When can I buy the voucher for 4 October?

From Friday 2 October 2026 at 10:00 — until they are gone or until 12:00 on the Sunday (Conditions of Participation, bonoconsumosantacruz.com).

What does it cost and what is it worth?

It is worth €25 and costs €12.50; the other €12.50 comes from the city council. Two are allowed per Sunday and six across the whole campaign.

Can holidaymakers take part?

Formally yes: the conditions ask for legal adulthood and a valid DNI or NIE, not residence in Santa Cruz. Without a Spanish identity number it is not possible.

How many shops can I spend it in on 4 October?

When we checked at 16:56 on 28 September 2026 there were 23 — 22 in Centro-Ifara and one in Salud-La Salle. The list is updated on Mondays.

I have a district voucher. Am I tied to that district?

Until 4 October, yes. From 5 October it is valid at any participating business with credit left, at the latest until 2 November 2026.

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€1,500 per shop: Santa Cruz's Bono Domingo on 4 October works in only 23 stores

Sunday 4 October 2026 brings the first of four Bono Domingo days in Santa Cruz de Tenerife: a voucher worth €25 that costs the buyer €12.50, with the town hall paying the other half. It cannot be spent across the whole city, though. On the list published by the platform bonoconsumosantacruz.com, at 16:56 Canary time on Monday 28 September, exactly 23 shops carried the label "Domingo 4 Oct" — 22 of them in the Centro-Ifara district and just one in Salud-La Salle. Each of those 23 has exactly €1,500 of redemption credit set aside for that Sunday, €34,500 in total.

28 September 2026 · By Julia Roca Bethencourt · 5 Min. · Editorial responsibility: Matthias Camenzind, Editor-in-Chief

Calle del Castillo, the shopping street of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (illustrative)

Photo: Gerardo nuñez, CC BY 3.0 (illustrative image).

Date, price, and what we counted live

Date: Sunday 4 October 2026. Sales open on Friday 2 October at 10:00, running until stocks run out or until 12:00 on the Sunday (Conditions of Participation, BCSC 2026).
Price: €25 in value, €12.50 from the customer and €12.50 from the city council. Two vouchers per Sunday, six across the campaign, each tied to one DNI/NIE.
Participants: 23 shops, 22 in Centro-Ifara and one in Salud-La Salle — our own count of the public list, as at 28 September 2026, 16:56 WEST.
Cap per shop: €1,500 for that Sunday, against €4,000 for the district voucher (platform data; the €4,000 figure is also cited by the Sociedad de Desarrollo).
Deadline: the campaign closes on 2 November 2026, and Sunday vouchers expire that same evening. Municipal contribution to this sixth edition: €220,000, with €520,000 of spending expected (santacruzdetenerife.es, 13 July 2026).

What applies on 4 October

The Bono Domingo is the second voucher type in the "Bono Consumo Santa Cruz 2026" campaign. Value €25, customer share €12.50, municipal share 50 percent — more than in the district voucher, where the council puts in €10 of the €25. The conditions name four redemption Sundays: 4, 11, 18 and 25 October, each sold from 10:00 on the Friday before. For all four together the council has earmarked 4,800 vouchers.

22 of 23 in one district: the zone is the reason

The lopsided map is no accident; it is written into the conditions for shops. Only businesses registered under the COMERCIO trade category and located inside the Zona de Gran Afluencia Turística may join the Bono Domingo. Restaurants, beauty salons and hairdressers are excluded, and the shops must open on at least three of the four Sundays from 10:30 to 14:00. That zone is the historic core, declared by an order of the Canary Islands government of 27 June 2011, and it reaches, according to santacruzescomercio.com, from the Avenidas Marítimas across the Rambla to the Avenidas de la Asunción and San Sebastián. That is where the 23 addresses sit: five on Calle Bethencourt Alfonso, four around Calle Castillo, plus Suárez Guerra and Rambla Pulido.

€1,500 per shop: a ceiling, not a grant

The €1,500 shown against each of the 23 shops is not money the shop receives but an upper limit: the maximum voucher value it may accept that Sunday. Once the limit is reached, the system automatically switches off further redemptions, according to the conditions. Twenty-three times €1,500 gives a capacity of €34,500, or 1,380 vouchers at €25 — that division is our own. Settlement runs through the platform and the PlusCommerce app, and FAUCA, the trade federation that operates the campaign for the city, pays out within 15 days under the conditions.

Four of the five district vouchers are gone — and what happens on 5 October

The campaign issued 16,000 district vouchers: Centro-Ifara 7,500, Salud-La Salle 4,400, Suroeste 2,200, Ofra-Costa Sur 1,500 and Anaga 400. At 16:56 on 28 September the platform showed zero purchasable vouchers for the first four and the full personal quota for Anaga. Diario de Avisos reported on 21 August 2026, citing the Sociedad de Desarrollo, that 15,655 of the 16,000 had been sold and the remaining 345 were all Anaga ones. Anaga is the thinly populated north — and on Monday not a single shop from that district appeared on the list of participants. On 5 October, however, the district restriction falls away: the voucher may then be redeemed at any participating business with credit left.

Eighteen shops at zero, seven of them bookshops

The platform shows the remaining credit for every business. Our reading on 28 September: at 18 of the 275 registered shops the district allocation stands at €0.00, and another 22 are flagged as close to running out. Among the 18 exhausted businesses, bookshops and stationers are the largest single group: seven, which does not make them a majority. The rate is what stands out: seven of the campaign's 20 bookshops and stationers, 35 percent, the highest share of any sector; in fashion it is three out of 60. Across the four districts €761,723.05 of credit was still available, €502,336.40 of it in Centro-Ifara. What is scarce is not the money but the vouchers.

What 2025 showed — and the criticism of the zone

For the 2025 Sunday campaign the Sociedad de Desarrollo reported on 26 November 2025 that 9,991 of 10,000 vouchers were sold, that €249,424.04 reached the shops and that 47 establishments took part. In 2026 it is four Sundays rather than six, 4,800 vouchers rather than 10,000 and, on the first Sunday, 23 shops rather than 47. The zone itself is disputed: the association Asodiscan asked for a review of a boundary unchanged since 2011, Diario de Avisos reported on 6 August 2026, and its general secretary Alfredo Medina stressed that "la iniciativa no pretende ampliar los domingos" — the initiative is not intended to extend Sunday trading. No council reply is documented in that article.

Only adults who supply a DNI or NIE can buy: the conditions do not require registration as a resident of Santa Cruz, but a passport alone is not enough. The voucher arrives as a PDF with a QR code and as a Wallet file, and the QR code has to be shown together with the identity document. The list of Sunday shops is updated on Mondays. And it goes fast: the Sociedad de Desarrollo reported several times in 2024 that batches of 700 vouchers sold out in two to eight minutes.

A Bono Domingo is valid only on the Sunday it was bought for; after that it expires and is neither exchanged nor refunded. Cash is never returned, not even when goods are brought back — shops may issue a credit note instead. The conditions also exclude tobacco and e-cigarettes, lotteries and betting, mobile phone top-ups, credit and gift cards, online subscriptions, spirits, and the buying and selling of gold and jewellery.

FAQ

When can I buy the voucher for 4 October?: From Friday 2 October 2026 at 10:00 — until they are gone or until 12:00 on the Sunday (Conditions of Participation, bonoconsumosantacruz.com).
What does it cost and what is it worth?: It is worth €25 and costs €12.50; the other €12.50 comes from the city council. Two are allowed per Sunday and six across the whole campaign.
Can holidaymakers take part?: Formally yes: the conditions ask for legal adulthood and a valid DNI or NIE, not residence in Santa Cruz. Without a Spanish identity number it is not possible.
How many shops can I spend it in on 4 October?: When we checked at 16:56 on 28 September 2026 there were 23 — 22 in Centro-Ifara and one in Salud-La Salle. The list is updated on Mondays.
I have a district voucher. Am I tied to that district?: Until 4 October, yes. From 5 October it is valid at any participating business with credit left, at the latest until 2 November 2026.

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