FAQ for venues

We research happy hours across LA and list the ones worth sending a friend to. You didn’t sign up, and there’s nothing to pay — being listed is meant as a compliment, not a bill.

Your happy hour was taken from your own website. We never take prices from review sites or aggregators, because those are often years out of date and we’d be publishing someone else’s mistake under your name. That does mean your listing is only ever as current as that page is, which is exactly why we’d rather you took it over.

You need the six-digit code from the email we sent you. Go to the venue sign-in, start typing your venue name, enter the code, and you’re in. There’s no account to create and no password to remember.

Lost the code, or never got one? Ask usand we’ll send it to the venue again.

It means the venue itself confirmed the listing — someone with the code said these times and prices are right. That’s all it means. It isn’t a rating, a ranking, or anything you can buy.

We never award it ourselves. A listing we researched stays unticked until the venue confirms it, which is what makes the tick worth anything to the person reading it.

Sign in and press Edit happy hours. You can set a different deal for every day of the week — a wine night on Wednesday and half-price food on Tuesday show as two separate lines, not one confusing range.

Changes publish live. They’re on the map within about half a minute, with no review queue and nobody to wait for.

Email usand we’ll take the listing down. Removing a listing is the one thing we’ll do for you — we’d far rather pull it than leave people turning up expecting something you don’t run any more.

Editing is different: your happy hour is yours to change, and you can do it in the app in about two minutes. If we ever spot signs a venue has closed we write and ask first — we don’t quietly alter anybody’s details.

Because we’d be showing your venue the way a stranger’s phone camera saw it. Most photos of drinks on directory sites are badly lit, taken in a hurry, and make good places look worse than they are — and the venue in the picture never got a say.

So we send people to your website or your Instagram instead. You’ve already decided how your room should look; that work belongs on your listing rather than a guest’s snapshot of a glass.

If your site is out of date or you haven’t got one, say so — it affects what we can list about you, and it’s usually fixable.

Yes — add either in your venue details. We show one, not both: two social links side by side compete for the same tap and neither wins. If you add both you choose which one appears.

Featured venues sit at the top of their neighbourhood, ahead of every other listing — including the bar that happens to be closer — and carry a gold pin on a map of orange ones. It’s limited to a few venues per neighbourhood, because if everyone’s featured then nobody is.

It isn’t switched on yet. We’re not selling it until there are enough locals using HHNM for it to actually move your trade, because a boost that does nothing is the fastest way to lose a venue’s trust. Register interest and we’ll come to you when it’s worth having. There’s nothing to pay until you say yes.

No, and it isn’t going to. The directory only works if it’s complete, so a listing stays free. Anything we charge for later will be something extra on top — being on the map won’t be it.

Profile views is how many people opened your listing. Tap-to-directions is how many then asked for directions to you — the closest thing we can honestly measure to someone setting off. Saves and shares are people keeping you for later or sending you to a friend.

They’re yours alone. We never pool them with the bar down the road or show your figures to anyone else.

Because counting hasn’t been switched on yet. We’d rather show you a dash than a confident zero that isn’t true. The moment it’s live, the numbers start filling in.

No — and be wary of anyone who says they can. Someone can look at five venues, walk to one, and every one of those five records a tap. What we can show you honestly is how your listing performs against others nearby, which is a real number and a useful one.

Sign in and change it yourself — it takes about two minutes and publishes live. We don’t edit a venue’s happy hour on their behalf, and we wouldn’t want to: you know what you’re running tonight and we’d only be guessing. It’s your listing, and it stays that way.

Can’t get in? Email usand we’ll send your code to the venue again so you can make the change yourself.