A new voucher marketplace is set to launch to help generate cashflow for small businesses across Australia.
Vouch For You is an online, not-for-profit voucher marketplace, which will connect businesses of all types with customers by offering pre-paid discounted vouchers for goods and services.
The platform is founded by Australian business owners, Jen - who founded fashion label Jennifer Kate when she was 24 - and Ewen Hollingsworth.
Consumers will simply purchase a voucher - to provide cashflow to their favourite small business - to redeem for a service once social distancing measures are eased.
Both eCommerce and bricks-and-mortar stores will be able to use the Vouch For You platform and it is open to businesses who already offer vouchers or for those who want to start.
Jen Hollingsworth said that the pair envision the platform to be the 'Airbnb for small business.'
"The health impact of COVID-19 is of course the paramount concern across society, however, both Ewen and I have watched the announcements and felt so awful for small businesses everywhere.
“We built this for the thousands of businesses across Australia who rely on the regular customers through the door and are now faced with ongoing bills and expenses that they cannot cover.
"We see it as the Airbnb for small business.
"In the same way as a hotel in Orange might already have their own online presence but post themselves on Airbnb for the additional exposure – we provide that same exposure and marketing to small businesses of all types," she said.