General FAQs

• What is Shopvana?
• What Makes Shopvana Different?
• What Types of Businesses Use Shopvana?
• How Do You Vet Businesses?
• Where can Shopvana be Used?

 

What is Shopvana?

For Vendors, we enable precision timing with every vendor offer.

We’ve made real-time push notifications available to use for all vendors, maximizing offer visibility on Shopvana like Amazon and Facebook do, while eliminating the need for offer ranking systems.

By enabling precision offering timing, vendors now have a marketplace for selling highly perishable offers, such as: fresh food, tickets to events, or re-booking sudden openings. Offer whatever, wherever, whenever, instantly. 

For Consumers:

• Our broadcast-based platform is designed to prioritize personal data protection. Vendors broadcast offers based on factors such as Offer Requests, area census data, and proprietary three-month offer-demand trends, rather than personal browsing or purchase history. 
• Consumers can request offers, which are seen by all Shopvana vendors.
• Find highly perishable offers like fresh food or tickets to local events. Ensuring an offer's Freshness is easy with Shopvana, with our real-time broadcast based marketplace.

 

Offer Visibility

Problem

On other platforms, vendors share costs through fees or subscriptions, but visibility varies. Vendors with less visibility subsidize those with more due to list feeds and ranking systems.

Solution

On Shopvana, all offers are created equally!

Vendors incur the same cost for equal visibility due to our real-time broadcast-based system.

Vendors broadcast deals in real-time, thereby eliminating the offer and vendor rankings typically associated with most list feed algorithms.

All offers are immediately visible.

What Types of Businesses Use Shopvana?

Shopvana is ideally suited for broadcasting limited time offers, as well as for businesses that cater to local consumers and visitors. 

Businesses that can benefit from using Shopvana include:

• Food: Restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores, food trucks.
• Goods: Clothing stores, footwear retailers, jewelry shops, craft sellers, gift shops, pop-up shops.
• Service Providers: Salons, spas, automotive services, dry cleaners, contractors, catering services, event planners.
• Leisure Activities Providers: Event tickets, museums, tours, escape rooms, classes, wine tastings, parking services.

All vendors can create coupons. These are just a few of the many offers available on Shopvana.

How Do You Vet Businesses?

We prioritize safety and security for both businesses and customers. Shopvana only works with legal and respectable businesses, excluding those selling illegal or objectionable items.

Vendor registration involves a two-step vetting process:

• We check websites, reviews, and social media to verify business legitimacy.
• For in-app payments, Stripe verifies financial details with a test deposit and withdrawal. Once confirmed, you're ready to go.

Where can Shopvana be Used?

At this time, Shopvana can be used anywhere within the United States. 

We hope to add other countries in the future.