Welcome students! The campus merchant program allows for additional student savings on your particular college campus. The Campus Merchant Program is a locally based, premium discount coupon program brought to you FREE of charge by our issuing bank partners and local merchants. Discounts range between $100 to $250 per coupon book. Student users receive the book entirely free of charge so long as they have a visa/mc card. Users are not required to use the visa/mc card.

The CMP has received much positive press because it saves college students extra money over normal campus coupon books. Since 1989, we have saved 7,500,000 students 2.4 billion dollars. UCMS has the goal of saving students 3.25 billion dollars by 2000!

How it works for students:
At the beginning of the school year, students who possess a visa/mc are mailed the University of XYZ Student Saver Coupon Book. Students then bring these coupons to the merchants right on their campus. Student get discounts that are "better than average" from merchants. Typically, if a merchant offers $2.00 off a $10.00 purchase, our coupon book has an offer of $5.00 off a $10.00 purchase.

How it works for merchants:
What's good for students is bad for merchants?!… Absolutely not! Even though the discount is required to be higher, you get huge benefits. UCMS pays for distribution, lay-out, design and production of the coupon book. This exposes you to students that already have a visa/mc and are educated to be financially responsible students. (See UCMS Credit Strategies Seminars.) The result? Tremendous exposure to the customer base that you want!

What's more, there is no future obligation. Also, you do not need to accept visa/mc since students aren't even required to use their card to get a discount!

Here's what merchants have to say:
"I'd rather give away a little extra food without having to take the chance of running an ad"
- Sandwich shop owner in Tempe AZ

"Every year we work with UCMS because it's FREE"
- Used CD shop in Iowa City IA

"I just hope they never decide to charge me because it's so valuable to my business!"
- Pizza restaurant owner in Champaign IL with UCMS since 1989

Call us at 630-705-5555 or e-mail questions@ucms.com
Download form for next year's coupon book


Case Study: Iowa State University
Coupon Comparisons
Normal Coupon Book vs. UCMS offer

Jiffy Lube:
$4.00 off oil $5.00 off oil
$3.00 off wash $4.00 off wash

PretzleMaker:

Buy one -
Same offer
Second half price

Diamond Daves:

$2.00 off Buy one get one
  free($4-$6 savings)

Happy Joes:

Medium Taco Pizza-
$4.00 off any pizza
$9.95 ($2.70 savings)
Including taco pizza

"Mo-ovies":

Cyclone Sunday-
Rent one get one free
Rent one get one free
Anyday!

Peeples Music:

$1.00 off any CD
Same offer

Tarracino Coffee:

$1.00 off any 16 oz drink or larger
30% all beverages, food items, beans, and retail items
(up to $20 in savings)

Dairy Queen:

50 cents off
Buy one Royal Treat-
medium Blizzard
Get one FREE($2.00 savings)

Cost Cutters:

N/A
Free $2.50 service or
20% off products

Pancheros:

$1.00 off any regular or
Buy one regular or El Gordo
El Gordo Burrito
Burrito get the second FREE ($3.00 savings)

Home Team Pizza:

12" 1 topping pizza &
Same offer
2 16oz sodas - $5.59

COPYWORKS:

N/A
15% off film developing
film developing

BLIMPIE Subs:

N/A
Buy one 6" sub and a medium drink, get one 6" sub FREE

UCMS coupon book saves 250% over the normal coupon book offer!


Enclosed is a listing of all the colleges that United College Marketing Services is active on. Click on the state you are interested in and you will be provided with a listing of colleges and universities. If you have questions, email us at questions@ucms.com

 

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