FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
This section lists the most common frequently asked questions about MainStreet Sustainability Management Pty Ltd, our products and technologies. If your query is not answered satisfactorily by the answers below, please contact us through the Contact Us tab on this web site.
What does MainStreet Sustainability Management Pty Ltd do?
MainStreet has for some years conducted research and development into a number of sustainable technologies. In more recent times, it was decided to concentrate on the development of specific horticultural technologies that would provide a number of environmental benefits. These include technology to enhance growing capabilities in all climates, the production of ethanol as a clean green fuel and the recycling of waste products created in this process.
What is Greenhouse Rescue?
Greenhouse Rescue (GHR) as seen at www.greenhouserescue.com is an online Affiliate Program designed to attract Affiliates and Advocates interested in supporting a number of "green projects" in their local communities as well as around the world. GHR is a philanthropic program designed to raise money for the support of many local sustainable projects. Affiliated Members complete an online training course and then use our leading edge technology to sign up one or many Advocates, who are people that wish to stand up for local green projects and are prepared to divert at least $5.00 per month in doing so.
What is a Greenhouse Rescue Affiliate?
A GHR Affiliate is a person that desires to make a business within the Sustainability Industry. GHR offers a permanent or part time business opportunity for those people that have a flair for innovation and are "people persons". Affiliates need to qualify via an online training course and are issued with the electronic tools necessary to complete their tasks. Affiliates seek out other likeminded persons who support local green projects and believe in a more sustainable environment. These people are called Advocates. A GHR Affiliate strives to set up a large number of Advocates under their GHR Account. All Affiliates and Advocates receive a plastic card and other requisites depicting their designation as Affiliates or Advocates.
Why are GHR Plastic Cards Issued?
Each Affiliate or Advocate receives a plastic card containing a sixteen digit number unique to their card. Cards are in effect membership cards that offer the member, "smart loyalty" services and access to their membership tools. GHR cards can be used in conjunction with the Members mobile phone whereby transactions can be made via standard SMS. Participating online and point of sale merchants offer GHR Members discounts and other loyalty offerings as part of their membership. Cards are renewed each two years and can be customised for members with photo's and / or the picture depicting the specific green project they support.
How are Affiliates or Advocates signed up to Greenhouse Rescue?
All Advocates are signed up by a qualified Affiliate, ensuring that an Affiliate is a point of contact for the Advocates that become part of the GHR Team. With any standard mobile phone capable of SMS transmissions, an Affiliate can set up as many Advocates as they desire. There are fees payable by both the Affiliate to operate their Green Business and the Advocate who supports and participates in local green projects.
What are the fees payable by an Advocate?
An Advocate or GHR Member is any person of any age that desires to support green projects. They do so by signing up using their mobile phone and when doing this a $12.00 annual management fee is charged directly to the Advocates mobile phone account. In addition a $5.00 per month contribution is sort from each Advocate and it is from these base fees that funds are raised from and diverted to one or many green projects as directed, less sales commissions, management fees and tax.
What are the costs associated with running an Affiliate business?
In the same way that a standard Advocate Member is signed up, an Affiliate is encouraged to firstly join in that category or upgrade their existing Advocacy to that of an Affiliate Business Member. The primary difference in fees are that an Affiliate is requested to make a $50.00 per month purchase of products from the Green mall and/or make other contributions to that value. In addition Affiliates still pay their standard $5.00 per month Membership contribution, however they receive substantial set of benefits for running their sustainable green business.
What's required to become a GHR Affiliate Business and facility?
To open an MainStreet Sustainability Management Merchant facility an Applicant must have:
- a registered business or company (ABN, ACN or Sole Trader);
- a valid bank account;
- trading history of more than 6 months.
We will help you with the rest including establishing your Merchant facility at the point of sale and online, supplying your equipment and providing ongoing technical support. Affiliates can complete online training courses and/or obtain the downloadable Application forms directly from this website by going to Support / Merchant Forms, including Terms & Conditions.
