Abstract: A system for managed distribution of business promotional offers, including a business-side interface for enabling each of a plurality of businesses to submit one or more definitions of promotional offers, each definition comprising at least one distribution constraint, and one or more scheduling constraints, a consumer-side interface for enabling each of a plurality of consumers to submit preferences for receiving promotional offers, a scheduler for deriving a schedule for distributing specific promotional offers to specific consumers at specific dates and times, in accordance with the distribution constraints, the scheduling constraints and the consumer preferences, and an event handler for invoking the scheduler in response to submissions by business and by consumers processed respectively by the business-side interface and the consumer-side interface. A method is also described and claimed.