Build and manage your marketing campaigns with ARCoup
All merchants are invited to sign up for membership and use ARCoup issuer to place coupons on our map. The service is provided in the United States by Blue Legend Technology.
Creating a location based ARCoup can be super easy
Simply fill in coupon info and upload one coupon promotion image in the merchant center and we will create a coupon with AR effect at the location you specified.
Membership subscription
Driving up to 2000 customers to your store per year for just $65. Zero commission if you manage your own coupon campaigns. Supported 3D model format: glb/gltf2
| Annual Membership Plan |
Silver |
Gold |
Platinum |
| Number of ARCoups |
2,000 |
5,000 |
10,000 |
| Max active ARCoup locations |
2 |
3 |
4 |
| ARCoup presentation in App |
2D image on 3D cube |
2D image on 3D cube |
3D model supported |
| Email based EZ ARCoup |
3D model supported |
3D model supported |
3D model supported |
| ARCoup w/ precise placement |
0 |
0 |
1,000 |
| Limited time membership special |
$65 |
$110 |
$240 |
30-day money back guarantee for your 1st membership subscription. Contact us within the 30-day time frame and we will start refund process.
We will credit back the ARCoups not captured when you deactivate / delete it.
The unused ARCoup quota will be rolled over to the next year at the time of renewal.
The rollover totals will be capped at 20,000 (regular) and 2,000 (precise) respectively.
You can subscribe or renew another year if you reach limit early. In that case, you will have a new membership expiration date which is one year from the renewal date.
Only Platinum member can issue 3D model version ARCoups to our map. Silver / Gold members may have rollvered over precise placement coupon balance if they downgraded from Platinum but cannot be used.
Redemption methods
| Scanner Redemption |
Download ARCoup Scanner App and setup extended scanner account here to scan coupon QR code from customer's phone or print out |
| EZ Redemption |
Simply redeem with ARCoup Hunter App on customer's phone |
| Online Redemption |
Put some code on your webpage and let customer redeem on your webpage |
FAQs
What is ARCoup?
ARCoup is a unique and innovative digital coupon based on Augmented Reality and location aware technologies.
Our platform lets you easily place virtual discount vouchers with product or service info including description, images, or even a 3D model on a map location.
ARCoup attracts people to visit somewhere you specify to capture it with our App during a certain time frame. The captured ARCoup can be redeemed easily in your store or online.
It is a convenient and powerful tool to let you precisely target a group of people who may potentially become your long term customers,
maybe your neighbors, music or sport enthusiasts, people studying or working together, or people with special needs.
For local merchants who want to do location based advertising, our platform is cost effective and easy to use.
Our 3D AR visual effect can catch people's attention and promote your products or services.
For our mobile app users, chasing rare high-value coupons is a fun activity like treasure hunt, so it is the best way to improve customer engagement.
In our App, people can easily share ARCoup info on social media and attract even more local people to visit.
Where should we place ARCoup?
You have total freedom, but you need to target the right people.
You may want to focus on neighbors first. Although people may drive a long distance to you for a big bargain, they are unlikely to come back again without such a deep discount next time.
Local people have more chances to come back if they know your business, so you certainly need to make friends with them.
However, it may also be a good idea to place ARCoup somewhere other than your store location.
For example, if the discount items are textbooks for students, you may want to place it in a nearby university.
If you are selling quality dog food, then perhaps a nearby pet hospital is a good choice. Pet lovers definitely want to take good care of their dogs.
If sale items are antiques and souvenirs, it may be a good idea to attract some customers from a nearby museum.
If you have a restaurant with lunch special to offer, maybe you can place a coupon at a nearby office plaza.
Place wherever your potential customer may be, but please make sure coupons are safe to capture.
Why do we need to set an ARCoup capturing radius?
Setting a capturing radius for your ARCoup can let people within that range capture the coupon directly without moving to the coupon location center.
This radius can go from a few feet to a few miles.
Let's say you are selling baseball hats and you want to attract people from a nearby stadium.
This is a good idea. Baseball fans with passion may drive tens of miles to your store if you have cool and unique hats.
In this case, you can set the radius to let everyone in the stadium be able to capture it without moving or walking.
If you just want everyone to see it, you still have an option to use our EZ ARCoup, which is email based and no capturing necessary.
But the order of the EZ ARCoups shown in the coupon book may still be based on people's location and activities.
How do I set up ARCoup capturing time?
Each ARCoup has a capturing time window. It is only shown on the ARCoup Hunter App map before the end of this window.
The time window duration can be from hours to months. ARCoup uses both location and time: you can find the right people at the right place and right time.
You can make it only visible when certain events like concerts, conferences, or sport games are going on.
This keeps coupons to those fans who actually go to the games or professionals in the conference.
It is also possible to add a security question and let users unlock it with a magic word (open sesame?), so it is really like a fun game.
After placing your coupon in our system, we recommend you share the info on social media or send out emails to people in your business mailing list to let them
know about the ARCoup promotion.
What is the redemption process?
Each phone can only capture an ARCoup once and each captured coupon can only be redeemed once. There are three redemption methods: scan redemption, ez redemption, and online redemption.
Download our scanner App and the redeem can be done with a simple QR code scanning. Just setup scanner id/password in ARCoup merchant center to start doing scan redemption.
You can also do no-scan easy redeem, in which you simply redeem and delete a coupon with the customer's phone. For online redemption, you can use our API on your webpage for redeeming the captured coupons.
Specify the method you would like to use in the ARCoup description when you issue an ARCoup.
People will be very likely to redeem it after spending time and effort to capture it in all these fun games.
What is your service fee?
Our marketing service is unique and there are no other services that let you target certain people and provide AR experience like us.
And unlike some coupon services that may charge you 50% of the discount value and collect money in advance, there is simply an annual membership fee starting from only $65 per year.
So, you don't have to jack up the sales price and this is perfect for small businesses. You can keep your profit to provide quality products or services which is the only way to build your loyal customer base.
Which membership tier is right for my business? Do I need to show a 3D model in the AR viewer?
All membership levels can use a 3D model in email based EZ ARCoup, but only Platinum members can issue ARCoup with a 3D model on our map.
When users visit your specified location to capture a 2D ARCoup, they will see a 3D box of the main coupon image in the AR viewer.
In most cases, this is sufficient and you can choose Silver / Gold membership.
However, if you have special product design to show and you want to present with a realistic 3D visual effect,
you may need to choose Platinum membership.
If you are providing a service and no physical product to show, or if you have too many items on sale and you don't want to show a specific one,
2D images should serve the purpose and a floating 3D cube still looks very cool in the AR viewer.
Remember there may be a cost to create a 3D model. The process is not straightforward for beginners and we currently do not have this service.
How can I get a 3D model?
The accepted 3D model format is glb/gltf2. The 3D model can be the model of your product, or an interesting 3D model you download from Sketchfab to show to the prospective customers.
If your product has a very cool design, please do let people have a chance to see it in their environment with our augmented reality viewer.
If your product does not have a 3D model from the design process, there are many 3D scan hardware and softwares you can use to create a 3D model.
You can use some photogrammetry software like Meshroom or 3DF Zephyr and then clean up with software like Blender. They are either free or have a free version.
You can also ask professionals to help create it or use professional scanning devices like lidar or depth scanner to create a very high quality 3D model and then upload it here.
Please make sure there is no copyright issue before uploading your 3D model if it is downloaded from somewhere. 3D models need to be low poly and less than 10 MB.
Contact us
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