Slow day? Let’s bring the crowd to you.
Short claymation: a quiet café puts an offer on its window and a queue of happy customers forms at the door.
- Slow Monday
- Flat Tuesday arvo
- Rainy lunch
- Dead 3 pm
- Quiet winter week
- School holiday lull
How Bustlo brings them in
Three moves, all from your phone between services. You stay the boss of every one.
When are you quiet? ExampleMonTueWedThuFriSatSunMorningArvoEveningTuesday 2–4 pm is usually quiet. Fill it?You tell us when it’s slow
Mark your quiet times once: a slow morning, a flat Tuesday arvo, a dead week in winter. Bustlo learns the shape of your week.
Example2 coffees for $7
Tuesday 2–4 pm · Little Juniper
Break-even check
You’re ahead after 6 extra coffees in the two hours.
ApproveChange itWe put out an offer worth coming for
Bustlo drafts it from your confirmed prices and checks it still makes you money. Nothing goes out until you approve it.
Voucher OK
2 coffees for $7
Used just now. It can’t be scanned again.
Counter screen Example They walk in with a voucher
Each voucher works once. Your staff scan it at the counter, so you can see which offer actually brought people in.
Your regulars, back again
Customers join your list from a card on the table, and only if they tick yes. Bustlo writes the email, you see exactly what goes out, and customers get a gentle nudge to leave you a Google review.
Every Monday a short note says what worked. Numbers mean what they say: vouchers claimed online and vouchers scanned at your counter are counted separately.
To 86 regulars who said yes to emails
Quiet Thursday arvo? Come say hi
It’s two coffees for $7 between 2 and 4 this Thursday. Show this email at the counter. See you soon, Jo at Little Juniper.
Your Monday note
Example- Vouchers claimed online
- 21
- Scanned at your counter
- 14
- New people on your list
- 9
ExampleLittle Juniper
Open today 7 am – 3 pm
- Flat white$5.00
- Toastie and tomato soup$16.50
- Banana bread, butter$7.50
Your own page, with your real menu
Every offer lands on a page with your menu, hours and photos. Share the link anywhere, or print a table card or window poster with a QR code that opens it.
Your prices come from you. Change them in one place and the page, posters and offers follow.
The rules we work by
Nothing goes out without your OK
You see every offer and email exactly as it will appear. Pausing everything is one tap.
Your real food
Your photos, your prices, your menu. We don’t invent dishes or swap in stock photos.
Numbers that mean what they say
A voucher claimed online and a voucher scanned at your counter are different things. If we don’t know something, we say so.
Not ready yet? We’ll tell you
Posting straight to Facebook and Instagram from Bustlo is coming soon. Until then, you get ready-to-post packs.
Plans from A$39 a month
Every plan has every feature. Meta ads run on your own ad budget, paid to Meta on top of your plan; plan credits never pay for ads. These are pilot prices: a test, not a promise.
Starter
A$39a month
One offer at a time, set up yourself.
Regular
A$79a month
A few offers a month, with a setup call.
Busy
A$129a month
Us beside you, and ads placed for you once that’s available.
Questions owners ask
What is Bustlo?
Bustlo is marketing software for independent cafés, pubs and restaurants in Australia. It brings customers in whenever trade is slow: you mark your quiet times, Bustlo drafts an offer from your confirmed prices and checks it still makes you money, and your staff scan each single-use voucher at the counter. Plans are A$39, A$79 or A$129 a month.
How can a café or restaurant get more customers on slow days?
Pick the slow time you want to fill, give people a reason to come then that still pays (a set lunch or a free side can protect your margin better than a big discount), tell your regulars and the people walking past, and count who actually comes in. Bustlo does each of those steps with you, and nothing goes out until you approve it. Read the quiet days guide or see how it works.
How is Bustlo different from EatClub or Too Good To Go?
EatClub and Too Good To Go are apps where diners find deals across many venues. Bustlo isn’t a marketplace and has no diner audience of its own. It’s a flat monthly fee with no cut of your sales, the customers who join your list are yours, you don’t have to discount at all, and your marketing uses your own photos. A marketplace can bring you new faces; Bustlo helps you bring people back.
Does Bustlo take a commission?
No. You pay a flat monthly fee and nothing per customer, voucher or sale. If you choose to run Meta ads once they’re available, that money goes straight to Meta from your own budget, capped by you. See the plans.
We already have a marketing agency. Do we need Bustlo?
Maybe not. If someone already runs your socials, Bustlo can sit alongside them: it handles the slow-time offers, vouchers counted at the counter, your customer list and Google review requests, which most social media work doesn’t cover. If what you have is working, keep it.
Does it work for pubs and bars?
Yes. Pubs and bars use the same steps as cafés and restaurants: quiet times, offers, vouchers and emails to regulars. Bustlo doesn’t run alcohol offers: every offer is built from your food and non-alcoholic drinks.
Slow patch coming up? Let’s get you bustling.
The pilot is open to independent cafés, pubs and restaurants in Australia. We set it up with you.
