Revenue
New money, not moved money
A business already buying an ad can also be on the card. It is an addition to what you sell, not a discount on it.
For local newsletters
A discount card your subscribers carry on their phone, carrying offers from businesses in your town. The businesses pay you to be on it. Readers redeem at the counter in four seconds, and you can prove exactly how many walked in.
We built it for our own newsletter first, in Milton, Georgia. It runs there now. We are not selling you something we have not had to operate ourselves.
Why another surface
Most local newsletters top out at a handful of ad slots before the issue starts feeling sold. A card is a different kind of inventory: it sits outside the issue, holds as many businesses as your town has, and gets better for readers the fuller it is.
A business already buying an ad can also be on the card. It is an addition to what you sell, not a discount on it.
You hand a merchant a number that is a person who walked in and bought something. That is the number local advertisers have never been able to get.
The card belongs to subscribers. When a business promotes their offer, the only way to get it is to join your list.
The part that usually kills these
The chains' versions redeem by QR code that the business scans, so the shop needs a device, an app, and a staff member who knows where it is. That is why they die in month two. Ours needs a phone the customer is already holding.
1. The customer opens their card and taps Redeem. 2. They hand over the phone. 3. Staff type a four digit code. 4. Green means done, red means already used.
No app, no scanner, no card reader, no account, no training. One per customer is enforced in the database, so nobody uses an offer twice. Each business gets a private page showing how many people came in and when, and can cap the total before they start.
Pricing
Flat monthly by list size, plus setup. No revenue share, no per-redemption fee, and no cut of what your merchants pay you. What you sell is yours.
$500 setup
$500 setup
$750 setup
Priced per card, not per channel. If you promote one card across a newsletter, Instagram, a Facebook group and your site, that is still one card and one price. You are buying an audience, not a distribution list.
More than one publication? Each additional title runs on its own card with its own branding, merchants and dashboards, and is billed at half its own tier. A three-newsletter group at 5,000 subscribers each is $199 + $99 + $99, not $597. Five or more titles, talk to us.
Everything is included at every tier: your branding, your domain, unlimited merchants, the merchant dashboards, the newsletter block, and the reader pages. Over 50,000 subscribers on a single title, talk to us.
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