Four Click Freedom

So here is my plan.  The customer when finished eating or shopping at a store will send a text message with the stores name to Clickboards.net phone number.  The website will then transmit data to the store computer and its personalized software that this user is waiting to connect via bluetooth along with the coupons available for that store that the user has acquired.  The website will also send back a passcode via text message back to the customer to connect to the store bluetooth device.  The computer will then send a bluetooth message to connect to the phone and acquire pass code  and then display the coupons that the customer has to choose from.  The customer will select the coupons and bluetooth back to the store computer their selection.  The store computer will then catalog the information for the store and the discount will be applied.

I need to do more research but sounds like a plan to go after.

Great news, I think I am going to be able to do the Clickboards.net locally here in Tianjin.  This new portable receipt printer that I found makes everything happen.  Basically as long as their is a computer in the restaurant this will work.  And from what I found there always is.

The printer is programmable and every individual one you can upload the store logos and id for the printer onto it.  Then by simply having linked to the computer through IrDA, Bluetooth, Infra-Red, or WLAN the coupons from Clickboards.net can be printed for the store at the store.

Currently I am thinking all discounts that the user has for the store will all be printed and then they will have to select at the table or check out which ones they want to use.  The store keeps the copy of the used coupon(s) and the user takes the rest home with him.  He can re-enter the coupons back onto his profile when he gets home with the pin number for the coupon.

But better yet, this portable printer has the option of coming with a magnetic card and smart card reader.

Brilliant