Start with the problem,
not the feature list.
Three platforms. They work on their own — take one, take all three. Answer three questions and we'll tell you where to start.
If you only take one thing from this page: only one of these three platforms brings you a person who has never bought from you before. That's Dealsby Referrals. The other two are worth money — they stop you losing people you already have — but they don't make your business bigger. We'd rather tell you that here than let you find out in month three.
Have these ready.
Fifteen minutes of gathering saves an hour of stopping and starting. None of it is technical.
What you don't need. A developer. A marketing person. A website. Anything installed. If you can send a text message you can run all three of these, and if that turns out not to be true, that's our failure and we want to hear about it.
Setting up the referral engine.
About four minutes from signup to a live campaign. This is the one that brings you people who've never bought from you.
What it actually does
It records the moment a customer recommends you, and prompts the ones who would have but didn't. That's it. Your biggest acquisition channel has never had an instrument on it — this is the instrument.
Create your business account
Name, email, password. The trial starts immediately and doesn't ask for a card.
Add your business details
Name, category, description, phone, address, logo. This is your public profile — the page a referred friend lands on.
Pick your plan
Starter, or Growth if you want Referral Pulse analytics and featured placement. You can change later without penalty.
Build your first campaign
Name it, set the dates, and decide the two rewards: what the referrer earns, what their friend gets. Keep it simple — a discount both sides understand beats a clever tiered structure nobody reads.
Set the rules Optional
Thresholds, stacking, per-customer limits, notifications. The defaults are sensible. Skip this and come back when you have a reason.
Launch, then put it in the room
Your link goes live instantly. Order the window decal and table tents. This matters more than it sounds: the ask has to exist where the customer actually is — at the counter, on the table — not only in an email they'll read tomorrow.
Watch one number
The dashboard shows shares, clicks and conversions. Shares and clicks are leading indicators. The number that means something is conversions — people who had never bought from you, buying.
The most common mistake. Sending the link once, by email, to your whole list, and calling it done. The recommendation happens in a conversation, in person, usually right after you've done good work. The link has to be reachable at that moment. That's what the decals are for — not decoration.
Setting up scheduling.
Live the same day. The longest part is typing in your service menu, which is why it's on the prep list.
What it actually does
Takes bookings while you're asleep, collects deposits, and sends reminders. It does not find anyone new. It stops you losing the people you already found — which is worth real money, and is a different job from growth.
Sign up as a business
Name, email, password, and choose the Business role.
Add your details
Name, category, description, phone, address. This becomes your public booking page.
Set availability
Weekly hours, buffer between appointments, how much notice you need, how far ahead people can book, and your cancellation policy. Be honest about the buffer — a schedule with no slack is a schedule that runs late by 11am.
Build your service menu
Name, duration, price, description for each. "Men's Haircut — 45 min — $25." Keep names short; customers scan, they don't read.
Group into categories
Haircuts, Colour, Treatments. A clean booking page converts better than a complete one.
Turn on deposits
Per service: 0%, 25%, 50% or 100%. This is the setting that protects your calendar. If a particular slot keeps going empty, put a deposit on it and watch what happens.
Assign staff Growth tier
Individual schedules, services per person, time-off blocking.
Go live
Put the link in your Instagram bio, your Google profile, and your website. It takes bookings at 11pm on a Sunday, which is when a good share of them happen.
On no-shows. Deposits and reminders reduce them. We're not going to print a percentage, because we have no customers yet and any figure would be invented. Do this instead: write down your no-show rate for the month before you start and the month after. That's your number. It's the only one that means anything about your business.
Setting up the floor.
The longest of the three, because you're drawing your actual room. Budget an hour and do it once, properly.
What it actually does
Floor plans, turn logic, waitlist promotion, and language that matches your trade across 14 industries. Like Appointments, it doesn't find anyone new — it makes the room you have work harder.
Sign up and pick your industry
Fourteen verticals. The platform relabels itself to match — tables, lanes, chairs, cabanas, suites, rooms. Pick yours and the vocabulary follows you through every screen.
Draw your floor plan
Drag and drop your tables and resources. Merge them for large parties. Set capacities. Save different layouts for different service periods. Mirror your real room as closely as you can — this is the step that pays back every single shift.
Set availability and turn logic
Operating hours, slots, maximum party size, and the C&R window. Seventy-five minutes is the default. A tasting menu might need 120; a lunch counter might want 45. Set it to your actual service, not the default.
Assign roles
Five: Owner, Manager, Host, Server, Staff. The host stand only sees what the host stand needs — which is the point.
Configure policies
Reminders, cancellation rules, off-peak windows, waitlist and walk-in handling.
Connect Stripe and go live
The Guided Tour launches on first login and walks the whole dashboard. Do it once with a coffee before service, not during.
Run a service
Confirm & Reserve seats a party and starts the timer. Tables move from green to amber to red as they run long. Walk-ins join the digital queue and get a text when their table turns.
What the red table means. At 75 minutes a table turns red on your floor plan. Nothing automatic happens to your guest — no message fires, no timer runs out on them, nobody gets hurried. It's information for the host. A person makes the call. We built it that way on purpose.
The half we don't
claim growth for.
Dealsby Referrals includes a points and rewards programme. Here's the honest account of it, on our own setup guide, where you can hold us to it.
| What it honestly does | What it doesn't do |
|---|---|
| Gives people a reason to come back. Points for registering, referring, redeeming, logging in. Some customers enjoy it. Some don't notice it. | Make your business bigger. A returning customer is one you already had. Most of them were coming back anyway. |
| Builds you a customer list. If you've never had one, this is the real prize. A drawer of receipts becomes a list of people you can actually reach. | Produce a new buyer. Only the referral engine does that — a person who had never bought from you, buying. |
| Increases how often some people visit. Frequency is a real, measurable thing worth real money. | Justify the subscription on its own. If rewards are the only part you want, you may not need us. |
Why we're telling you this. The published academic evidence on rewards programmes driving growth is weak, and every competitor claims both halves anyway. We're claiming one, because one is what the evidence supports. If you want the argument in full, it's on themainstreetgap.com along with every source we use.
One number.
Your dashboard will show you a lot. Most of it is a leading indicator for one thing.
Measure this
New buyers. People who had never bought from you before, who bought. Count them in the month before you start and every month after.
It's the only number that describes a business getting bigger, and it's the number we ask to be judged on.
Not these
Points issued. Links shared. Leaderboard position. Programme sign-ups.
All real, all visible, none of them growth. A number that goes up while your business stands still is worse than no number, because it feels like progress.
The honest test, and it's a hard one. Run it for a quarter. If your new-buyer count in month three isn't higher than the month before you started, the product isn't working for you and you should cancel. We'd rather you did that than stay subscribed to something that isn't earning its place. That's not a rhetorical flourish — it's month-to-month for exactly this reason.
The tiers.
Month to month. No setup fee. No contract. Take one platform or all three.
| Platform | Starter | Growth | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dealsby Referrals | $59/mo | $99/mo | — |
| Dealsby Appointments | $59/mo | $99/mo | — |
| Dealsby Reservations | $59/mo | $99/mo | $399/mo |
Included either way
14-day free trial, no card to start. Month-to-month. No setup fee. No exit penalty. Your data is yours and exports on request — including on the way out.
SMS and email add-ons
Bundles and pay-as-you-go are available above the included allowance. Confirm the current rates at checkout or with us directly — we're not printing a per-message figure here that might not match what you're actually charged.
The ones people
actually ask.
How many businesses use this?
None. Virely is pre-launch — Georgia first, Q3 2026. That's why there isn't a conversion rate, a retention lift or a customer count anywhere on this page. Earlier versions of this site carried three such figures. They described results that had never been measured, and they're gone.
Is it hard to set up?
Referrals is about four minutes. Appointments is same-day, and the slow part is typing your service menu. Reservations takes about an hour because you're drawing your room. No technical skill needed for any of it. If you get stuck, that's a defect in our product, not in you — tell us.
Can I subscribe to just one?
Yes. Each is standalone with its own dashboard. Start with one, add later if it earns it. Bundle discounts apply if you take two or three.
Do my customers need an app?
No app, no account, no download. They book through a link or widget and manage it with a DSBY code sent by SMS.
Which one should I start with?
If the problem is "not enough new customers," start with Referrals — it's the only one that addresses that. If the problem is a phone nobody can answer, start with Appointments. If it's the room, start with Reservations. Don't buy all three to be safe; buy the one that matches the thing keeping you up.
What happens if it doesn't work?
Cancel. Month-to-month, no penalty. Use the test in section 07: if your new-buyer count hasn't moved by month three, it isn't working for you.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes, always. If you choose an annual term for the discount, the terms are disclosed upfront. We'd rather earn it monthly.
Are the Dealsby platforms available outside the US?
Not yet. United States only, 18 and over. Georgia first, then outward.
A person, not a portal.
We're pre-launch with no customers, which means right now you'd be talking to the people who built it. That won't scale forever — it's true today.
The thing we most want to hear. Not that you love it. That it didn't do what this page said it would. Every one of the Founding 100 gets asked that directly, and it's the actual term of the deal.