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RAFFLE COUPONS VIA SMS SOFTWARE

INTRODUCTION

SMS Raffle Coupons Software is web based software running on PHP server side handles and MYSQL DBMS tool. The software is exactly what the name says. It is simply software which produces number of coupons and sends it to consumer through SMS. The software was designed to help companies to deduct the cost of printing the coupons, organize and control the raffle or the redemptions and advertise through SMS.

SOFTWARE USERS LIST

HOW IT WORKS
A/ PARTICIPATE BY SENDING (SMS) RECEIPT NUMBER

1st step
Company to enter in the software the campaign name, period and the coupon value
 
2nd step
After paying, the consumer will receive a receipt on which the amount and the receipt number will be mentioned and in the bottom of the receipt the following text will be mentioned
“Please SMS your receipt amount and number to the following mobile N# 768939”

 3rd step (Please see the above drawing)
Consumer will send by SMS to the software which is linked to the mentioned above mobile N#  the following information
Receipt number              
Receipt amount              
Gender ( Male or Female)          
Age                       
Nationality
Marital status (Married or Single) etc.

4th step
Software will divide the amount by the amount of the decided coupon and send by SMS a number(s) of the coupon(s) to the mobile user

5th step (Raffle)
On the raffle day, the person in charge will enter in the page of the raffle which is designed as follow and press the icons which contain the word TOSS to obtain winner coupon number

6th step
Once the coupon number appears on the screen, the coupon holder mobile number and the receipt details will appear and at the same time the software will send a message to the winner informing him about the result

SOFTWARE USERS LEVELS

The software was designed in two directions which are horizontal direction and vertical direction.

a/ Vertical directions: The vertical direction was designed to accommodate 5 levels of users. Each level can access all levels under him but cannot know or see or access any level beyond him. In other term we can say that our software was designed in the same way we build a building each higher floor can see the down floors but cannot see the upper floors.
Each admin of each level can have a report about all users under him with their access name and password, their history of all their activities and the history of all accounts (users) under him. The said admin can block and change the user name and password of any account or user under them or the accounts which are under the accounts which are under them. This facility will help all users to control the accounts under him.

b/ Horizontal directions: The horizontal direction was designed to accommodate different users on the same level starting from the admin level to one time user level. Which means that can be different admin in one user account.

SOFTWARE SALES METHODS
The software was designed with different facilities to can accommodate different sales methods. But mainly the sales can be done through subscription charges during registration and the periodical subscription, SMS unit sales, sub account sales, SMS advertisement sales and user’s personal information sales. The following are the facilities which can give us idea about the different sales methods

a/  Subscription and Account expiry date: Each account can be given automatic or manual expiry date. In other hand the account can be renewed automatically or manually

b/  Prepaid card serial number: The software has built in system of issuing card numbers. The numbers can be generated at any time. (Note: In order to have a secure generated numbers, we developed the facility to generate not serial numbers. Which means the numbers will not be serial once they are generated)

c/  Prepaid card expiry date: Each of the said generated numbers will have an expiry date which was set on one year bases. But the user can set the date as his requirements.

d/  Short code facility: The software can be linked to short code and the user can set a price per each subscription.

e/  SMS account: The software has the facility to add SMS credits to the sub accounts. The sms unit can be added automatically by prepaid card or manually by access the account and adding from it.

f/ Sub accounts or sub users: As we said previously that the software has 5 level of users. And some of these high level users can have the facilities to provide the services of our software to group of companies or people.

g/  Announcement & advertisement: The software has built in facilities to send an individual or group of messages to one mobile number or selected list which can be from the service provider or any other decided list which can be filtered from the user list of uploaded from the computer desk top. The facility of sending message to selected group of mobile users can be used by media agencies to send messages to desired categories of mobile users as per their personal or contact information registered in the software. The announcement delivery can be set before receiving the reply or after.

SOFTWARE MAIN USAGES AND KEY FEATURES

As we said before and as it was mentioned in the paragraph of SOFTWARE USERS LEVELS, there are 5 levels of users. Therefore, each level has limited access to a certain pages and can operate only limited operations which are granted to his user level. The following are some features which can be operated and some page which can be seen by accessing the software by internet. The following information are chosen randomly and not by user level.

a/ OPERATIONS (FEATURES): 

1a/ USER: Add and cancel users, change password and user name of existing users, set expiry date for each user account, block user, add SMS unit to the account of user, etc...

2a/ Upload new promotion: Upload new promotion, cancel existing promo, set expiry date to an existing promo, etc…

3a/ Manage participants: Record information about each participant, edit information and details, etc….

4a/Participants list: list of participants, block a mobiles number list from using the software or participating, etc…

5a/ SMS advertising campaign: Set the message sender name, set the language of the message, set the mobile number, set the group after selecting from user own list or service provider list or a list from user computer desk top, send message to selected mobile number(s), 

6a/ TOSS: Built in draw firing feature with automatic winner notifying option.

b/ SEARCH: 
Our search engine is based on filtering features and not just search by word. The filtering option allows the user to keep on filtering the searched information and not to search for each information separately. The following are some available search criteria

1b/ User list: Search existing user by name, by password, by registration date, by expiry date, etc…

2b/ Promotion list: Search uploaded promo by uploading date, uploading expiry date, etc…

3b/ Participants list: Search by names, designation, nationality, experience, area, etc…… 

c/ REPORTS:
Our reports are based on filtering features. The filtering option allows the user to keep on filtering the requested reports and there will be no need for him to go out of received report and ask for another report in case the information is not available in the first report.
All activities and information on the software are registered and cannot be expired or changed unless the admin of the software decides to eliminate certain registered information or activities.

d/ MESSAGE LIST & FUNCTIONS BY MOBILE

Function Via mobile	Message to send	System Replies
To participate	D.drawId V.recieptno A.amount G.gender Y.age N.nationality M.maritalstaus I.income P.profession FN.firstname LN.lastname E.email PB.postbox R.residencearea	A/ Case: confirmation of registration Your bonanza draw coupons are: 9251,9252,9253 from Carrefour, City Centre Branch. Please keep your receipt till the end of the draw. Thank you. B/ Case: program is having instant draw You won instant prize PEPSI 300ml. Claim your prize at our customer care counters with prize coupon No:555254, amount:735.50 & receipt:1023. Carrefour, City Centre Branch C/ Case: program is having instant redemption Congratulations! You are entitled to get 10% redemption coupon worth Q.R.450 with coupon No:4558544 for receipt:1023 & amount:735.5. Thanks. Carrefour, City Centre Branch D/ Case: errors(wrong message) Unable to process your message: try again as follows: To participate: D.drawId V.recieptno A.amount To comment : D.drawid  CM.comment
To comment	D.drawid  CM.comment	A/ Case: Correct message We appreciate your valuable comments and will act accordingly. Thank you.     B/ Case: errors(wrong message) Unable to process your message: try again as follows: To participate: D.drawId V.recieptno A.amount To comment : D.drawid  CM.comment
The following function is from the system and not from mobile AUTOMATIC MESSAGE – WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT		System sends automatic message to winner informing him (her) about the result: Congratulations! You won the xxx raffle draw with E-coupon No. 451522244, receipt No.4552744 and amount on receipt 250.23. Claim your prize Now

SOFTWARE USAGE BENEFITS
The benefits of using SMS RAFFLE COUPON SOFTWARE vary from one user to another. Therefore we will focus on main users which the software was mainly developed for them.

a/ SMS PROVIDER:

• New services to sell: The software can be considered as new service and it can be provided by service registration which means there will be subscription charges and periodical charges (such as monthly). In other hand the usage of SMS will be charged to service user.
• Increase of SMS unit selling: The software usage is based on SMS traffic therefore the SMS service provider will be able to increase the sales of SMS units
• Increase the sales of mobile numbers: The software was developed based on receiving the requests and searches through standard mobile number which should be linked with the software through GPRS modem and SMS gateway.
• Increase number of permanent clients: Our software helps SMS provider to build a long term and permanent relationship with their subscribers which are using the software.
• Create a categorized data base of mobile users: The software has built in facilities to register personal information on each customer interested in announced item or service (visit our PDF or power point presentation and search for announcement page to can understand more about categorized data base)
• Develop SMS media: Due to the availability of personal data base of each mobile user using our software, the SMS provider can offer the service of sending bulk SMS campaign to categorized mobile numbers.

b/ RAFFLE ORGANIZER

• Deduct up to 90% of the printing cost of the coupons Organize and control the distribution of the coupons
  
• Lessen the work of accounts by deleting the work of revising the coupons distribution and the receipts
  
• Save the mobile numbers of the consumers and have categorized mobile numbers (Gender, Nationality, Age and Marital Status,….)
  
• Advertise via SMS or inform participants about raffle draw date, time and location
• Receive comments and complains from clients
  
• Organize a questionnaire and save all answers using SMS

 

c/ CONSUMER (PARTICIPANT)

• No need to write on 10’s of coupons personal details
  
• No need to save the portion(s) of the coupon(s)
  
• The option of  claiming for the prize without providing the coupon 
  
• Send complains and suggestions via SMS
  
• Send comments and complains via SMS