Have you ever tried to book online a wellness service?

Miguel Alves Ribeiro
5 min readOct 29, 2022
www.sheerme.com

Taking better care of ourselves should be easy.

You may be one of the few lucky ones who found your favorite barber or hair salon with online booking options, and you can book any time without having to call anyone. But now I challenge you to book your spa, massage parlor, or yoga studio, or let’s go wild and look for a nutritionist or psychologist who can do online consults. Can you find enough offers online?

How hard is it today to find, book and pay for our essential wellness needs when more than 85% of wellness services need to be pre-booked?

Just thinking about having to book my barber used to stress me out! It was a huge back and forth with misaligned calls trying to find a slot that would fit our schedules.

I usually book weekend getaways with my wife and kids, and usually, I look for hotels with spas so we can relax. But I start stressing as soon as I reach the reception, and they say I need to call the spa to book my spa moment. That’s when my stress level rises even more.

Why can’t we find the available slots any time of the day and easily book what we need without needing someone to do us the favor of answering the phone and finding the time that suits us?

Access to all wellness services gives consumers the freedom of choice.

But today, that choice is limited as industry merchants need the right online acquisition tools adapted to their needs.

We, consumers, suffer due to lack of online choices.

The UBER for wellness service

Finding, booking, and paying for a wellness service should be as easy as finding and UBER.

Finding, booking, getting in and out, and not even worrying about payment, as it’s already taken care of. This is what we are building with sheerME.

We at sheerME believe wellness services should be available for everyone and aligned with the actual needs and trends consumers have today.

We live in a fast-paced world, where our smartphone is a crucial tool for making our life more efficient, and we are getting more and more unused to talking on the phone with other people.

We message, buy online, research, share, book, and pay with the fantastic tool that our smartphone is. We usually have time to think about our wellbeing after working hours, weekends, or times that normally wellness establishments are closed. Finding a way to book online our wellness needs should not be challenging when we have time to do it.

Frictionless bookings and cashless wellness

sheerME brings freshness to the wellness industry, making it easy for industry merchants and freelancers to join sheerME, present their services, and have them available for online bookings 24/7 without adopting or paying for management software that is not valued by over 90% of merchants in this industry.

For some merchant partners, sheerME already represents over 30% of their new business.

Having more online booking and payment options, consumers can now find the best services around them, book and pay 24/7 with instant confirmation, and earn cashback on every booking.

How cool is it to go to a barber shop, or any other wellness service, go in and go out, and your service is paid for… no need to touch your wallet. The first time I experienced sheerME was a WOW moment for me… “This is the future,” I said…Frictionless bookings and cashless wellness.

For users, sheerME is already the app where they invest in their wellbeing, and over 80% highly recommend it to their friends and family.

This statement leaves us incredibly proud.

Tested in Portugal but ready for the world — Seamless merchant onboarding, offering more options for consumers.

sheerME is a consumer acquisition tool that any merchant worldwide can activate and use. The onboarding is free. As soon as a merchant onboards, consumers will find these merchants’ services available to book on Google Search, Maps and Assitant, Facebook and Instagram, and countries with GLOVO, but also on the GLOVO app for on-demand services, alongside the sheerME website, app and the sheerME Merchant and Partner widgets.

This means that a consumer does not need to come to sheerME to book their wellness services; they can do it on their usual browsing tools like Google or Instagram.

For efficiency and ease, they can download our app and find more than 100,000 services available to book and pay online while earning cashback on every booking.

Come for the tool, stay for the network and benefits.

Efficiency comes first: booking 24/7, finding enough places around me with the service I am looking for, and knowing the available slots for the day and time I need, should be the first contact with sheerME.

After that, users should stay on the network. The cashback in their wallet after each booking, sharing experiences of other services and users, inspiring us to try out new services and locations, and the possibility to earn top-up codes from marketing and partnerships campaigns that can add value to our wallets or discounts for subsequent bookings. Or even take advantage of promos and super cashback promoted by our merchant partners.

sheerME should be your go-to app for all wellness needs.

Employee Benefit Subscription investing in Employee Wellbeing made easy

Over 72% of employees surveyed by sheerME confirmed their value of wellness services and overall wellbeing.

Over 65% of employees surveyed confirmed that wellbeing positively impacts their performance, focus, and work confidence.

With this in mind, sheerME created the sheerME Benefits Subscription service for companies to invest in their staff’s wellbeing by offering a monthly subscription that tops up their staff’s wallet, and they can use over 100,000 services in sheerME.

We tested our product in Portugal and soft-launched in Brazil, but now we are ready to open worldwide.

sheerME’s mission is to improve people’s lives by democratizing access to wellness services, making it easy to find, book, and pay for all the best offers in each city/country.

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Miguel Alves Ribeiro

Founder & CEO SheerME, repeat founder, Passionate about creating Marketplaces and the chaos of building a startup. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”