How do I run an Independent Traders Club?

An Independent Traders Club makes the shopkeepers and stallholders around you part of the club, not just the customers passing through. You build it in Your club, under What members get.

Set it up

Anything the menu marks Off shows Switched off when you open it: press Switch on and set it up (on a phone, + Add more lists them). Changes wait for Save in the bar at the bottom of the page, or at the top right of an offer’s full-screen editor on a phone.

1. The trader breakfast. Press Flat ongoing benefit in the menu. Choose Set price. In What they get, write “a breakfast roll, pastry or porridge with coffee”.
2. Under When it can be used, press Add limits. Set From and Until to your early-morning hours, press Save limits, then Save.
3. The market-day refill. Press Weekly & monthly offers in the menu. Choose Same every time, then % off or £ off on “a second hot drink”. Repeat every 1 week on every day you open, add your morning-trading hours as a limit, and use Custom… and 1 day under How long they have. Press Save.
4. The end-of-day wind-down. Press Club perks in the menu, then Add a perk. Write a Heading such as “A member price on a drink after the shops close”. Press Done.
5. The trader meet-up table. Press Add a perk again, with a Heading such as “A table kept for a trader catch-up”. Press Done, then Save.

What members get

A fixed-price breakfast, a cheaper second hot drink during the morning trading window, a member price on an evening drink once the shops shut, and a table when a few traders want to sit down together.

What your staff need to know

Share your join link and QR code with neighbouring traders rather than posting them publicly — print them from Your club, then Sharing. Scan the pass: breakfast and the refill show ready to give in their hours. The evening drink and meet-up table are Club perks, listed under Club perks when you scan.

How you’ll know it’s working

The Flat ongoing benefit card on What members get shows how many members claimed breakfast this month.

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