Kissa: Let Your Guests Cue the Records (A Listening-Bar Request App)

A jukebox for the vinyl age

Every record bar runs into the same wall on a busy night. A guest hears something they love and wants to know what it is, or they have a record in mind and want to hear it — but the booth is across the room, the music is loud, and shouting a request over a Coltrane side is nobody's idea of a good time. The requests that do get through arrive as a name half-heard and quickly forgotten.

Kissa fixes that without turning your bar into a self-service playlist. Guests scan one QR code, browse the actual crate you're spinning tonight, and cue a record from their own phone. You see every request at the booth — album art, BPM, table number, and a note — and you decide what drops next. The needle stays in your hand; the shouting stops.

It is built by the same team behind 45 Mix Trackr, for the same reason: we spend our nights around records and kept wishing the tools existed.

How a night runs

Guests scan, dig, and cue. One QR code on the table or the bar. No app to download — the guest side is a web page. They search the crate, tap a record, and cue it. They get a live queue position, a now-playing banner, and a chime when their record finally goes on.

You run the booth. The Cue is your live request queue. Each card shows the album, the BPM, the table, and any note the guest left. Mark a record played, drop the needle, or pass it — and send a one-line reply back to the guest. It is a request board that respects that you are the one curating the room.

One QR, printed once. Put it on the tables, the bar, the door. It points every guest at your crate for the night.

Your crate, without the data-entry night

The tedious part of any collection tool is getting the records in. Kissa gives you four ways, so you can pick whatever is fastest for your shelf:

• Barcode scan — point the camera at the sleeve's barcode
• Apple Music search — type the title, pull the metadata and art
• Shelf-photo recognition — photograph a row of spines and let it read them
• CSV import — bring an existing collection in one file

Records come in with art, year, genre, and BPM, and the whole crate is searchable and sortable. You can group it into themed Sets — "Soul Night," "Sunday Jazz" — and open only tonight's set with one tap, so guests cue from what you actually brought.

The parts that make it feel like a bar, not an app

• Liner Notes — your crate broken down by genre, decade, and BPM, plus the records that get cued the most. It is a quiet read on what your room actually wants.
• Tonight — the running set list of everything played, shareable as a branded card to your stories.
• Cue window & limits — open and close requests on your own schedule, and cap how many cues a guest can send.
• BPM detect — the booth listens to the room and shows the live tempo, so you can line up what comes next by feel.
• Badges and hearts — guests double-tap a heart on the record playing, and earn small badges (First Spin, Deep Cut, Crowd Pleaser) over the night. It keeps the room engaged with the music instead of the phone.

Not just for bars — DJs too

Kissa is not tied to a venue. A DJ can run it as a mobile booth at any gig: load your crate, print or show a QR, and take live requests from the floor without anyone crowding the decks. Same request queue, same control over what actually plays. If you already use 45 Mix Trackr to identify and tag the tracks in your recorded sets, Kissa is the live-room side of the same workflow.

What it costs

Kissa is free to run — a free booth holds up to 50 records, which is plenty to try a themed night. Kissa Pro ($19.99/month or $199.99/year) removes the cap and adds the things a working venue needs:

• Up to 5 staff accounts to run the booth together
• Tip links (Venmo, Cash App, Zelle) on the guest page
• Cue tickets printed on the venue's own receipt printer
• Unlimited crate, full play history, CSV export, custom accent color, and deeper Liner Notes

Music previews come via Apple Music; record data via Discogs and Deezer.

Try it tonight

If you run a listening bar, a natural-wine-and-records spot, or you DJ gigs where people always want to know "what is this" — Kissa turns that into a tap instead of a shout.