Gvouchers

Free service to sell gift vouchers to loyal customers

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Free service to sell gift vouchers to loyal customers

4 followers

Gvouchers is a free service enabling you to sell digital Gift Vouchers to your loyal customers. Upon transaction, a digital Gift Voucher is emailed to the customer, while the funds are deposited into the owners PayPal account. Gvouchers takes zero commission.

Launch tags:Fintech•Marketing•Side Project

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Great idea to help businesses maintain cashflow during these challenging times. How flexible do you see this product being, across different small businesses and sectors?

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6yr ago

Gvouchers

Maker

@liam_thomson Thanks Liam! Great question - so in the beginning test phase the first feedback was wildly different. User 1 was product based pricing, user 2 wanted customer-set amounts, user 3 was different currency only. That said I had to make a call on what the MVP is and what it isn't. Right now you can have USD, up to 3 voucher options (product, service or store credit) and a custom voucher amount. It targets a lot of people to validate working on new options if there is enough traction. These features can target a personal trainer, to a restaurant - the use-cases are quite broad. The design side of things is interesting too. I chose a blue card to keep it neutral design but still modern-ish with a subtle gradient. I think it works well for an MVP:)

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6yr ago

Amplitude

It's been great to follow the progress of this on Twitter, @robhope . Such an amazing initiative that will help independent, small business owners during these times. As per usual, your design and development expertise really make these pages shine! Curious to learn about the product/voucher creation dashboard a bit more. Are user's dash built atop WP, as the frontend is, or what stack are you using for that? Looks like you're handling signup submission flow with Gravity Forms - what else? (didn't signup and get to see dashboard, as am not SMB). Again, great work!

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6yr ago

Gvouchers

Maker

@scottmathson thank you so much Scott - I'm stoked on how the Inter typeface came out - especially on the dark scheme:) So it's all sitting on a a WordPress Multisite (perhaps a bit excessive but was easier to separate each users form settings without a ton of hacking) with two WordPress plugins doing the hard work behind the scenes: ACF (free version) and Gravity Forms (developer license with about 3 add-ons used). I outsourced some form settings JS (duplicating some form submit actions into other forms) but spent maybe ~150hrs on the design, dev, comms, branding, testing etc. Then it's just CloudFlare up front with Flywheel taking care of the rest on my One Page Love hosting account - so not paying anything additional there. So expenses low. The signup form and the PayPal settings form in the dashboard is Gravity Forms. The Profile form and the Voucher settings form is ACF. Dirty I know but ACF just plays so nicely and a breeze to display in frontend. Think that's about it - happy with the effort/cost for the MVP and will only invest more time and money if $xx,xxx goes through the system:)

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6yr ago

Gvouchers

Maker

Hey Product Hunt! Ever since local businesses started closing around me I've been banging my head against the wall trying to think of ways to use my skills to help people. tl;dr - what started off as writing how-to-get-online guides, led to Gift Vouchers. Immediate funding, from your existing customers and previous marketing efforts, straight into your bank account. Literally since day 1 of lockdown in South Africa I've been putting together an MVP where my service https://gvouchers.com is the middle man between the business owner and the customer - simply sending a digital Gift Voucher with a unique code to both parties - if there is a successful transaction. Gvouchers takes no commission whatsoever and it's 100% free to setup. To get the idea off the ground and as affordably/lite as possible, the service only works in USD and with PayPal for now (PayPal do accept Visa and Mastercard). ... and here we are today, 21 days later still in lockdown, Gvouchers is properly tested and people are actually buying Gift Vouchers! We all love some transparency, so here's a breakdown: - ~150hrs on the design + dev - $120 on outsourcing some JS magic using Upwork - $25 on a Fiverr logo I binned (so I used Figma for the one you see) - $15 on one stock photo at Stocksy - $15/yr for gvouchers.com domain at Hover - $6/mo for a dedicated Gmail apps acc - The build is sitting snug on my Flywheel hosting account that also hosts One Page Love and Email Love I hope the free service helps you maintain a little cashflow if you aren't operating fully. Let me know if you have any questions about Gvouchers - it's been a challenging build but fun playing with branding and on-boarding again :) Cheers, Rob

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6yr ago

Blank - Room Escape Game

Congrats @robhope on the launch! Looks great! 🙌🙌🙌

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6yr ago

Gvouchers

Maker

@matthewhartmans Thank you Matthew! :)

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6yr ago

Free DALLE-3 Avatar Generator

Amazing product as we can expect from you! Had to pleasure to try it out. Super easy onboarding and got a page live in a view minutes 🔥 Really appreciate you for freeing up precious time and building a product not to help yourself, but to help struggling business out there. Legend!

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6yr ago

Gvouchers

Maker

@dannypostmaa Thanks Danny - so stoked about this onboarding comment, spent some time there and hadn't done it in a while! (might even use your comment as a testimonial ;) Difficult to explain that feeling when the first voucher sale came in and the owner got funds. Worth a lot more than other things I'm building that's for sure!

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6yr ago

Early Stage Growth

Really love the look of this. Gift vouchers for so many in hospitality are essential right now. Looks great.

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6yr ago

Gvouchers

Maker

@joshlachkovic Thanks so much Josh - it looks very different than days 1-10 I promise you:) And yeah I really need to put up a Hospitality demo

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6yr ago

Looks great Rob, love the simplicity for customers sake. Good on you for going this far in helping small businesses! You’re a legend!

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6yr ago

Gvouchers

Maker

@rory_lancellas Thanks Rory! Spent a lot of time decluttering the dashboard so the setup is painless. Interesting enough the original concept had a business profile to the left with social icons and the whole story about why they selling Gift Vouchers. But after some tests I realised the customer landing on the Gvouchers page is the last step of the process (after they've read the story about the Gift Vouchers on social or website) and they simply want to checkout. So the design pivoted to a mobile-first single column checkout focus... so yeah way less clutter... and less time to setup to create a profile:)

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6yr ago

Rob, Congratulations for another amazing product and I love the transparency report! Great to see this type of product in these strange/scary moments in our lives. I hope this can help in bringing light to some businesses. Good luck!

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6yr ago

Gvouchers

Maker

@pirenko Thanks so much for the kind words Severo! :)

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6yr ago

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