The member price, the only thing that earns placement

NO VENUE CAN PAY FOR A PLACE ANYWHERE ON THIS PLATFORM. Not with a plan, not with reviews, not with spend. The only currency that buys visibility here is a discount a member actually gets, and this is where you set it.

ONE PERCENTAGE OFF THE ORDER TOTAL, not a price per dish. That is on purpose: per-dish member prices go stale the moment you change a price, and a stale discount is an argument at the counter. One percentage over the total can never disagree with your menu.

YOU PICK A RUNG, NOT A NUMBER. The ladder runs from ten to thirty per cent in fives, and anything off the ladder means off. Ten is the floor, because below that it is not a discount, it is an insult with a badge on it.

ROUNDING IS TO THE CENT. The rung comes off each dish and rounds down to the cent, the price the menu prints beside it, and the total is those prices added up. You give away less than a cent a dish beyond the rung you chose.

WHAT IT EARNS YOU, and this is the part sellers get wrong. It is a tier, computed from your percentage, recalculated the moment you change it. Go deeper and you climb. Drop back and the rewards that came with the higher tier stop the same day. It is not granted, it is calculated, so nobody can keep a badge they stopped paying for in discounts. Rewards that needed a person to set up lapse rather than vanishing, so nothing breaks mid-arrangement.

WHAT EACH RUNG ADDS. At ten you are a Partner: higher in the results and a place in the newsletter. At twenty a Champion: photos and posts made for you, your own site free to start, a lower fee. At twenty-five a Hero: we write an article about you for the CyprusBites blog and show it to you before it goes live. Every venue with a member price is also on the Where you save page, in bands: the biggest savings first, and inside a band the best-rated place leads, so one per cent more never decides who is seen.

THE PAGE SHOWS THE MATHS. A worked example tells you what a twenty euro order costs a member at the rung you are looking at, before you choose it.

ONE DEPENDENCY WORTH KNOWING. This control lives on your takeaway page, so a venue with takeaway switched off has nowhere to set a member price.