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Buzzer alternative

The pager system your customers already carry.

Coaster buzzers were built for restaurants with tables. Market stalls need something lighter: the buyer's own phone. CraveIt shows their ticket live and texts them when the order is ready.

Pager systems

  • Hundreds of dollars upfront for a transmitter and a set of pagers
  • Pagers get dropped, greasy, lost — and walk home in pockets
  • Charging rack and spare batteries to manage every day
  • One more thing to pack, unpack and replace

CraveIt

  • The buyer's own phone is the pager — nothing to hand out or get back
  • Live ticket page shows the order moving to ready, no app to install
  • Optional text alert the moment it's ready, only if the buyer opts in
  • Free to run — no hardware, no maintenance, nothing to lose

How does it replace a buzzer?

When you take an order, the buyer gets a ticket — a QR code on their receipt or a number on a reusable card. Scanning the QR opens a live page on their phone showing the order moving from in queue, to preparing, to ready. If they choose to share their number, they also get a text the moment it's ready.

What does it cost compared to pagers?

A pager kit costs hundreds of dollars before you've served anyone, and keeps costing in replacements and batteries. CraveIt's counter, prep queue and ready board are free. Text alerts are optional and sold as prepaid SMS credits from NZ$0.20 + GST per text — you only pay when you use them.

What if a buyer doesn't have a smartphone?

The pickup board does the job the buzzer wall used to do: a big screen at your stall shows every ticket moving to ready. Buyers can watch the board, check their phone, or both.

Does it take card payments too?

No — and that's deliberate. Keep your cash box, Square, Smartpay or bank terminal for the money. CraveIt handles everything after the payment: the ticket, the kitchen queue, the board and the pickup alert.

Retire the charging rack.

Open your site in minutes and run your next market day without a single pager.

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