Publish a local offer for your business

Your approved business claim lets you submit offers for the Local deals page. Submission is free. The directory team reviews every offer before it appears. Customers follow your redemption instructions and contact your business directly; the directory does not take payment or verify redemption.

Offers found on business websites

The public deals page also has a separate Offers found on business websites section. Those entries are checked by the directory team against an official business website and link visitors to that source. They are distinct from the offers you submit through Local Offers, and they do not appear in your submission history or imply an ownership claim.

Your dashboard submission and withdrawal controls apply to your own submitted offers. If a website-sourced offer needs correction or removal, email [email protected] with the directory listing, official offer URL and the change needed. The team reviews the source. Website-sourced entries show No end date published when the official source gives no end date. They are hidden after any published expiry or when their source check is more than seven days old; publishing either type does not send promotional messages.

Submit an offer

1. Sign in with the account that owns your approved listing. Open Dashboard, then Local Offers. On a phone, swipe the dashboard menu sideways to find Local Offers. You can also open /dashboard/deals.
2. Under Submit an offer, select your Business. Opening Local Offers directly starts at Choose an approved listing. For a shortcut, open Dashboard → Overview or My Listings and click Submit an offer beside an eligible listing: that business is selected for you. The selector includes active listings with approved claims on your account, except listings marked permanently closed. If the requested listing is unavailable, choose an eligible business from the selector.
3. Enter Offer title (5–120 characters) and Offer details (20–2,000 characters). Explain what the customer receives and any purchase required.
4. Enter How to redeem (10–1,000 characters). State what to show, say or do at your business.
5. Enter Terms and exclusions (10–1,500 characters). Include eligibility, quantity limits, exclusions, taxes and booking requirements that apply. These fields start empty and all are required.
6. Choose Start date and End date. Start defaults to today in Central time; end starts empty. Both dates include the entire day in America/Chicago, including daylight saving changes. Offers can run for up to 90 calendar days. End must be today or later and on or after start.
7. Read and select I am authorized to offer these terms for this business, and the details are accurate. This starts unchecked.
8. Click Submit offer for review. Keep this page open while it says Checking and saving.... The fields stay visible and text can be copied while the submission is checked. A confirmed save replaces the form with Your offer is saved., its Review status, and View your offers. Click View your offers to open your history. A new offer starts as Pending; a recovered submission can already be approved, rejected or withdrawn. Its dates and listing eligibility determine public availability.

Each business can have up to five pending or approved, unexpired offers at once. Submitting an offer does not send promotional emails or texts to the deals launch list.

Your latest offers shows 50 offers per page, newest first. Use Next page to see older offers and Previous page to return. These links appear when another page is available. The page number appears below the history. The View your offers link and withdrawal confirmation return you to page 1.

Understand status

• Pending: awaiting the directory team's review; visible to you and administrators.
• Scheduled: approved, with a future start date and an eligible listing.
• Live: approved and within its dates. Public display also requires an active listing that is not marked permanently closed, an approved claim still held by the submitting account, and an account in good standing.
• Unavailable: an approved, unexpired offer whose listing is inactive, has no approved claim, or is marked permanently closed. The explanation identifies each current listing issue. The approval decision stays unchanged, and pending or approved offers can still be withdrawn. Contact [email protected] with the listing URL if the status needs correction.
• Expired: an approved offer whose end date has passed, including when its listing is also ineligible. It automatically leaves the public page. Listing eligibility explanations may still appear beneath its status.
• Rejected: the team requested changes. Read the Review note, then submit a corrected offer.
• Withdrawn: removed by you or an administrator. It stays in your history.

Change or remove an offer

1. Open Local Offers and find the offer under Your latest offers.
2. Click Withdraw offer on a pending or approved offer. The action takes effect immediately, including for scheduled or live offers.
3. Confirm Your offer is withdrawn from public display.
4. To change the content, submit a new offer with the corrected details. Every new submission goes through review; previous approval does not transfer.

If the business changes owners, the old owner's offers leave the public page and their owner history. History on this page requires that you submitted the offer and still hold the listing. The new owner submits their own offers after their claim is approved.

Troubleshooting

• Business is missing: confirm the listing is active, is not marked permanently closed, your claim is approved and you signed in with the claiming account. Start with Claim your listing.
• This business has 5 current offers: withdraw an existing pending or approved offer before submitting another, or wait for an offer to expire.
• Date error: use a real calendar date, an end date today or later and no more than 90 inclusive days.
• Submission needs a correction: a confirmed validation or access rejection retains your submitted business selection, title, details, redemption steps, terms and dates. Correct the stated problem, check authorization again, and submit. Text beyond a field's maximum is shortened to that maximum. An unavailable business selection must be chosen again from your eligible listings.
• Recover my offer: if the result is uncertain, keep this form open. The submitted details are locked so recovery uses the same offer and terms. Click Recover my offer to check that submission: it confirms an existing saved offer, or saves it once if the first attempt did not finish. Repeated recovery uses the same submission. View your offers opens history in another tab so you can inspect it without closing this form. Recovery still requires your active account and eligible approved ownership. This workflow retains recovery details only in the open form; closing or reloading starts a new form. Check history before starting another offer.
• This submission needs review before another attempt: the submitted details conflict with an existing submission. The form stays locked. Use View your offers and contact [email protected] for help before starting another offer.
• Offer stays pending: allow the team to review it. Check this page for a status change; this workflow sends no approval email or text.
• Approved offer is absent publicly: check its dates, active listing, closure status and claim status. Permanent closure, an ownership change or suspended account removes eligibility. Existing records remain available for review and withdrawal; a closure does not delete an offer or change its stored approval decision.
• Withdrawal failed: refresh the page, check the current status and retry. Contact [email protected] if the problem continues.

Directory administrators

The Admin Dashboard shows Merchant offers awaiting review with the total number of pending submissions and the Oldest submission date and time in Central time (CST or CDT). With zero pending offers it shows There are no merchant offers awaiting review. Click Review pending merchant offers to open the queue with Pending selected. The count includes expired offers and offers whose listing, ownership or account is no longer eligible; they still await a review decision. It is a review workload count, not a count of publishable offers. The queue is newest first, so use Next page to reach older submissions. Reload the dashboard to refresh the summary after a review.

1. Sign in as an administrator and open Admin → Merchant Offers at /admin/deals/offers.
2. The Offer status filter starts at Pending. Choose Pending, Approved (live, scheduled or expired), Rejected, Withdrawn, or All statuses, then click Apply filter. Filtering returns to page 1. Each page shows up to 50 offers, newest first. Use Next page and Previous page below the offers to browse the selected status. Open the linked business profile to verify the merchant. Check the offer benefit, dates, redemption instructions and all terms against the business's submission.
3. Optionally enter a Review note (up to 1,000 characters) and click Approve offer when it is ready. Approval publishes immediately if the dates are current, otherwise on its start date.
4. To request a correction, enter a note of at least 10 characters and click Request changes. The owner sees Rejected and your note, and can submit revised terms.
5. To remove an approved offer, choose Approved (live, scheduled or expired) and click Apply filter. Find the offer using the page links, enter a note of at least 10 characters and click Withdraw published offer. It leaves public display immediately.
6. Confirm Offer review saved. A successful review returns to page 1 of Pending. If another reviewer or the owner changed it first, refresh the queue. Offers that have expired or whose business is transferred, inactive or marked permanently closed cannot receive a new approval. They remain in the review queue so you can request changes or withdraw a previously approved offer.

Review notes are visible to the owner. Approval, requests for changes and withdrawal send no customer messages.

Saving a submission, review or withdrawal records the change before refreshing the affected pages. A page-refresh problem does not undo that saved change. If another open page still shows an earlier status, reload it and check the offer history or review queue before repeating an action. Public display still depends on the offer's dates and current listing eligibility.

Return after signing in again

If your session expires after you choose a listing's Submit an offer shortcut, sign in again. You return to Local Offers at the submission form with that business selected when its claim is still approved and eligible on your account. If you create an account from the sign-in page, the same return destination is retained; the new account still needs an approved claim before it can select that business. An unavailable or unrelated listing is not selected. You can also open Local Offers and choose an eligible business yourself. The shortcut selects a business; you still enter every offer detail and submit it for review.