A very busy week with charities, restaurants and consumers
Big News
Charities
We have just launched the ability to buy credits for your account, where you can just bring your card to the restaurant and just present the card and the certificate will be purchased and redeemed on the spot.  Wow… I love this.
In the next few days, [...]

The United Way is reported,  in this month’s BCBusiness, to to be down almost 20% from last year.  In every recession,  charities find that people cut their discretionary spending, but that should not stop charities from trying to grow its supporter base.
Charities, like advertisers, find their revenue drops in a recession, but the best companies [...]

It has been a busy month with many new products, features and functions being launched.
Restaurant and Consumer News
For the restaurants that will never go hi tech, do not have a Point of Sale (POS) or just have an obscure POS system, we have a solution.  Just show the card at the end of meal for [...]

Charities
Just read a very interesting book review in the economist – which discusses using capitalistic methods to generate more revenue for charities.  The heart of the matter is paying people who do great fund raising  very well.  The specific example is Avon Breast Cancer Walk.  Avon started its own walks and generated $22.7 million.  They [...]

We are steadly moving forward:
1) The flow of restaurant sign up has begun to increase with 5 new signings in the last 15 days, hurrah.. now to get them live – like So.cial
2) Completed our fund raising which should take us forward for a few more months… go Bootup Labs
3) Technical development continues [...]