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Your customers pick the music from a sticker on the bar top. Half of every dollar is yours. Running in a live venue today — not a concept.
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A traditional jukebox is free to you — and that's the trick. The music service takes its cut off the top, the machine's operator takes roughly half of what's left for owning the box, and you get what remains. One machine, in a corner, that half your customers never walk over to.
Where a dollar goes in a traditional jukebox.
Where a dollar goes with us: hard costs off the top, then a straight 50/50 split.
Same customers, same songs — roughly double the payout. And if you have no jukebox today, this is a revenue line you currently don't have, for zero dollars down.
~46¢ of every dollar — straight 50/50 after hard costs.
~35¢ after the licensing cut and the route operator's share of the box.
Every seat — a QR sticker on the bar top, every table, the patio.
One machine in one corner. If they don't walk over, you don't get paid.
~15 seconds: scan, pick, Apple Pay. No app, no account.
Download the app, make an account, buy a credit bundle — or feed the machine. Impulses don't survive that.
Live queue on the website — every guest sees their song's place from their own phone. A signed payment record guarantees paid songs queue even if the guest pockets their phone; anything undeliverable is flagged and made right.
Priority pile-ups can bury paid songs for an hour — it drew a class-action settlement over exactly this.
One tap pauses requests — a kill switch with a public banner, right from your phone — or schedule your band nights and it automates itself. Flip on free-request mode for slow nights.
Unplug it, or let it fight your band for the room.
From a laptop, any Tuesday. Peak, long-line, and long-song rules are dials we tune with you.
Whatever the box is set to — changes wait on the operator's next service visit.
30-day pilot, then 12 months. Leave and the library stays yours.
Multi-year amusement-operator agreements, often bundled with the pool table and darts.
Everyone orders on their own phone.
A shared touchscreen that's touched all night and wiped down… sometimes.
Figures are typical industry structures; jukebox splits and terms vary by operator and market.
A laminated QR sticker sits between every pair of seats — bar top, tables, patio. Nobody gets up, nobody downloads an app, nobody makes an account.
They search any song, pick a tier, and pay with Apple Pay or a card in about fifteen seconds. Impulse-fast — that's the point. A song that's already queued or playing can't be paid for twice.
The song joins the queue on your sound system, run by a small computer at the venue. Guests watch the live queue and a now-playing progress bar from their own phones.
Every payment is verified by a signed record from the card processor and logged in a database at the venue. Nightly reports — printable, PDF, or export — cover requests, revenue, top songs, and every tier. We settle your share monthly.
Flat-fee jukeboxes leave money on the table. When the room is busy and the queue is long, some customers will happily pay to jump it — that's the same reason the old machines sold "play next" credits. We build it in from the first song.
In our model these rules together add roughly 40–50% to request revenue versus flat prices — same guests, smarter meter. Every dial is tunable per venue, from a laptop, any Tuesday — no service visit.
Between requests, your own playlist plays like normal background music. Requests never interrupt a song mid-play — even the $20 tier waits for the current song to finish — and when the last request plays, the room returns seamlessly to your playlist, right where it left off.
Illustrative numbers at base prices. "New songs bought" falls toward zero as your library fills out — see the next page. With the smart-pricing rules on (peak / long-line / long-song), the same 127 requests gross roughly $700–750 instead.
We put roughly $500 into your venue before you've paid us a cent:
~200 songs curated to your room's vibe, bought through your own account — you own every file outright, from day one.
A small computer wired into your sound system that runs everything on-site — with a local music fallback, the room keeps playing even when the internet doesn't.
Laminated QR stickers for every seat, a printable branded QR, and the live queue page guests watch from their phones (throw it on a TV too, if you like).
Until our ~$500 setup is repaid from revenue, the split runs 75/25 in our favor. You're earning from night one — just a smaller slice, briefly.
Straight 50/50 after hard costs. A typical room repays setup in 4–8 weeks. There is never an invoice.
And here's the part no rental jukebox will ever offer: every song your customers pay for is bought into your library. Month by month, your regulars build you a music collection shaped exactly like your crowd — and it's yours to keep even if we part ways.
Owners get an admin console — on the web, or as a Windows and Android app — that runs the whole night without leaving the well:
Everything runs on the small computer at your venue — not on some cloud server that sleeps, hiccups, or takes your Friday night down with it.
This isn't a spec sheet of promises — this exact stack is running in a live venue today, taking real payments through a full production pipeline.
$0. We fund the ~$500 setup and recover it from early revenue (75/25 until repaid).
50/50 of gross after hard costs (card fees + new-song purchases), settled monthly, every line itemized.
12 months, then month-to-month. First 30 days is a pilot — if it's not working for the room, we pull the stickers and part friends.
If requests gross under $150 for two straight months, a $29/month platform fee applies — or either of us can walk. Keeps us both honest about pushing it.
The venue unit comes back to us. The music library — every song your customers funded — stays yours, forever.
We're signing a handful of pilot venues at these founding terms. The install takes an afternoon; the stickers start earning that evening.
Revenue figures on these pages are illustrative examples, not guarantees — actual results depend on traffic, nights, and how visibly the seat kit is deployed. Venue is responsible for maintaining its standard music performance licenses (ASCAP/BMI/SESAC); we provide a plain-English checklist at onboarding.