My Ensogo Experience

I’ve been seeing a lot of advertising for online discount coupon sites. Frankly, I was a bit intimidated by them. Are they easy to use? Can they be trusted? My friends have been huge fans of the service for ages, but I didn’t try it till this weekend. Ensogo was the first site I signed up for, so when I had the chance to finally try their service I went, “Hey, why not?”

If you’re a newbie to online discount coupon sites like I am, I’ll help you out. I had a very pleasant experience with Ensogo. Here’s what I learned, step by step:

Head on over to http://www.ensogo.com.ph. Ensogo offers a lot of daily deals including food discounts and restaurant vouchers. Scroll down the site to check out the day’s special deals. My eye went straight to this deal from Soy Yummy. Only P150 for 5 regular-sized smoothies? I’m game!

If you want to avail of Ensogo’s restaurants deals and others, you DON’T need to sign up for an account first. Just proceed to BUYing your desired deal. It’s no hassle at all.

Once you find the deal you want to go for, in this case I wanted to avail of food savings on Soy Yummy, click on the BUY button. Choose your mode of payment. You can pay by credit card, Paypal, Bancnet, Bank Transfer, pay at the Ensogo office, or use Ensogo credits. Ensogo credits can be earned through the referral program. An added feature which is no burden to any buyer is that 3% of each Ensogo sale is donated to Children’s Hour.

You’re done! Really, you are. After I closed the deal on my voucher, I got a note saying they’re processing my order.

Shortly after, I got an e-mail with a link to the voucher for printing. So off to the printer I went.

Easy peasy, right? I liked that I didn’t have to use the voucher right away. Short expiry dates on vouchers are a real pain. In this case, I could use my Ensogo voucher for Soy Yummy till October. But why wait? I wanted to see if using the voucher “live” was just as easy as the online experience. The coupon lists down the branches where you can avail of the promo. A few days later, I went to SM Megamall to use my food voucher.

Ah, there it is!

I presented the coupon to the salesgirl, who neatly folded out my crumpled coupon. (Whoops, sorry!) She then asked me to choose which Soy Yummy smoothie flavours I wanted. I was in soy smoothie discount heaven! After giving her my choices, she proceeded to prepare my orders. After a few minutes of waiting, I was done! I had just completed my first Ensogo experience and was a happy smoothie-toting lady.

Let’s drink to that!

My family was surprised when I met them for lunch at HK Choi carrying three bags of smoothies. Yum, one for each of us! Hmmm, come to think of it, maybe I should have checked if Ensogo had restaurant discounts for HK Choi.

In a nutshell: I was relieved everything turned out fine. Yes, relieved because I was scared I was going to mess up the process. I’m very happy that using Ensogo was super easy — from online buying to using the coupon. Will I do it again? You betcha. I want to try out their hotel deals next!

If you want to learn more about the best restaurant deals and yummy food deals, head on over to Ensogo’s Facebook Page or follow them on Twitter. I hope your experience will be as pleasant as mine!

Hi! I'm Toni Tiu, and I've been blogging at at Wifely Steps since 2003. This started as a blog to help newly weds adjust to married life. It has evolved into a home and parenting blog. I write about things close to my heart -- good eats, good reads, family, marriage, and the little things that make everyday happy.