How it works
A recommendation you can measure.
LocalLynx sits between a local business and the neighbours who already talk about it. The business defines the campaign. The neighbour carries a trackable offer. The till confirms the visit.
For businesses
Five steps, start to settled
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Create a campaign
Title, description, category, radius, budget and the deliverables you want — a Reel, a Story, a photo post, a Google review, an in-store visit. You also set the offer a customer redeems: 20% off, a free pastry with any drink, two-for-one on Tuesdays.
Campaign limits keep you safe: total redemption cap, per-creator cap, start and end dates, and a hard budget ceiling that stops spend automatically.
- 02
Review who applies
Neighbours in your radius see the campaign and apply with a short pitch. Each application shows their handle, followers, city, categories they post about, completed campaigns and LocalLynx trust score.
Approve, reject, or leave a note. Approving mints their tracking assets instantly.
- 03
Assets are generated automatically
On approval each creator gets a unique short link, a branded landing page for your offer, a QR code and a human-readable discount code such as BLUEBIRD-MAYA-4K2P. Nothing is shared between creators, so attribution is never ambiguous.
- 04
Customers redeem in store
A neighbour taps the link, reads the offer, and shows the QR or code at the counter. Your staff scans it or types it into the staff redemption page — no app install, no hardware.
Every redemption is validated server-side against campaign status, dates, per-creator caps, the total cap and remaining budget before it is accepted.
- 05
Attribution and payouts settle
Clicks, unique visits, redemptions, order value and cost per redemption appear per creator and per campaign. Creator earnings accrue as verified redemptions land, and the platform fee is calculated on top.
For creators
Join, share, get paid per visit
- 01
Sign up as a creator
Pick a handle, add your town, the categories you actually post about, and your socials. No follower minimum — LocalLynx is built for 400 to 3,000 follower accounts.
- 02
Discover campaigns near you
Filter by category, payout, deliverables and distance. Every card shows what the business wants, what a redemption pays, and how many slots are left.
- 03
Apply with a short pitch
Two or three honest sentences about why you would recommend the place. Businesses read these — a real reason beats a follower count.
- 04
Share your link
Once approved you get your link, QR and code. Post it wherever your people are. Your dashboard shows clicks in real time and redemptions as they are verified at the till.
Earnings move from pending to approved to paid as each payout period closes.
Under the hood
Tracking that stands up to an audit
Attribution only matters if you trust the numbers. Here is how the plumbing works.
One link per creator per campaign
Short codes resolve to a landing page, log a click event with referrer and device, then hand over the QR and discount code.
Event-level analytics
Clicks, landing views, redemptions and status changes are all stored as analytics events, so dashboards and CSV exports agree with each other.
Validated redemptions
Redemption runs as a single database function that checks status, dates, caps and budget atomically. Double-redeeming a code is not possible.
Row-level security
Businesses see only their campaigns, creators see only their assignments, admins see everything. Enforced in the database, not just the UI.
Ready to see it with your own street on it?
Create an account, or sign in to the seeded demo and click through a live campaign.