BYU-Idaho students have saved nearly $1,500 by texting www.skimmit.com, which launched a month and a half ago by two BYU-I students.  
Skimmit.com is a website people are able to join to receive coupons for various Rexburg businesses through text messages on their cell phones.
There are three different types of coupon-based websites: universal coupon websites, websites that are run by the specific companies and regionally based coupon websites.
“Consumers only redeem about 1 percent of paper coupons — mobile coupons typically achieve 10 times that number,” according to another coupon website, www.coupious.com.
Students can subscribe to Skimmit for free by signing up and linking their phone to the website.
Members can follow specific merchants and receive updates of discounts or they can search for specific coupons.
Members can text Skimmit, the name of a company or the name of the product they are looking for, and Skimmit will then text them back a list of coupons with a number next to them.
Students can then choose which coupon they would like by texting the number listed next to it. The user will then receive a text with a code that can be presented to the cashier during the time of purchase to receive the coupon’s discount.
The creators of the website, Kyle Rawson, a junior studying business management, and Alex Parker, a senior studying business management, plan to release an iPhone application in the next six months.
Parker has created three other websites before Skimmit, which are all now out of service.
The other websites are out of service either because the concepts did not work or because the people who managed the business they represented graduated from BYU-I and left Rexburg.
The idea for the website came a year ago, went live on servers eight months ago and was officially launched on the Internet a month and a half ago. 
“It comes in four different texts; it’s a bit confusing. But I like the random coupons it sends. It reminds you to use it,” said Luke Otteson, a freshman studying business marketing, who uses the application.
Otteson feels that there should be some changes made to Skimmit.
“Instructions [would be helpful]. How to use the coupon. And break the text messages up so that coupons come in separate texts,” Otteson said.
If a coupon is not available on Skimmit, it may be available on the company’s official website, or as a mobile application. 
Skimmit.com is growing at a rate of eight and a half sign-ups a day. There are nearly 400 users so far.
The creators are sure this website will not fail, and plan to add more merchants from Rexburg. They plan to eventually expand to Provo and then hope to release the website nationwide.