Everything ekDeal can do
Features & capabilities
Three user types, dozens of features — a complete local deals & multi-vendor commerce platform in one place.
Who uses ekDeal
Three roles, each with its own workspace and abilities.
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Customer
Browse, save and earn on every purchase
- Browse & search the deal marketplace (restaurants, spas, hotels, trips, events…)
- Claim coupons and get % off — Free, Basic & Premium members unlock bigger tiers
- Scan merchant QRs or show your member QR at the counter
- Buy products from merchant storefronts with a global cart
- Choose Dine-in, Pickup or Delivery with live order status
- Earn cashback % on cashback offers → wallet balance
- Earn 1 reward point per $10 spent on product orders
- Spend reward points (1 pt = $0.10) and cashback balance at checkout
- Level up from Bronze → Silver → Gold based on lifetime points
- Rate & review deals, track savings in the Wallet
- Pay with cash on delivery or card (Stripe) — per merchant
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Merchant
List offers, run a store, serve customers
- Create 3 offer types: Coupon, Discount (any bill) & Cashback (to wallet)
- Set per-plan % (Free/Basic/Premium), daily limits, expiry, featured image
- Build a public storefront: logo, banner, hours, categories & products
- Add products with price, stock, category & image
- Scan customer QRs to apply discounts/cashback with the bill amount
- Manage orders — placed → preparing → ready → out for delivery → delivered
- Accept COD and/or card (Stripe) payments — your choice
- Set delivery fee, store hours, currency & timezone
- Sales analytics: revenue, orders, top products, 14-day trend
- See cashback given + customers served
- Get instant email notifications on new orders
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Super Admin
Run the whole platform
- Platform analytics: GMV, orders, customers, merchants, products & deals
- Top merchants by revenue + 14-day GMV trend
- Manage every merchant, customer & user (search + role filter)
- Control subscription packages & plans
- View all invoices & payments
- Monitor cashback paid & reward points issued platform-wide
- Platform settings (default coupon percentages etc.)
Features
What each part of the platform does.
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🛒 Deal Marketplace
A Groupon-style public marketplace for discovering deals.
- Trending & Fresh deals
- Homepage shows top-rated and newest offers from all merchants.
- Browse & search
- Filter by category or search keywords across all deals.
- Categories
- Hotel, Spa, Zoo & Attractions, Travel & Trips, Events & Ticketing, Hospital, Beauty & Fitness, Food & Beverage…
- Sale page
- Hottest deals sorted by biggest discount, with a hero banner.
- Ratings & reviews
- 1–5 star ratings with optional reviews; cards show avg score + count.
- Featured images
- Every deal shows a photo; merchants can upload their own.
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🎟️ Offer Types
Three ways to reward customers — created by the merchant.
- Coupon
- Customer claims it in advance (daily limit + expiry). At the counter the merchant enters the bill and the customer's plan % is taken off — capped at the offer's full price.
- Discount
- No claim needed — just show your QR. The merchant applies % off any bill at the counter (capped at full price).
- Cashback
- Customer pays the full bill; the merchant enters the amount and the plan % is credited straight to the customer's wallet.
- Per-plan pricing
- Free / Basic / Premium tiers each unlock a bigger % — the deal detail page shows all three.
- QR scan flow
- Merchants scan the customer's QR, pick the offer, enter the bill and confirm in seconds.
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🏪 Multi-Vendor Stores
Every merchant gets a full public storefront.
- Storefront page
- Banner, logo, business info, hours, category tabs and a product grid.
- Products
- Merchants add products with price, stock, category and photos.
- Global cart
- One cart across the whole site — add from anywhere, checkout from the header.
- Checkout
- Dine-in / Pickup / Delivery + address, with COD or card (Stripe) per merchant.
- Delivery fees
- Each merchant sets their own delivery fee for delivery orders.
- Featured products
- Homepage shows top sellers with '🔥 X sold' badges.
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📦 Orders & Delivery
From order to doorstep.
- Order flow
- Customer orders → merchant gets an email → merchant updates status.
- Status tracking
- Placed → Preparing → Ready → Out for delivery → Delivered (or Cancelled).
- Customer cancellation
- Cancel a 'placed' order — items restock, points & cashback are refunded.
- Order emails
- Merchant gets new-order emails; customers get status updates.
- Reward points on orders
- 1 point per $10 spent — awarded on delivery (COD) or payment (Stripe).
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👛 Wallets & Rewards
Customers earn, track and spend — all in the Wallet.
- Cashback wallet
- Cashback offers credit a balance automatically; history shows every entry.
- Spend cashback
- Apply your whole cashback balance at checkout to pay less.
- Reward points
- Earn on product orders; spend 1 pt = $0.10 off at checkout.
- Loyalty tiers
- Bronze → Silver (100 pts) → Gold (500 pts) based on lifetime points, with a badge in the Wallet.
- My Orders
- Live order list with items, status and points earned.
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📊 Analytics
Data for merchants and the platform owner.
- Merchant analytics
- Revenue, orders, avg order value, customers served, cashback given, top products and a 14-day chart.
- Super-admin analytics
- Platform GMV, orders, customers, merchants, products, deals, cashback paid, points issued, top merchants and a 14-day trend.
- Customer insights
- Merchants see who redeemed from them, with totals.
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💳 Payments
Flexible, secure payment options.
- Cash on delivery
- Pay at the store or on delivery — merchant controlled.
- Stripe card payments
- Secure online checkout for product orders.
- Subscriptions
- Customers upgrade to Basic / Premium plans via Stripe (free plan available).
- Stripe webhooks
- Payments, order fulfilment and refunds all handled automatically.
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📱 Platform & Branding
The experience around the features.
- Mobile app page
- iOS & Android coming soon page with the app icon.
- Brand identity
- Full rebrand with custom logo, magenta/navy palette and consistent design.
- Mobile-first layouts
- Customers get a phone-style layout with a bottom tab bar on mobile.
- Secure auth
- Email OTP sign-up, Sanctum token auth, role-based access.
- Email notifications
- Mailgun-powered order & account emails.
- Image storage
- Local public disk for deal, product, logo & banner photos.
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