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How it works

A chalkboard,a walk, and a scan.

Three different people touch a single deal, and one moment matters more than the rest: the shopkeeper confirming, at their own counter, that you actually turned up. Everything else on this page exists to protect that moment.

The moment that counts

A redemption is not real until the shop says it is.

Until that scan happens, the claim sits pending. No review can be written, and it does not count as a real visit on either side. It is a deliberately narrow definition of success — and it is the only one that cannot be faked from a sofa.

The full lifecycle

Six steps, three actors.

Colour marks who is doing the work at each stage.

  1. 01Merchant

    Creates the offer

    Price, dates, stock, and when it runs

  2. 02Operator

    Approves it

    Checked against our listing rules first

  3. 03Shopper

    Finds it nearby

    Sorted by distance, live offers only

  4. 04Shopper

    Claims a code

    A unique code and QR, stock updates right away

  5. 05Merchant

    Verifies at the counter

    Confirmed safely, and only once

    Reviews and disputes unlock here
  6. 06Both

    Review, or dispute

    Only after a real, completed purchase

If you are shopping

Five steps, and none of them is a form.

  1. 01

    Open the app, share your location

    GPS is the primary signal. If you would rather not share it, set your area by hand — the whole feed works either way.

  2. 02

    See what is genuinely walkable

    Offers within about 3–5 km by default, sorted by distance, filtered to what is live right now. Sparse neighbourhood? Drag the radius out yourself, up to 25 km, instead of staring at nothing.

  3. 03

    Claim the deal

    You get a unique code and QR code of your own. Stock updates immediately, and the deal shows as sold out once it runs out. Your claim is yours.

  4. 04

    Walk in and get it verified

    The shopkeeper scans your QR or types your code. That confirmation is what completes the redemption — and unlocks your right to leave a review, or open a dispute if something went wrong.

  5. 05

    Review it, or dispute it

    You can only leave a review once your redemption is actually complete. If something went wrong, open a dispute with a message thread and a refund path.

Nearmedeals deal details screen for a full-day amusement park pass, showing the price with the original price struck through, a countdown until the deal ends, how many redemptions are left out of a fixed stock, and the merchant's trust score with a quality, safety, value-for-money and customer-service breakdown

The customer app — deal details

Nearmedeals deal details screen for an amusement park pass, showing terms, the merchant's contact details, and a QR code for redemption with a unique code, valid until a set date

The customer app — claim and QR code

At the counter

Twenty seconds, on the phone already in your apron.

  • 1Open the merchant app and tap scan
  • 2Point the camera at the customer’s QR — or type their code if the camera struggles
  • 3The redemption is confirmed on the spot, safely, so it can never be counted twice
  • 4That's it — nothing more to do, and nothing extra to bill

A staff member assigned to that store can do all of this without ever seeing payouts, billing, or data from the rest of the business.

Nearmedeals merchant app Scan & Verify screen showing the three-step scan, verify, done flow, a live QR scanner viewfinder, and a recent scan confirmed as verified

The merchant app — Scan & Verify

If you run the shop

From registration to your first verified sale.

  1. 01

    Register and get a free plan

    Creating a merchant profile promotes your account and assigns the appropriate free plan automatically. No card, no sales call.

  2. 02

    Add your store

    Geocoded location, logo, banner. Multi-outlet operators can bulk import stores from a spreadsheet.

  3. 03

    Publish an offer

    Set price and discount, up to five images, an availability window, terms, and dayparting — so a lunch offer runs only at lunch.

  4. 04

    Verify at the counter

    Scan the customer's QR in the merchant app, or type their code. Scoped staff can verify without ever seeing payout or subscription data.

  5. 05

    See what actually worked

    Views, clicks, redemptions and revenue per deal, with performance alerts. On plans with side-by-side testing, run an A/B test on the creative and apply the winner.

If you spotted it first

How a neighbour’s photo becomes an official deal.

  1. 01

    Spot something real

    A board outside a bakery. A weekend offer at the salon. The things the internet never indexed.

  2. 02

    Post it

    Photograph it, add the location and price details, publish. Content is sanitised and moderated before it reaches the feed.

  3. 03

    The neighbourhood finds it

    Your post enters the local and online feeds, gathers likes and comments, and climbs you up the contributor leaderboard.

  4. 04

    It becomes official

    When a post proves itself, an operator converts it into a real merchant deal. You are notified, the merchant is notified, and your post carries a badge saying it became an official deal.

Why this exists

It is how a new neighbourhood stops being empty.

A platform that waits for shops to sign up has nothing to show in an area it has just entered — and nothing to show means nobody visits, which means no shop sees a reason to join. Community posts break that loop from the other end, on day one, before any salesperson has walked the street.

Conversion into an official deal is always an operator action. It is never automatic, and it lands in the same approval queue as any other deal.

Next step

Bring it to your neighbourhood.

We are opening in three contiguous pincodes first. Whether you run a shop, know your area well, or want to partner — tell us where you are.

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