HappyKava Pro for kava bars
Keep your POS.
Cancel the rest.
The app, the owner dashboard, your website, ordering, loyalty, reviews, posters and posts, staff tools and a game your guests play. About 31 tools, one login, $99 a month.
Or $699 a year, which works out to $58.25 a month.
One account, three places to work
Your guests, your counter and your office. Same data.
Other tools give you a login. HappyKava also puts you in the app kava drinkers already open to decide where to go today.
Where guests find you
Your HappyKava listing, in the app and on happykava.app, where 27,000+ kava drinkers check what's open and what's on.
The owner app
Kavatender Mode runs the shift from a phone: scan guests, work the order queue, post a Popup Deal.
The dashboard
Your website, the post and poster studios, reviews, team, billing and insights, at happykava.app/manage.
Real HappyKava screens, October 2026. The listing is Moon & Root Kava Bar; the dashboard is our demo bar.
Price your stack
What are you paying for right now?
Tick what you use, pick the tool, or type in what you pay. Prices are each vendor’s lowest advertised price for the plan that has the feature. Tools in one bundle, like Square Plus, are counted once.
Replace with HappyKava’s Website StudioReplace with HappyKava’s Pickup OrdersReplace with HappyKava’s Delivery OrdersReplace with HappyKava’s Regulars Rewards + PassportReplace with HappyKava’s 5-Star ReviewsReplace with HappyKava’s Social Studio + Printables StudioReplace with HappyKava’s Link in BioReplace with HappyKava alerts, announcements and messagesReplace with HappyKava’s Staff Hours + Kavatender ModeReplace with HappyKava’s Menu Maker + tracked QR codesReplace with Your HappyKava listing + Boosts from $5/dayReplace with HappyKava’s Google Business ProfileReplace with HappyKava’s Website WidgetsReplace with Your bar inside the HappyKava appOne-time costs you also skip
What it replaces
Everything around the register.
Each row shows what bars usually pay for today, what HappyKava does instead, and why it works better for a kava bar. Tap a row for the details.
Get found
Be where kava drinkers look, and look great when they find you.
5 jobs replaced
- Custom design or transfer of your current site, included on Pro
- Your own domain, with or without www
- Multi-location sites with a page per location
- Live reviews, menu and events sections
- Your menu, links and socials in one page
- Updates itself from your listing
- Tracked taps on every link
- Stays yours if a social account is suspended
- Map, Explore, Happening Now and city pages
- 24-hour City Boosts from $5, Metro from $15
- 7 to 30-day Spotlights for your bar
- Travelers routing through your city find you in TravelRoot
- Reply to Google reviews from the dashboard
- Push posts for your deals and events
- Keep hours in step with your listing
- Works on Wix, Squarespace and WordPress
- Match your colors and fonts
- Always current from your listing
Sell more
Fill a quiet afternoon and take orders before guests walk in.
7 jobs replaced
- Free on every plan for a limited time
- Orders dashboard and live queue
- Pre-orders for regulars who are on the way
- Staff alerts when an order comes in
- Early access on MAX, for eligible bars
- Same menu as pickup
- Recurring deals with auto-expiry
- Unlimited deals from Plus
- Popup Deals and First Seats on Pro
- Exclusives for app guests on every plan
- First Cup offers for first visits
- Guest unlock, QR scan or staff-required redemption
- Personal countdown per guest
- Security symbol of the day for staff to check
- Daily limits per guest
- Branded purchase and claim pages
- Redemption tracking
- Fees shown up front
- Free RSVPs are live for every bar
- Printable tickets
- Door check-in on staff phones
- Free shells, discounts or members-only deals
- Card on the guest’s phone
- Staff scan to check membership
Bring them back
Rewards, reviews and alerts that keep regulars coming back.
7 jobs replaced
- Regulars Rewards for repeat visits, from Plus
- Your own levels and perks with Regulars Pro
- HappyKava Passport stamps across bars, on every plan
- Home Bar: guests pin you to their Home screen
- Automatic review asks after visits
- Low ratings come to you first
- Happy guests repost on Google in one tap
- Read and reply to reviews on every plan
- Guest messages on every plan
- Alerts to nearby guests from Plus, daily on Pro
- Group orders and on-the-way notes
- Deal and event alerts
- Followers and alerts you keep
- Link in Bio that survives a new account
- Social Studio posts for Instagram, Facebook and TikTok
- Guest messages when DMs are gone
- Home Bar puts you on the guest’s Home screen
- Your deals, menu, events and games in one place
- Followers get your alerts
- Community Wall at your bar
- Owner moderation controls
- Group Chat (coming soon)
- Kava Crew for guests and friends (early access)
- Your bar recreated as a BULA RUSH level on Pro
- One custom playable character
- Bula Bingo and games on every plan
- Find traveling trivia and bingo hosts in Event Hosts
- Owner game report with plays and leaderboard
Look great
Posts, posters and menus made from your real deals and events.
5 jobs replaced
- Story, square and portrait sizes for Instagram, Facebook and TikTok
- Weekly lineup post made from your calendar
- Now Hiring designs
- Your own links on every post
- What’s Kava? posters for first-timers
- Table tents, door signs, counter cards
- Share saved flyers from one page
- Tracked scans on every QR
- One menu for the app, website and orders
- Kava strain availability
- AI import from a photo of your current menu
- Point a printed code at a new page anytime
- Scan counts in your dashboard
- Custom promotional artwork
- Done-for-you posts and a poster every month
- A week-long Bar Spotlight every month
- Flagship BULA RUSH level with more characters
Run the shift
Check guests in, redeem deals and clock in from one app.
6 jobs replaced- Live Check-In Sheet
- One-tap redemptions
- Order and menu bar for staff
- No guest personal details shown to scanners
- Clock-in and shift review on every plan
- Invite staff by phone or email
- Role permissions
- More staff logins on Plus and Pro, unlimited on MAX
- Job post on your listing
- Now Hiring posters and posts
- Menus, events and deals from photos or links
- You approve every draft
- Multi-location websites
- One billing account
- Lower prices per extra location
- Available on request
- Ordering links today
See what works
What needs you and how the bar is moving, every morning.
1 job replaced- Full analytics on Pro
- Outbound click tracking
- BULA RUSH plays and leaderboard
- Weekly catch-up on the dashboard Home
Works alongside Instagram
Instagram can vanish overnight. Your regulars shouldn’t.
Kava bars get flagged and suspended on Instagram, sometimes for a few days and sometimes for good, often with no clear reason. Keep posting there. Just don’t make it the only way guests can reach you.
Change it once
New hours? One edit.
Separate tools mean the same change typed in six places, and one of them always gets missed. In HappyKava your listing feeds everything else.
Only on HappyKava
Things no other software can sell you.
General restaurant software doesn’t know what a shell is. These come from building for kava bars only.
Kava drinkers, already here
You don’t build an audience from zero. People open HappyKava to decide which kava bar to visit. 27,000+ kava drinkers use it, and 9,000+ open it every day.
Your bar is a game level
BULA RUSH recreates your bar as a playable level with your own character. Guests play it, share it and come in to play on home turf.
Always Happy Hour
Every guest gets a personal timed window that staff confirm with one tap on the guest’s phone. No punch cards, no arguments.
HappyKava Passport
Guests collect stamps at kava bars and plan trips around them. Your bar becomes a stop worth driving to.
Kava strains on your menu
Show which kavas you pour today. Guests search by strain and find you when you have what they want.
Happening Now
Live vibe updates, open-now status and what’s on today, so guests choose you at the moment they’re deciding.
Home Bar
Guests pick you as their home bar and your deals, events and order button sit at the top of their Home screen.
TravelRoot
Kava drinkers on a road trip see the bars along their route. A traveler passing through becomes a visit.
Built for the kava counter
Kavatender Mode, shell sizes, the security symbol of the day and staff-confirmed redemptions are made for how kava bars actually work.
Side by side
HappyKava Pro next to the usual names.
Pick the kind of software you pay for today. Each is good at its own job. HappyKava does most of those jobs in one place, plus the kava ones nobody else does.
None of these four do 6 of these 20 jobs at all.
| Job | HappyKava Pro$99/mo | TOToast$0–$69+/mo + add-ons | SQSquare$0–$149/mo | CLClover$30–$90/mo + hardware | SPSpotOn$0–$55/mo per station |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listed where kava drinkers look | Included | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Website | Included | $Paid add-on | Included | Partly | $Paid add-on |
| Online pickup ordering | Included | $Paid add-on | Included | Included | $Paid add-on |
| Delivery | In pilot | $Paid add-on | Partly | Partly | $Paid add-on |
| Loyalty and rewards | Included | $Paid add-on | $Paid add-on | Included | $Paid add-on |
| Gift cards | In pilot | $Paid add-on | Included | Included | Included |
| Review asks and replies | Included | Partly | Partly | Partly | Included |
| Alerts and announcements to guests | Included | $Paid add-on | $Paid add-on | Included | Included |
| Social posts made from your deals | Included | $Paid add-on | Not offered | Not offered | Partly |
| Printable posters with QR codes | Included | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Link in bio that updates itself | Included | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Events and free RSVPs | Included | Not offered | Partly | Not offered | $Paid add-on |
| Timed deal passes (Always Happy Hour) | Included | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Staff check-in scanner | Included | Partly | Partly | Partly | Partly |
| Time clock | Included | Included | $Paid add-on | Included | Included |
| Job posts | Included | $Paid add-on | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Your bar as a game level | Included | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Kava strain menu | Included | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Card payments and POS hardware | Not offered | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Payroll | Not offered | $Paid add-on | $Paid add-on | $Paid add-on | Partly |
| Jobs coveredout of 20 | 18incl. 2 in pilot | 2+ 9 as paid add-ons | 4+ 4 as paid add-ons | 6+ 1 as paid add-ons | 5+ 5 as paid add-ons |
Swipe the table sideways to see every column.
Delivery and Digital Gift Cards are in pilot as early access on MAX.
Rolling out
What’s in pilot and what’s next.
These open up to more bars as they’re ready. Labels say exactly where each one stands.
Delivery Orders
Delivery for eligible bars, on the same menu as pickup.
Digital Gift Cards
Branded gift cards with purchase, claim and redemption.
Google Business Profile
Reply to Google reviews and post deals and events to Google.
POS integrations
Ordering storefront links today, deeper connections as support grows.
Event Tickets
Sell tickets in the app and check them in on staff phones. Free RSVPs are live now.
Bar Memberships
Monthly or yearly memberships with a card on the guest’s phone.
Group Chat
A group chat for your regulars, with owner moderation.
Kava Crew + alerts
Guests plan meet-ups with friends and get alerts from bars they follow.
Straight answer
What you should keep.
HappyKava sits around your register and beside your socials. Keep these, and cancel the tools that do the jobs above.
Pricing
Start free. Go Pro when you’re ready.
Free
Get on the map.
$0/mo
Free to claim and keep
- Bar Page · menu, hours, photos, reviews
- 1 Deal · one deal running at a time
- Events & RSVPs · free RSVPs at the door
- 2 Staff Logins
Plus
Run your bar on HappyKava.
$16.67/mo
Billed $200 yearly · save $40
Everything in Free, plus
- Unlimited Deals · post as many as you want
- Regulars · perks for guests who keep coming
- First Cup · a welcome deal for new guests
- 2 Alerts a Week · to guests within 5 miles
- Website Widget · your deals on your own site
- No Ads · on your bar page
- 5 Staff Logins
Most bars start here
Pro
Get more people through the door.
Everything in Plus, plus
- Your Website · built for you, always up to date
- Featured Deals · a deal and an event featured every month
- Daily Alerts · to guests within 20 miles
- Popup Deals · one-hour deals for slow nights
- Always Happy Hour · guests lock in your deal
- Auto Happy Hour · deals that run when it’s quiet
- First Seats · rewards the early crowd
- Pre-Orders · drinks ready when they walk in
- Pickup Orders · order ahead, pay at pickup
- 5-Star Reviews · automatic review asks
- VIP Memberships · regulars pay monthly for perks
- Ticket Sales · sell tickets to your events
- Group Chat · one place for your regulars
- Regulars Pro · your own levels and perks
- Spin to Win · a prize wheel guests swipe
- BULA RUSH Level · your bar in our game
- Full Analytics · plus POS sync
- 25 Staff Logins · and priority support
Compare features and limits
| Feature | Free | Plus | Pro | MAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your bar onlineHow your bar publishes, appears, and stays current across HappyKava. | ||||
| Public bar listing, menu, deals & events | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Managed bar website | — | — | Included | Included |
| Publishing speed | Within 2 hours | Instant | Instant | Instant |
| Active deals & events | 1 deal · 10 events | Unlimited deals · Unlimited events | Unlimited deals · Unlimited events | Unlimited deals · Unlimited events |
| Claimable deals & RSVP events | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Ad-free profile & richer media | — | 15 photos | 25 photos + video | 25 photos + video |
| Attract guestsTools that help more nearby guests discover and return to your bar. | ||||
| Nearby guest alertsLet nearby guests know about your bar’s offers and events. | 1/week · 1 mi | 7/week · 5 mi | 7/week · 20 mi | 21/week · 20 mi |
| Follower notificationsSend updates to guests who follow your bar. | — | — | 1/day | 4/day |
| AI-generated promotional imagesDeal and event artwork for your bar’s promotions. | — | — | — | 20/location/month |
| Promoted deal & event placements | — | — | 2 per month | 2 per week |
| Monthly promotion credits | — | — | 100 credits/month | 100 credits/month |
| Featured placement slots | — | — | 4/month | 4/month |
| Review automation & guest feedbackRecovery flows, printables, friend passes, and advanced automation | — | — | Full suite | Full suite |
| Custom Promote QR codes | 2 codes | 20 codes | 20 codes | 20 codes |
| Website widgets | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Bring guests backOffer, pass, and loyalty tools that turn visits into repeat habits. | ||||
| Always Happy Hour & Deal Passes | — | 20 active passes | Unlimited active passes | Unlimited active passes |
| First Cup Smart Deal | — | 5/day | 25/day | 25/day |
| Fill the First Seats | — | 5/day | 25/day | 25/day |
| On-demand Popup Deals | — | 25/day | Unlimited/day | Unlimited/day |
| Dynamic Happy Hour | — | — | Included | Included |
| THE BULA IS RIGHT immersive wheel3D swipe-to-spin presentation with configurable public name and sounds | — | — | Included | Included |
| Regulars program | — | Core program + return perks | Advanced ladders, perks, nudges & analytics | Advanced ladders, perks, nudges & analytics |
| Pre-check-in & drink preorders before arrival | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Bula RushYour bar and custom playable characters inside HappyKava’s game. Content requires production and publication. | ||||
| Custom bar levelSubmit your bar photos; HappyKava creates and publishes your level. | — | — | Standard custom level | Flagship level |
| Custom playable characters | — | — | Up to 1 | Up to 3 |
| Full game content refresh | — | — | — | 1 every 12 months |
| Manage multiple locationsMulti-location command, automation, creative capacity, and high-touch support. | ||||
| MAX Portfolio Command CenterRolling out for enrolled MAX locations. | — | — | — | Included |
| Cross-location analytics & comparisonsRolling out for enrolled MAX locations. | — | — | — | Included |
| Shared templates & bulk operationsRolling out for enrolled MAX locations. | — | — | — | Included |
| Portfolio staff operationsRolling out for enrolled MAX locations. | — | — | — | Included |
| Managed AI imports | — | — | 30/location/month | 100/location/month |
| MAX Brand Studio | — | — | — | Included |
| Orders, staff & supportTeam access, insights, connected revenue tools, and service level. | ||||
| Pickup Orders — order ahead and pay at pickupLimited-time offer on Free and Plus. Requires bar setup and activation. | Limited-time access | Limited-time access | Included | Included |
| Delivery OrdersRequires delivery eligibility, setup, and activation for your bar. | — | — | Subject to eligibility | Subject to eligibility |
| Staff seats/accounts | 2 total | 5 total | 25 total | Unlimited |
| Check-in sheet & staff scanner | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Check-in experience customization | — | — | Included | Included |
| Guest messaging & bar group chat | 1:1 messaging | 1:1 + group chat | 1:1 + group chat | 1:1 + group chat |
| Group chat contact import | — | — | Included | Included |
| Owner & staff insights | — | Basic owner insights | Advanced owner + staff | Advanced owner + staff |
| POS integration | — | — | Included | Included |
| Digital gift cardsProcessing fee per sale; advanced plans add branding and reporting | 25% fee | 10% fee · reporting | 5% fee · branding + reporting | 5% fee · branding + reporting |
| Support level | Standard support | Standard support | Priority support | Dedicated account support |
More than one location? Add Pro locations for $49 a month each (or $399 a year), dropping to $39 from the 11th location. Multi-location pricing
Questions
Before you cancel anything.
Do I have to switch everything on day one?
No. Most bars start with the listing, deals and events, then move the website, loyalty and reviews over one at a time. Cancel each old tool once its HappyKava version is running.
Can you move my existing website?
Yes. Pro includes a custom website design or a transfer of your current site, and you can keep your own domain.
Does HappyKava take a cut of my deals?
No. Deals, Deal Passes and Always Happy Hour are part of your plan. There’s no revenue share like coupon sites take.
What happens to pilot features?
Pilot and early access features open to more bars as they’re ready, and each one is labeled so you know what’s live today. The plan that includes each one is shown beside it.
Where do these competitor prices come from?
From each vendor’s own US pricing page, checked October 26, 2026. We use the lowest advertised price for the plan that actually includes the feature, and we count bundles like Square Plus once. A few vendors only quote prices, so those numbers come from published reviews and are labeled. Your real costs depend on your plan, contacts and add-ons, which is why every number in the calculator can be changed. The full source list is at the bottom of the page.
Is there a contract?
Monthly plans cancel any time. Yearly plans are paid up front and cost less.
One login.
One bill. Your whole bar.
Claim your bar for free, then turn on Pro when you want the rest.
Competitor prices were checked on each vendor’s US pricing page on October 26, 2026, for one location. We use the lowest advertised price for the plan that includes the feature, which is often the yearly-billed rate, so real costs are usually higher. Podium, Birdeye, Thanx, Paytronix, Toast add-ons and Yext don’t publish prices; their figures are reported by reviewers or marked as quotes. Card processing, setup fees, hardware and contract terms are not included. Ticket fees are often passed to guests. Product names belong to their owners; HappyKava is not affiliated with them.
Sources
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Feature labels: Live means available today. Pilot means running with a small group of bars. Early access means available on request. Coming soon means built and not yet open.