Introduction to the website

Ratebe is a user who rates Businesses, Videos, Discounts and Coupons.

Registration

You just click the link "Log in with Facebook" on the top of the page. If you are the first time user in Ratebe, you will be directed to Facebook website, then you need to confirm that you connect Facebook with Ratebe including allow Ratebe send email to you to setup an account.

The email will be used to receive account password, deal order info, and optional newsletters.
Business user is a user who owns a legal business or e-commerce web site. All Business users can post their business info, videos, WebDiscounts, and ShopCoupons for free.
Any registered business user, who has enough Rater dollars can post Discounts and Coupons.

In normal, it costs about 2 Rater dollars to post a Discount or Coupon.

Any business user earns 50 rater dollars once sign up (register), so it is free to post about 25 Discounts or Coupons.

Another way to earn Rater dollars is to add a new business in Business section. Earn 0.5 dollar for posting a business. Deduct 1 dollar if the posting is not appropriate and removed by admin.

The business users can pay with Australia dollars once they have no enough Rater dollars. Australia dollars are exactly the same as Rater dollars.
Yes, Ratebe accept some advertising banners, but the room for advertising is very limited. There are some reasons:
1) No popup ads, no floating ads, no hassles, keep our pages tidy, and loading fast
2) Every company has equal opportunity to promote its business. The good business will be automatically goes to the top based on ratebes' rating.
Ratestar is a unique business page in Ratebe, which has the following advantages:
1) no any advertising in any position
2) can be applied different templates with individual themes
3) can have compact url, e.g., http://www.ratebe.com/ozstock
4) full control the page including post discounts for promotion

Just $5/month is charged if you install Ratestar. You can close the account to stop payment anytime if you are not satisfied with the page.

E-commerce promotion

Business and Coupon sections are for Australia users only.

Video, Disount are for all users around the world.

Advertising

Some users tend to top up ratebe dollars by real Australia dollars if they gradually realise that their consumes are useful.

Some users tend to top up ratebe dollars by earning more Rater dollars in web site, for example, earning by posting Businesses, posting Videos. This is the mort important impetus for the web site development since it will bring more resources and attract more users.

Actually we charge $2/month for Ratestar users. This is the main income in the website.

So ratebe.com will be developed by more supports, more resources, and more users.

General issues

ratebe.com provides a powerful rating platform in which normal users can share their shopping and entertainment experience while business users can promote their e-commerce and businesses.
Business users can post their info in Business, Discount and Coupon sections.

In Business section, there is a search engine, users can easily find their target business info.

In Discount section, business users can post their discount info for their online shopping web sites. A wide range of Rater members will be attracted by these discount info, and are forwarded to buy products in business users web sites.

In Coupon section, shop users can post their coupons. A wide range of Ratebe members will buy these coupons, and buy products in the shops.
ratebe dollar is a virtual money, the value is exactly equal to real Australia dollar.

ratebe dollar is used to post Discounts and Coupons or buy Coupons.

There are easy ways to earn ratebe dollars, so normal users always have enough Rater dollars for any purposes.
You need to spend ratebe dollars in the following situations:
1) post a new Discounts for two ratebe dollars
2) post a new Coupons for two ratebe dollars
2) buy Coupons for one or two ratebe dollars

Hints:
1) It is free to view Discounts.
2) You can earn Rater dollars by adding new Business.
There are four ways to get Rater dollars:
1) get 50 ratebe dollars once sign up
2) get 0.5 ratebe dolloar for adding a new business in Business section
3) get 0.5 ratebe dolloar for adding a new video in Video section
4) pay with Australia dollars to top up your Rater dollars
No, ratebe business is not just a simple traditional Australia business directory and Australia business listing.

We found that the traditional business directory is not complete, for example, you even cannot find a favorite restaurant in Sydney since the directory just consists of parts of restaurants.

Rater focuses on users rating. The more users take part in rating, the greater number of businesses will be listed in Rater business. This will make all businesses trasparent to customers.
No, ratebe dose not sell any product. ratebe is just a platform that help users to select right companies, web sites and their products by rating functions.
Business and Coupon sections are for Australia users only.

Video, Disount are for all users around the world.
Some users tend to top up ratebe dollars by real Australia dollars if they gradually realise that their consumes are useful.

Some users tend to top up ratebe dollars by earning more Rater dollars in web site, for example, earning by posting Businesses, posting Videos. This is the mort important impetus for the web site development since it will bring more resources and attract more users.

Actually we charge $2/month for Ratestar users. This is the main income in the website.

So ratebe.com will be developed by more supports, more resources, and more users.
Every rating and comment item can be checked by users, and marked as "good comment" or "poor comment". The rating and comment will be invalid if the number of "poor comment" reach to certain amount.

There is also a report error function, the users, including owner of business can submit complain to admin, then admin will remove improper info.