Your neighbors’ regulars are your next customers.
Word of mouth is the only marketing that works on trust. We make it trackable — and pay the people who do it.
No monthly fee · No POS integration · Every local shop welcome
The problem
Sound familiar?
- Your best marketing is a neighbor saying your name — and you have no way to see it, attribute it, or pay for it.
- The channels you can measure are the ones that don't work for a shop: city-wide coupons that bring deal-hunters, and ad platforms that take a cut of every sale.
- You are running the floor, not a marketing team. You don't have hours for a campaign calendar, and you can't afford one that might flop.
The solution
Team up with neighbors
Ooh!local turns the shops around you into a cooperative marketing engine — delivering verified customers to your counter, not impressions to a dashboard.
Your customers' email is their pass: they enter it once, scan a QR code at your counter, and unlock offers across the neighborhood.
Your customer list stays yours. You share customers, never the list.
How it works
Five steps, two minutes of your time
- 1
Join free
Add your shop, put out one offer, and name what a customer is worth to you. About two minutes, no sales call.
- 2
Put out your counter QR
Print or download it from your dashboard and stand it on the counter. No hardware, no POS integration — it works with whatever system you already run.
- 3
Your regulars share it
Nearby shops show your offer to their customers. So can any customer, earning a share of your fee when their friend walks in.
- 4
Customers walk in
They redeem on their own phone. Your staff confirm it at the counter by entering a 4-digit PIN — a few seconds each.
- 5
You pay, then repeat
Only then. One bill a month, no walk-ins, no line item. And the same loop runs in your favor the other way.
Benefits
What is in it for your shop
- Your regulars earn, so they share. A customer who recommends you keeps 25% of your fee. That turns your best channel from passive into something you can actually fund.
- Borrowed trust, not rented attention. A neighbor's recommendation converts because it is believed. You are not buying a platform's audience — you are tapping the one your street already has.
- Pay only on verified walk-ins. You name the price. Staff check the redemption at the counter, so every dollar ties to someone who came through the door.
- Better the fuller the block. Every shop that joins is another place your offer appears, and another shop earning every time one of their regulars tries you.
- Almost no work. No copy, no campaigns, no new software. Staff learn one action: enter the PIN.
- Your margins stay yours. You pick the offer. A small sample gets them in the door; good service turns them into full-price regulars. No discount spiral.
Trust & privacy
Your list stays yours
- Your customer list stays yours. We never share raw emails or phone numbers.
- Businesses see aggregate analytics only: redemptions, new vs. returning.
- Customers opt in explicitly. They can pause or opt out anytime.
- Fees are held 14 days so you can dispute a redemption; the sender's share is clawed back if it was fake.
- QR plus a short-lived redemption code, with staff verification for higher-value rewards.
At the counter
Everything your staff has to learn
One action, the same every time. Here is the whole routine, so you can judge it before you commit to it.
Customer
Shows this at your counter
CODE
48217
Issued when they redeem. It expires with the claim.
Your staff
Enters your store PIN
One 4-digit PIN, set once, identical for every redemption. That is the entire counter routine.
Whoever sent them
Earns 25% of the fee
That may be the shop next door, or the customer themselves. Either way it is a neighbor who sent someone your way — and Ooh!local keeps 50%.
FAQ
Asked by owners like you
Join your neighborhood today.
Create your account, add your shop, and set your first offer — free to join, pay only per verified customer. Takes about 2 minutes, no sales call.