StoryTrip for local businesses — turn guests into your marketing team

How StoryTrip works

A happy guest is your best ad. Now every guest can be one.

One tap

Connect your Instagram

One tap and you’re in. Your dashboard and everything you need open straight away. Nothing to install, nothing to learn. StoryTrip is fully verified by Meta, so your account is safe.

New guests

Total reach

10,971

New followers

Total ROI

+734%

@mila.travels

1,840followers

320reach

2visits

Five minutes, once

Add your place to the map

Put your place on the map so travelers can find it, and set the reward a guest gets for posting a Story about you. You set it up once and don’t need to touch it again.

Seaside Kitchen

−30%

On the whole menu, coffee included.

From here it's automatic

Get the guests and the reach

Guests come in, post a Story tagging you, and unlock their reward at your counter. Every mention lands in your dashboard on its own — who posted, how many people saw it, and what that reach is worth.

@mila.travels

@seaside.kitchen

best breakfast on this side of the bay

@tom_hikes

@seaside.kitchen

♥ ♥ ♥

@anna.kova

@seaside.kitchen

they remembered my order from last week

@deniz.yol

@seaside.kitchen

sunset shift

@sofia_m

@seaside.kitchen

finally. pasta done right

@nina.wander

@seaside.kitchen

tiny place,
huge plates

What problems StoryTrip solves.

Ads stop when the budget does. Recommendations don’t.

Retention

Regulars can drift — even loyal guests forget to come back. Every rewarded Story is a fresh reminder that puts you back in front of your own audience: posts with real guest content have driven up to 10x higher conversion than ones without (Emplifi).

Acquisition

Your next guest is already one Story away — a regular's friend who's never heard of you, or a traveler discovering you through someone else's trip: 92% trust a recommendation from someone they know over any form of advertising (Nielsen).

Automation

Word-of-mouth used to be luck. StoryTrip turns it into something you can actually run — and it keeps happening, month after month, for as long as you're subscribed, with nothing for you to check by hand.

€

Savings

Hiring a marketer or paying a content creator adds up fast. Here, your guests create that content themselves for a small reward: 79% say user-generated content shapes what they buy, versus just 9% for paid influencer content (Stackla).

Why StoryTrip works

Influencers are paid to like you. Guests just do.

Recommended

Word-of-mouth marketing

StoryTrip guests · Organic reach

They find you themselves. Travelers browsing the map pick your venue and walk in for the offer.

It looks like a friend. Because it is one — 92% trust that over advertising (Nielsen).

Many guests, every week. Dozens of different voices, not one voice repeated.

You get guests and reach at once. Everyone who posted had walked in and redeemed the offer.

Cost of 10,000 Story views

€29

per month on the yearly plan

You are buying the channel. 10,000 views or 50,000 — still €29.

Influencer marketing

Professional influencers · Paid reach

You have to go find them. Shortlists, DMs, rates, briefs — every single time.

It looks like an ad. Staged, on-brief, and everyone recognises it.

One post at a time. One creator, one Story, and it ends there.

You get reach, and that is all. Nobody who saw it ever walked in.

Cost of 10,000 Story views

~€350^*

You are buying views. The next 10,000 cost another €350.

* How is the €350 estimated?

Nano-influencers (1K–10K followers) charge $15–75 per Instagram Story (Influencer Marketing Hub, 2026). A Story from an account that size is seen by roughly 450–1,000 people, so 10,000 views takes 10–20 Stories — €305–440 at mid-range rates. It is a benchmark estimate, not a quote.

Who StoryTrip is for

Your guests already take the photos. Make them work for you.

Cafés & restaurants

Fine dining or the corner spot — it works for restaurants, neighbourhood cafés, bars and street food stalls alike, anywhere a plate is worth a photo.

Activities & tours

From a boat trip to a sunrise hike — any tour, rafting run or watersport rental guests photograph is a fit here.

Beach clubs & bars

Anywhere with a view worth a Story — beach clubs, sunset cocktail bars, rooftop lounges — turns that view into new guests.

Hotels & stays

A big hotel or a single rental villa — guesthouses and apartments too — StoryTrip brings guests who already trust a friend's recommendation.

Rentals

Works even for a single pickup — car, scooter, boat and gear rental — every handover becomes a Story that reaches new renters.

Health, beauty & wellness

Fill quiet slots — spas, hair and nail salons, yoga studios, wellness retreats — with guests who post real before-and-after moments.

Questions about StoryTrip

01What if nobody posts?

Then it costs you nothing but the subscription — there’s no reward to hand out and no commission to pay. In practice the offer is what starts it: guests who’d never think to post will do it for a dessert, because you asked and gave them a reason.

02Isn’t this just a discount? I don’t want to train people to wait for deals.

No — it’s a reward, not an open discount. Only guests who post a public Story tagging you get it, and you decide what it is (a dessert, a drink, a discount or a free session) and how many go out per day. Your prices stay the same for everyone else, so it’s a marketing cost you cap yourself, not a cut of every bill.

03What do you get access to on my Instagram?

Only the Stories that tag you. We can’t post, can’t message anyone, and can’t read your DMs. We don’t keep copies of your guests’ Stories either — while a Story is live you see it in your dashboard, and when it expires on Instagram it’s gone from ours too. You can disconnect the account at any time.

04How do I know the Story was real and the guest actually came in?

Two separate checks. The reward stays locked until Instagram itself confirms a Story tagging your venue — not a screenshot, not our word for it. And the coupon is only redeemed when your staff scans it on the spot. No visit, no redemption.

05How much of my staff’s time does this take?

Scanning a QR code at the till. There is nothing to verify, nothing to enter, no list to keep. Setup is yours, once, and takes about five minutes.

06What if it doesn’t work for me?

You cancel and you’re off the map at the end of the paid period. No exit fee, no contract to see out, and nothing owed on the guests you already got.

Turn guests into your marketing team

How StoryTrip works