An independent idea hub for small local businesses
More people through the door. Count them in.
Doorcount deals you promotion ideas that suit your kind of business, puts them on a calendar with a get-ready date, and gives you a one-tap door count, so you can see how each idea did.
The whole Idea Hub is free. Regular: $1.95/month or $19.50/year for 60 planned promotions, the calendar feed, printing and CSV. Free during preview
How it works
Three doors down the same street
No account and no email: a free board lives at a private link you bookmark.
Pick an idea
45 plain, low-cost promotions, each with steps, a budget, a lead time and what to count.
Put it on the calendar
Pick the day; Doorcount works out when to start getting ready and lines it up with the holidays.
Count the door
Tap +1 as people come in. Doorcount compares the promotion day with your usual days.
A quiet hour
One hour a week with lower music, softer light and no rush welcomes people who find busy places hard.
Under $50About an hour to set upStart 1 week ahead Open the ideaThis week, step by step
- Pick a regular hour and decide what changes: music off, lights lower, no announcements.
- Tell your staff, and post the hour by the door and on your listings.
- Keep it every week so people can plan around it.
What to count: People in the quiet hour, week by week.
A new idea every Monday, picked from the hub by the calendar.
Browse the Idea Hub
Start from what you need this month
The door count
Count the door. See how each idea did.
On the day of a promotion, tap +1 as people come in (or calls, bookings, orders: you choose what to count). Doorcount sets that day beside the same weekday in the four weeks before, and tells you plainly whether it was busier.
It never claims more than the numbers show: one good Saturday is a hint, not proof. No sensors and no cameras: you, or whoever is on the counter, tap the count. No count yet? Start with the free paper count sheet.
About 44 people a day against 33 on usual days: 11 more (+33.3%).
Four usual Saturdays, then the Saturday of a sidewalk sale. Made-up numbers, worked out by the same code your board uses.
Pricing
Free to walk in. $1.95 a month to stay.
The Idea Hub, Deal me three, printable idea sheets and a board with three planned promotions are free for good. Regular is $1.95/month or $19.50/year. Free during preview
For business groups
Run a merchants' group, a business association or a co-working space?
Point your members at the free hub. Every idea has a stable link you can put in a newsletter, and every idea prints on one page for a meeting. Nobody needs our permission, and nobody pays us anything for it.