A shortlist they build themselves
A heart on anything, with no requirement to have eaten it. It becomes a filter for them, and a push audience for you: everyone who favorited something and never stamped it.
A reason to visit five restaurants, not one.
Your restaurants aren’t paying to be listed. They’re paying for people to walk in. The Passport is the reason a diner goes to the fourth and fifth place instead of stopping at the one nearest home.
The Stamp
Checked against the restaurant’s own location.
An attendee taps Get Stamp while they are at the restaurant. Their phone sends its coordinates, the server checks them against that Restaurant’s Locations, and anything out of range is turned away. In range, the stamp lands on their punch card and the count goes up.
Stamping is open through your Event’s dates, and inside any Special Hours window you configure, such as a Late Night Menu or a brunch-only deal. Outside those windows the button is disabled and names the dates.
A Stamp records being somewhere, not buying something, so it is not a proof of purchase. Collecting one without going is deliberately awkward, and the fraud rules further down this page flag the patterns that suggest somebody is trying.
Reward Tiers
You set the prizes. The app keeps score.
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You set the thresholds
A name, a description and a Stamp count. “$250 in restaurant gift cards” at ten. “Ultimate Grilling Prize Package” at twenty.
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Progress stays visible
A punch card that fills, a progress bar, and the count still to go, on the home screen and on the Passport, so it’s never more than a tap away.
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Earning a stamp is a moment
The stamp drops onto the slot it just earned, and completing a Tier sets off confetti and names the prize.
Your Tiers also write your Contest Rules page for you, prize list included, along with the “Apple is not a sponsor” language their review process requires.
Ratings & the Leaderboard
Stamp an item, and you can rate it.
When an attendee earns a Stamp for an item, they are also offered the chance to rate it, one to five stars. There is no free-text review anywhere in the product, so there is nothing to moderate.
Turn the Leaderboard on and that becomes a public Top Rated and Most Stamped, live during your event, and a post that writes itself every morning. An item needs five ratings before it can appear, so nobody takes the top slot on a single vote.
It is entirely optional and ships turned off. A public ranking also implies a bottom of the list, so whether to run one is your decision, not ours.
Sharing a punch card
Any item, or the Passport itself, into the phone’s share sheet with a branded card and a link back to your domain. Paste that link anywhere and it unfurls as your festival, not as a grey placeholder.
Prize integrity
Checks before you draw a winner.
Two rules watch the stamp log: a cap on how many Stamps one person can collect in any rolling twenty-four hours, and the travel speed their Stamps imply. Both are reported in plain language, such as 1.7 miles in one minute, about 101 mph.
Neither rule ever blocks a Stamp, and no attendee is ever told anything. We watch the reports, and anyone we flag is noted on your exports, so when you pull the list of everyone who reached the top Tier, you can sanity-check it before the draw.
Both are off unless you ask for them.
Next step
See the Passport with your own venues in it
Tell us about your event and we will talk through what your Tiers should be.