About
A narrow idea, built carefully
Countr is a local savings club for Mysuru, run by PRIDETECH SOLUTIONS, a partnership firm registered in Mysuru (MYS-F145-2022-23).
Members get a discount at participating shops. The shop funds it. Nothing is bought through Countr and no payment passes through us — the money goes from the customer to the shop, as it always has.
Why this kind of thing usually fails
Discount platforms in India have a graveyard: Groupon India, Nearbuy, Little, Payback India. Each died the same way. Discounts were deeper than the shop's margin, which attracts people who only appear when there is a deal and drives good shops out. In 2019 thousands of restaurants left Zomato Gold over exactly this.
Our answer is not better marketing. It is three limits built into the software, and a shop can read all three off its own Offer Schedule: a cap on what any single bill can cost, a minimum bill below which no discount applies, and a limit on how often one customer can use that shop. Rates sit at no more than a third of the category's margin, and every member holds a finite number of coins, so everybody's exposure is bounded and knowable in advance.
What we will not do
- Show testimonials we wrote, or shop counts before they mean something.
- Take a payment on a shop's behalf.
- Put a price on coins. They come included with a membership and are never sold.
- Pretend a shop is near you when it is not.
Where we are
Open across Mysuru and signing shops now. If there is a shop you want on Countr, tell us — that is how we decide where to go next.