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I am so in love with a new social network app called Treater.
Basically, Treater makes “Treating” friends to gifts, meals or drinks as easy as accessing your social networks online or on your smartphone. Each “Treat” is an electronic, one-time use payment card that is delivered via Facebook post, email or text to your smartphone.
Here’s how it works:
- Create an account a Treater account.
- Enable the Facebook app.
- You will then be able to choose Facebook friends to treat.
- Choose your treat – this is the part I love…you can choose from treats they already have set up with various vendors OR you can create custom treats. Your friend does not have to purchase the treat you send them, they’re just locked into the amount they can spend.
- Next you can write a personal message – you can even add a photo to personalize it more.
- Then you choose how you would like your friend to receive their Treat Card – Facebook is the default, but you can choose email or text so they receive their treat quicker. (Text is fastest)
- The next step is to enter your credit card information to pay for the treat. You can even save your CC information for sending future treats.
- Viola! Your friend receives notification of their treat and you’re voted Friend of the Year!
When you sign into your Treater account, you’ll see a dashboard where you can view treats you’ve sent, see the ones you’ve received and send more if you’d like.
My other favorite feature about this app, is that if your friend doesn’t spend the entire dollar amount of their treat, then the remaining balance goes into their “piggy bank”. They can use this amount to send more treats to themselves or their friends.
You can also download the Treater app to your smartphone!
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