Vouchr Launches Surpriise, the World's First Gift Giving Platform Without Limits
A Fun Social App to Give a Gift at any Local Business, Anywhere in the World, in Real Time
TORONTO, Dec. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Vouchr Ltd today announced the availability of Surpriise, a new app that lets you give a gift for anything you can imagine at any local business, anywhere in the world, in real time.
With Surpriise, the world and all of social media becomes your catalogue, so there are no limits to where and what you can give. Let the app recommend Hot Spots in any city, what's trending there, and even menu items at a restaurant.
Just had a great burger at a new restaurant? Use the app to see the menu and prices then gift the exact item you loved to a burger-loving buddy. A friend checked-in on Foursquare for his birthday dinner at a restaurant? The Surpriise app will tell you so you can send him dessert while he's actually there! Your daughter posted a photo on Facebook during her dream trip to Paris? Get a spa recommendation from the app and leave her a gift in Euros at the trendiest spa nearby.
"Gift cards may be useful and convenient, but they're also impersonal and boring," said Vouchr Co-Founder Robert Balahura. "Most gifting apps simply digitize the boring, impersonal status quo. Our mission is to bring fun to the world of digital gift giving."
Surpriise leverages ways we use technology today – like photos, chat, and friends' social activity – to deepen relationships. It keeps the convenience of digital but brings back the excitement of creating – and even wrapping – a gift unique to the relationship between each giver and receiver.
"The game-like experience and social engagement aspects of Surpriise creates a fun experience for the sender and the receiver," Balahura noted. "The gift is only revealed once the receiver arrives at the gift location, so it truly is a surprise. Social interaction between you and your friend while the gift is being used create shared moments of delight and help generate a stronger connection between people, just like real-life giving."
Surpriise uses PayPal's Send Money functionality for payments from the sender to the receiver allowing users the simplicity to give gifts between each other and bypass hoops involved with merchant integrations to POS machines and redemption codes. Surpriise is building out additional emerging payment methods such as Square, Apple Pay, Venmo, and Google Wallet, and others are being added to streamline redemption.
Surpriise is currently available in the Apple App Store and in Google Play. Web users can also use Surpriise right from the web, allowing them to gift the hottest stuff directly from their favorite Instagram accounts and Yelp! Restaurant review pages.
ABOUT VOUCHR
Vouchr was founded in 2013 by a team of serial entrepreneurs from the social gaming world with the collective vision to change the way people send and receive gifts between friends anywhere in the world. Headquartered in Toronto, Vouchr makes sending and receiving gifts addictive and fun. Learn more on our websites http://www.vouc.hr/ and http://www.surpriise.me or follow us on Twitter @Surpriise
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