Abstract: A method for distributing promotional offers, such as coupons, to consumers via a communication network. The method enables consumers to specify their favorite places of business and to receive promotional offers from those businesses. The selections are stored in a computer database and, upon command by the user over the communication network, the server transmits a pattern representative of all of the saved promotional offers by that particular consumer. That pattern may be printed or simply displayed on a personal electronic device, such as a smart phone, at the business in order to utilize or redeem the promotional offer from that business.