A free local membership
Uptick is a free membership that helps you discover something worth knowing about the local businesses already around you. One good thing at a time, from a store a short walk or drive away.
Your Uptick this week
Example
A free coffee, any size.
At a participating local shop nearby
Free to join
No membership fee. No purchase to get the benefit.
No app
It works on the web. A text is optional, never required.
Local stores
Real businesses near you, fulfilling a real perk.
A bounded pilot
Adults 18+. Targeting 150 members, capped at 200.
Three ways in
For members
Each published week, one featured benefit at a participating local business — backed by supply that was checked before it was offered.
For merchants
Run a four-week program to help nearby people discover your store. You provide a useful perk; Uptick manages the member experience and reports what actually happened.
For partners
Already operate screens? Uptick buys placements on inventory it does not own — a customer, not a competing network. Serve a local population? Point people at the membership without handing anyone a list.
For members
A little good from nearby stores, each published week.
A phone number and a ZIP. It takes a moment, it is free, and no purchase is involved.
When a week is published, your featured benefit is waiting on the web. A text about it is optional.
Open the pass and go to the named local business during the stated window.
The store fulfills it. You found something nearby that you might not have tried.
“It is an easy way to support local and get something good each week.”
How Uptick is meant to feel. Not a member testimonial.
For merchants
Uptick helps a local store run a focused four-week program that puts a genuinely useful perk in front of nearby members. You provide the perk. Uptick handles the member experience, the distribution and the reporting.
Simple
You approve the perk, the window and the capacity. One negotiated program, not a platform to learn.
Local
It reaches members near you, in the market cell your store actually sits in.
Managed
Uptick carries membership, access, messaging and support. Your staff hand over the perk.
Measured
Issued benefits, claims, redemptions, fulfillment problems and credits — reported as observed.
Uptick does not promise customers, sales or a return. A four-week program is a test, and the report says what happened, including when the answer is “not much”.
The local loop
Uptick connects members, merchants and partners so a small amount of local attention ends up somewhere useful. Everyone keeps what is theirs — the store keeps its customers, the partner keeps its list, the member keeps their phone number.
Partners
Spread the word, or sell Uptick the screen space to do it.
Members
Join free, and find something worth knowing nearby.
Local stores
Provide a useful perk and fulfill it at the counter.
The neighborhood
Money and attention stay closer to where people live.
01
A partner mentions Uptick
No list is shared. People join themselves.
02
A member joins, free
Adults 18+. Web access; texts optional.
03
Uptick publishes the week
Only after supply and readiness are checked.
04
The member visits the store
The named business fulfills the perk.
05
Uptick reports what happened
Observed activity, including problems.
Trust & privacy
We keep this simple, private and reviewable. Uptick sends the messages a member asked for, and a participating store never receives a member's phone number or messaging consent.
Promotional texts are optional, unchecked to start, and separate from membership itself.
Mobile numbers and messaging consent are never shared with third parties or affiliates for their marketing.
Reply STOP to end texts. Your membership and any benefit already issued to you stay yours.
Real places. Real people. A brighter tomorrow.
Pilot enrollment is not open yet. Uptick will publish its operating legal identity, notice address and final enrollment terms before admitting members. Questions: iwhite@upticklocal.com.