BranchMaps.com has launched a service that allows businesses to create location-based marketing apps that drive consumers into their stores. 

The app development API aims to allow businesses to easily create a branded mobile app that offers nearest branch locators, click to call features, moneysaving coupons, and Facebook sharing. 

“While there are many great services such as Google Places, Facebook Places and Fourquare who call businesses to add themselves to their growing lists, we saw that businesses are actually looking to differentiate and promote their own brand,” says Shlomo Emanuel, CEO at BranchMapss parent company AtlasCT. “We provide the local business with a dedicated and branded mobile application that is focused exclusively on bringing new customers and increasing returning customers to that business easily and effectively.”

Yogev Triki, inventor and head of product at BranchMaps.com, says the solution aims to make mobile marketing more affordable for smaller businesses. “We see large enterprises spend huge amounts of money on building a mobile marketing strategy while small and medium local businesses just cannot afford it, especially these days,” he says. “We wanted to create a revolutionary solution that will allow any business to make use of mobile, location, social networking and coupons to grow its customer base.”

Triki says the solution allows businesses to create an app in “less than five minutes” and that it requires no technical skills.

A trial is available at BranchMapss website, and prices start at $89 per month (around £55).