The bar crawl platform
Jambo gives bar crawl organizers per-venue drink tickets, bundled ticket purchases, automated crowd messaging, and a promoter network, all in one platform. Built by people who've run bar crawls, for people who run bar crawls.
Free for organizers. Service fees apply to ticket sales.
Most ticketing platforms treat a bar crawl like a single event at a single venue. It isn't. It's a moving party with multiple checkpoints, staggered timing, drink-per-bar tracking, and a different scanner at every stop. Jambo has hosted multiple successful bar crawls on the platform, and we built generalized features to fill every gap we ran into, so the next organizer doesn't have to.
A bar crawl lives and dies by timing. Jambo lets you schedule push notifications and SMS in advance so the crowd gets a nudge the moment it's time to leave for the next bar. No scrambling, no hoarse voices, no stragglers stuck at bar three while you're at bar five.
Configure tickets that can only be scanned at a specific venue. That means you can do one drink per bar, per attendee. The ticket scans at Bar A and Bar A only. No more paper wristbands, no honor system, no arguments at the door.
Bonus tickets let you sell a single "Bar Crawl" ticket that automatically grants the buyer any number of additional tickets, like one drink ticket for each stop on the crawl, without those drink tickets ever being for sale individually.
Pay splits divide ticket revenue across multiple organizations automatically, at any percentage or fixed amount you configure. So the moment someone buys a bar crawl ticket, each participating bar's share is already on its way to their bank account. No spreadsheets, no end-of-night reconciliation, no chasing invoices the following week.
When you've got hundreds of people, jamming everyone into one bar at the same time wastes the night. Jambo lets you split attendees into separate groups by ticket type and message each group on its own schedule, so Group A is at Bar 1 while Group B is at Bar 3, and each only gets the messages relevant to them.
Set a per-ticket commission and your bar crawl shows up in Jambo's promoter marketplace. Local promoters, students, even the bartenders working the route can pick it up, share their unique link, and start selling for you, paid out weekly to their debit card.
Jambo gives you two ways to staff the door. Venue scanners are set up by each participating bar for their own location and can only scan the drink tickets meant for that venue. Host scanners are set up by you, the bar crawl creator, and can scan any ticket for any of your events. That means each bar handles its own checkpoint without you babysitting the roster, while your own crew can move with the crowd and scan anything anywhere.
Create the bar crawl event, add each participating bar as a venue, and assign scanner staff at each stop.
Make a venue-scoped drink ticket for each bar, then bundle them into your main crawl ticket using bonus tickets. One purchase, all the drinks delivered.
Pre-write your 'head to the next bar' messages for each crowd and schedule them by ticket type. Drop in scanner messages so each venue knows when the group is coming.
Set a per-ticket commission to unlock the promoter network, share your link, and watch the route fill up.
Both. Jambo is a full event ticketing platform, but several of its features were built specifically because we've hosted multiple successful bar crawls on the platform and ran into the gaps ourselves. Venue-scoped tickets, per-ticket-type message scheduling, and bonus tickets are all features that came out of running real bar crawls and noticing what was missing from existing tools.
You create a ticket pool for each participating venue (e.g. "Bar 1 Drink," "Bar 2 Drink"), and each pool is scoped to that venue's scanner. Then you bundle them into the main bar crawl ticket using bonus tickets, so anyone who buys the crawl ticket automatically receives one drink ticket per bar, with each only redeemable at the bar it's meant for.
Yes. Create a separate ticket type for each group (e.g. "Crawl A," "Crawl B"). Each group has its own scheduled messages, so Group A gets notified to head to their next stop while Group B is following a different route. The crowds stay separated but the event runs as one.
You can target messages at scanner staff specifically, not just attendees. Schedule a "crowd is on the way" push to each venue's scanner before the group arrives. They can prep, staff up, and have drinks ready.
Free for organizers. There's no monthly subscription. Jambo charges a service fee on each ticket sold (5% + $1.79), which is typically passed to the buyer. See the pricing page for full details.
You have two tools. Use pay splits to send each participating bar a share of every ticket sold, by percent or by flat amount, paid out automatically to their connected bank account. Or, because each venue's drink tickets are scanned and logged separately, you can settle drink counts with each bar after the night based on what was actually redeemed. Most organizers use a mix of both.
Attendees get a digital ticket with a QR code that works from the app or from their browser. The app gives them push notifications and the social feed; the web ticket is enough to scan in at each stop if they don't want to download anything.
Free for organizers. No monthly subscription. The platform that already knows how a bar crawl works.
Create your bar crawlQuestions? hello@jambo.app
