IN-STORE AUDIO FOR CHAIN STORES

Your audio.
Your rules.

In-store music, promotions, and announcements for every store in the chain.
Bring your audio. Self-host freely. Or let us handle the cloud.

Your music sources. Your infrastructure. Your choice.

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Zonecast dashboard showing location, music, campaign, and player totals in the Northstar demo account.
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AUTO PROMOTIONS BUILDER Planned for Cloud

Your next offer.
Ready to be heard.

Tell us what you’re promoting. The planned builder turns your brief into an audio campaign for your team to review, schedule, and share across stores.

Meet the promotions builder
  1. 01

    Start with the offer.

    The product, the price, the occasion. A simple brief is the starting point.

  2. 02

    Make it sound like you.

    Review the proposed message and audio before it reaches your customers.

  3. 03

    Put it in the right stores.

    Choose locations and time windows using the campaign tools already in the platform.

Campaign management in Zonecast, showing promotions, targeted zones, and daily time windows.
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Campaign management today. Automatic promotion creation is planned.

MANAGERS ON THE MOVE

Planned

A local announcement.
Straight from a phone.

Give the people on the floor a way to create announcements in the app. A closing reminder, a local update, a message for one store. Without heading back to a desk.

Explore phone announcements

YOUR AUDIO MANAGEMENT AGENT

Planned paid offering

Less clicking.
More “take care of it.”

Ask for a promotion, a new music schedule, or a plan for all your stores. We’re building a conversational agent to help manage your audio workspace through one familiar chat.

Meet your future audio agent

FREEDOM STARTS WITH THE SOURCE

Good music.
On your terms.

Use the audio you already own. Keep your library, your messages, and your programming together. We’re building connections to multiple audio sources so you can choose what works for your brand.

Explore your audio options

A PLAN FOR EVERY DAYPART

From the first coffee
to the last customer.

Build a weekly music schedule once. Reuse it across locations. Add campaign breaks, timed announcements, and quieter hours where they belong.

Each zone follows its location’s time zone, with room for its own overrides.

A guide to retail music scheduling
The Zonecast weekly music editor showing Monday through Sunday playlist time slots.
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OPEN SOURCE, BY DESIGN

Your sound.
Your software.
Your call.

Inspect the code. Adapt the workflow. Run it on infrastructure you choose. The core is MIT licensed, with the dashboard and tools to make it useful.

Get to know the open-source edition

SELF-HOSTED

Make yourself at home.

One account. Many locations and zones.
You run the infrastructure and own the setup.

Explore open source

ZONECAST CLOUD

We’ll take care of the hosting.

$1 per audio zone

Multiple accounts. Managed deployment.
Your audio workspace, without the deployment work.

Billing period to be confirmed.

Meet the cloud version

THE WHOLE PICTURE

Small details.
A more considered system.

See every feature

FIND YOUR FIT

Different ways
to set the mood.

Shopping for a licensed music catalog? Looking for control over your own audio? Start with what you actually need.

Compare the options

A few good questions.

What is Zonecast?

Zonecast is in-store audio for chain stores. The open-source workspace brings your catalogs, playlists, weekly schedules, promotions, announcements, audio zones, and device management together.

Can I manage more than one store?

Yes. A self-hosted account can contain many locations and audio zones. Zonecast Cloud also supports multiple separate accounts, so you can organize different businesses or clients without deploying each account yourself.

What is open source, and what is paid?

The core API, dashboard, storage worker, and shared packages are MIT licensed. You can run and modify them yourself. Zonecast Cloud is the paid, managed option with multiple accounts. Its orchestration service is proprietary.

Does it include music or music licenses?

No licensed music catalog is bundled with Zonecast. Bring audio you are authorized to use. A software license and music rights are separate; choose a licensed music provider if that is what you need.

Is a player app included?

The platform implements device pairing, programming sync, file delivery, and playback reporting. Native playback engines and music-provider integrations remain in development. Review the current product scope before planning a rollout.

Can it build promotions and manage my audio through chat?

The automatic promotions builder and a paid conversational agent are planned offerings. Phone announcement creation and connections to more audio sources are also planned. Today, you can manage your own audio, campaigns, schedules, and announcements through the dashboard and API.

THE FREEDOM TO MAKE IT YOURS

Your audio deserves
an open future.

Bring your sound. Keep control. Choose the hosting that fits.