Ridgeline sells mowers and trimmers through 340 independently owned dealers. Ridgeline doesn't have access to any dealer's point-of-sale system, and never will. It still needs to know who's buying, register warranties, and see which dealers' local marketing is working.
The setup
- 1Each dealer gets a co-branded microsite and QR code to hand customers at checkout: "Register your mower, get a free maintenance kit."
- 2The QR code is unique per dealer, so a scan at Miller's Outdoor Power in Ohio is attributed differently than one at Frontline Equipment in Texas, automatically.
- 3The registration form captures the product model, serial number, purchase date, and customer contact details, all fields Ridgeline's service team actually needs.
- 4No point-of-sale integration is required anywhere in this flow. Attribution comes entirely from which dealer's tracked link or QR code was used.
- 5Dealers running co-op-funded local ads (Facebook, local paper, radio) get their own campaign link for that spend specifically, separate from their in-store QR code.
What Ridgeline gets that it didn't have before
A registration count and a co-op cost-per-registration, by dealer, without ever touching a dealer's sales system. That's the whole point: attribution without requiring POS access nobody was going to grant anyway.