What's new
What's new at HappyKava
Everything we've shipped lately, for guests and for kava bars, with real screenshots.
October 2026
For guests ·
New in BULA RUSH: ten more bars, Kava Heisenberg, pick your song
Lowkey Kava, Ohana and Moon & Root join the crawl after the seven bars of The Way Home, Kava Heisenberg runs for Lowkey, and you can pick the song for every run.
For kava bars ·
Your bar's website, now a workspace
The Website page in your dashboard is a full editor now, with a live preview, every page and photo, your domain, and a way back to any published version.
For kava bars ·
Share your flyers with a link
Pick the flyers you have saved, make one link, and anyone who opens it can download or print them, no account needed.
For kava bars ·
Posters and flyers, redesigned
More than thirty poster designs you can preview with your own name and listing before you commit, a faster editor, eight sizes, and a flyer library that finds and reprints anything.
For kava bars ·
Social Studio: ready-to-post designs from your own events, deals and menu
Sixty post designs in three sizes, filled from your own events, deals, menu and reviews, each with a caption written for you.
For kava bars ·
Claiming your bar takes minutes now
Find your bar, make an account, and get verified on the spot with a plan or free with a photo of proof, with an email at every step.
September 2026
For kava bars ·
Change your plan in one place
Upgrades, downgrades and cancelling now go through one review sheet that shows the date, the price and exactly what changes, with a Keep my plan undo.
For guests ·
Travel Mode, rebuilt: pick a city, see the route
Travel Mode now opens on a city, leads with a bar that's open, and builds a route from the bars you tap.
For kava bars ·
Hosts can run your nights
Trivia, bingo, karaoke and music hosts now have their own HappyKava profile, and you decide which of them can post at your bar or run a night you already list.
For guests ·
Meet the hosts: trivia, bingo and karaoke nights now have faces
Hosts now have their own profiles in the app and on happykava.app, so you can follow the people who run your favorite nights.
For guests · For kava bars ·
happykava.app, redesigned
Every public page on happykava.app was rebuilt to answer one question fast: should I go tonight, and which bar?
For guests ·
BULA RUSH is now a bar crawl
BULA RUSH was rebuilt as a crawl through real kava bars, with runners you earn by checking in, a leaderboard at every bar and a new Daily Crawl each day.
For kava bars ·
Your bar inside BULA RUSH, and what the game does for you
Pro and MAX bars get a playable level of their own bar in BULA RUSH, plus a dashboard page with plays, players, your leaderboard and the check-ins the game brought in.
For guests · For kava bars ·
A new look for HappyKava
The HappyKava wordmark and icon from the app are now on the website, your dashboard, flyers, emails and Wallet passes.
For kava bars ·
Inbox and Analytics, rebuilt
Your Inbox is now conversation-first with search and filters, and Analytics adds orders and revenue to the numbers you already had.
August 2026
For kava bars ·
A new Home for your dashboard
Home now opens with what needs attention today, your last 30 days, live operations and quick actions, and you can arrange its widgets to suit your bar.
For kava bars ·
Your bar's own website, built from your listing
A real website for your bar, filled from the hours, menu, events and photos you already keep on HappyKava, with your own domain if you want one.
For guests ·
Kava strains: discover, compare, see who pours them nearby
The strain library has new cards, a side-by-side compare, favorites, and shows which bars near you pour each strain.
For guests ·
A fresher app: glass navigation, redesigned bar pages, one Settings
The app has a new glass bottom bar, rebuilt bar pages, My Kava in place of My Bars, and every setting in one place.
For kava bars ·
Team & Access, rebuilt
Invite your team by email or link, pick a role for each person, approve access requests and see exactly where every invitation stands.