Are you running a trendy karaoke room at your venue, or planning to start one?

Good. Karaoke rooms are a terrific addition to your venues entertainment offering!

👉 To get started, you can download our free Karaoke Room Business Guide here. In the guide, we'll go through the private karaoke room business model, and top it with several insightful case studies. If you're just getting started, or need a boost to your karaoke room business, you'll find plenty of helpful info from our guide!

We are proud to have created the perfect solution to answer all needs when it comes to running karaoke in private karaoke rooms or karaoke boxes — Singa Karaoke Box Mode. Our Karaoke Box Mode customers include entertainment venues with private karaoke rooms from all across the world, from New York City (eg. AUX Karaoke Box Front Bar in Brooklyn) to Stockholm (eg. Moyagi).

Let's take a deeper look into what Singa Karaoke Box Mode is, and how can it help your karaoke room business!

What is Singa Karaoke Box Mode?

Singa Karaoke Box Mode is the newest addition to the Singa Business solutions family. It's tailored to the needs of bars, clubs, eateries, and other entertainment venues running one or more karaoke rooms.

Singa Karaoke Box Mode comes with:

  • A sleek Singa Business iPad App
  • A colossal, actively updating karaoke song catalog
  • Karaoke Room Session management and timer
  • Karaoke room user interface & modes
  • Background music
  • Smart and automated karaoke experience features
  • Venue promotion in Singa consumer app
  • Customer support via chat, email & phone and a dedicated customer success manager to help you with any and all your karaoke needs.

How to use Singa Karaoke Box Mode?

Using Singa Karaoke Box Mode is easy. To start the karaoke with the Box Mode, you only need your Singa Business Pro iPad, and your Singa Admin page.

See it from the video! How to use Karaoke Box Mode on Singa Business.

1. Activating the Karaoke Box Mode

Singa Karaoke Box plan comes with a variety of features tailored to the needs of karaoke rooms, such as session timer and booking management. To get your Singa Karaoke Box Plan, talk to our sales.

Once your plan is set up, it's time for you to activate Singa Karaoke Box Mode in your karaoke room iPads. Here's how:

  1. Make sure you have an iPad with Singa Business Pro app that is connected to a Wi-Fi.
  2. Tap "Settings"
  3. Tap "Self-service karaoke"
  4. Tap "Enable Karaoke Box Mode"

    We have added default settings for the Karaoke Box Mode, but if you want to alter the settings, choose "Override default settings", and choose then your preferred settings from the available options from "General". We recommend you to activate the following settings; Require singer's name: OFF, Select the popular version: ON, Autoplay: ON, for a smooth experience.
  5. Now, give a name to your karaoke room. You can use the name of the karaoke room, or name it based on the size, floor, etc. As long as it's easy for you to recognize!
A dashing karaoke room at The Fox, UK.
A dashing karaoke room at The Fox, UK.

2. Starting and Ending a Session

You have 2 ways to activate the karaoke session — either your staff can do it manually, or you can use pre-generated codes that you can give out to your customers.

Here's how your staff can start, end, and extend a karaoke session for your customers:

  1. Navigate to your Admin page on singa.com/business
  2. Go to "Device management"
  3. From here you see all the active iPads connected to your plan, with the names you gave them when you set them in Karaoke Box Mode (eg. Room 1, Green Room Karaoke, 16-person Karaoke Room).
  4. From "Actions" you can start a session, extend a session, or end a session at any of your karaoke rooms. This is THE view for your staff to to operate the bookings.

How to use the pre-generated codes

Using pre-genarated codes is easy: you simply hand a code to your customer either beforehand (eg. in the confirmation email) or at the venue, once the group arrives. With the code, the singers can unlock the iPad in your karaoke room — and let the singing begin!

Here's how you create the codes:

  1. Under "Device management", click "Codes" tab on the upper left side of the screen.
  2. To create a code, click "Generate new codes"
  3. Select the duration of the karaoke session (in minutes), and the number of codes you want to create, and click "Generate new codes"
  4. Now you see a set of new codes ready to be used. Simply hand them to the customers and they can unlock the karaoke room iPad for singing!
Karaoke singer at Star Karaoke karaoke room.
Karaoke singer at Star Karaoke karaoke room.

3. The timer

When you use pre-generated codes for your karaoke, you'll manage your bookings efficiently and avoid any booking going over time. While all codes are set up with a specific duration for the karaoke slot, the iPad will automatically lock after the session is over, and your customers won't be able to sing anymore.

During the entire session, your customers will see a timer in iPad's upper right corner, so that they can follow how much fun-time they have left. Of course, you can manually extend any booking, but with the codes you'll efficiently avoid sloppy ending times and overriding bookings, as they provide you with the hard-stop and lock the iPad automatically.  

4. Releasing the iPad from the Karaoke Box Mode

Karaoke room details at The Kenton Pub.
Make your spare spaces sing! A karaoke room at The Kenton Pub. 

If from any reason, you want to release your iPad from the karaoke box mode, you can easily do that. Here's how:

  1. Go to "Device management" on your Admin panel.
  2. Click Actions -> "Delete device"

Now your iPad is released from Karaoke Box Mode and can be used as regular Singa Business Pro iPad or for any other use.

You can also do this on your Singa iPad:

  1. Click the karaoke room's name in the lower right corner on the iPad
  2. Enter your Singa Business password and click "Unlock"

Now your iPad is released from the Karaoke Box Mode and all Singa Business Pro features can be used again.

If you have any further questions of how to use Singa Karaoke Box Mode, you can watch this video or contact our customer service.

Why Karaoke Rooms are having such a good moment?

During the past years, karaoke rooms have become a trendy alternative for bars, nightclubs, and other entertainment venues to add to their entertainment offering. And no wonder it's popular!

According to a recent study having a karaoke room increases venue's Return on Assets on average 12,23 percentage points. So make some good use of your spare rooms — make them sing!

Read the full study here.

To find out details about the Singa Karaoke Box Mode, navigate to our Plans & Pricing page.

To get consultation in karaoke room opportunities for your business, to chat in more detail, or get you started with a Karaoke Box Mode plan, talk to our sales! We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Happy singing!