A Daily Deal is a discount you create to bring in new customers and win back regulars who haven't booked in a while. Your deal appears on your Vagaro Listing Page as soon as you announce it. Once Vagaro approves it, your business gets the same Marketplace visibility as Vera Fill My Books:
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Sponsored placement: Your business appears in the Sponsored section of the Vagaro Marketplace home page.
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Higher in search: Your business ranks higher when nearby customers search for services you offer.
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Emails to nearby customers: Vagaro emails your deal to Vagaro users within 25 miles who haven't booked with you yet. These emails are included and don't use your monthly email allowance.
Your deal also appears on your MySite.
Daily Deals or Fill My Books? With Daily Deals, you create and manage each deal yourself. With Vera Fill My Books, Vera creates deals for you based on your open availability and the highest discount you're willing to offer. Both charge the same one-time fee when a customer books through a deal.
Prerequisites: This feature requires your business to be listed on Vagaro.com. To announce a deal to your existing customers by text, you need a Text Marketing plan. Gift card, membership, and package deals also require Credit Card Processing and the Online Shopping Cart.
Read these before you create a deal. Some take effect as soon as you announce it.
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Fees: When a customer uses a deal, Vagaro charges a one-time fee of 20% for new customers and 5% for existing customers. Vagaro takes the fee out of the deposit the customer pays. See Changes to Daily Deals and Get Featured to learn more.
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Review: Vagaro reviews every deal before it appears on the Marketplace, which can take up to one business day. Vagaro may edit the text for clarity, grammar, and spelling, and may deny deals that don't follow the Daily Deal guidelines. Your deal appears on your Vagaro Listing Page right away, even if it's denied, along with any email or text you sent about it.
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Announcements go out right away: When you announce a deal, your existing customers get a notification in their Vagaro app. By default, they also get an email, and if you turn on Send as Text, they get a text. These go out immediately, even if the deal starts later, and you can't take them back after you select Announce.
Each email counts toward your monthly email allowance. On the smallest Email Marketing plan, the email won't send once you reach your limit. To skip the email, turn off Send as Email Campaign before you announce. If the deal is for new customers only, your existing customers don't get any of these.
Bring in new customers and give regulars a reason to come back. Create a deal on your services, classes, memberships, packages, or gift cards, and Vagaro helps you spread the word.
To create a Daily Deal:
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Select More
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Select Create Daily Deal. If you've created a deal before, select Create New in the top-right corner. If a screen explaining Daily Deals appears, select Next.
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Select Category and choose a category, then select Photo and choose an image.
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Enter the Daily Deal Name, Description (minimum 100 characters), and Fine Print. Under Daily Deal Period, set the Start date.
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Set any optional settings and choose whether to announce the deal by email or text. See Daily Deal Settings for what each setting does.
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Select your Daily Deal type, then add items and set the discount:
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Services & Classes: Select Service / Classes / Add-Ons, choose your services or classes, then select Confirm. Under Discount Amount, enter a percentage. The same discount applies to every item in the deal. To give items different discounts, create the deal on a computer.
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Memberships & Packages: Select Memberships / Packages, choose your memberships or packages, then select Confirm. Under Discount Amount, enter a percentage, then enter the number of Billing Cycles the discount lasts (Unlimited by default). The same discount applies to every item in the deal. To give items different discounts, create the deal on a computer.
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Gift Cards: Select Create New Discount, enter the Gift Card Amount and the Discount amount or percentage, then select Save. Repeat for more gift card amounts.
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Select Preview, review and acknowledge the Daily Deal guidelines, and then select Announce.
You've announced your Daily Deal. Approval may take up to one business day. Share it on Facebook to reach your customers. To edit, pause, or end a deal after you announce it, see Manage Your Daily Deals.
When customers make an online purchase or booking, the deal applies automatically unless you turned on Only Display on Daily Deals Page. To use a deal when you check out a customer at your business, see Apply a Daily Deal at Checkout.
To create a Daily Deal:
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Select Settings
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Under Select Daily Deal Type, select Services & Classes, Memberships & Packages, or Gift Cards.
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Under Select Daily Deal Category & Photo, select a photo. To see more images, select another category in the left menu.
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Enter the Daily Deal Name, Daily Deal Description (minimum 100 characters), Fine Print, and Start Date & Time.
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Set any optional settings and choose whether to announce the deal by email or text. See Daily Deal Settings for what each setting does.
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Add items and set the discount:
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Services & Classes: Select Add, choose your services or classes, then select Add or Create Group. Enter the Discount for each item or group.
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Memberships & Packages: Select Add, select your memberships or packages, then select Add. Enter the Discount amount or percentage, then enter the number of Billing Cycles the discount lasts. Select Unlimited to keep the discount for as long as the membership or package is active.
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Gift Cards: Enter the Gift Card Amount and the Discount amount or percentage. To offer discounts on more gift card amounts, select Add and repeat.
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Select Next, review and acknowledge the Daily Deal guidelines, and then select Announce.
You've announced your Daily Deal. Approval may take up to one business day. Share it on Facebook to reach your customers. To edit, pause, or end a deal after you announce it, see Manage Your Daily Deals.
When customers make an online purchase or booking, the deal applies automatically unless you turned on Only Display on Daily Deals Page. To use a deal when you check out a customer at your business, see Apply a Daily Deal at Checkout.
Most settings appear on both a phone and a computer. Where the setting name differs, the computer name is in parentheses.
Who can use the deal:
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On a computer, Discount will be redeemable by: Choose new customers, existing customers, or both (the default).
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On a phone, New Customers Only: Turn this on to limit the deal to new customers. Leave it off to let all customers use the deal. To limit a deal to existing customers, create it on a computer.
A customer counts as existing if they have a profile in your Customer List.
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Vagaro charges a one-time fee when a customer uses a deal: a 20% fee for new customers and a 5% fee for existing customers. See here to learn more about fees.
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If the deal is for new customers only, your existing customers won't get an email, text, or app notification about it. On a phone, Send as Email Campaign and Send as Text are hidden when New Customers Only is on.
Other settings:
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What it does |
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Discount Has an Expiration Date (Daily Deal Has an Expiration Date) |
Customers can't use the deal for appointments after this date. |
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Limit to Last-Minute Bookings (computer only) |
Customers can use the deal only when they book within 72 hours of the appointment. |
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Limit Number of Customers |
Sets the maximum number of customers who can use the deal. |
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Limit to One Use Per Customer (Limit Use to One Per Customer) |
Each customer can use the deal only once. |
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Only Display on Daily Deals Page |
The deal doesn't apply automatically to online purchases or bookings. They have to open your Daily Deals page to use it. |
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Send as Email Campaign (on by default) |
Emails the deal to your existing customers and uses your monthly email allowance. |
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Send as Text |
Texts the deal to your existing customers. Requires a Text Marketing plan. |
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Discount will be applied to |
Choose whether the discount applies to every eligible item in the cart or only one. |
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Offered by |
Choose which employees offer the deal. Available for service and class deals only. |
After you announce a deal, it shows up in several places so both new and existing customers can find it.
Comments
6 comments
Vagaro needs to allow us to create Daily Deals for NEW CLIENTS. As far as now, there isn't an option for this.
Hi, Elise. When you create a Daily Deal, there is an option for the Daily Deal to be redeemable by new customers. Near the bottom of the screen, look for Discount will be redeemable by, and ensure that only New Customers is selected:
I hope this helps!
We should have the option to customize the photo, either the selection Vagaro provides or to upload our own (without using Drive space)
Hi Kristal,
You can choose from the images provided by Vagaro, but you won’t be able to upload your own.
Thanks, Jamie
Is there a BOGO option?
Hi Christina, that isn't currently a feature of Vagaro yet. However, I recommend submitting a feature request to our product team.
https://vagaro.uservoice.com
Thanks, Jamie
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