Providing Single-Use Offers

摘要

Provided is a process, including: obtaining an offer issued by a merchant, the offer being redeemable on-line, at the merchant's website, in-store, at a physical location of the merchant, or both; obtaining a plurality of single-use offer codes associated with the offer; receiving a request for a single-use offer code, the request having a phone number; sending to the phone number, via a text messaging service, a text message comprising a uniform resource identifier (URI) to a select single-use offer code of the plurality single-use offer codes; and sending the single-use offer code to a consumer user device in response to a user selection of the URI.

主权项

1. An affiliate-network system configured to act as an intermediary between merchants issuing coupons or other offers and publishers promoting the offers to consumers, the affiliate-network system being configured to distribute and track usage of both on-line offers and in-store offers, the system comprising:
one or more processors; non-transitory tangible computer-readable memory storing instructions that when executed by one or more of the one or more processors effectuate operations comprising:
obtaining an offer issued by a merchant, the offer being redeemable both on-line, at the merchant's website, in-store, at a physical location of the merchant, or a combination thereof;obtaining a plurality of single-use offer codes associated with the offer, each of the plurality of single-use offer codes being redeemable for a single transaction;receiving, via a network, a request for a single-use offer code, the request comprising a phone number;sending to the phone number, via a text messaging service, a text message comprising a uniform resource identifier (URI) to a select single-use offer code of the plurality single-use offer codes; andsending the select single-use offer code to a consumer user device in response to a user selection of the URI on the consumer user device.