Now each deal you offer can have multiple different coupon types which is perfect for letting your businesses offer a variety of deals to entice all market segments. For example if a restaurant is offering a deal then the business owner can offer a coupon for couples, a coupon for families and a coupon to get businesses to take lunch in their establishment.

Another way you can use sub deals is to offer the same coupon but for different prices. For example a business could offer 5 coupons with a 50% discount, 10 coupons with a 25% discount and so on. This creates scarcity of the offer and encourages people to buy the deal immediately rather than waiting to see how many other people are going to buy it. Read more

QR codes were originally invented in Japan as a way to track machine parts but recently they have been adapted to contain all kinds of information that can be scanned by smartphones and specific action can be taken. In the case of GroupDeal, when your customers print out the coupons it will include a QR code which when the merchant scans it will connect to your website and instruct it that the coupon has been used. If the person tries to use the coupon again it will tell the merchant that the coupon is no longer valid.

This quick scanning method will help keep down the inevitable queues that will form from all the people using their coupons and is a much quicker way of trying to match up individual codes from the backup sheet of paper they can print out. Read more