Live event POS for festivals, built for the night the cloud goes down. 50,000 attendees. Vendors changing every shift. A Wi-Fi connection nobody can promise. Zerobeat clears every transaction over the mesh and writes the menu in the time it takes to set down a coffee.
The merchant portal, AI menu builder, and station routing get a festival from contract to first transaction inside one shift. The four-week implementation belongs to a different era of festival POS.
Every iPad on the floor is a peer in a self-healing mesh. As long as any device in the venue has signal, tap-to-pay clears in real time across the mesh. When the venue goes truly dark we fall back to store-and-forward like everyone else, but the mesh's multi-uplink fallback cuts that exposure by roughly 60% in our pilot deployments without any extra hardware.
Pulse, anomalies, declining-item trends, weekly summaries, staff benchmarking. Live across every site, every show, every stage. The night writes its own performance review.
10+ tap-to-pay transactions per terminal per minute, sustained at peak. Throughput grows linearly with the size of the mesh. A 100-terminal beer garden clears more than 1,000 transactions per minute when the headliner drops.
50,000 phones in a field is a hostile environment for Wi-Fi. Cellular bonding doesn't save it either. Zerobeat's mesh routes around dead access points and finds an uplink across peer terminals so cards still authorize live, not via store-and-forward.
Hand Pulse the menu graphic from your designer, the CSV from your old POS, or the deck from your supplier. It writes the items, the modifiers, the pricing tiers, the station routing, and pushes the menu over the mesh to every terminal at the festival in the seconds it takes to set the cup down.
GMV by stage, by station, by SKU. Updated by the second from the mesh. Anomaly chips surface what just changed at this terminal. Trend cards show what's accelerating against last show. Forecasts tell you what to staff for the encore.
The best festival POS is mesh-native, offline-first, and built for festival density rather than retail. Generic cloud POS systems queue transactions during outages and put the merchant on the hook for declines. Zerobeat clears transactions live across the mesh whether or not the festival has Wi-Fi.
Yes. Every iPad is a peer in a self-healing mesh. The mesh actively finds an uplink across devices, so transactions clear live even when the festival uplink is down. When the venue is fully dark, menus, inventory, and orders stay consistent across terminals using CRDTs and reconcile when connectivity returns.
Same day. Merchant onboarding, AI menu builder, and station routing get a festival from contract signed to first transaction inside one shift. Hand Pulse a menu graphic from your designer or a CSV from your old POS and the items are live across every terminal in seconds.
10+ tap-to-pay transactions per terminal per minute at peak. Throughput grows linearly with the mesh — 100 terminals clears more than 1,000 transactions per minute when the headliner drops. Total venue throughput scales with the size of your fleet.
Yes. Pulse rebuilds the menu, the modifiers, the pricing, and the station routing per shift, per zone, per day. Push the changes over the mesh to every terminal in seconds. No vendor onboarding bottleneck.
Square and Toast are cloud-first POS systems built for coffee shops and restaurants with stable internet. Their offline modes are store-and-forward — they queue transactions and push when the network returns, exposing the merchant to every declined card. Zerobeat is mesh-first: every terminal is a full peer, the mesh routes around outages, and authorizations clear live in real time.
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