Gvouchers

Free service to sell gift vouchers to loyal customers

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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.
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Launch tags:Fintech•Marketing•Side Project
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Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
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
Matthew Hartman
Blank - Room Escape Game
Congrats @robhope on the launch! Looks great! 🙌🙌🙌
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
Maker
@matthewhartmans Thank you Matthew! :)
John O'Nolan
Ghost
Cool idea - can't believe you built it all so quick! What was the most challenging part of the dev process?
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
Maker
@johnonolan Cheers John! An unexpected delay, after chatting to a lawyer friend, was needing some solid terms & conditions to ensure I'm not liable for anything. Some classic questions that came up in the build: - what if someone chose a $10k custom Gift Voucher amount to laundry some money? - what if someone buys an activity and they brake their leg, could I be liable? - what if someone buys a voucher from a business that closes down? So a solid T&C's - opted in - before payment delayed me a few days for sure. On the build front, just WP being WP ;P
Graeme
@johnonolan @robhope 🤯 $10k voucher, wow! got to watch out for those crooks!
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
Maker
@johnonolan @graeme_fulton my friend was saying you'd be surprised what's pulled. He specializes in dark web take downs of counterfeit e-cigarettes. WILD OUT THERE!
Alex Conway
@johnonolan @robhope super interesting!
Darshan Gajara
With a View
@johnonolan @robhope Aha nice, your lawyer friend saved you a tom of potential headache.
Marc Perel
Thought Train
Rob, I'm so glad you managed to get this out and using your skillset to help people during the strangest time of our generation. If I signup, is it possible for me to get access to my customer? Example, their email addresses etc? I want to make sure I can get in touch with them, and thank them profusely 🤗 The transparency report is fantastic by the way!
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
Maker
@marcperel yo Marc! To get the project out the door asap, I couldn't focus on a dashboard of emails or something like a 1-click .csv export (which would be ideal). But... as soon as the transaction is successful, the business owner receives an email with the details of the customer + transaction. This includes the email address of the customer. What's good to know too, is the digital Gift Voucher email is sent by the system using your details. So the customer can reply to the Gift Voucher email with questions and you will get it! :)
Graeme
Hi Rob, congrats on the launch over here! I'm all over the internet this morning 😂
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
Maker
@graeme_fulton Appreciate it Graeme! Been a rewarding build man. I'm all up for questions if you have. Kinda chuffed I pulled this off with WordPress TBCH.
Graeme
@robhope Yeah WordPress is really flexible actually - I use it for a back end of my react apps, then query the REST API. I have loads of tricks to write up about that.. I really want to explore the blocks editor API too! Would def love to find out more about how you used WP
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
Maker
@graeme_fulton hey Graeme - just shared this with Scott M now - 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:)
Graeme
@robhope Ah cool, thanks for sharing! Does multisite mean each user gets their own minisite? so for example, it's possible they could have their own users?
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
Maker
@graeme_fulton Yes, their own WP setup basically, but I've restricted and hidden everything for now. Gotta keep UI super simple!
Glen Allsopp
Hey Rob, This looks really impressive. Nice work! The design is super clean. Can I ask what your design set-up is. Do you buy a theme and hack away at it, or did you make this from scratch?
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
Maker
@gaps Cheers Glen - stoked on the outcome for sure! From scratch dude building 1 custom WordPress theme for the Gvouchers lander/signup and the user profiles. Focus was mobile-first transaction and speed. It's pretty solid but needs slight tweaks still. Design setup is Figma for the wireframes, brainstorming and the branding. This is actually the first project in like a decade I haven't used Photoshop at all.
Liam Thomson
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?
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
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:)
Ghost
Great idea for supporting small businesses during this time - props for using your time so productively and being transparent about the process 🙌 Would love to hear what ideas are next on your to-do list once you start getting more people testing Gvouchers?
Rob Hope ⚡️Yo!
Maker
@kym_kiki_ellis thanks Kym - it's been really rewarding seeing those first vouchers sales come through! What I quite like about the idea is that the owner does the marketing for themselves while Gvouchers at the same time. And I'm hoping this spreads the word a bit. Next up dev wise - if there is a great response - is sorting a ZAR payment option for my local peeps! 🇿🇦I just couldn't spend the money on that yet without knowing there is real demand. So far so good...
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