IOU - Ecommerce Blockchain Loyalty System Platform

What Is IOU?

IOU seeks to reinvent the existing customer loyalty programs in a bid to offer more benefits, control, and flexibility to the merchants. Doing this will make it possible for the merchants to guarantee their clients the best possible consumer satisfaction levels. This will be in exchange for the marketing expenditures already incurred.

The loyalty system being proposed by IOU will make it possible for the business owners to build new interaction levels with their clientele. Additionally, they will also be able to provide an opportunity for their consumers to freely exchange the IOUs in their possession with other consumers.

The global eCommerce market has demonstrated explosive growth in the past couple of years and its future is expected to be booming. In 2017, the global e-retail sales amounted to 2.3 trillion U.S. dollars and projections show a growth of up to 4.48 trillion U.S. dollars by 2021. This astonishing growth is primarily being driven by consumers using their mobile devices to acquire goods and services.

In this ultra-competitive environment, finding and acquiring new customers can be a huge challenge for merchants. In addition, 53% of adults living in high-income households claim to be willing to switch brands for the sake of using a coupon.

The challenges for players in this giant market are key, including customer loyalty, achieving profitable long-term growth, and choosing the right technology and partners, among others.

At the same time, the tremendous evolution of blockchain technology is radically changing the way many markets operate. Important USPs of blockchain like transparency, coherence, cost-effectiveness and effective integration with processes at all levels of the business can bring to the e-commerce market endless opportunities.

Now, imagine the explosive combination of e-commerce, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrencies: the IOU Platform, a true P2P e-commerce loyalty platform on the blockchain.

It aims at empowering blockchain Merchants and Consumers with decentralized and secure Peer-to-Peer technology driving customer satisfaction and loyalty through Merchant’s trade-able IOUs. IOU Platform can successfully address many of the challenges of the e-commerce segment.

IOU is launching the IOUX token and a promising Initial Coin Offering (ICO) campaign. Below you will find all the relative information on IOU together with the specifics of the ICO campaign.

KEY ADVANTAGES

With existing advertising systems becoming less and less effective, the IOU Platform presents the ultimate solution. Its key advantages for merchants and consumers are the following:

FOR MERCHANTS

• Loyalty and Customer Retention

• Viral Marketing

• Market Driven Flexibility

• Merchants can receive current consumers’ parameters and interests

• Getting in contact with consumers

• Receiving additional parameters of consumer profile

• Barter functionality between merchants

FOR CONSUMERS

• Trade IOUs with other consumers

• Protection of anonymity

• Opting out at any time of Merchant interaction

• Possibility to personalize interaction with Merchants

IOU WORK-FLOW ENGINE

IOU offers complete transparency utilizing Blockchain for its Group Loyalty offers with clear visibility, security, speed of processing and traceability of transactions through the decentralized register of all sources. IOU is Offering Merchants and Consumers clear advantages over the traditional e-commerce environment making transactions Cost-Effective and Secure while building ultimate trust between Merchants and Consumers.

Rating mechanism would boost a trust even further. Cost-effectiveness of transactions and global reach of consumers beats the conventional digital payment methods as it removes the middlemen/payment processors that take a big cut.

Not only consumers would feel secure and get significant savings but also they could use their purchased IOUs as actual monetary assets which they will be able to trade with other consumers or sell on the exchange. This is a tremendous benefit of IOU Platform.

Loyalty factor is another huge benefit allowing both consumers and merchants to get rewarded for generating top rated, quality offers and transactions on IOU Exchange.

It is hard not to mention the ability for Merchants and Consumers to donate some IOUs for those in need and get rewarded for philanthropic activities. Company would also place donation requests on special causes and would reward Merchants and Consumers, as well as match such donations to benefit those causes.

ROADMAP

MAR 17

Market Research

MAY 17

Feasibility Study

JUN 17

Prototype Design

JUL 17

Development Environment Setup

Start Implementing Existing Loyalty System Modules into Blockchain Environment

AUG 17

Start P2P IOU Exchange Development