Our Process

The JustShopBy™ Platform provides a revolutionary, patent-pending process for empowering Shops to apply the JustShopBy Barter Zone™ to their sales processes.

The phases of this process are:

1. Offer
2. Respond
3. Consummate

In the Offer Phase, a Shop creates (or updates) its Listing within our System, including providing a Points-based Interaction Policy and Discount Policy, as well as a tree of Product Groups available for discount.

In the Respond Phase, a Customer navigates to the Shop's Listing, views the Shop's Policies and Metrics, completes Interactions, and uses the Points earned from completing Interations to obtain Coupon Proposals (i.e. specific discounts that our System recommends based on the Customer's available Points).

In the Consummate Phase, a Customer attempts to apply one or more Coupon Proposals to a purchase, and the Shop must decide for each Coupon Proposal whether to accept the Coupon Proposal outright, accept it with alterations, or reject it. These decisions are then recorded in our System. Our System then rewards the Customer with Bonus Points, updates the Shop's Acceptance, Rejection, and Usage Metrics accordingly, and shares any data to which the Shop has acquired access by accepting specific Coupon Proposals.

For more on each phase, please see the phase-specific documentation pages.