How PostcardPerks works for vendors
How a hotel postcard turns into a booking for you: the guest pays 15% online when booking and pays you the rest at the activity.
You set the perk. You fill the slow hours.
Reach guests through local hotels with offers for your spare capacity. You choose the discount, available days, and number of spots. Pause availability when you fill up and keep the activity relationship.
- No listing or monthly fee
- No exclusivity
- 15% only on completed experiences
Illustrative perkActive today
Rundle Bike · Guest perk
E-bike afternoons
$49$70 regular
after 2:00 pm
after 2:00 pm
- Repeats
- Sun-Wed
- Booking
- Payment details shown upfront
- Today
- Pause in one tap
Example only. Each vendor controls its own perk, schedule, and availability.
How joining works
- Request a spotFour quick details and no commitment. We reply personally within 24 hours.
- Ten-minute fit checkWe talk through your activity and first offer, then email your private setup link.
- Add your activityAbout ten minutes in your workspace: details, price, days and one photo. Publish when you are ready.
Add your first activity
What setup looks like after your fit check: activate your workspace, fill in your offer, and publish.
The workspace you’ll run. The postcard guests will see.
Your offer, schedule, capacity, and new bookings stay in one focused workspace. Guests see the useful version: a clear perk, date, price, and booking path.
Demo workspace · synthetic booking
$49perk price
Rundle Bike · CanmoreE-bike afternoons
Easygoing valley riding after 2:00 pm.
Claim a place in the founding stamp sheet.
The first Canmore guide is a small, curated roster of one or two operators per category. Selection is based on trip fit, a useful guest offer, reliable follow-up, and available space.
- Your rate
- 15%
- You control
- Discount & capacity
- Hotel share
- Fixed 8%
Rundle BikeFounding operatorYour businessCategory spot availableYour businessCategory spot available
Pilot status · Canmore
Where your offer will appear.
Before your offer goes live, we confirm each participating property with you: its name, where the cards are placed, and how many rooms they reach. You can pause your availability at any time.
Run by a Canmore operator.
PostcardPerks is run by Evan, owner and operator of Rundle Bike in Canmore. Rundle Bike is the first founding operator in the guide, so every step you would use is tested on a local business first.
Questions go straight to Evan: 403-708-9627 · evan@postcardperks.com
Only pay when the activity happens.
No fee for views or clicks. Commission is 15% of completed activity value after the guest discount, including non-tip add-ons and excluding guest tax and tips. Keep cancellations, weather voids, and no-shows up to date so they are not counted as completed activities.
Our planned founding checkout collects 15% upfront toward the activity price, plus the tax on that portion. You collect the balance at the activity. Checkout opens after partner payment approval; existing direct-payment offers keep the instructions shown when booking.
Illustrative offer: a $200 regular price with a 25% discount gives the guest a $150 activity price before tax. You choose your discount; the 15% commission applies to that $150.
Guest price before tax$150
You keep before costs$127.5085%
Referring property$128%
PostcardPerks before costs$10.507%
With 5% GST and no add-ons or tips, the planned checkout collects $23.63 now and leaves $133.87 for you to collect at the activity. Those amounts add up to the $157.50 total.
Set the perk
Enter the regular price and choose one discount for the offer. Use separate offers when weekday and weekend discounts differ.
Guests scan the postcard
We print and supply postcards for reception, approved common areas, and guest rooms where permitted. The property QR opens the guide.
Collect the balance at the activity
On approved partial-payment offers, guests reserve with 15% upfront and pay you the remaining activity balance when they arrive. No payment-collection call is needed.
Reconcile completed activities
Record attendance, cancellations, and no-shows. Approved partial-payment offers settle the commission from the upfront payment; existing direct-payment offers retain monthly invoices.
Think your experience fits the guide?
The application page walks through the founding terms, what happens after you apply, and the details we need to draft your listing.
The practical questions.
How does the required discount work?
You choose a discount from 10% to 95% off the regular price, as a percentage or equivalent fixed-dollar amount. The editor starts at 25%, but you set the actual offer. Choose the days and capacity that make the discounted booking worthwhile; create a separate offer when different days need a different discount.
How will the 15% upfront payment work?
For approved offers, PostcardPerks collects 15% of the discounted activity and non-tip add-ons, plus the GST on that portion. You collect the remaining balance and any tips at the activity. The guest sees exact amounts before paying. Payment checkout remains subject to partner setup and approval; existing direct-payment offers keep their stated payment method.
When is commission owed?
Commission is earned on completed activity value. For approved partial-payment offers it is settled from the upfront collection, subject to the agreed refund and settlement rules. Existing direct-payment offers are invoiced monthly; balances under CAD $100 roll forward.
Will the founding 15% rate change?
Your accepted founding terms do not change retroactively. Any change to the standard rate would apply only to later cohorts, and only after at least 100 real completed bookings establish conversion, support, collection, and attribution costs.
What if weather or capacity changes?
Pause a perk for the day without breaking its recurring schedule. Existing bookings and codes generated while it was active remain valid for 24 hours.
Do I need booking software?
No. We help prepare your listing and first offer. Approved partial-payment offers reserve capacity while guests pay in Stripe Checkout and confirm after successful payment. You receive the guest details and collect the balance at the activity. Existing direct-payment offers can retain their current booking setup.
Is it exclusive?
No. There is no exclusivity, listing fee, or monthly fee.
Ready for a ten-minute fit check?
Share four details. We’ll reply personally within 24 hours and handle the rest in the fit check.