User Guide

Everything VouchrPulse does, in one place

A complete walkthrough for mall teams, shop owners and their shoppers — how campaigns get built, sent, claimed and redeemed, end to end.

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What VouchrPulse is

VouchrPulse is a platform for shopping centres to run digital coupon campaigns across their whole mall — one dashboard for the centre team, self-service tools for individual shops, and a simple claim-and-redeem experience for shoppers on SMS, WhatsApp and their phone's own wallet.

Instead of printed vouchers or a different system per shop, every offer in the centre flows through one platform: built once, sent to a shopper's phone, and redeemed in person with nothing more than a tap.

It isn't only for shopping centres. Food markets, festivals and venue groups run on it too, and the dashboard adapts its wording to fit — shops become vendors, traders or venues, and subscribers become attendees or members.

Mall / centre team

Runs the centre

Builds campaigns, manages shops, sends via SMS/WhatsApp, and tracks performance across the whole centre.

Shop owners

Runs their own shop

Creates their own offers, joins centre campaigns, and sees redemption activity — no design or send skills needed.

Shoppers

Claims and redeems

Opts in once, gets sent offers by text or WhatsApp, and redeems with a tap — on their phone, in store.

The flow

How it works

Every campaign follows the same four steps, whether it's a centre-wide campaign the mall team builds, or a self-service offer a shop attaches on its own.

01

Build

The mall team creates a campaign with one or more offers — a percentage off, a fixed amount, a freebie, or buy-one-get-one. Shops can also build their own offer templates and attach them.

02

Send

Campaigns go out by SMS and/or WhatsApp to the centre's opted-in subscribers, on a schedule or straight away.

03

Claim

The shopper opens their personal digital booklet link and can add any offer to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, or just keep it open on their phone.

04

Redeem

In store, the shopper taps "Redeem" on their own phone — that's the confirmation. No scanning, no app, no POS integration required.

Centre management

For the mall team

The centre dashboard is where campaigns get planned, sent and measured.

  • Campaigns & offers — build multi-shop campaigns, attach offers (including ones shops have built themselves), preview exactly how the SMS or WhatsApp message will look, schedule sends, and duplicate past campaigns to save time.
  • Shops — add shops individually or in bulk, with logos and images ready to go into every campaign.
  • Subscribers — see who's opted in, who your top redeemers are, each subscriber's redemption history, and manage opt-outs.
  • Analytics — a Retail Pulse Score summarising centre health at a glance, plus delivery rates, redemption rates, best send times and channel performance.
  • Bulk import — onboard shops, campaigns and offers from a spreadsheet, useful when bringing a whole centre onto the platform at once.
  • Message log — every SMS and WhatsApp message sent, with delivery status and the reason for any failure, plus one click to resend a campaign to everyone it didn't reach.
  • Media library — logos and images uploaded once and reused across shops, offers and campaigns.
  • Team & roles — invite mall admins, mall managers, and shop-level users, each scoped to what they need to see.
Multi-venue operators

For venue groups

Operators who run several venues get a group portal of their own: every venue in one list, group-wide analytics comparing them, one-click access into any venue's dashboard, bulk import of new venues from a spreadsheet, and their own team of group managers.

Self-service

For shops

Individual shops aren't just listed in campaigns — they get their own scoped login to run their own promotions.

My Offers

A shop can build a library of its own reusable offer templates — no design skills or mall admin sign-off needed to create, edit or remove one.

Join a Campaign

Any campaign the centre has open, a shop can join on its own by attaching one of its offer templates — right up until the campaign starts sending.

Dashboard & analytics

Shops see their own performance — messages sent, redemption rate, and which of their offers work best — scoped entirely to their own shop, with nothing from other shops visible.

Shop teams

A shop manager can invite their own staff. Staff get what they need on the shop floor — the shop's offers, its campaigns and the day's redemptions — while the manager also sees the shop's analytics.

The moment that matters

How redemption works

This is the part shop staff care about most, so it's kept deliberately simple: there's no scanner, no app to install, and no connection to your till system required.

A

The shopper taps Redeem

On their own phone, from their digital booklet or wallet pass. That tap is the confirmation — nothing needs to happen on the shop's device.

B

Staff apply the discount

Staff see the offer and its exact discount value on the shopper's screen and key it into the till manually, the same way they would any manual discount today.

C

Staff can reconcile later

A live redemption activity page shows everything redeemed at the shop that day, so staff can check it against the till at any point.

Why no scan-to-redeem?

VouchrPulse doesn't integrate with individual shop POS systems, so a scanner would only add a step without actually connecting to anything. Trusting the shopper's own tap keeps redemption to a single action, in the moment, at the till.

Usage limits

Offers can be limited — a total number of redemptions, and how many times each shopper can use one. A wallet pass shows the uses left and expires itself after the last one.

The shopper experience

For shoppers

Shoppers opt in once and everything after that happens on their own phone.

Opting in

Via a WiFi captive portal when they connect to the centre's guest WiFi (confirmed with a one-time code sent by SMS), a QR code around the centre, or a simple web opt-in page. Every new subscriber gets a text confirming they've signed up and how to opt out.

Getting offers

Campaigns arrive as an SMS or WhatsApp message linking to a personal digital booklet — every live offer from every participating shop, in one place, always up to date. WhatsApp messages can carry the centre's own logo.

Wallet passes

Any offer can be added to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet with one tap, so it shows up automatically on the shopper's lock screen when they're near the centre.

Opting out

A reply of STOP, or a one-tap self-service unsubscribe link, depending on how the message was sent — always available, no login required.

Built in, not bolted on

Compliance & security

  • UK & US messaging compliance — dedicated numbers go through the required registration (RC Bundle / 10DLC) before they're allowed to send, handled for you.
  • Multi-tenant isolation — every centre's data is fully scoped and separated; shops only ever see their own.
  • Two-factor authentication — available on every account, mall team and shop staff alike.
  • Opt-out by default — every message includes a compliant way to stop receiving them.
Flexible by design

Features & pricing

Every venue gets the core platform, with growth and advanced capabilities added as they become useful. Rather than fixed plans, each venue's package and pricing are put together around it — its size, its goals and how it would like to pay — and agreed before the pilot ends. Every venue supports unlimited shops.

Core — every venue

  • Unlimited businesses and campaigns
  • SMS campaigns, sent now or scheduled
  • WiFi captive portal, QR & web opt-in
  • Digital booklet with tap-to-redeem
  • Live redemption tracking
  • Shop self-service: own offers, joining campaigns, shop teams
  • Core analytics and message log
  • Bulk import of shops, campaigns and offers
  • Two-factor staff accounts

Growth — reach & insight

  • WhatsApp campaigns
  • Apple Wallet & Google Wallet passes
  • Advanced analytics: heatmaps, best send times, leaderboards
  • CSV exports
  • Priority support

Advanced — your own brand

  • Your own SMS number or branded sender name
  • WhatsApp Business under your own brand (after Meta verification)
  • AI Pulse: ask about your results in plain English
  • Group portal for operators with several venues
  • Custom integrations
  • Dedicated onboarding & account support

Free 60-day pilot*

Every venue starts with a free 60-day pilot: £20 of SMS credit included (about 285 SMS) and no card needed. When the pilot ends, the dashboard stays viewable in read-only mode until your package is in place.

* The pilot platform is free for 60 days and includes £20 of SMS credit (about 285 SMS). Further SMS are paid for from prepaid credit at 7p per SMS, less at higher volumes, unless otherwise agreed for your venue.

Messaging

SMS and WhatsApp are billed separately, pay-as-you-go, so you never pay for an allowance you didn't use.

Next step

Getting started

A demo is the fastest way to see your own shops and offers running on VouchrPulse before committing to anything. We'll walk through the mall dashboard, a shop's own view, and the shopper redemption flow, end to end.

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Ready to see it running on your centre?

Bring your own shop list — we'll show you exactly how a campaign looks from build to redemption.

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