Beanstack for Everyone
Learn about all things Beanstack, whether you are from a library or a school.
Beanstack Overview
Technical Details
Site Settings
- How to create a community goal
- How data for your community goal is calculated
- How to update the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for your site
- How to change your site’s logo and colors
- How to enable or disable achievements
- How to combine minutes and books logging on the Web
- How to enable or disable the web logging timer on your site
- How to change your site's time zone
Landing Page
Reports & Insights
- How to customize the columns on a report
- Insights Data Dictionary
- How to find a report in Beanstack
- How to export a report in Beanstack
- How to add to reports to your favorites
- How to view, edit, or delete a scheduled report
- How to view data for reading list challenges
- How to create a scheduled report
- Where does my scheduled report get delivered?
- What is the difference between a cumulative scheduled report and a comparative scheduled report?
Reader Experience
- How do reading challenges work in Beanstack for readers?
- Why is my account inactive?
- How to scan a book’s ISBN on the web
- How readers participate in reading list challenges
- How readers participate in bingo reading challenges
- How readers start and maintain a reading streak
- Why is a log type now missing when I log my reading?
Book Lists
Reading Challenge Setup
- Create a challenge using Beanstack’s templates
- How to set up a challenge based on logging reading
- How to duplicate an existing challenge
- How to make a challenge available for pre-registration
- How to test a challenge
- How to make a challenge staff-only
- How to use challenge codes
- How to create a bingo reading challenge
- How to edit your bingo card layout
- How to create a reading list challenge
- How to add titles to a reading list challenge
- How to add links to titles in a reading list challenge
- How to require specific titles to complete a reading list challenge
- How to set up an activity challenge
- How to set up alternative challenges so readers must choose between one challenge or the other
- How to activate and edit a challenge template that uses a log type not enabled on your site
- 2025-2026 Reading Challenge Template Calendars
Reading Challenge FAQs
- Rather than creating a new challenge, can I just edit a past challenge’s dates?
- How can I view text box activity responses from readers?
- Can I change a challenge after it has been published?
- Why don’t I see my challenge from the reader view?
- Is it possible to un-do or reverse a challenge completion?
- If a reader is enrolled in two challenges, does the reading they log for one also count toward the other?
- Is it possible for someone to participate in more than one reading challenge at a time?
- Bingo reading challenge FAQs
- Reading list challenge FAQs
- What types of challenges can I create in Beanstack?
- Who can create reading challenges in Beanstack?
- What are challenge badges?
- Can I create concurrent challenges with different log types (e.g., one with minutes and one with books)?
- What is the difference between current, past, and archived challenges?
- Can readers log reading after a challenge ends?
- How do readers enroll in a reading challenge?
- What is the best way to set up a challenge that requires participants read specific books or genres?
- Can I share a reading challenge with other schools or libraries?
- Is it possible to make one challenge a prerequisite for another?
- Can I delete a challenge? What will happen if I do?
- Is it possible to make a template that I can then duplicate?
- At what time do reading challenges end? Can they be set to a specific time zone?
- What role levels are able to see challenges that are set to be "staff only"?
- Can I download and use images that Beanstack makes available on my site?
- Is it possible to create a challenge in which someone sets their own reading goals?
Badges
- How to earn or un-earn badges for a reader
- Badges available with Beanstack
- How to edit badge names
- How to create a logging badge
- How to create a review badge
- How to create an activity badge
- How to duplicate an activity badge
- How to embed a video in an activity badge
- How to create custom badges and badge groups
- How to edit an existing badge group
- How to use time-restricted badges
Rewards & Certificates
Tickets & Drawings
- Overview of Tickets and Ticket Drawings
- How to create a drawing
- How to run a drawing
- How to create tickets and ticket prizes in a challenge setup
- How readers can use or remove their earned tickets
- How to change the end date of a ticket prize
- How to archive a drawing
- How readers deposit tickets in the mobile app
- How to duplicate a drawing
- How to view and edit tickets on behalf of a reader
- How to view who entered tickets into a ticket drawing
Tickets & Drawings FAQs
- How are ticket drawings different from general drawings?
- How can I run a drawing so that the same person is not selected multiple times?
- When do ticket drawings close?
- Can ticket drawings be run across multiple challenges?
- What type of drawing and settings should I use for my prize drawing?
- Why can't I run a drawing for my challenge?
- Can I award extra tickets to select readers?
- Do readers get a notification when they win a drawing?
Reading Fundraisers
- How to create and edit prizes in fundraisers
- How students participate in a reading fundraiser on the web
- How to add a custom opt-in/opt-out question to your fundraiser’s donation form
- How to add cash or check donations to your reading fundraiser
- How students participate in a reading fundraiser on the mobile app
- How to get corporate sponsors
- How to create and edit donation badges
- How library readers participate in a reading fundraiser on the mobile app
- How to create a reading fundraiser
- How to allow donors to search for participating readers by name
- How to donate to a reader, library, or school during a reading fundraiser
- Best practices for a successful school reading fundraiser
- How to choose your fundraising goal
- How library readers participate in a reading fundraiser on the web
