How to Create Groupon Account without a Phone Number?

Do you love the idea of having amazing experiences and trying out new things but without paying too much for it? Then download Groupon and check if there’s any discount deals for a desired place, goods, event or class on Groupon. This will help you save as much money as you can while still enjoying and having a great time.

Well, what is Groupon, and how can you avoid compromising your actual phone number required for registration? Let’s see how it works.

What is Groupon? Briefly On Then and Now

Are you willing to have a spa day to relax after having finished an exhausting work project? Or are you looking for a cozy place to take your fiance to dinner? Or, you have just started repairing works and are eager to replace all the furniture items without it costing a fortune to you? For all these cases and much more, Groupon is a great tool to budget your money.

The platform’s predecessor was the ‘Point’ project, a social network that helped people not only to communicate but also use united efforts to make something meaningful, such as signing collective petitions or making donations. In 2008, the founders decided to change the direction by turning the platform into a service for collective purchasing. This is how Groupon appeared.

Features of The New Groupon

What is Groupon initially? At the very beginning, Groupon had a different business model. It accumulated discount offerings that expired in some certain time. Moreover, they started being active after having been chosen by a certain number of people. To date, Groupon has changed a lot.

Now, it aggregates discount coupons, cashback, and group deals for various categories of services and goods, the most popular of which in a Groupon account are:

• Meal prep.
• Beauty & Spas.
• Leisure Activities.
• Food & Drinks.
• Hotels & Travel.
• Home Improvement.
• Car details.

The service is available in both the browser and mobile versions.

How to Use Groupon? The Key Opportunities

Speaking of the other platform’s functionality, today Groupon is much more than just the group deals with discounts. Here are just a few things of how else you can use your Groupon account:

1. Using the ‘Gifts’ section, you can not only purchase coupons for yourself, but also present them to your friends, family members or loved ones. Let them have a great and memorable experience without it costing a fortune for your wallet! Moreover, you can share coupons and deals with your friends by sending them a link.
2. Publishing reviews is also available within your Groupon account, so that you can read reviews written by those who have already tested a place/event/goods or experience to make sure it’s worth visiting and paying for.
3. Save even more on purchases with extra cashback. Purchasing Groupon’s offerings doesn’t interfere with additionally utilizing cashback services such as Rakuten.com and similar platforms.
4. Discovering a whole bunch of special offerings. After completing the Groupon sign up, you can find special offerings, such as hair treatment procedures, dancing classes, martial arts classes, scuba diving training sessions, and much more. Thus, this isn’t only a place to get a discount but also to come across new kinds of activities that help spending time with benefit and in joy.

For premium membership, keep in mind that most of the Groupon’s vouchers expire in 120 days. So be sure that you will have time to use all of them before they end up!

What is Groupon in Terms of Partnership with Local Business?

As for the Groupon’s benefit for local businesses, the platform is a helpful tool for promoting goods and services, which allows selling them much faster and with less effort. Here is how it works: the platform enters into an agreement with a business owner, places its offering on it and sets a commission (let’s say, 95/5). Thus, thanks to this partnership model, businesses get boosted sales while Groupon makes revenue from charged fees. To place your offering on the platform, go to the ‘Sell on Groupon’ section.

What is Groupon’s Registration Requirements?

Let’s look at how you can register in Groupon on mobile. After opening the Groupon application, you’ll be redirected to the signin page. If you’re not registered with a Groupon account yet, click the ‘Not a member? Sign up’ option located in the right upper corner.

If you tap on it, it’ll lead you to the signin page where you’ll be asked to enter your personal information such as your full name, email address, and password. Alternatively, you’ll be offered to register via Google, Facebook, or Apple to choose from. Then scroll down and tap ‘Sign up with Groupon’ to enter your freshly created account.

When you finish Groupon sign in, you’ll see your profile menu which includes ‘My Groupons’, ‘My Settings’, and other sections. While when you tap ‘Featured’ on the left in the horizontal menu located at the bottom, you’ll be redirected to check current offerings and search for other relevant options.

What is more, after registering on the platform, you’ll also be asked to verify your account. You’ll be asked to make it via your email address (that you already linked to the profile) or a phone number. As an alternative to your actual phone number, it’s wise to consider leveraging a temporary virtual phone number instead. What is this service about and how to use it? Let’s see it in the reading further.

Virtual Phone Number for Groupon Signup

Using virtual phone numbers is now a proven way for experienced users to bypass verification procedures in various services that require giving out a mobile number. These phone numbers have a set of useful characteristics that help a consumer remain anonymous when going through the registration and verification procedures. They include:

• No need to submit any real proof of identity — on SMS-Man, to purchase a virtual number for Groupon sign up, you’ll be asked to only enter your email address.
• No connection with a physical address or a certain device. These numbers are completely geo independent which means that regardless of wherever you are physically located, you have a choice out of 190+ different national codes to change your virtual location.
• This allows you not only to bypass registration requirements in services that are restricted in your living area, but also access those that ask for local mobile numbers only.
• No need to use a SIM card that usually implies proving your identity and enables a mobile provider to trace a number’s owner if needed. You won’t need it for a Groupon account either.

So, this is a great option for a phone number for Groupon from whichever country you are. Also the best thing about these numbers is that the price is very affordable, starting from $0.6 per number, depending on the required service.

With SMS-Man, you can sign up for 4000+ local and global platforms without compromising a phone number.

Here is how to make a Groupon account through SMS-Man:

1. Complete the registration procedure on sms-man.com via email or sign in through a social media account.
2. Replenish the balance with a few US dollars — search for the ‘Top Up’ button in the right upper corner.
3. Enter ‘Receive SMS’, choose the service and the required country. Tap on ‘Buy’.
4. Find the ‘Archive’ section at the bottom and copy the purchased number from there. Apply it for Groupon.
5. Return to SMS-man and tap the ‘Get SMS’ button to reveal the code.