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Continued relationship post-checkout
After 11am your guests checkout, instead they can enjoy the day on one of your tours. Showcase surrounding businesses and activities whilst building brand awareness and loyalty.
Additional revenue stream
Either offer free tours your guests and our users can enjoy or create paid tours and monetise off your staffs local knowledge
Marketing
15,000+ international and domestic tourists are eager to discover your local tours through our platform. Use our custom posters and flyers to share your tours with your guests to further enhance their stay
Features you and your customers will love
Add value to your current and future customers
Create immersive experiences
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How it works
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1. Sign Up
Download the FreeGuides App from the Google Play or the Apple App Store. Log into your existing account or create an account
2. Create An Experience
Open the app and create an experience in 'my experiences' or use our Web App to create an experience on your desktop.
3. Earn Money
Once your experience is approved by FreeGuides, you'll receive an email and you are able to begin generating revenue!
Our Partners
YHA
We’re really excited to be working with FreeGuides to provide value and enjoyment to our guests in a new-age way by giving them access to free digital walking tours. Off the back of our first experience released in partnership with the team at FreeGuides, we plan to create our own tours nationally by training our staff and allowing each hostel the opportunity to use their local knowledge to produce relevant tours for our guests
Newy Rides
FreeGuides allowed me to give something away, for free to customers that weren't able to ride alongside my regular tours.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is FreeGuides?FreeGuides is an IOS and Android app. We're a peer to peer platform, enabling locals to create, run and manage their own experiences. We empower locals to capitalize on an underutilized resource and their unique knowledge of their city. The app manages the entire customer journey, finding an experience, running an experience, and completing/tipping for an experience.
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Where is FreeGuides available?We're available in over 40+ countries worldwide on both IOS and Android App stores! Please see below for our supported countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium. Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark. Estonia. Finland, France. Germany. Greece. Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain. Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
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What languages are supported?FreeGuides supports all languages during the experience, however, the platform itself is currently only available in English.
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What makes FreeGuides differentWe are truly a peer to peer platform Our payment system is exclusively cashless We offer value before, during and after the experience We allow our guides to create any experience they could imagine whether that’s photography, religious, architectural or cultural Offer 24/7 self-guided experiences curated by locals
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How do I pay for an experience?At the end of your experience you simply pay the amount you believe the experience was worth. You use your phone to send a secure payment to the guide. Our proprietary technology allows the collection of payment through the mobile app, creating an extremely easy and secure process.
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How do I know experiences are safe?At FreeGuides we use a specialised rating system and security systems to ensure the safety of all our explorers.
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If I'm an explorer can I also make experiences?Yes! Anyone is able to create an experience, if you need support please refer to our 'Guide Centre' in the blogs or contact us.
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How can I earn $10 AUD?Create your first approved experience on FreeGuides, to get a cash reward of $10 AUD right into your bank account. See here for information on our requirements for an approved experience.
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How do I get paid as a guide?Even though experiences are priced through a pay what you want to model, our unique collection system allows us to pay you frequently and consistently. Our cashless system creates many benefits and incentives for our guides: Regular and consistent payments even through unexpected conditions such as weather and unforeseen pressures. Explorers pay higher amounts when offered cashless systems only. See more here
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Who can create an experience?We have specifically designed FreeGuides to allow anyone in the world to create an experience. We think the people who know their cities better than anyone else are those who breathe the air and walk the streets. That's why we make it simple and stress-free to make an experience using FreeGuides.
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What is post-experience?Post experience allows for guides to give additional recommendations and highlights for your time left in the city including: Restaurant recommendations Sightseeing locations Bars Activities Facts General information
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How do I create an experience?Creating an experience is extremely easy. There are four easy steps. Download the IOS/Android app Signup using either Facebook or Google. Create a tour in under 3 minutes, simply add photos, highlights and stops. Wait for explorers to book in your experience. For further help, read our blog.
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Do I need any qualification to be a guide?Not at all, we encourage anyone to have the ability to create experiences based off their own personal travel stories and unique knowledge.
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What type of experiences can I create?FreeGuides enables anyone to create any unique experience, we have no limitations on what experiences you can create. For more ideas, read our blog.
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If I'm a guide can I also book an experiences?Yes, if you are a guide you do have the ability to join existing experiences, as we are a peer to peer platform, you have the potential to do both exploring and guiding on our paltform.
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Is FreeGuides really free?Short answer: YES! We believe our unique system of vetting and rating system creates the highest quality experiences led by the most passionate people. This means that when you go on a FreeGuides experience you should be taken on an experience of a lifetime. These experiences will be curated by locals who know their city better than anyone else. Thus we think that you will value these experiences enough to pay what you want. After finishing a FreeGuides experience, it is possible to leave nothing if you were unsatisfied.