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Turn a slow Thursday into your best Saturday.

Event Software for Bars, Breweries, and Pub Crawls

Run pub crawls, tap-takeover hunts, and multi-stop passport nights on one platform — with QR + GPS check-in, ticketing, and live maps designed to fill chairs the nights you need them filled.

No POS integration required Sponsorable by suppliers
Powering nights at 200+ independent bars and breweries
Brewline Co.
The Crooked Lamp
Foghorn Tap
Northbound Brewing
Hellcat Bar
Bayside Pub
Three nights, three reasons to throw an event

Bars use WayHopper for the slow nights and the loud ones.

Same platform, three different playbooks — pick the one that fits your week.

Passport Night

Powered by Scavenger Hunt Platform

Run a weekly multi-stop night with team registrations, QR + GPS check-ins, photo challenges, and a season-long leaderboard.

Tap Takeover Hunt

Powered by Scavenger Hunt Platform

Partner with a brewery — they take over your taps, you stamp a passport across 5 venues, the winner gets growlers.

North Side Crawl

Powered by Pub Crawl Platform

A neighborhood pub crawl with a single ticket, QR + GPS check-ins at each venue, and a leaderboard that gamifies the night. Sells out weekends.

A WayHopper Friday

Same bar, better night.

Here's what a typical takeover-hunt Friday looks like once your venue's on WayHopper.

Friday 14 Jun · Tap Takeover Hunt ● 5 VENUES · 240 TICKETS · LIVE NOW
Doors open · sponsor pours
5 PM → 6 PM
Stops 1–3
6 PM → 8 PM · 60% checked in
Stops 4–5 · winners
8 PM → 11 PM · live leaderboard
142 checked in
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
9 PM
10 PM
11 PM
Built around how bars actually run events

The stuff that makes a Saturday actually happen.

Multi-venue passports

One ticket gets a customer into all participating bars. Each stop is a QR + GPS check-in in the WayHopper app—the app supports offline check-ins when signal drops.

Sponsor-funded by suppliers

Local breweries, spirit reps and snack brands sponsor stops, prizes, and bonus pours. Your events pay for themselves before doors open.

Reusable night templates

Copy last week’s crawl or hunt, update dates and stops, and publish again. Public event pages and flyers make promotion easy.

Regulars become a roster

Every event captures opt-in emails and phone numbers tied to participation history. Build a regulars list without a punch card.

QR & photo challenges

Branded photo challenges at each stop turn your customers into the marketing department. UGC and sharable moments built in.

Photos & public pages

Check-in photos and shareable public event pages turn a good night into the next night’s marketing.

FAQ

Bar owner questions.

More in our help center, or talk to a real operator.

Do I need to integrate with my POS?

No. Each bar is a stop on your route—participants check in with QR + GPS in the WayHopper app. No POS integration required.

Who buys the tickets — you or me?

You sell tickets on WayHopper. Payments run through Stripe Connect; WayHopper collects, then pays the organizer share after the event under platform payout rules.

What if a participating bar drops out last-minute?

Remove the stop from the event in the organizer portal. Reprint or update QR materials if needed; participants who already checked in keep their progress on the remaining route.

How do we show sponsors value after the crawl?

Monitor check-ins per stop during and after the event, then share results or photo galleries with partners—concrete foot-traffic proof without a separate sponsor analytics suite.

Can I white-label the customer experience?

No — WayHopper does not offer separate white-label apps or custom domains. Your events use WayHopper public pages and the WayHopper app, with your event branding on the event itself.

Your next Saturday starts on a Tuesday.

Set up your first bar event in under an hour. Free to start. No revenue cut.