Cash rewards app

Dundalk shoppers will soon be able to earn money as they shop, thanks to Tapit, a new app designed to reward shoppers for shopping local with cash back reward.

This new app, available on smart phones from August 1st, is a rewards programme with a difference, as cash rewards are gathered straight-away. There’s no waiting for points to turn into vouchers. It also eliminates the need to search bags, pockets or wallets looking for a loyalty card and it is updated automatically.

Tapit is the brainchild of two young entrepreneurs, Garrett Gunn and Gavin Duffy from Cavan A new video, available on their newly launched website – www.tapit.ie and on social media channels describes very simply how it all works.

‘We wanted to create a rewards programme for shoppers that was easy. No frantically digging around your bag or checking points for the little card,’ said Gavin Duffy, Co-Founder of Tapit. ‘We also wanted to make it attractive to retailers.’

With many retailers in Dundalk slowly coming back after weeks of closure due to the Covid19 pandemic, this is an innovative approach to entice shoppers back to retailers and to reward them for their purchases.

Martin McElligott, Dundalk Town Centre Commercial Manager, says that the words ‘Shop Local’ have been used for many years now and with good reason! ‘ There are also great things happening under this banner, many that a bearing fruit for Dundalk, but when I heard about this Town Centre loyalty solution, I was instantly drawn to its potential to help retailers in Dundalk come together and collectively reward shoppers for choosing their local bricks and mortar stores.’

The shops around Dundalk Town Centre that will start on the app on launch date include Conlons Food Hall, McEvoys Department Store, Brendan Marmion Paints, The Hairshop, McBradys, Pinstripe Punk, Ruby Nu, Vape Store 44, Height of Health, Rocksalt Cafe, XXI Ice, Elamay Boutique, Johnny Morgan Fishmongers, BSharp Music, and Hollands Hardware, with more retailers expected to sign up.

Shoppers can register at www.tapit.ie, and there are three prizes of €50 vouchers to spend in participating retailers.