First coffee
Try a relaxed selection while the first orders come in. Leave enough room for the person ordering and the barista to hear each other.
Listen from a guest’s seat.
Start with these calmer previews. Compare them against conversation and the sounds of your coffee machine, not just through headphones.
Keep the conversation at the table.
The espresso machine, the lunch queue and an evening conversation all share one room. Choose background music around those sounds. Start with a calm channel, then check it from a guest’s seat before opening the doors.
An example café day
Lunch service
Schedule a channel change for the busier part of the day. More energy need not mean more volume: check it with the room occupied.
Evening tables
If your café serves dinner or wine, choose a steadier pace for longer conversations. A daytime-only café can simply keep its preferred channel.
A routine that survives a shift change.
The owner sets the channels and schedule; the team opens the location’s player link. Keep the player on the venue’s device, rather than handing over somebody’s personal music account with each shift. Recheck the room after moving speakers or rearranging tables.
Your venue’s country matters.
This English page serves more than one market. Select the venue’s country beside the prices; the page language does not set its licensing rules.
For a US café, identify the actual repertoire and relevant ASCAP, BMI, SESAC or GMR coverage. For a UK café, check PPL PRS requirements for the music you use. Radio, live events and outdoor areas need their own review; the subscription covers the Oktava catalogue.
Music for your kind of business
One location or a whole network. Find a starting point for your space.
The music comes with documents.
A certificate for your business, a staff memo and a playback log, together in your account.
QR-verifiable
Named certificate
Issued to your legal entity, with a number, validity dates and a QR code that leads to a public verification page.
Certificate sample →
Staff memo
One page that tells your team what to say when someone asks about the music in the room.
Playback log
An append-only record of every track played at your location — exportable whenever you need it.
One subscription per location
What is included and how billing works
Every feature is included in the one price — there are no tiers to compare. The subscription covers the full catalog with all channels, a certificate issued to your legal entity with QR verification, the staff memo, an append-only playback log with CSV export, and a player that keeps playing offline on any device with a browser. The same price replaces both the society fees and a music service subscription: the catalog is outside society repertoires, so nothing extra is owed for the music. Each location gets its own player link and its own line in the subscription; the annual plan adds two months free, and networks get a discount automatically at checkout — 10% per location from two locations, 20% from five. The trial lasts 7 days with no card, and you can cancel anytime — the paid period stays yours.
Monthly
€15
per location, per month
Billed monthly
- Full catalog and all channels
- Offline player, any device with a browser
- Certificate, staff memo, playback log
- Cancel anytime — the paid period stays yours
Yearly
Save €30 a year€12.50
per location, per month
Billed yearly: €150
- Full catalog and all channels
- Offline player, any device with a browser
- Certificate, staff memo, playback log
- Cancel anytime — the paid period stays yours
For networks
- 2–4 locations — every location −10%
- 5 and more — every location −20%
- Applied automatically at checkout
100+ locations? Write to letters@oktava.app — we'll put together custom terms
Questions owners actually ask
Will it play familiar chart hits?
Oktava has its own catalogue. Use the previews to judge whether the sound fits your café; choose another solution if recognisable artists are essential to your concept.
Can breakfast and dinner sound different?
Yes. Set channel changes in the schedule for your actual service hours. The examples here are starting points, not a requirement to change music three times a day.
Will one setting suit the terrace and the room?
Listen in both areas. Outdoor use and separate sound areas can have different practical and licensing requirements; check the setup before treating them as one location.