System and method for text-based delivery of sales promotions

Abstract

A system and method for obtaining sales promotions via a text-messaging based interaction. The system comprises a call-to-action link that reduces the number of steps needed to obtain a sales promotion via a website. The call-to-action link triggers a prepopulated text message on a user's mobile device, whereby the user needs to only press send, and receive the sales promotion text message in return. The returned text message may provide the sales promotion in a variety of ways, such as a scannable bar code or QR code, a hypertext or URL link, an alphanumeric text, or other medium send-able via messaging services and usable by business establishments.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system for text-based delivery of sales promotions, comprising:
 an omnichannel text-based communicator comprising a first plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory of, and operable on a processor of, a computing device, wherein the first plurality of programming instructions, when operating on the processor of the computing device, cause the computing device to:
 store a sales promotion in a database; 
 associate the sales promotion with a uniform resource locator, the uniform resource locator hosted on a webpage that when interacted with, opens a messaging application on a mobile device and prepopulates a text message; 
 receive a request for the sales promotion, the request received from the mobile device, wherein the mobile device has a telephone number; 
 generate a message with the sales promotion; 
 send the generated message to the mobile device; 
 store the mobile device's telephone number in a user profile in a database; and 
 associate the user profile with the sales promotion. 
   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the generated message comprises a barcode. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the generated message comprises a QR code. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the generated message comprises a hypertext link. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the generated message comprises a uniform resource locator. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the generated message comprises an alphanumeric promotion code. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein an automatic reminder message to use the sales promotion is sent to the mobile device if the sales promotion goes unused for a specific amount of time. 
     
     
         8 . A method for text-based delivery of sales promotions, comprising the steps of:
 storing a sales promotion in a database;   associating the sales promotion with a uniform resource locator, the uniform resource locator hosted on a webpage that when interacted with, opens a messaging application on a mobile device and prepopulates a text message;   receiving a request for the sales promotion, the request received from the mobile device, wherein the mobile device has a telephone number;   generating a message with the sales promotion;   sending the generated message to the mobile device;   storing the mobile device's telephone number in a user profile in a database; and   associating the user profile with the sales promotion.   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein the generated message comprises a barcode. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein the generated message comprises a QR code. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein the generated message comprises a hypertext link. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein the generated message comprises a uniform resource locator. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein an automatic reminder message to use the sales promotion is sent to the mobile device if the sales promotion goes unused for a specific amount of time.