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路Swiss members have certainly heard of this excellent initative from an internet-native company qoqa.ch that offers flash-sales on a daily basis but I think their idea is good enough to be shared beyond swiss borders.
They have developed a portal to support local businesses and self-employed people during the covid-19 confinement period where cash flow becomes an issue. How does it work? - Anybody can apply and get listed on their portal, the only condition is to be an established business and provide appropriate commercial registration numbers. Once listed, on the portal, the business is entitled to sell vouchers (value CHF 10, 20 or 50) through the platform and the full amount of money processed will be credited to the business' bank account. QoQa operates the platform and manages money processing free of charge. That's one thing.
Moreover, QoQa have partnered with major swiss insurance companies Vaudoise Insurance and Groupe Mutuel who offered 1M CHF each to support local businesses in the processs by adding 20% of the purchased voucher value to the money the small business receives. That's 2 Millions Swiss francs that will be shared among small businesses and self-employed people as support in this difficult times.
When I heard about this initiative from QoQa, I immediately contacted my watchmaker, Romain from Atelier Horlogerie 13 in Yverdon and suggested him to apply. Yesterday he informed me that his application was accepted and his business listed on the platform : https://direqt.qoqa.ch/fr/offers/23879
Since I have a couple of watches waiting for a service overhaul by Romain, I thought I might take advantage of this initiative, buy some vouchers from there and see how it works on the backend.
The maximum amount I was allowed to buy was CHF 500 (10x Vouchers of CHF 50 each). Did that yesterday evening, late.
Romain informed me that the money was already on the way to his bank account today, he's got a confirmation from the platform. Moreover, as described above, he will get a 20% bonus from the platform as per support program, out of those 2M CHF available. That's 100 swiss francs he's getting on top of my payment.
Anybody can buy those vouchers either as a donation, to support the independent watchmaker or to pre-pay some servicing work he's planning to get done, later.
The whole process is absolutely free of any charges to the small businesses as well as to the end-clients. The company runs the whole thing as a (free) service towards the community. Amazing !
How cool is that? I wish there were more of this kind of initiatives in our money driven world. 馃憤
They have developed a portal to support local businesses and self-employed people during the covid-19 confinement period where cash flow becomes an issue. How does it work? - Anybody can apply and get listed on their portal, the only condition is to be an established business and provide appropriate commercial registration numbers. Once listed, on the portal, the business is entitled to sell vouchers (value CHF 10, 20 or 50) through the platform and the full amount of money processed will be credited to the business' bank account. QoQa operates the platform and manages money processing free of charge. That's one thing.
Moreover, QoQa have partnered with major swiss insurance companies Vaudoise Insurance and Groupe Mutuel who offered 1M CHF each to support local businesses in the processs by adding 20% of the purchased voucher value to the money the small business receives. That's 2 Millions Swiss francs that will be shared among small businesses and self-employed people as support in this difficult times.
When I heard about this initiative from QoQa, I immediately contacted my watchmaker, Romain from Atelier Horlogerie 13 in Yverdon and suggested him to apply. Yesterday he informed me that his application was accepted and his business listed on the platform : https://direqt.qoqa.ch/fr/offers/23879
Since I have a couple of watches waiting for a service overhaul by Romain, I thought I might take advantage of this initiative, buy some vouchers from there and see how it works on the backend.
The maximum amount I was allowed to buy was CHF 500 (10x Vouchers of CHF 50 each). Did that yesterday evening, late.
Romain informed me that the money was already on the way to his bank account today, he's got a confirmation from the platform. Moreover, as described above, he will get a 20% bonus from the platform as per support program, out of those 2M CHF available. That's 100 swiss francs he's getting on top of my payment.
Anybody can buy those vouchers either as a donation, to support the independent watchmaker or to pre-pay some servicing work he's planning to get done, later.
The whole process is absolutely free of any charges to the small businesses as well as to the end-clients. The company runs the whole thing as a (free) service towards the community. Amazing !
How cool is that? I wish there were more of this kind of initiatives in our money driven world. 馃憤
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