PartyUp

A night at a club usually runs on a patchwork of separate apps: one for the door, one for tables, one for PR lists, others for the bar and the tills, with stock counted by hand. At closing time the numbers don't add up and bottles go missing.

PartyUp puts the whole night in one system, from the entrance to the accounting. It runs in the browser on phones, tablets and desktops, with nothing to install, and a venue is up and running in three to seven days.

• Events & statistics

  Every event with its numbers, live and afterwards.

• VIP tables

  Bookings, minimum spend and budget for each table.

• PR lists

  Guest lists and how each PR is performing.

• QR entry

  Tickets and lists checked at the door with a scan.

• Bar orders

  Orders sent to the bar and prepared in sequence.

• Cash registers

  Tills that keep selling offline.

• Coat check

  The cloakroom managed in the same system.

• Inventory

  Stock and consumption, with the gap between expected and actual.

• Fiscal register

  Tax compliance built into the tills.

• Accounting

  Financial reporting across events.

Offline tills

A club's connection drops exactly when it's busiest. The registers keep working without it, and venues get SIM connectivity as a backup.

Privacy by design

Servers in the EU, a published GDPR data processing agreement, and end-to-end encryption with a key derived from the venue's code: archived event data can't be read, not even by PartyUp.

Built for staff on a busy night

Bartenders and door staff change often, so the interface has to be learned in five minutes, not in a training day.

No commission

Venues pay a subscription based on tills and features, and keep all of their sales.

I founded PartyUp and I design and build it, from the interface to what goes live. I do it outside my full-time job at Geckosoft, and it has never taken time away from it. Running it also taught me the side of the job that code doesn't cover: how a startup works, how to price and sell a B2B product, and how venture capital and fundraising work.

Stack

ReactLinear

Startup

MVPProduct-market fitCustomer discoveryGo-to-marketB2B salesSaaS pricingUnit economicsPitch deckFundraisingVenture capital