What we wanted to create:
Everyone wants to save money and if you are reading this you obviously want to as well. A great way to save money is using a coupon or voucher. To be honest, finding and cutting out coupons is a pain and half the time you forget to take them with you or they get lost. We thought there must be an easier way… and there is!
I have spent hours looking for coupons or vouchers in magazines and newspapers and trawling the internet and rarely found what I was looking for. When I did find one, print it out, or cut it out, I would then forget to take it. I have even bought entertainment guides and signed up to email lists in the hope to find a bargain. But the reality is it’s too hard. After experiencing the frustration I decided to try and find the perfect alternative… and I found it… Voupons!
Voupons isn't all that different from traditional paper coupons. In either case, an advertiser uses a coupon to "get a person into the store-or get an existing customer to spend more". With Voupons, however, there is one significant difference: mobile users show retailers their phone or mobile number -not a slip of paper. You also want to share great deals with your friends, family or colleagues so we make it easy to forward the Voupon to anyone.
Part shopper, part geek, all penny-wise. All of us here at Voupons really, truly love the rush of getting a great deal. Even more we love to help our friends do the same. Voupons is in its infancy, but is focused on building a suite of tools designed to help you and your friends save money. We are based on the Gold Coast, with lovely beaches and perhaps the best weather in the world. It is however not cheap to live here, so every little bit we can save helps!
Your phone is always with you so why not take advantage of this and save. You can go to Voupons.com.au and use the advance search functions to find a specific deal in a specific area. The problem we found with other online services was finding what you are looking for. For example if you typed in Restaurant in Surfers Paradise you would get listings from locations around the country. If you did find one, eventually you had to print it out and take it with you and try not to lose it or forget it.
With Voupons you can get the coupon text to you phone instantly for free! Voupons has an advanced search function that integrates a search radius and a map. You can select a postcode/ suburb and a radius around it. The other important feature is flags are shown where the business is and only in the area specified. Alerts are another great function we integrated into Voupons. You might not find what you are looking for in your area so you can set-up alerts to let you know when one comes available.
Environment
We are also very environmentally conscious and want to make people aware of printing costs and pollution relating to traditional vouchers. With the traditional coupons they often get 100’s of thousands of coupons and books printed and distributed around the country. It’s not only the paper consumption but the distribution and transport that make it so bad.
Everything is going up: petrol, interest rates and food. With the cost of living so high most people can take good advantage of discounted, everyday products and services. We wanted to come up with an idea to make saving EASY? And we did. SO... Get Vouped now !
