Open the tool.
Open the tool.
From source to ready-to-review
AI Importer
Bring in menus, events, and deals fast. Review the results, make a few edits, and publish—without rebuilding everything by hand.
Print-ready promotion
Flyers + Printables Studio
Turn live events and deals into printable in-bar promos, QR pieces, and ready-to-share assets while the source details stay aligned.
Your next post, faster
Social Post Studio
Create sharp social-ready posts from the things already happening at your bar—then keep publishing without starting from a blank canvas.
Website Builder · Pilot
Your website should know what your bar knows.
Build and publish a modern bar site with pages, blog posts, menus, locations, design controls, SEO, redirects, and custom-domain workflows—then keep live bar data from drifting out of sync.
Pages + custom domains Design + reusable sections SEO + redirects Live website widgets
Explore website widgets yourkavabar.com
PALM & SHELLMenu Events Our storyOrder pickup
WELCOME TO YOUR THIRD PLACESlow down.
Stay awhile.
Stay awhile.
Traditional kava, botanical drinks, and good people.
TONIGHT
Open mic · 8 PMHAPPY HOUR
4–7 PM dailyTHE MENU
See what’s pouring
Open mic · 8 PMHAPPY HOUR
4–7 PM dailyTHE MENU
See what’s pouring
Turn more happy guests into visible proof.
Review Growth helps your team build the ask, automate the right follow-up, preview campaigns, and understand what is improving.
Ordering + prepaid demand
Make it easier to order now—and give guests more ways to come back.
HappyKava connects the menu, the guest, the staff queue, and the owner view. Start with practical Pickup Lite, add giftable value, and grow into the payment and delivery layers as they become available.
Pilot
Pickup Orders
Order ahead convenience. A queue your team can actually run.
Guests choose available Menu Maker items before they arrive. Your team gets one shared queue across Portal and Kavatender Mode to accept, prepare, mark ready, fulfill, pause, message, and recover orders without losing the human handoff at the bar.
Pickup Lite keeps the first step simple.During the pilot, guests order through HappyKava and pay when they pick up at the bar.
- Live availability from your menu
- Guest status and order history
- Pause, resume, support, and messaging controls
- Owner, manager, and Kavatender workflows
Live order queue
6 orders2Pending1Preparing3Ready
#10482 menu itemsPlaced 2 min agoAccept
#10474 menu itemsPreparing · 6 minIn progress
#10451 menu itemGuest notifiedReady
PlacedAcceptedReadyPicked up
Coming soon
KavaPay
Embedded payments built around kava commerce.
KavaPay is the upcoming prepaid ordering layer for supported Pickup and Delivery experiences. Bars remain the seller and merchant of record, with provider approval, direct settlement, reconciliation, and bar-by-bar rollout gates required before activation.
Implemented and default-off · production provider approval pendingBeta
HappyKava Gift Cards
Turn one guest's love for your bar into someone else's first visit.
Sell bar-specific digital gift cards, let customers share them instantly, and give staff a clear validation path. Owner reporting follows purchase, stored value, redemption, and program activity as rollout access becomes available.
Branded prepaid demand · wallet + staff redemption flowsDelivery Orders + Driver ModeComing soon
From your counter to their door—with every handoff accounted for.
HappyKava's upcoming first-party Delivery system is being designed as one connected operating loop for guests, bar teams, owners, managers, dispatchers, and eligible Drivers—not a disconnected marketplace bolted onto the side.
Owner + Manager DispatchSee readiness, assign orders, reassign, intervene, and audit.
Delegated Dispatch ModesChoose owner-only, delegated, driver-claim, or hybrid assignment.
Driver ModeClaim or accept, navigate, confirm pickup, deliver, and flag issues.
One Staff QueuePickup and Delivery stay visibly labeled in one shift workflow.
01OrderGuest submits
02PrepareBar confirms
03DispatchManager assigns
04DeliverDriver completes
Availability will remain gated by bar readiness, permissions, tender support, compliance, pilot scope, and production approval.
Operations without the bloat
Your Friday-night tools should feel as clear as your Tuesday-afternoon tools.
Run the live work—orders, staff access, redemptions, multi-location publishing, and reporting—without losing the human feel that makes your bar yours.
LIVE SHIFTEverything your team needs, nothing they don’t.
Live staff workspaceKavatender ModeLive
Everything behind the bar needs—without the owner-portal overload.
Kavatender Mode turns the HappyKava mobile app into a practical shift command center. Staff can clock in, move pickup orders, scan guest codes, see who is in the room, post the current vibe, and answer messages without digging through settings they should never need on shift.
- Clock in and out
- Run the live order queue
- Scan and validate guests
- See check-ins and Regulars
- Post the bar's current vibe
- Keep up with shift messages
Fast for staff. Reassuring for managers.Role-aware access keeps the live shift convenient while owner controls stay protected.
Pilot
Pickup ordering
Let guests order Menu Maker items ahead and give staff one live accept, prepare, ready, fulfill, pause, and support queue. Pickup Lite is pay at the bar during the pilot.
NewPreparingReadyComplete
Rolling out
Multi-bar management
Manage independent plans by location and coordinate hours, deals, events, menus, templates, staff, and portfolio insight from one account.
Pro · availability varies
POS connections
Connect supported order and POS workflows as available. HappyKava still works without a POS integration or dedicated hardware.
Live
Shift-ready staff tools
Invite owners, managers, and kavatenders; validate QR or numeric codes; and see live guest eligibility without exposing unnecessary data.
EventsOne-time and recurring
Custom QRCampaign-ready links
Guest messagingKeep the conversation going
Owner insightsVisits, redemption, engagement
Menu + availabilityCurrent everywhere
Portfolio billingMix plans by location
Promoted exposureReach beyond organic discovery
AI creative toolsLess blank-page work
Simple plans. Serious leverage.
Start free. Add power when it creates value.
Choose the right plan for each bar, mix plans across a portfolio, and change as your operation grows. Annual plans trade commitment for meaningful savings.
Free
$0/mo
Build a complete HappyKava presence and start reaching nearby guests.
Free to claim and keep- Public bar listing
- Menu, deals, events, and recurring schedules
- 1 nearby alert each week
- 2 custom Promote QR codes
- Direct guest messaging
- Digital gift cards (25% fee)
Plus
$20/mo
Run repeat-visit programs and publish instantly as your bar grows.
Billed monthly- Unlimited active events
- Always Happy Hour + 20 active Deal Passes
- First Cup, Fill the First Seats, and Popup Deals
- Core Regulars program + preorder on the way
- 5 staff accounts + bar group chat
- Digital gift cards (10% fee + reporting)
Pro
$100/mo
The complete growth toolkit for attracting guests and building regulars.
Billed monthly- Review Growth automation suite
- Promoted placements + 100 monthly credits
- Advanced Regulars, nudges, analytics, and takeover
- Dynamic Happy Hour + unlimited Deal Passes
- 25 staff accounts, advanced insights, and POS
- Digital gift cards (5% fee + branding)
MAX
$250/mo
Operate one flagship or a full portfolio with maximum reach, automation, and support.
Billed monthly- Everything in Pro
- MAX Portfolio Command Center for enrolled locations (rolling out)
- Portfolio analytics, shared templates, and staff operations (rolling out)
- 20 AI Deal/Event images per location each month
- 21 weekly alerts + 4 daily follower pushes
- Unlimited staff accounts
- Dedicated onboarding and account support
Portfolio owners can assign Free, Plus, Pro, or MAX independently by location. Volume pricing applies to eligible Pro and MAX portfolios. Feature availability can vary by rollout flag, plan entitlement, and supported integration.
Your first win is close
Claim. Import. Go live.
The setup is designed to get the basics trustworthy first, then help you add the growth tools that matter most to your bar.
Claim your bar
Find the existing listing, verify access, and invite the people who help run it.
Import the busywork
Use AI-assisted import and guided editors to bring in your menu, deals, events, photos, and details.
Turn on the live layer
Publish what is happening, activate programs, connect staff, and give guests a reason to show up now.
Straight answers
A few things bar teams usually ask.
No mystery hardware. No requirement to use every program. Start with the pieces that fit.
Do we need a POS integration or special hardware?
No. HappyKava is designed to work through the portal, the consumer app, and staff phones without requiring a POS integration or dedicated hardware.
Can multiple team members manage our bar?
Yes. Owners, managers, and kavatenders can be given role-based access so the right people can update the right things.
Does HappyKava help with our website too?
Yes. The platform includes website widget and menu parity surfaces so your public website can stay closer to your live app data.
Is Passport required to use HappyKava for bars?
No. Bars can use HappyKava without Passport. Passport is an additional discovery and conversion layer, not a requirement.
Who is this built for operationally?
It is built for independent kava bars that need better discovery, stronger program execution, and cleaner staff workflows without heavyweight restaurant software.
Can a multi-location owner choose a different plan for each bar?
Yes. An owner can mix Plus, Pro, MAX, and Free by location on one portfolio billing account. Pro and MAX volume pricing is calculated separately, and each bar keeps only the features of its assigned plan.
Your community is already doing the hard part.
Give it the platform it deserves.
Claim your bar for free. Make the profile trustworthy. Then turn on the tools that help more guests discover, visit, belong, and come back.