FOR GAME STORES
Free games in your shop. We bring the players.
Summon books players into GM-run tabletop sessions — and those sessions need a table. Offer yours and we fill it: booking, payment, reminders, refunds, and finding the players, all handled. No contract, no cut from you. Pushing players back through the doors of local game stores is half the reason Summon exists — this hobby grew up in your shop, and we want it living there again. We're starting in Birmingham and growing city by city, so the first shops in get the best seats.
THE OFFER
Three gifts, all free, no contract
Think of it as three spells cast in your favor. Every one is free, none of them tie you down, and you can walk any time.
Foot traffic that buys
Players booked into GM-run sessions show up to your shop — and players who show up buy dice, buy product, and grab snacks. A full table is a register that rings all afternoon.
A free embeddable calendar
Post your Magic nights, tournaments, and D&D events once. They show up in the Summon app AND embed on your own website through a free widget, styled to match your site. One post, two places.
Free local promotion
Your events also get listed in Crier, Birmingham's local-events app with 2,300+ local users already looking for something to do this weekend. Extra eyes on your shop, at no cost.
YOUR PART IS EASY
You open the door. We do the rest.
Your whole job is two things: offer the table space, and say yes. That's it. You don't chase sign-ups, you don't take payments, you don't answer "is there a seat left?" forty times a week.
The GM owns their schedule — they pick the systems, the nights, and the price. Summon handles the rest of the ritual: booking, payment, session reminders, refunds, and filling the empty seats so tables actually run instead of fizzling.
You provide the room. We summon the party.
THE HONEST VERSION
Why it's free for you
No catch to hunt for. We don't charge venues a dime, and we take 0% from Game Masters — GMs keep 100% of their price and 100% of their tips.
Summon earns one thing: a small flat 7.77% that the player adds on top of the GM's price at checkout. That's our entire model. So the more tables that run in your shop, the better we do — filling your seats literally is our business. Our incentives point the same direction as yours.
Prefer to take a small cut of sessions run in your space instead? Some shops do. We can add a venue fee as a line item — your call, not a requirement. The default is simply free.
Where the money goes
Your store
No platform fee, no contract. Just the register sales a full table brings in.
$0 fee
The GM
Keeps 100% of their price and 100% of tips. We take nothing.
Keeps 100%
Summon
Earns only the flat fee the player adds on top. That's the whole model.
7.77%
THE CALENDAR, LIVE
This week at your store
Here's the kind of week your calendar could show — the same view players see in the Summon app, and the same widget that embeds on your website. Post an event once, watch the seats fill in.
Every card is a booked, paid seat and a person walking through your door. Sample events shown — your real ones would live here.
This week at your store
FRI 7PM
Commander Night
SAT 2PM
D&D 5e One-Shot · GM: Kaya
SAT 6PM
Blades in the Dark · GM: Renn
SUN 1PM
Warhammer 40k League
Sample schedule for illustration.
BECOME A FOUNDING VENUE
Be one of the first shops on the map
We're building Summon in Birmingham first, then growing city by city. Founding Birmingham venues get first placement in the app and a hand-set-up calendar — we do the work with you, in person, no forms into the void. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out to get your table on the board.