JiveGuests find out too late
You learn the door price when you are at the front of the queue, in the cold, with people behind you. Guest lists live in someone's group chat and depend on knowing the right person.
Pan-European nightlife · launching in Poland
Walk in. Skip the queue. Save on the door.
Venues offer a real discount on the door for the parties they want to fill. You browse those parties, claim the discount, and walk in with a QR code. You pay the venue directly — less than you would have.
Free for guestsNo booking fee18+EU-hosted
−40%
Warehouse Thursday
€15€25You save €10 with Jive
Claim discount
Guest pays Jive
€0
No fee, no subscription, no cut
Venue pays
€0.50
Per scan — only on a real entry
To bring a friend
1 tap
No account, no install for them
Door hardware
None
Staff scan on a phone they own
The problem
Nobody at the door knows what anything costs
Going out is priced by rumour. Filling a room is measured by guesswork. The two problems are the same problem, seen from opposite sides of the same door.
A quiet night costs the same
A half-empty Thursday costs a venue what a full one costs — same staff, same sound, same licence. Discounting works, but flyers and promoters cannot be measured, so nobody knows which offer actually moved anyone.
Paper codes get passed around
Screenshots are forwarded, lists are re-used, and the argument happens at the entrance while a queue builds behind it. Door staff end up arbitrating instead of working.
What Jive changesOne number, agreed in advance and visible to everyone: the venue sets the door price and the discount, the guest sees both before leaving the house, and the code either scans or it does not. The venue is billed only when somebody actually walks in.
For guests
Four steps, and none of them involve paying us
01
Browse tonight's parties
Filter by city and by genre. Every card shows the real door price, the discount and what you actually pay — before you commit to anything.
02
Claim the discount
One tap mints a QR code that belongs to you and to that party. Claiming costs nothing and commits you to nothing — if you stay home, no money moves anywhere.
03
Show it at the door
Staff scan the code on their own phone. You pay the venue the reduced price, in cash or by card, exactly as you would on any other night. Jive never touches your money.
04
Keep the record
My Tickets holds what you claimed, where you went and what you saved. Finished parties move to Past tickets on their own.
Warehouse Thursday
Thu 23:00 · €15 at the door
You save €10
What your friend does
- Opens your link in whatever browser they already have
- Taps once
- Gets their own QR code on screen
That is the whole list. No download, no sign-up, no password, no app store.
The +1
Bring someone without making them sign up
Every claim can carry one friend. Send the link over WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram or the normal share sheet — they open it in a browser and get a code of their own, scannable at the same door, on the same terms.
- One +1 per person, per party. The link works exactly once, so it cannot quietly become a group chat freebie.
- Their code is theirs. It is a separate ticket, not a copy of yours — yours still works after they use theirs.
- Tell them to screenshot it. They have no account to log back into, so the code is shown once.
At the door
Built for a basement at 2am, not for a demo
Door staff scan inside the same Jive app, switched into scanner mode. There is no second app to install, no dedicated scanner to buy, and nothing to charge overnight except the phone they already carry.
Shift codes, not accounts
Jive issues a venue per-shift login codes. A bouncer types one in and the phone becomes a scanner for that night only — the code and the device both expire at 08:00 the next morning. Nobody shares a password, and nobody has to remember to revoke a leaver.
Unambiguous verdicts
The screen answers the only question that matters, in one word, at arm's length: valid, already used, not for tonight, or expired. Staff never have to interpret an error message with a queue building behind it.
An old screenshot is worthless
A code is good for one entry. Re-issuing a ticket kills the previous one outright, so the screenshot a guest took last week — or forwarded to three friends — simply reports itself as replaced.
Signal drops; the queue doesn't
Entrances are concrete boxes. If a response is lost mid-scan the app recovers it rather than guessing — so the same guest is never billed twice to the venue, and never turned away because a packet went missing.
Why it lives in the app and not a web linkA camera pointed at a web page needs a live connection, a logged-in session and a browser that has not lost the tab. Scanning inside the app keeps the shift login, the offline recovery and the verdict screen in one place that behaves the same on every phone the venue owns.
For venues
You pay when somebody actually walks in
€0.50 per scan. Not per install, not per claim, not per month. A guest who claims a discount and stays home costs you nothing at all.
- You set the terms. Which parties, the door price, and how much comes off it. Nothing is discounted without you choosing it.
- No fixed costs. No monthly fee, no setup fee, no commission on the door take. Billing is one line per entry.
- You see what happened. A dashboard with claims, scans and exactly what you were billed — so a discount campaign is finally measurable.
- You control the door. Set how many devices may be signed in as scanners at once; extra codes are refused rather than quietly issued.
- Nothing to buy. Staff phones are the hardware.
Privacy & trust
Where you go out is nobody else's business
Hosted in the EU
Data lives in Frankfurt, under GDPR, on EU infrastructure — not shipped elsewhere and read back.
Your claims are not broadcast
A venue sees the scans at its own door and nothing else. Your ticket history, your profile and your other nights out are not visible to them, or to other guests.
18+, asked once
Jive asks your date of birth before the first claim, because the door does. Venues apply their own policy on top of it.
Deletion means deletion
Delete your account from inside the app. It removes the account — it does not park it in a disabled state.
No ad SDKs, no tracking
Jive earns from venues, per entry. There is no advertising business here, so there is no reason to follow you around.
We never see your card
You pay the venue at the door, the way you always did. No card details are collected by the app.
Where the project is
Poland first, then the rest of the map
Jive is built pan-European from the ground up — multiple cities and multiple currencies' worth of thinking from the start. It launches in Poland, properly, before it claims anywhere else. Which cities go first is still being decided.
Sign-in
Email and Google are live. Apple sign-in is next.
The app
Android builds and runs today. iOS follows once the developer account clears.
The door
Scanning, billing and the +1 all work end to end against the live backend.
Languages
English and Dutch ship today. Every string was written to survive translation, which is what the launch market needs next.
FAQ
The questions people actually ask
Guests
What does Jive cost me?
Nothing. The app is free, claiming is free, and there is no booking fee, service fee or subscription.
Jive charges the venue €0.50 when your code is scanned at the door. That is the entire business model, and it never touches you.
Do I pay for entry through the app?
No. You pay the venue directly at the door — cash or card, however that venue normally takes money — just at the reduced price. The app never asks for your card details.
What if I claim a discount and then don't go?
Nothing happens. You are not charged, the venue is not billed, and there is no penalty. Billing is triggered by a real scan at a real door, so an unused claim costs everybody nothing.
Can I use the same code twice?
No — each code admits one person, once. Scanning it again tells staff it has already been used, and shows them whether it was this door that used it.
Can I just send my QR to a friend?
It would not help them — the first scan uses it up, so whoever goes second is turned away.
Use the +1 instead. It gives your friend their own code, and yours keeps working.
My phone died / I lost the code. Now what?
A ticket can be re-issued to your account from inside the app, which mints a fresh code and cancels the old one.
If you are already at the door with a dead phone, there is no way to prove the claim is yours — so screenshot the QR before you leave home, and keep some charge in reserve.
Do I have to be 18?
Yes. Jive asks for your date of birth before your first claim. Venues also apply their own door policy, which may be stricter — Jive's check does not override theirs.
Which cities can I use it in?
Poland at launch. The first cities are still being decided — when they are, they will be listed here and in the app.
The platform was built pan-European rather than retro-fitted, so adding a city is a question of signing venues, not rewriting the app.
The door says my code isn't valid. Why?
The scanner gives staff a specific reason rather than a generic failure. The usual ones are that the code has already been scanned, that the party started too long ago for claims to still be open, or that the ticket was re-issued and this is the superseded copy.
How do I delete my account?
In the app, under Settings. It is a real deletion, not a deactivation.
Venues
What does it cost to take part?
€0.50 per scan. No monthly fee, no setup fee, no commission on your door take, and nothing to buy.
You are billed for entries, so a campaign that nobody uses costs you nothing.
Do we need special hardware?
No. Door staff use the Jive app on an ordinary phone, switched into scanner mode. There is no separate scanner app and no dedicated device.
How do bouncers sign in without a personal account?
Jive issues per-shift codes. Staff enter one, and that phone works as a scanner for the night. The code and the device both expire at 08:00 the following morning, so access ends with the shift rather than with a manual revoke you have to remember.
Can we limit how many phones scan at once?
Yes — each venue has a cap on active scanner devices. Requests past the cap are refused outright rather than silently granted, so a second door cannot appear without a decision.
Could someone reuse an old screenshot at our door?
No. Codes are single-use, and re-issuing a ticket invalidates the earlier one. A recycled screenshot identifies itself as already used or replaced.
What if we get double-billed for one guest?
You do not. A second scan of the same code is recorded as a repeat and is not billed — only the entry is. This holds even when the first scan's response was lost to bad signal.
Do we choose which nights are discounted?
Entirely. You pick the parties, the door price and the discount. Nothing is listed or discounted without you setting it.
What do we see afterwards?
A dashboard showing claims, scans and the billing line behind them — which is the part flyers and promoters have never been able to give you.
Launching in Poland
Fill the room. Fill it with people who chose you.
A discount that can be measured, at a door that can be trusted, for a price that only applies when it worked.