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A sign on the counter. Money for your town.

GivePass turns visits to your local businesses into sponsor-funded money for local causes. Shoppers scan a printed sign and pick where it goes. There is no app to download, and nothing for a local business to install or remember.

Book a 20-minute walkthroughSee how a season runs

Runs 8 to 16 weeks. Funded by one local sponsor. Free for your businesses, free for shoppers.

Fairhaven Fall Passport

Scan here before you leave

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Your visit sends money to a Fairhaven cause you choose. No app, no sign-up, costs you nothing.

Funded by Valley Community Bank

One sign per address. We print them and post them to you.

What a shopper does

Shop, scan, pick a cause. It's that easy.

01

Shop somewhere local

Any of the eight to twelve local businesses taking part. Nothing has to be bought, and no receipt is scanned. A visit means somebody was at the counter.

02

Scan the sign

A phone camera is all it takes. The scan counts on its own. The staff are not involved, and nobody signs up for anything.

03

Pick a cause, raise the money

The land trust, the food bank, the library. Visits release the sponsor's money to whichever cause got picked, and the pick can change any time.

What a local business does

Puts the sign somewhere visible.

That is the whole job. Their staff never have to remember anything: no app on the till, no daily code to read out, no discount to honor, no invoice to pay.

Every loyalty program that died in a small town died at the counter, because it asked a seventeen-year-old on a Saturday shift to do one extra thing. This one asks for nothing.

Business checklist

Put the sign on the counter
Install software
Train staff on a scanner
Offer a discount
Pay a fee

Promotion, handled

Every campaign gets a page you can share

A public page at its own address, carrying your name and your sponsor's, with the businesses taking part and what each cause has raised so far. Totals only ever rise, so the page is safe to post the day it goes live.

Each cause and each business gets its own view of it to send out, with a ready-made email to copy, a poster to print and a QR code that points at their page. Nobody has to write the announcement.

Fairhaven Fall Passport
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Fairhaven Fall Passport

Raised so far

$2,145

across three Fairhaven organizations, funded by Valley Community Bank

What a cause or a business can send out

Copy a ready-made emailDownload the posterGet the QR code

What a sponsor gets

Your sponsor's name goes where shoppers are already looking

One local business funds the season. In return their name sits on every sign in town, on the passport card each shopper carries, on the progress screen they check between visits, and on the screen where a cause gets claimed.

Those are real placements rather than a logo in a footer, and each one is counted daily. At close the sponsor gets a written credit for their own contribution: what their support generated, and what was paid to which causes.

Where their name appears

Every printed sign

One per address, on the counter

The passport card

Carried by every shopper

The progress screen

Checked between visits

The claim screen

The moment a cause gets the money

Every appearance is counted daily, so what the sponsor is shown at close is impressions that happened rather than a projection.

How the funding works

The sponsor commits a maximum and is never billed above it. Whatever is not released by the end of the season is not owed. GivePass never holds any of it. The sponsor pays the causes directly against a payout page we produce at close.

A sample ladder

Ceiling $2,500

$10

3 visits

Getting started

$20

6 visits

Regular

$40

10 visits

Finished the passport

You set the milestones and the amounts. We refuse a season that promises more than the sponsor has actually funded, so the figures a shopper sees are always ones somebody is good for.

Where the money lands

Real money, for the causes your town picked

Every visit to a local business releases money, and the shopper says where it goes. So each cause is paid exactly what its own supporters raised, down to the dollar. Causes are listed alphabetically, and every total only ever goes up.

Fairhaven Food Bank

Weekly pantry at the Senior Center

$705

Fairhaven Public Library

Children's reading room fund

$600

Hollow Brook Land Trust

Keeps 2,000 acres open to walk on

$840

Illustrative figures from a sample program, not a customer result.

Insights that matter

You find out which local businesses gained new customers

Not one aggregate number, but what each business got out of it, broken out by business, by cause and by week. The column that matters is first-time customers: people who had never scanned at that business before.

That is the column a renewal conversation turns on, and it is the one a discount app can never show you.

A sample program, counted

241

shoppers

318

first-timers

$2,145

to local causes

And the sentence for your annual report

"The Fall Passport put 241 shoppers through nine local businesses 1,402 times, brought 318 first-time customers, and raised $2,145 for three Fairhaven organizations at no cost to the businesses."

Illustrative figures from a sample program.

Ready to turn local shopping into money for local causes?

First three programs run at a founding rate

Twenty minutes on a call, and we will walk a live program on a phone so you can see exactly what your businesses and shoppers would see.