Online bookings
A booking engine built into the restaurant's website: e-mail confirmation, a link to modify or cancel, a reminder the day before and manual validation if preferred. Opening hours are set by the restaurateur themselves.
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Technology at the service of local retail
WLS Ventures is first and foremost a technology company. Research, development and in-house tools: with Interactive Media Partner, we design the websites, the online booking system and the management system that move businesses forward every day.
Our platforms
Two tools we develop ourselves
They belong to the group, they are designed for neighbourhood retail, and they make distribution measurable: we know how many people booked and how many came.
olocal.ch · French-speaking Switzerland
Olocal
One offer per day per brand. The customer chooses their date, receives their offer by SMS and presents their QR code on site. The shopkeeper sees bookings come in and knows who came.
sms-gagnant.ch · 88,000 subscribers
SMS-gagnant.ch
The shopkeeper speaks directly to their customers and the community. No algorithm in between: the message arrives on the phone, and it is read.
Our approach
Two worlds that gain from meeting each other
On one side, modern technologies: data, applications, artificial intelligence. On the other, the traditional economy: restaurants and shops serving their customers every day.
The two too often move forward separately. A shopkeeper lacks the time to keep up with digital tools, and the tools are rarely designed for the reality of a counter.
Our conviction is simple: by combining the two, we create opportunities that did not exist. That is what the group does every day, for its own brands as well as for the businesses it supports.
managerIMP
A single tool to manage everything
managerIMP is our complete management system, developed in-house by Interactive Media Partner. Bookings, customers, websites, menus, QR codes and invoices: everything that keeps a business running is managed from the same place.
The agency tracks every business it supports there. The restaurateur, for their part, has their own space to manage their establishment day to day, from their computer or phone.
Customer relations
The restaurateur finds their regulars, their visits, their covers and their last visit. On the agency side, customer records, schedules, mandates and documents are gathered in the same place.
Restaurateur space
A personal space that installs on the phone screen, to validate bookings, track requests received through the website and view statistics and invoices.
Menu and QR codes
The restaurant edits its menu and daily specials itself. Dynamic QR codes change destination without reprinting and count scans.
Invoicing
Invoices with a Swiss QR-bill, checked by the agency and then published directly in the client's space.
Local communication
A newsletter written by the restaurateur, an editorial calendar for social media and a direct link with SMS-gagnant.ch and Olocal.
Web development
Websites that work for retail
High-performance websites for the image and search visibility of businesses, custom-designed, hosted in Switzerland and connected to managerIMP from day one.
Each website is designed for its brand, but relies on a common engine written once: an improvement developed for one business automatically benefits all the others. The website becomes a working tool, not just a shop window.
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Built-in booking
Table requests arrive directly in the restaurateur's space, who confirms them in one gesture.
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An always up-to-date menu
The restaurant publishes its menu and daily specials itself, without going through the agency.
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No request lost
Applications, private hire and contact messages are recorded in managerIMP.
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Up to four languages
French, German, Italian and English, to welcome both local customers and visitors.
Our platforms
Tools born in the field
Each platform answers a very practical question that a shopkeeper asks: how to bring customers back, attract new ones, or find the right skills.
Build loyalty
SMS-gagnant.ch lets you obtain free privileges in your favourite shops. The platform brings together 88,000 subscribers in French-speaking Switzerland.
Visit sms-gagnant.chDrive discovery
Olocal offers discovery deals in shops in the region. You book your date, receive your offer by SMS, present your QR code and enjoy it.
Visit olocal.chFind the right skills
IMP Talents connects businesses that need content with freelancers who know how to produce it. One trade, one assignment, no intermediary.
Visit IMP Talents
Member of the group
Interactive Media Partner
Based in Lausanne, Interactive Media Partner advises businesses on digital advertising and social media, develops their websites and designs its own platforms.
Founded under the name Media Fun, the agency has supported local retail since 2011. Since 2012 it has carried out continuous technological research and development work.
Within WLS Ventures, it is one of our competitive advantages: the tools it designs also serve our own brands.
600
Businesses supported
Restaurants, bars, leisure and services in French-speaking Switzerland.
88,000
Subscribers to SMS-gagnant.ch
In Geneva, Lausanne, Morges, Yverdon and Vevey.
13 years
Of research and development
Tools designed for the reality of local retail.
Investing in WLS Ventures means supporting brands and the technology that helps them grow.
