About Yiftee™

Local Gifts, On-the-Go

What’s better than a wall post, email or text? Say Hello, Congrats or Thank You with a Yiftee gift – real gifts that your friends redeem locally, supporting local communities and charity.
A Yiftee™ is a gift sent by smartphone or web. Yiftee™ enables shoppers to send friends, family and co-workers gifts at favorite local businesses across the United States to say Thanks, Happy Birthday, Thinking of You and more. Yiftee gift recipients are notified instantaneously by email, text or Facebook post and can immediately pick up their gifts at neighborhood shops keeping dollars in the neighborhood and helping communities thrive. Yiftee is Social-Local-Mobile and a WIN-WIN-WIN for the business, gift giver and gift recipient.

Yiftee™ = Gift + Nifty + Yippee



Definition: A Yiftee™ gift is a real gift, sent by smart phone or the web to say Thanks, Happy Birthday or Just Because. Yiftee gifts are the new way to acknowledge life’s special moments, in two minutes or less. Giftees receive them on Facebook, email or text and stop by a local merchant to pick them up.

Sending a Yiftee gift to a friend almost always results in smiles – yours and theirs. We like to say “Real Gifts, Real Smiles.”

Yiftee Gifts are great
for local business.


Yiftee gifts are great for local business. In fact, we created them to help local merchants bring good traffic into their stores. Yiftee gifts are usually given by their best customers to their best friends – growing a loyal and appreciative customer base. Everyone wins with Yiftee gifts, the giftor, the giftee and the merchant. Some companies are using Yiftee gifts for their corporate rewards program, expanding the sphere of goodness to recognize a job well done and support their local communities at the same time.

Yiftee strengthens local communities by connecting local merchants and consumers in ways where both win.

Yiftee is a winner of the 2013 Appy Award: Location or Place-Based App and the 2012 Stanford BASES Forge Accelerator program.