Mobile coupon is an electronic ticket solicited and delivered by mobile phones that can be exchanged for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing products or services.

The convenience of digital coupons is appealing to a new crop of shoppers, many of whom would not dream of carrying around a crumpled pile of paper coupons just to get a nominal financial discount. About one third of the users never used paper coupons, according to a study done on coupons.

Our proposed project is a plugin for existing Point of Sales Application for wholesale/retail showrooms to enable mobile coupons.


Hardware Requirement.

Bluetooth Enabled PC

The proposed project will have the following modules.

1. Generic Ruleset Engine

2. Open Standard Communication facility



Working of the Software

Delivery of Mobile Coupon

While generating bills with exisitng Point of Sales Software, the Mobile Coupon plugin will validate the bill with user defined rulesets. (For example is total bill amount >1000 or does the bill includes 100kg of rice etc..) Once the plugin found a match it will auomatically evoke the blutooth application to send the coupon (A text file with 16 digit unique code). The operator can ask the customer to activate the blutooth facility of his phone and finalise the transfering of coupon file.

Use of Mobile Coupon

Once a customer got the mobile coupon he must cash the coupon within the validity period of that coupon. Normally the coupon can cash only with the next purchase from the same shop. On his next purchase during the process of bill generation the customer can tell the operator about the coupon and he can transfer the file using bluetooth to the same billing software. The mobile coupon plugin application will receive and valdate the file for 16 digit unique code and will give the financial discount accordingly.

This application can be developed using .NET or Java

That's a great idea. What is also efficient is to combine POS software system with inventory management software like Visual Retail Plus.