Question 1

Is BAR SLAP actually free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The slap is free, taking one is free, getting scanned is free, and the draw costs nothing to enter. There is no card, no minimum and no purchase attached to any part of it. The bar pays for the program because what it gets back is a record of who was in the building.

Question 2

Do I have to download an app?

Accepted Answer

No, and there will never be one. A scan opens a web page. The optional pass that tracks your standing at a room is a phone number and one tap, and it lives in the wallet already on your phone.

Question 3

Where do I find a bowl tonight?

Accepted Answer

The slap radar on barslap.com shows which rooms in the district have a bowl out, how much is still in it, and what that night's prize is at each one. The program is opening in Greater Houston, Texas first, because it only works when the rooms are close enough to share a crowd.

Question 4

What are my odds if I get scanned?

Accepted Answer

On the default modelled night, roughly 1 in 66 on the nightly prize plus about 1 in 25 on an instant tab credit, for an expected value near one dollar per scan on something that cost nothing. Every figure is an estimate shown with the assumption it came from.

Question 5

Is the code really on the front of the sticker?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A code printed on the back of a sticker somebody is wearing cannot be scanned by anyone, which would make the product pointless. It is printed on the front face beside the punchline, at high contrast, sized to scan across a table in bad light.

Question 6

I run a bar. How do I get a bowl?

Accepted Answer

The venue program page at barslap.com/venues carries the whole offer and the application. The slaps arrive at cost with no markup ever, the list of everyone who scanned inside your building is yours and exportable any day, and the first sixty days carry no program fee.