Merchant FAQs

What is moQpon mobile coupon distribution platform ?
moQpon mobile coupon distribution platform is a location-based real-time mobile marketing solution for local business owners. In other words, you can use our platform to distribute your coupons via text messages to a growing community of users, based on their location, interests, demographics.
Text MOQPON QDEMO to 41411 and you'll receive a text message to your mobile phone with a coupon sample from our demo store! Find out how easy it would be for your customers to receive your offers, and imagine how effective this could be to bring more customers to your store! We tried to make sending coupons to your customers easy, efficient and low cost.

How does it work ?
moQpon mobile coupon distribution platform helps your local business performing two activities key for your success: retain your customers and attract new customers.

First, to retain your customers, moQpon mobile coupons make it easy to build on that first connection to get your first-time customers to come back again and again. Imagine if you could write at the bottom of your menu list, flier or posters "Text MOQPON LARRYSPUB to 41411 to get our latest deals". You could then easily entice your customers with offers and coupons to visit your store again, as easily as sending a message to your subscribers list.
Never miss a connection with a new customer again with moQpon: you can do this now, starting for FREE, if you sign up for our moQpon Mobile Coupon Distribution Platform

Second, to attract new customers, as a business owner you can tap into moQpon's growing community: all moQpon users have chosen to receive coupons based on their location and interests and are expecting to receive highly valuable coupons from local businesses like yours.
By signing up for merchant account at moQpon you will be able to send mobile coupons directly to people in your geographic area and who are looking for good deals. In fact, the moQpon platform allows consumers to specify their preferences about what category of coupons they are really interested in, making it very easy for local merchants to promote their business accurately and cheaply.
With no minimum budget required and a real-time, easy-to-use website to send your coupons everytime you feel that a marketing action is needed, moQpon lets you reach the right customer instantly, anywhere and at anytime!

How can I start using moQpon ?
You simply need to create an account online at our website moQpon Mobile Coupon Distribution Platform
or just by sending a short text message like MOQPON NEW <pick your Qword> to our number 41411.

What is a QWORD ?

A Qword is a keyword, like LARRYSPUB or CONCERT99, used as a unique identifier for your coupons campaign. Your customers will be able to receive your coupons by subscribing online or sending a text message like MOQPON LARRYSPUB to 41411. You can send coupons to your subscribers or to new customers based on their location, demographics and interests from our website or simply by sending a text message like MOQPON LARRYSPUB Get $2 beers tonight at Larry's Pub to 41411.

I don't have time to browse the website, how can I sign up and start sending coupons immediately ?

Step #1
Pick a unique identifier, which we call Qword. A Qword is a single word (no spaces) with at least 6 letters and numbers. A Qword will uniquely identify your campaign.
To reserve your Qword, just text MOQPON NEW YourUniqueQword to 41411. For example:

MOQPON NEW larryspub
MOQPON NEW bowlingboston
MOQPON NEW valentine

In any case, a default business account will be created at moqpon.com so that you will be able to sign in online at anytime in the future.

Step #2
Tell your customers to subscribe to your Qword, just by texting MOQPON YourUniqueQword to 41411. For example:

MOQPON larryspub
MOQPON bowlingboston

Step #3
Finally, every time you want to send an alert to your customers, simply text MOQPON YourUniqueQword followed by the content of your coupon to 41411. For example:

MOQPON larryspub Get a $2 beer this wednesday at Larry's Pub
MOQPON bowlingboston Bring a guest for free tonight at Bowling on Washington Street
MOQPON valentine $5 off any San Valentine's gift.

Who can post coupons to my Qword via cell phone?
Only the phone registered when your Qword has been created.

How can I get more subscribers for my Qword ?
In order to get more customers to receive your coupons, moQpon offers several tools once you signup for a merchant account

Tip #1
Tell your customers to subscribe to your Qword. They just have to text MOQPON YourUniqueQword to 41411. For example, print on your marketing material or on your website "Text MOQPON LARRYSPUB to 41411 to receive our offers!"

Tip #2
Import your contacts from your phone book on our website. You need to signup for a merchant account first.

Tip #3
Distribute a link to your moQpon's campaign webpage
i.e. moqpon.com/coupon/YourUniqueQword
using buttons and html code automatically generated online.

How can I reach new customers with my coupons ?
Remember, you can use moQpon Mobile Coupons Distribution platform both to retain customers and to attract new customers.
To retain customers, reserve your Qword and tell your customers to subscribe via text message. You will then be able to send coupons to your subscribers very easily, starting from FREE.
To attract new customers, signup for a merchant account, create a new Qword, define your targeting criteria for your Qword (for example: all females 18-24 living 50 miles from Manhattan wishing to receive offers for beauty salons) and send your coupons, specifying your recipients as "new customers", starting from just 1 cent per coupon sent.