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Helix Passport
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We’re building a guide to the best places in the city.

Every place in the passport is a place we think is worth knowing. Every explorer gets a passport to visit and get to know each and every one of them.

If we’re reaching out to you, it’s because we think you belong here.

Tell us about your place See how it works
The city is the destination.
Helix Passport home screen showing the places that are in the guide
For you

The customer of the good place across the street, who doesn’t know you yet.

Customers who cross over

Your customers and a tattoo artist’s will never compete, but they look alike: whoever picks you over a chain also picks their barber and their dinner well. Good taste travels across trades, and that’s what the guide connects.

A reason to come back

You set the visit target and what they take home when they get there: a coffee, a dessert, a service. And if you turn on the birthday gift, your business gets an exclusive pin on the map.

Presence on the map

Your pin, your photos, your hours, your deal of the day and your social links, on the city map. With product search: someone typing “sushi”, “flowers” or “haircut” finds yours.

The other half

Being discovered is the first half. The second is letting them act on it right there.

They tap View catalog on your profile and they move to Helix One, the part of Helix Passport where they book, order, schedule or buy. It isn’t another app and there’s nothing to download: they stay in the same passport, with the same session and the same cart. And when they’re done, that purchase counts toward their visits and stamps with you.

A business profile in Helix Passport with its reward
Your profile: photos, description, your reward and the button that leads to your catalog.
Services catalog with a photo, a description and a price on each one
Your catalog with a photo, a description and a price on every item. The customer builds their order, books their appointment or buys right there.
Calendario para agendar una cita con un profesional
Appointment booking: service, professional, day and time, with open slots shown live.
About delivery. Helix Passport has no drivers of its own and does not offer a delivery service for now. If your business already has its own drivers, you can turn on delivery: orders come in through the app and your own people deliver them, with the dispatch board and live tracking included. If you don’t have drivers, it simply stays off and your customers order for pickup or eat in.
On top of that

We don’t want being in Helix to make more work for you.

Everything you need to run your business in one place, a tap away.

Point of sale: buscador, catálogo por categorías y el ticket con el total
The point of sale: search by name or code, tap what you’re selling, and the receipt builds itself. Works the same on phone, tablet and computer.
Up close

Four tools that change the everyday.

They work the same for a restaurant, a barbershop, a gym or a shop. What changes is what things are called, not the tool.

01 · Take a photo of your menu or price list and it’s loaded

You don’t have to type your catalog in by hand. Take one photo and Helix records every product or service with its description and its price. Tú you review and fix them before saving, because a misread price is real money lost. It doesn’t matter whether it’s your kitchen menu, your barbershop’s price list or the service board taped to your wall.

And from that moment your menu lives in four languages: Spanish, English, German and French. Helix translates it on its own, and translates it again every time you change a price or add something. A tourist reads it in their language with one tap, and you never have to reprint anything.

02 · A QR code at every spot in your place

Every spot in your place can carry its own code: a table, the counter, the display case, the entrance. The customer scans it and sees your full catalog, with photos, with prices and in their own language. If you have a restaurant, the code already knows which table they’re sitting at: they order right from there and it reaches the kitchen with the table number already on it, without anyone writing it down.

If you’re in another trade, that same code lets the customer browse your catalog, book an appointment or buy from their phone while they wait. And if you’d rather nobody ordered on their own, you turn that part off and the code just shows your catalog, always in all four languages.

Carta digital que ve el cliente al escanear el código QR de su mesa
What the customer sees when they scan their table’s QR: your menu with photos, the table number, the bill button and the language picker.

03 · A floor plan of your place, with the status of every spot

You lay out your place exactly as it is and add its spots: tables if you have a restaurant, chairs if you’re a barbershop, stations if you tattoo, treatment rooms, classrooms or equipment areas if you have a gym. You give each one its name and how many people it holds. During service you see the whole floor plan color-coded: what’s free, what’s taken, what has a booking on the way and what you left blocked off.

You can also move the clock forward and see how your place will look at nine at night, before anyone arrives. Whoever greets at the door holds a spot while the customer is on the way, and the manager moves things around if needed.

All we ask the customer for is the day, the time, how many people are coming and whether they prefer an area or a particular professional. Where you seat them is your call, based on how your place looks at that moment.

Plano del salón de un restaurante con 25 mesas y su estado en tiempo real
Your floor plan: every table with its capacity and status, plus the count of free, taken, upcoming and blocked.

04 · How much stock is left, what each sale costs you and what you make

You record your supplies with their cost (a kilo of shrimp, a bottle of ink, the polish, a box of gloves) and define what each product or service consumes. From then on every sale deducts what was used on its own and you see your stock in real time, without counting by hand.

Because the system knows what each thing consumes, it also shows you what it costs you and how much profit it leaves every time you sell it. And if a supply runs out, that product or service hides itself from your catalog so nobody orders it.

Inventario de insumos con existencia y costo por unidad
Your supplies with stock and cost per unit, and the button to restock.
By trade

What you get.

When you sign up you pick your trade and the app arranges itself around it. If you do two things at once, like a barbershop with a tattoo studio or a café that also sells beans, they split into tabs inside your same catalog.

Restaurant, café and bar

Kitchen, coffee shop, seafood, food truck, bakery, bar
If your business serves food, here’s what you get:
  • Digital menu with photos and prices, translated into four languages
  • A QR per table: they order from their seat and it goes straight to the kitchen
  • Kitchen display with prep times
  • Table reservations on your real floor plan, by room and time
  • Servers with their own login: their tables, their orders, splitting the bill
  • Inventory with recipes: out of an ingredient and the dish hides itself
  • Delivery only if you have your own drivers

Barbershop, salon, spa, tattoo and nails

Anything booked with a person
If your business runs on appointments, here’s what you get:
  • A schedule per professional: each chair with its barber or artist, and the customer picks who
  • Real duration per service, so two appointments never overlap
  • Add-ons that cost and take time: they add price and add minutes to the appointment
  • A deposit to hold the slot, with your own cancellation policy
  • Quote before booking: they send their idea and a reference photo, you quote it
  • Sell products alongside the service, in the same catalog
  • Board of the day: who’s working, which chair is free and who’s next

Gym, studio and clinic

Gym, yoga, CrossFit, pilates, nutrition, dental, physio
If your business runs on classes, capacity or consultations:
  • Memberships and passes: monthly, weekly, daily or a single class, paid from the phone
  • Member control: who’s current, who owes and since when
  • Classes with capacity, each with its time and its instructor
  • Capacity of the open floor live, separate from classes
  • A plan of your areas: members see how full it is before leaving home
  • Access pass on the phone, it changes every time and works only once
  • Encrypted clinical records for dentists and specialists: only you can open them

Lodging

Hotel, hostel, cabins, glamping
If your business rents nights, here’s what you get:
  • Booking by night with a check-in/check-out calendar and booked dates shown live
  • Rooms with multiple photos, nightly price and how many people fit
  • Stay add-ons: extra bed, breakfast, transport
  • Deposit on booking with the balance charged at the front desk
  • Arrivals board: check-in, check-out, no-shows and who still owes
  • Your own policy for cancellations and deposits

Tours and activities

Snorkeling, diving, fishing, kayaking, wildlife watching, city tours
If your business sells departures with limited spots:
  • Capacity per departure: each time slot with its spots, closing itself once full
  • Book with a deposit or full payment, whichever you decide
  • Passenger list for the day, with names and party size
  • Cancellation policy yours, with automatic refunds where they apply
  • Profile in four languages: tourists read your tour in their own language

Shops, services and trades

Florist, clothing, gifts, workshop, laundry, photography, events
If you sell products or do custom work:
  • Catalog with photos, variants and options per product
  • Buy for pickup, with a notice when it’s ready
  • Inventory with stock that goes down on its own with every sale
  • Fixed price or by quote, depending on the job
  • Quote thread: the customer describes it and sends photos, you reply with a price and how long it’s valid
  • Delivery only if you have your own drivers

What if your trade isn’t on this list?

Helix Passport is built from loose parts: catalog, scheduling, capacity per time slot, nights, payments, stamps. They combine according to what you do. If your business doesn’t land exactly in any of these boxes, we look at it with you and assemble it from those same parts, at no extra charge.

Price

One flat fee. No surprises.

We say it in public on purpose, so you know before we even get there that there’s no fine print and no packages to negotiate.

$350
MXN per month
  • Tax included. The price you see is the price you pay.
  • Invoicing is no problem. Ask for your invoice and we issue it.
  • No binding contract and no minimum term.

What exactly you’re paying for

The $350 a month cover your place in the guide: your profile and your location on the map, your stamps and rewards for customers, and entry into the monthly prize. That’s the price and it doesn’t change. Your first month also includes the printed material and NFC tags for your place, at no extra charge.

And the tools, in the meantime

Today they’re all included at no extra cost: point of sale, reservations, scheduling, table QR codes, a menu in four languages, inventory and costing. It stays that way while we finish tuning each trade. If they’re ever rearranged into different packages, we’ll tell you early and to your face, never from one month to the next. And whatever happens, being in Helix Passport with your spot on the map stays at $350 a month.

Your first month

The material for your place is included

With your first month we hand you, at no separate cost, everything you need so people know you’re on Helix Passport: your sidewalk sign, your counter QR stand with NFC (that carries your business code, the one used most) and 10 more NFC stickers for your tables or your digital menu. The customer taps their phone or scans the code — either way, both lead to the same place.

Questions

Frequently asked questions.

What exactly is Helix Passport?
It’s a guide to the places in the city that are worth your time, and a passport people carry to work through it. We visit every place in the guide before signing it up. When someone goes, their visit gets stamped in their passport, and once they collect the stamps that business asked for, they get the reward that business offered. For the business this is not a loyalty program: a loyalty program brings back your own customer, and this brings you the customer of another good place who didn’t know you yet.
How do you choose which places get in?
Most of the time the name reaches us through someone who has been there. Sometimes we find it ourselves, and the minimum we ask for is four stars in reviews. Then we go to the place like any customer, we pay for something and we watch how it’s run. If we liked it, that’s where we talk about the project. We don’t filter to feel special: whoever arrives with the passport trusts that what we recommend is worth their time, and that’s what makes being in it mean something.
Can I sign my business up on my own?
There’s no button to sign up and appear. Write to us and tell us about your place: if it makes sense to us we’ll go see it, and we talk from there. It takes longer than filling out a form, and that’s on purpose.
How much does it cost to be in Helix Passport?
$350 Mexican pesos a month, tax included, with an invoice if you need one. There’s no binding contract and no minimum term. That price covers your place in the guide: your profile and your pin on the map, your stamps and rewards for the customer, and entry into the prize of the month. The first month also includes the printed material and the NFC tags for your place.
Does Helix Passport take a commission per sale?
No. The monthly fee is the only thing Helix Passport charges. What you charge your customers is yours; if you take card payments, the only deduction is the payment processor’s fee, which is the same one you’d pay with any terminal.
Does Helix Passport deliver?
No. Helix Passport has no drivers and offers no delivery service. If your business already has its own drivers, you can turn on delivery: orders come in through the app and your own people deliver them, with the dispatch board and tracking included. If you don’t have drivers, your customers order for pickup or eat in.
Which cities does it work in?
The guide started in La Paz, Baja California Sur, and that’s where it gets used the most today. It gets built city by city, as we go: explorers choose where they’re exploring from and see the places in that city. If your business is in another city, write to us and we’ll look at it.
What kinds of business fit?
Restaurants, cafés and bars; barbershops, salons, spas, tattoo and nail studios; gyms, yoga studios and clinics; hotels, hostels and cabins; tours and activities; shops; and custom services such as workshops, laundries, photography and events. When you sign up you pick your trade and the app configures itself for it. If you do two things at once, they split into tabs inside your same catalog, at no extra cost.
Do I have to type in my menu dish by dish?
No. You take a photo of your menu — printed or on a chalkboard — and the AI reads the dishes with their descriptions and prices. You review and fix whatever needs it before saving, because a misread price is real money lost. From then on it translates itself into English, German and French.
What do you give me to put up in my place?
Your first month includes, at no separate cost, the material for your place: a sidewalk sign, a counter QR stand with NFC (carrying your business code, the most important one) and 10 more NFC stickers for your tables or your digital menu. The customer taps their phone or scans the code; both lead to the same place.
Do I need to buy equipment or install anything?
No. Everything runs in the browser: a phone, a tablet or a computer with internet is enough. There’s no software to install and no terminal to buy. If you already have a card terminal, you can keep using it.
Do my customers have to download an app?
No download is required: Helix Passport opens in the phone’s browser and can be saved to the home screen like any app. They do need to create their passport with their name, their phone and a PIN, which is what lets us keep their stamps.
How long until my business is ready?
Setup happens in a single session, usually the same day. We walk you through loading your trade, your catalog, your photos, your hours and your reward, we test a stamp and an order together, and we publish your profile.
How do stamps and rewards work?
You decide what you give and how many visits it takes: a coffee at two stamps, a dessert at five, whatever you prefer. A stamp is only recorded when the customer comes to your business: they show their code and your staff scans it. Monthly stamps reset each month, and progress toward your reward is kept.
The invitation

Think your place belongs in Helix?

Write to us and tell us about it. We take it from there: we go see it and we get in touch, at no cost to you. At Helix we don’t charge to visit a place, and we don’t take sponsorships for it either.

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