Why join Avontage?

You are in Control of how many Offers you'd like to trade per month: Offer as many or as little as you like...you can cap it at 1, 2 or 20 Offers per month, depending on how many new clients you can handle per your own schedule. 

Book those slow time slots and empty seats with high-quality and repeat clients, your like-minded peers, the brilliant business owners and entrepreneurs.

Search for services offered by other members in the community. Offers such as Restaurants, Digital & Influencer Marketing, Dentists, Fitness, Beauty, Spa, Fun Events, Entertainment, Sporting Events, and many more added everyday.

Use your Avontage Bucks credits to "Buy" any Offers from other members. Essentially you're paying with your services recouped from your down-times and slow-periods instead of paying with your cash. 

Offers can be bought for your business or personal use. Use them to help grow your business, for marketing and advertising, or use them to get a much needed massage or facial. Save your cash and KEEP IT LOCAL.

The entire buying and redeeming process is managed and controlled by you online on our platform, similar to eBay escrow accounts. Funds are withheld until services are fully rendered to your satisfaction and you mark the transaction as Complete.

You'll be making great connections with other local business owners in your community building the start of long term relationships. They become your clients and you become theirs. 

You'll need to setup your bank account info to receive payments when your offers are sold online.

All bank account info and credit card transactions are handled by Stripe.com. We have no access to your information. 

Promote your offers with the Share buttons on the Offers page on to your social media platforms.

We are also promoting your Offers to the public to help increase the visitors traffic.

Members of public will find and buy your offers online. 

You'll get an email notification of your sale.

The buyer will follow your redeem instructions to arrange redeeming the offer.

Once services have been provided and the Offer has been redeemed, the Buyer will set the Offer status as "Marked Complete" then the funds are transferred into your bank account as an ACH.

You'll be making great connections with other local community building the start of long term relationships. 

Nothing, it's FREE. It's free to join and post your offers.

- Avontage is 100% free to be a member of and to post your offers.

- There is zero transaction fees for any offers you SELL in exchange for Avontage Bucks

- A Transaction Fee of 10% will be charged to your credit card when you BUY an offer using your Avontage Bucks credit and receive value. (you must setup your credit card info under Avontage Fees tab in Settings, all credit card and banking info are encrypted, secured, and processed on Stripe.com servers)

- A transaction of 10% will be deducted from offers you SELL, but only when accepting card payments.

Not necessarily, you can be a influencer, freelancer or anyone with a talent or skill who’s willing to offer your services or products for trade. However, we do check for quality members. You must be a legitimate business owner, maker, or doer to join our community. 

Avontage Bucks is our internal “currency” credit-points.  You earn Avontage Bucks when you trade your Offers and spend them to "buy" other Offers from other members of the Avontage marketplace.

Avontage Bucks is utilized to track the fair value of each Offer/trade and service provided. It helps to keep trade transactions fair and transparent as well as facilitating multi-party exchange of services. Trading doesn’t have to be one-to-one only. 

*Avontage Bucks have no cash value.

You can view your current available Avontage Bucks balance on your Profile page, as well as, when you're getting ready to make a payment you'll be presented with your available balance.

• You Post your special Offers in the Avontage marketplace.
• You sell your Offers and earn Avontage Bucks.
• With your earned Avontage Bucks, you can buy any other Offers.
• For all transactions, Seller needs to ACCEPT or DECLINE the request.
• If Seller ACCEPTS, then transaction is “Pending Completion" or Redemption.
• When services have been rendered & Offer is Redeemed, Buyer needs to "Mark Complete" the transaction to confirm satisfactory receipt, and the Seller gets paid.
• An eBay style “escrow” accounting is utilized to withhold the Avontage Bucks in transition while transaction is pending Completion, to ensure a trustful process.

It’s simple, 1 Avontage Bucks = 1 Dollar. Price your Offers in Avontage Bucks similar to your retail rates when accepting cash or credit card. No more...no less. No deep discounting  is required. Remember, your Offers are also available to the general public which pays with credit card and you get all of it minus transaction and credit card processing fees.

This is why during our Beta phase, we'll issue $200 Avontage Bucks to everyone who signs up and Posts at least 2 Offers. So you can start experiencing the value our platform can offer you.

When buying any Offers, any sales taxes are due in cash/credit card to the Seller, if required by the Seller.

Per IRS regulations, all business barters and trades must be reported as income and expense, just as you would any cash expense. Please consult your accountant for details. Below is the excerpt from IRS's website.

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Reporting Bartering Income

You must include in gross income in the year of receipt the fair market value of goods or services received from bartering. Generally, you report this income on Form 1040, Schedule C, Profit or Loss from Business (Sole Proprietorship) or Form 1040, Schedule C-EZ, Net Profit from Business (Sole Proprietorship). If you failed to report this income, correct your return by filing a Form 1040X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return. Refer to Topic No. 308 and Should I File an Amended Return? for information on filing an amended return.

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No, you don't. You only need to enter your bank account info under About - Payments, if you wish to accept credit card payments for your Offers. All credit card payment processing is done through Stripe.com and fully encrypted.