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Promotedly

Brick-and-mortar marketing

Marketing that starts at your counter

Most marketing software assumes your customers are on a website. A physical store has a better asset: people standing in front of you. Promotedly turns that moment into a customer you can reach again, with a QR card on the counter, a promotion on their phone and a code your staff can redeem in seconds.

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  • Built for physical stores
  • QR at the counter
  • Staff redemption on any device
A shop owner wraps a purchase in tissue paper at the counter of a small clothing boutique

The problem

Your best customers leave no trace

A website knows every visitor. A shop usually knows nobody: people buy, say thanks and walk out, and there's no way to invite them back.

  • Anonymous visits

    Unless they pay by card and you dig through reports, you don't know who came in or how often.

  • Tools built for online stores

    Pop-ups, wheels and email capture tools mostly assume a website checkout, not a counter.

  • Quiet days you can't fill

    Without a list of people who chose you before, a slow Tuesday has no one to call.

How Promotedly handles it

Turn a visit into a relationship

Everything is designed for the few seconds a customer spends at your counter.

  1. Put a QR card where people wait

    On the counter, the table, the window or the mirror. One brand QR code can always point to your current promotions.

  2. Give them a reason to scan

    A coupon, a scratch card, a spin of the wheel or the first stamp of a loyalty card.

  3. Redeem without a new till

    Staff look up the single-use code in the portal on any phone or tablet and mark it redeemed.

  4. Invite them back

    Customers who opted in get reward reminders and offers by email or text, sent from your brand.

A teenager in an ice-cream shop queue reacts excitedly to her phone as a friend leans in

Something to stop for

In-store games that feel like an event

A spin-to-win wheel or a scratch card printed on the counter gets people to scan who would ignore a plain coupon. You set the prizes and the odds, and the outcome is decided on the server.

  • Prize capsLimit how many times each prize can be won across the whole promotion.
  • Single-use codesEvery win is a code that can only be redeemed once.
A client books her next visit with the receptionist at a nail and beauty salon

Bookings, not just sales

For services, reward the appointment

Salons, clinics, studios and repair shops can offer an incentive for booking a slot, then send a reminder to people who booked to cut no-shows.

  • Booking remindersTransactional reminders to people who booked, ahead of the appointment.
  • One customer recordBookings, claims and visits all attach to the same customer.

Deployment

Two ways to put a promotion in front of people

Print it, embed it, or both. Either route points at the same campaign, so the reward, the odds, the fine print and the reporting stay identical.

A printed tabletop card standing on a café table, with a QR code and a mint call-to-action panel

Printable QR card

Download a print-ready card with your logo, your headline and the campaign QR code. Put it on the table, the counter, the window, the invoice or the van.

Scan to claim

Scratch & win at the table

The code points at the campaign, not at a specific reward — change the offer and the printed cards keep working.

  • Print at home, at a local printer, or order a batch.
  • One code per campaign, per location, so scans are attributed properly.
  • Works with any phone camera. No app, no download.
A laptop showing a website with a rounded promotional pop-up card in the corner offering a reward

One-line website pop-up

Paste one script tag into your site and the same promotion appears as a pop-up. Choose the trigger — time on page, scroll depth or exit intent — and the frequency cap.

Paste before </body>
<script src="https://promotedly.com/embed/v1/promotedly.js" data-campaign="your-campaign-slug" defer></script>
  • Works on any platform that lets you add a script — WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Wix or hand-built.
  • Loads asynchronously and renders in a shadow root, so it cannot inherit or break your styles.
  • Respects a frequency cap so returning visitors are not shown the same pop-up repeatedly.

Where to start

Promotions that work in a room

Games for foot traffic, a booking incentive for service businesses and a giveaway for a grand opening.

Compare all 13 promotion types

Is it right for you?

Who it suits, and who it doesn't

A good fit if

  • You have a physical location customers walk into.
  • You want to learn who your customers are without changing your register.
  • You want marketing your staff can run without training.

Probably not the right tool if

  • You only sell online and want promotions inside a store-platform checkout.
  • You need rewards applied automatically at the register. That needs a point-of-sale connection, which isn't available yet.

Free for your first 100 customers, with no card required.

Paid plans from $59 a month, priced by how many customers your rewards list holds. Every promotion type is on every plan.

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Questions

Brick-and-mortar marketing questions

What do I need to get started?
A printer for the QR card and a phone or tablet for staff to redeem codes. No new hardware, no register changes and nothing for customers to install.
Can I use it at more than one location?
Yes. Add each location in the portal and put QR cards in every one; all of them feed the same rewards list. Larger plans are sized for multi-site customer lists.
How do staff know a code is real?
They look it up in the portal. A valid code shows the reward and its conditions, and marking it redeemed stops it being used again anywhere.
Does it connect to my point-of-sale system?
Not yet. Point-of-sale connections are being built but are not switched on for customers. Today every reward is a unique single-use code that staff look up and mark redeemed in the Promotedly portal on any phone, tablet or computer, so it works next to whatever register you already use.
Do my customers need to download an app?
No. There is no customer app. A customer scans the QR code or taps the pop-up, and the whole promotion runs in their phone's web browser on a page in your brand.

Start at the counter

Print your first QR card this afternoon

Build a promotion, print the card and put it where customers wait. Your first hundred customers are free.

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