Dan Sedlacek had a passion for making things. This, combined with his love for hiking and a desire to honor his grandmother’s memory, pushed him to leave his stable career as an engineer and build Uphill Designs. Throughout the years, his passion helped him to persevere with his dream of handmaking and selling high quality,…
Sara worked by herself as a one-woman shoemaking business. When she finally decided to pass on her skills, she founded a school instead – and found a community of warm friends who helped her build her school, grow her business, and fill her days. This is Sara’s story of how she started the Chicago School…
In a previous blog post, we showed you how our packages feature gets you more cash flow. Some package items you sell could be pretty expensive though. To be safe, verifying the customer’s identity before handing over the item might be a good idea. You can now do this with our customer verification feature. Here’s how…
Looking for some extra cash? Well you’re in luck! With our new Packages feature, you can sell prepaid vouchers or items which customers can redeem on later visits to the store. To start, first go to the Packages tab from the menu bar. Then key in the customer’s phone number. Then select the type of…
Customers love getting rewards. Now, your customers will get notified when they get a new one. CandyBar sends out an SMS notification every time a customer earns a new reward. We’ve also enhanced the history tab and rewards given to customers now show up in the history page. This makes it easy for cashiers to figure…
We’re excited to share an update to the core CandyBar experience. Brand new interface and streamlined cashier workflow Cashiers can now log in as a customer on the cashier page and give customers stamps and redeem rewards without the customer needing to log in. The incoming requests page has been updated to focus on the customer being served, and…
We’ll be honest. We’ve always felt a little guilty about not allowing customers to cancel a stamp request once they’ve started one. When other apps do this to us, we always have some choice words for them. Today we right this wrong.