DriftBuddy Live

Run the arena. Own the night.

The business system for gaming venues, with their own player app

DriftBuddy runs a gaming venue from one live board. Every station counts down and shows what is owed, and around it sit booking, a wallet in the venue's own coin, a shop and till, tournaments, a TV loop and the venue's own player app.

Made forPS5 loungesPC cafésRacing and VR zones

Runs onWeb · iPhone · Android

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Players see their next slot, their wallet and tonight's offers in the venue's own app.

Pick a rig, a game and a time, and pay from the wallet.

Regulars chat, squad up and see who is at the arena right now.

Snacks and merch from the venue's shop, paid in its own coin.

What changes · with DriftBuddy

From how it wasto how it runs now

The difference a team feels in the first weeks, in plain words.

A notebook of who started when

Every station on one live board

Time runs over and nobody notices

A tone at 15 minutes, red at zero

Bonuses handed out at the desk

Paid and bonus credit kept apart, the owner approves

Regulars drift to the next café

Their own app, coin, ranks and cup nights

The night counted the next afternoon

The whole night in a 9 AM report

On air · 7 highlights

Run the arena.Own the night

Pick a feature from the tower, or let it run.

On airEvery station, live.CH 01

LIVETonight14 of 20 playing Collected tonight₹38,

PS5-01PS5

42:Aarav

PS5-02PS5

09:Kabir

PC-03PC

TIME UP₹180 due

Settled by UPI

RIG-01Racing rig

27:Ishaan

VR-02VR

8:00 PMBooked · Meera

PC-04PC

55:Riya

PS5-03PS5

FreeReady

RIG-02Racing rig

04:Dev

PS5-02PS5

Console froze

Free

PS5-03PS5

Free

Kabir38: · ₹200 so far

Clock and bill carried over

LVLLevel UpLVLLevel Up

Coin: LVL
Rate: 1 LVL = ₹10
Bonus: Expires in 30 days

Aarav's wallet300 LVL

240 paid60 bonus

Level Up ArenaBook a station

VRSaturday8 PM1 hour

StationVR-02 · 8 to 9 PMFrom your wallet25 LVL

Confirm booking

ReservationsSaturday

6 PM7 PM8 PM9 PM

VR-01

Sana · 2 hr

RIG-01

DevTeam Apex

VR-02

Aarav · 1 hr

New booking from the app

TournamentFriday Night Cup

Friday · 9 PM

14 of 16 teams

Payment successful₹500

Paid to Level Up Arena

UPI ref 4512 8890 1234

Amount matches
Paid to the venue
Reference is new

Team Nightowls confirmed

Morning reportLevel Up Arena · #owner

9:00 AM

Yesterday₹42,180

Players212

Sessions168

Store₹6,420

Every wallet matches its ledger

Busiest from 9 to 11 PM. The racing rigs were full all night.

Level Up ArenaTonight's rates

PS5₹100 / hr
PC₹80 / hr
Racing rig₹300 / hr
VR₹250 / hr

Level Up ArenaTop up tonight

Pay ₹1,000, play with 1,200 LVL

+200 bonus

MerchArena jersey

₹899 · scan to shop

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Live floor (the desk)

Control board: every station as a tile with who is playing, time left and the amount so far.
Floor map: stations drawn where they really stand in the room, live state on top.
Floor layout editor: owners drag stations onto a grid that mirrors the venue.
Wall screen: the live floor full-screen on a TV behind the counter, auto-refreshing.
Time-up alarms: tones at 15 and 5 minutes left, a repeating alarm once a session runs over; tiles turn amber then red.
Check-in: find a player by phone, see their wallet and flags, start a session from a station tile.
Extend or shorten a running session, with the new price shown before you confirm.
Move to another station: the session and its bill follow the player.
Fix a start time that was entered late.
Early-end rules: a free first few minutes, a minimum share, and a point from which the full plan is charged, previewed before ending.
Collect any way: cash, online, wallet, or a split of them.
Pay later and dues: everyone who owes, across sessions, top-ups and store orders, with bulk collect and limits per venue.
Customer flags: mark a player (for example, unpaid); the warning shows at check-in until resolved.
Player profile: sessions, transactions, rewards, rank, streaks and badges in one place.
Pause and resume a session.Soon

Set-up and pricing

Guided first set-up: business, location, games, stations, pricing, done.
Locations and stations, more locations on higher plans.
Game types and titles with cover art.
Pricing rules per location and game type.
Business day: late-night venues choose when the day turns over, so Friday night stays Friday.
Maintenance mode with a message for players.

Booking

Online booking from the venue website, the player web portal and the app; it lands on the floor and holds the station.
Booking rules: slot length, how far ahead, minimum notice, limits per player and per slot, deposit, online-booking discount, walk-ins, grace period, no-show and cancellation policies.
Reminder push up to an hour before the booking.

Wallet and your own coin

Coin or rupees: name the coin, set its symbol and rate, or keep plain rupees.
Top-up packs with bonuses, paid online through Razorpay or at the desk.
Bonus credit kept apart from paid money, with rules for the store and an expiry.
Give bonus, take back, correct: desk tools, with a reason the player sees.
Approvals and limits: refunds, large bonuses and corrections wait for an owner; staff limits per role.
Refunds with approve and reject.
Wallet transfers between players (Enterprise).
Wallet liability: the unplayed credit the venue still owes, said in a sentence.
Gift cards: sold at the counter, printed with a QR, redeemed into the wallet.
Collections ledger: every payment taken, by method.

Store, till and online shop

Catalogue: categories, collections, products with sizes and colours, each with its own stock, price and photos; size charts.
Inventory per location, with a morning low-stock email.
Point of sale: ring up a sale against a phone number or as a walk-in; a double tap never charges twice.
Online shop: home, collections, product pages with size guide and reviews, cart, checkout with phone sign-in, saved addresses, promo codes and the best automatic offer, wishlist, orders and invoices.
Delivery or pickup: pickup codes at the counter; a deliveries queue with packing slips and courier tracking numbers.
Returns within a window the venue sets.
GST invoices and credit notes, and a monthly GST register.
New-order chime: staff hear and see each online order.
Store reports: sales, sizes, stock.
Shop marketing: Google-ready pages, link previews, GA4 and Meta pixel only after consent.
Factory connection: merch orders go straight to a factory running Dhanest, and tracking comes back.

Players, community and growth

Lobby: the venue's own chat with channels, replies, reactions and mentions; profanity-checked names; players can report messages.
Lobby moderation: hide or remove messages, mute, with strikes (3 strikes 24-hour mute, 5 a week, 8 a ban).Soon
Tournaments: custom sign-up form, a public page with phone-verified registration, capacity and waitlist, walk-in sign-up at the desk, check-in, team export, QR poster, sign-up stats by source.
UPI entry fees: a UPI QR, then the payment screenshot is read and matched automatically.
Ranks, badges and streaks: tiers from Bronze to Diamond, rewards paid in the coin.
Referrals: codes, a bonus for both people, rules for when it unlocks.
Offers: percent, fixed or bonus-credit offers by day, time, location and game type.
Offer safety check: projects what an offer will cost a month and says which numbers are measured and which are guesses.
Campaigns: pick an audience (new, regulars, lapsed, app users and more) and send by push, SMS or email; promotions skip players who opted out.

The venue's own presence

Venue website: about, rates, top-up packs, the coin, merch, events, hours and WhatsApp, edited from the console.
Policy pages: privacy, refunds, terms, house rules.
Venue TV: one link on any smart TV loops rates, games, top-ups, the store with a QR, rewards and rules; works with the TV remote.
Own domain: yourvenue.in for everything, store.yourvenue.in for the shop.
Branding and themes: logo, colours, font, on six theme templates.
Player web portal: home, booking, wallet, history, offers, shop, tournaments, profile.

Reports and control

Analytics: overview, daily report, revenue, trends and players, by location or all.
Daily report for the desk.
9 AM owner's report in Slack: sales, players, store, checks and a short AI-written note.
Instant alerts for approvals, large credits and refunds.
Staff roles: owner, admin, manager, each with their own menu.
Audit log: every change, who made it and when (owners only).
CSV exports of daily reports, store reports, the GST register and tournament teams.
Webhooks and full data export.Soon
Player data requests and deletion.Soon

The player app · iPhone and Android

The venue,in every pocket

Each venue gets its own app under its own name in the App Store and Google Play, built from one codebase. Its colours, coin and features load live, so it changes without a store update.

Its own name and icon in the stores
Top up and pay in the venue's coin
Book a station in three taps
A lobby to chat and squad up
Ranks, badges and streaks

Their next slot, their wallet and tonight's offers

Their next slot, their wallet and tonight's offers

A rig, a game and a time, in three taps

Chat with regulars and squad up

Snacks and merch, paid in the coin

Rank, badges and streaks

The coin, top-ups and bonus

Who it's for · 4 kinds of team

Made for thenight shift

Owners, the desk and the players each get their own side of it.

Owners of PS5 lounges, PC cafés, racing-rig and VR zones

See the night's money, set prices and rules, approve what staff give away.

Front-desk managers

Start, extend and move sessions, collect cash, UPI, card or wallet, run the till.

Players

Book a station, top up, see their live session, join tournaments, chat with regulars, shop the merch.

Chains and franchises (Enterprise plan)

Many locations under one account, a view across all of them.

How it works · 5 steps

From sign-upto the first session

Fourteen days free. No hardware to buy.

01
Sign up
Pick a plan on driftbuddy.com and sign up with your phone. The 14-day trial starts.
02
Set up the venue
A short guide asks for your business, location, games, stations and prices.
03
Draw the floor
Drag your stations onto the floor plan, open the board at the desk and the wall screen on a TV.
04
Start the clock
Check in the first player, start the clock and collect when it rings.
05
Grow into it
Turn on the wallet, shop, tournaments and app as you grow, and read the night in the morning.

Under the hood · what it stands on

Built to betrusted

Runs in any browser: The desk PC, a tablet or a phone. No hardware to buy.
Hosted in India: AWS Mumbai, with Razorpay for online top-ups and shop orders.
Money checked every hour: Every wallet is matched against its ledger, every hour.
Approvals and limits: Refunds, large bonuses and corrections wait for the owner.
Each venue walled off: Its own data, staff roles and an audit log of money actions.
Quick on any phone: Saved data shows at once and refreshes behind.

Built by SanctumCloud · the same team

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