Neighborhood Referral Network

Your neighbors’ regulars are your next customers.

Word of mouth is the only marketing that works on trust. We make it trackable — and pay the people who do it.

One offer, one QR stand. Nearby shops send you their regulars — you send them yours. Staff verifies at the counter, so every dollar ties to a walk-in. Learn more ↓

Join free

Free to join · No monthly fee · You set the price

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Put out one offer
One perk, one price.
- One perk, one limit: Pick a deal you can sustain — cap redemptions so traffic never overwhelms your staff.
- Live in minutes: Create it once. We handle the network, the sharing, and the tracking in the background.
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Name what a customer is worth
You set the price per walk-in.
- You name it: Set what a verified walk-in is worth to you — say $2 — and change it anytime.
- No walk-in, no charge: You pay only when a customer redeems at your counter. Flag fakes within 14 days for a refund.
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Your regulars share it
Nearby shops, their regulars, and their regulars' regulars — within 5 km.
- Word of mouth, on purpose: Nearby shops show your offer to people already spending on your block. So can any customer — and they get paid for it.
- They earn, you earn: Whoever sent the customer keeps 70% of the fee. Showing their offers to your regulars brings them your way too.
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They walk in and you redeem
Verified at your counter. Lists stay private.
- Verified foot traffic, not clicks: Customers redeem with a code at your counter — every payment ties to a real visit.
- Your list stays yours: You share customers, never the list. Other shops only see totals, never your emails or phone numbers.

Then you send yours back — the loop repeats.

Word of mouth is your best channel. You just can't measure it.

A neighbor telling a friend to try your shop outperforms anything you can buy. It converts because it is trusted.

But it is also the one channel you can never put on a statement. You cannot attribute it, budget for it, or pay for it — so it never gets credit and never gets funded.

So we built the other one. Word of mouth, tracked and paid.

Put out one offer and name what a customer is worth. Nearby regulars share it — and any customer can share it too, earning 70% of your fee when their friend walks in.

Your staff confirms the redemption at the counter with a PIN. That is the whole system: no app, no POS integration, no agency, no monthly fee. Marketing becomes something you can finally read.

The unit is your street, not an audience.

Most platforms sell you reach into a crowd you have to win the attention of. A referral network does the opposite — it moves customers between shops you already have a relationship with, and pays whoever made the introduction.

Nobody buys an impression. Nobody tunes a bid. The only thing that happens is a customer arrives.

It gets better the fuller your street is.

One shop alone cannot outspend a chain. But every shop that joins is another place your offer appears, and another shop earning 70% every time one of their regulars tries you.

That is the difference between buying attention and joining a network: buying attention costs more every month; a network costs the same and grows.

Why it works

Built to bring people in

Word of mouth, made trackable

Trackable, not guessy: See which neighbors and which shares brought each walk-in. The people already sending you customers, finally credited.
Payable, not passive: Word of mouth usually earns you nothing. Here the person who recommends you gets paid when their friend walks in.

Your regulars work for you

Your customers, activated: No ads to buy. The people who already love your shop become the ones who recommend it — and they get paid to.
Better the fuller the street: Every shop that joins gives your offer more places to appear. The network gets more useful the more of your block is on it.

You pay only on proof

You set the price: Name what a verified walk-in is worth to you — $2, $5, your call. You pay only when someone reaches your counter.
Verified at the counter: Staff check the code in front of them. Every dollar ties to a real visit — no impressions, no reach, no clicks.

What you get

Neighbors helping neighbors

Your regulars get paid to send you customers

They earn, you earn: When someone you sent walks in and redeems, you keep 70% of that shop's referral fee. Same deal your own customers get.
No ads to buy: You are not renting an audience from a platform. You are paying the referrals your reputation was already generating.

New faces from your own block

Already nearby: Offers reach people within 5 km of your counter — locals who can come in today, not leads across town.
Better the fuller the street: Every shop that joins is another place your offer appears, and another shop earning from yours.

You pay only on verified walk-ins

You set the price: Name what a new customer is worth — $2, $5, your call. No walk-in, no bill.
Checked at the counter: Your staff confirms each redemption in front of them with a PIN. Every dollar ties to someone who actually came through the door.

No monthly fee, no media budget

Cash-flow safe: No $2,000 mailer gamble, no retainer, no lock-in. Marketing cost tracks revenue, never payroll or rent.
Nothing if nobody walks in: Fees are held 14 days so you can dispute a redemption, then billed once a month. No walk-ins, no bill.

Almost nothing for you or your staff to do

No writing or posting: No copy, no ad manager, no dashboard to babysit. One offer, one counter QR.
One action at the counter: The customer claims on their own phone. Staff enter a 4-digit PIN to confirm — the same one every time.

Your margins stay yours

You pick the offer: A free cookie with coffee, a trial class, early access. Small samples get people in; great service turns them into full-price regulars.
No discount spiral: Neighbor-scale, not city-wide. You are not buying bargain hunters — you are borrowing your neighbors' trust.

The category

What a neighborhood referral network is

Your regulars are your best source of customers. You already have that channel — it is just unmeasurable and unpaid today. A referral network connects the shops on your street, credits whoever sent a customer, and charges you only when someone reaches your counter.

A shop sets a price
You name what a new customer is worth — a free cookie with a coffee, a trial class, early access. No flighting, no media plan, no campaign calendar.
You already do this. Every offer you have ever run had a price attached. That part is unchanged.
The street carries it
Shops around you show your offer to the customers they already have. So can any customer of yours — with a link that earns them a share when their friend walks in.
If you have bought a billboard or a mailer, you know the shape of this: one piece, placed in front of people, live for a few weeks. Here it is one QR stand that keeps working, and it is the people next door doing the placing.
Someone walks in
They redeem at your counter. Your staff checks a code. That is the entire transaction, and the only moment anything is ever charged.
You have watched a pay-per-click account before. Clicks that might be a customer. Here there is no click and no guess — the charge is a person standing at your till.
The split settles
Whoever sent that customer earns 70% of the fee. Your customer list never moves, and no one else sees it.
Delivery apps and directories take a share and keep the customer. This share goes to the person who made the introduction, and the customer is yours.

The unit is your street, not an audience. Nobody buys an impression, and nobody owns your list.

The other alternatives

Not ads, and not delivery

Instead of Groupon and daily deals

The problem: City-wide deep discounts that attract deal-hunters who take the deal and never come back — plus a marketplace taking a cut of every order.
With Ooh!local: Neighbor-scale offers you set yourself. Whoever sends the customer keeps 70% of the fee, so trust travels with the discount instead of being sold off.

Instead of delivery apps

The problem: Delivery marketplaces keep your customers and your data. You become a kitchen in the background.
With Ooh!local: Customers come into your shop, meet your staff, and become your regulars. You keep the relationship and the list.

Three truths

What every independent shop runs into

Independent businesses cannot afford to pay for “maybe.”

Every available channel charges you before it knows whether anyone responds. You set a price per verified walk-in, and no walk-in means no charge.

Independent businesses do not have time to become marketers.

The modern ad stack is a part-time job on top of a full-time one. Here the work is one printed code and one PIN, and it runs itself after that.

Independent businesses need proof, not promises.

No impressions, no clicks, no guesswork. One number: how many people walked through your door and were verified at the counter.