The Happy Hour Banner: How Campaign Banners Work on Your Venue Page

A happy hour banner is the smallest useful thing you can put on a venue page. Two lines of text, a start date, an end date, and it shows up on your Kafedeyim venue page exactly while it is relevant. Then it disappears on its own. That is the whole feature — and being small is the point.

Let's be precise about what a campaign banner is, because the word "campaign" makes people think of things it deliberately is not.

What it actually is

A campaign banner is five fields:

• Title — 2 to 80 characters
• Body — up to 240 characters
• Start date — optional
• End date — optional
• Active toggle — on or off

When the banner is active and today falls inside the date window, it goes live on your public venue page at /k/your-slug. Outside that window, it doesn't. You edit it in the Campaigns tab of your owner panel, and guests see it once you're on Pro — more on that split below.

You can see one live on our example venue, /en/k/demo — a fully populated Pro venue with a menu, a wheel, branding and a banner.

What it is NOT

This matters more than the feature list, so let's be blunt.

A campaign banner is not a coupon. There is no code. There is no redemption. Nothing gets marked "used". Your staff will never type anything into /en/verify because of a banner — that page exists for gift wheel coupons, which are a different mechanic entirely.

A campaign banner is purely informational. It announces; it does not transact.

And honestly? That's why it's good. Most cafe promotion isn't a discount at all. It's a fact. "We close early on the 24th." "There's a guy with a guitar here Friday at 8." A coupon system would be the wrong shape for those. A banner is exactly the right shape.

The date window is the real feature

Here's the part cafe owners tend to underrate: the start and end date mean you write the announcement once and it retires itself.

You know the chalkboard that still says "Pumpkin Spice Is Back" in February. You know the taped-up sign for an event that happened three weeks ago. Stale signage is worse than no signage — it quietly tells guests that nothing here is maintained.

A banner with an end date cannot go stale. You set it up on a Tuesday, and it vanishes on the date you chose whether or not you remember it exists. That is a small piece of your brain you get back.

You can also schedule ahead. Write your holiday hours banner in early December with a start date of December 20th, and forget about it. It'll show up on its own.

Five banners a cafe could write today

Concrete beats abstract, so here are five you could copy, tweak and ship this afternoon.

1. Happy hour

Happy Hour, 4–6pm Every Weekday All draft beer and house wine are $2 off between 4 and 6. No code, no catch — just come in and order. Yes, the patio counts.

2. A new seasonal drink

The Iced Pistachio Latte Is Here Our summer drink is back on the board: pistachio, oat milk, a lot of ice. $5.20. Available while the weather holds up.

3. Live music

Live Music This Friday, 8pm Marta's playing acoustic sets from 8 until about 10. No cover, no reservation — but the good tables go fast, so maybe don't stroll in at 7:58.

4. Holiday closure

Closed December 25th and 26th We're taking two days off to eat too much with our families. Back to normal hours on the 27th at 8am. Thanks for being lovely all year.

5. A change guests should know about

Our Terrace Reopens Monday The renovation is finally done. Twelve more seats, actual shade, and the same coffee. Come test the new chairs and tell us if we chose badly.

Notice none of those need a coupon. They need to be seen, at the right time, by someone already looking at your venue page. That's the job.

Free to configure, Pro to show

Here's the honest split, no fine print.

Writing campaign banners, scheduling them, editing them, toggling them on and off — all of that is free on every plan. Nothing is locked while you set it up.

Banners actually appearing to your guests on your venue page is a Pro feature. Pro is $19 / €19 a month (₺399 in Turkey), or 10× that for the year, which works out to two months free. There's no trial, and there's no card needed to register.

So you can sign up free, write your happy hour banner, get it scheduled and ready, and decide about Pro afterwards. And if you ever cancel, your campaign text isn't deleted — it just stops showing until you come back.

Go write one

Registration is free and takes about a minute: venue name, email, a 6-digit code we email you. No password, ever. You get a permanent venue address at /k/your-slug that never changes, so the QR codes you print stay valid forever.

Start at /en/for-business — then go write that happy hour banner. It'll take you less time than making a flat white.