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Initially all the deals on Getsocio-powered sites were grouped by location (city). Recently we added another way to organize deals – categories

Now you can have multiple categories (and subcategories) on your daily-deal site. You may create any category, for example, "Food" or "Wine" or "Restaurants", "Massages" or "Beauty", "Theaters" or "Shows", or even more specific ones, like "Gadgets", "Home decoration", "Gold fish aquariums", whatever.

Categories are optional, so if you do not need them they will not get in your way.

Organizing your daily-deals by categories is a great way to further tailor your offers to each particular user. And your site visitors will be able to subscribe for updates in any particular category they are interested in.

Recently we have added support of PayPal Website Payments Pro (WPP) payment method to Getsocio.

Unlike PayPal's "Express checkout", WPP mode allows to receive card payments directly on your daily-deal site, without sending your buyers to PayPal page.

On the downside, WPP is only available for sellers in USA, UK and Canada. Merchants from all other countries can only use "Express Checkout" to accept payments with PayPal.

Any daily-deal website needs to pay the merchants which deals it promotes (unless you try to charge your merchants instead of paying them).

So, how do you pay the merchant? The short answer is "You decide". And here comes the long one.

Getsocio does not impose any restrictions on your business model. The funds from all coupon purchases made on your site come to your PayPal (or bank) account. From there you may use the money any way you see fit.

Some deals on a daily-deal site have a really low cost to get as many people as possible to buy coupons. It is even possible to run a free "deal", that is a deal with zero cost. When the deal price is zero, the Getsocio engine will not even ask for credit card and just will give a coupon to any user who clicks "Buy" button.

Running a free deal could be a great way to promote a new business. Sure it has drawbacks, as people will clearly see that it is an advertisement rather than a real deal, and will be more cautious.