BeansUp.

Introduction

BeansUp was a company I started back in 2016 to solve the problem of queues in coffee shops. The end result was a seamless way to pre-order, pay and collect your coffee from your favourite cafes. This was a project completed entirely by me and was a business I founded back in 2016. This was also my first experience raising venture capital.

Year

2016

Industry

Independant & Multi National Coffee Shops

Scope of work

Solo Project (Design -> Deployment)

Full Stack

UI / UX Design

Front End Dev

Back End Dev

Branding

Timeline

12 weeks

Introduction

Year

2016

Industry

Independant & Multi National Coffee Shops

Scope of work

Solo Project (Design -> Deployment)

Full Stack

UI / UX Design

Front End Dev

Back End Dev

Branding

Timeline

12 weeks

Projects Key Feature Set

Features.

Feature

(001)

iOS & Android App

(002)

One touch order and pay

(003)

Order management web dashboard

(004)

Loyalty stamps scheme

(005)

Live menu & inventory

(006)

Customisable, white-label design

(007)

Multi-location capability

(008)

Native In-App Payments

(009)

Offers and promotions

Project Highlight

£100k+ Investment Raised

Raised £100,000 private investment via a Queens University affiliate to launch the BeansUp Platform.

Ross Hamilton

Project Highlight

Awarded best in-store product

4.2% → 5.9%

Best In-Store Product - World Of Coffee Rimini, Italy - SCAE SpecialityCoffee Association Europe. An event attended by 40k people

Ross Hamilton

Project Highlight

21,000+ users across 3 countries

Google Search Ranking

Page One, Result One

Grew my business to over 21k end users and 15 coffee brands across 45+ locations and 3 countries. Built apps for the NHS Scotlands coffee chain Aroma Coffee. Also provided app solutions for one of the UK’s largest independently owned coffee chains, Bob And Berts.

Ross Hamilton

Challenges

BeansUp is a software as a service business that takes the time, expense and technical knowledge required out of creating a beautiful, fully branded mobile app for coffee shops.

Raised £100,000 private investment via a Queens University affiliate to launch the BeansUp Platform. The platform enables coffee shops both independent and multi-location to offer their customers a unique, branded, pre-order and pay, and digital loyalty apps in both the Android and iOS stores. It also offered a web-based order management dashboard for staff and managers to view and process customer app orders, and explore statistics on customer loyalty. Accepted onto InvestNI’s Propel program for up and coming businesses. Awarded Best In-Store product at the World Of Coffee even tin Rimini, Italy. First page google presence for the search ‘ mobile coffee apps'. Grew to 18,000+ app users across 45 locations in 3 countries, ‍

Live Project