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FOR CITY AND COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

Launch your city's shop local program.

Residents earn cash back at local businesses. Your city sets the budget and the rules. Open Rewards runs the program and reports results in real time.

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Open Rewards app, Discovery tab: local restaurants with 5% Rewards badges, categories and filters
100+

Cities on Open Rewards

30K+

Local businesses supported

87%

Shoppers said Open Rewards encouraged them to shop local

24X+

Local spending per $1 invested, platform-wide

Residents earn cash back. Businesses gain customers. Cities see the results in real time.

Platform-wide figures from Open Rewards.

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Earn rewards when you shop local

  • Download Open Rewards and select your community
  • Shop at eligible local businesses
  • Link your card or submit your receipts to earn
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Find your next local favorite

  • Open the Discovery tab in the app
  • Use the Can Earn Rewards filter to see eligible businesses
  • Check the rewards rate on each business profile
See how it works

Redeem and cash out

  • Submit a receipt or pick a linked transaction
  • Turn on Apply your rewards
  • Get your cash out by your chosen payout method
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Free to your business, funded by your city

  • Your city funds the rewards, so there is no cost to you
  • All eligible businesses are onboarded automatically
  • No POS integration and no staff training
See how businesses benefit

Claim your business profile

  • Find and claim your business
  • Launch your own promotions
  • See data and insights about your customers
Find and claim your business

Not listed yet? You may still be eligible

  • Look for your business in your community's listing
  • If it is missing, follow the steps to add it
  • No community in the app yet? Request yours
Add your business

Launch in weeks, not months

  • Define your program: geography, eligibility, reward rate and budget
  • Eligible businesses are added automatically
  • Launch and track results in real time
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Pricing sized to your community

  • A subscription sized to your population
  • A rewards fund you set, where every dollar goes to shoppers and businesses
  • Onboarding, business import, promotion support and reporting included
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Results you can take back to council

  • Browse results by community size
  • Open a city's case study
  • Speak with peers who have launched programs
See results by city

A NEW MODEL FOR LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Cities are the biggest marketplace.

Every day, billions of dollars move through local economies. Open Rewards gives cities a full stack of fintech tools to grow and drive spending.

Rewards

Points, cash back, challenges, tiers, and offers

Cards & payment

Branded cards that capture spending and transaction economics

Wallets

Preloaded balances that make it easy to shop and lock in future spend

Consumer app

Direct channels to engage with customers

Subscriptions

Recurring engagements that foster long-term relationship

Economic data

Proprietary insights into consumer spend, cost of living, & financial stress

Get rewarded for shopping local.

Earn rewards at eligible restaurants, shops, and local businesses in your community

See how it works
Open Rewards app home: balance card with a Link card button, Instant Pay, Voucher Redeem and Refer and EarnOpen Rewards app Instant Pay: upload a photo of your bill or registerOpen Rewards app Instant Pay: scan the business QR code to pay with your rewards
Your total balanceRedeemed to date $4.10
985pts
≈ $9.85
320 pts pendingCorner Bakery · in review
Redeem rewards
Instant Pay
Voucher Redeem
Refer & Earn
Recent activity
Corner BakeryToday · ReceiptPending
+320 pts
Bookshop LocalYesterday · CardApproved
+510 pts
Market Street CafeFriday · CardApproved
+475 pts
Antioch
Oct 1, 2026 – ongoingOngoing
Earn Rewards

Receipt

CORNER BAKERY
214 Main St
Sourdough loaf8.00
Pastry box14.50
Coffee x29.50
TOTAL$32.00
Card paymentOct 15 1:42 PM
Reward rate10%
You earn+320 pts
SubmittedToday 1:46 PM
In reviewUsually 1 to 2 business days
ApprovedPoints land in your balance

Your city wants you to succeed.

A shared platform that uplifts all local businesses in your community together.

No cost to your business

The rewards are funded by your city, at no cost to you.

No complex sign-up

All eligible businesses will be onboarded automatically.

No operational burden

No need to learn a new system, integrate any technology, or train your staff. Just business as usual!

See how businesses benefit
Revenue generated$18.4Kfrom reward-driven purchases
New customers324discovered through the program
Repeat visits41%of reward users came back again
Eligible transactions1,280reward-driven purchases
Growth over time

Sample data for illustration only.

Empower your local economy.

Your new economic development tool to drive local spending, in real time.

Meet economic development goals

Set your target geography, budget, eligible business criteria, and program parameters.

Turnkey launch

Open Rewards manages setup, rewards operations, customer support, and reporting.

Real-time measurement

Track local spending, ROI, participation, and budget deployment.

Explore Open Rewards for cities
Program activeCOMMUNITY IMPACT DASHBOARDProgram performance
Purchases supported42,680at local businesses
Local spending$5.4Mgenerated through the program
Return24Xon rewards invested
Economic impact by month

Reward-driven local spending

JanFebMarAprMayJun

↗Illustrative view of the real-time program reporting available to community partners. Figures match the example on openrewards.com/for-cities.

LOCAL IMPACT, NATIONAL SCALE

Proven community outcomes.

Cities that launched, and what happened.

Where cities report it, local spending per $1 invested ranges from 12X to 25X in the results below.

Results by city

Find cities like yours.

El Paso, TX200K+$5.4Min local economic impactReported Jul 2026Read the case study →Littleton, CO10K-50K$2.6Min local economic impact, 19X the city's investmentFrom a $40K rewards fundSince Jan 2024Read the case study →San Joaquin, CA200K+$2.2Min revenue to local businessesSince Jul 2024Read the case study →

What a city team can take to council.

“We've had a lot of excitement from our business community and it's an easy win because they don't have to do very much. We've made it as simple as possible for them.”
Jamie Crout, City of Littleton Economic Development Read the Littleton story
19Xlocal spending per $1 invested
$2.6Min local economic impact in Littleton

Built for public agencies

  • Fraud monitoring and prevention. Controls that protect your program.
  • Compliance. Policies that meet regulatory and banking requirements.
  • Clear fund tracking. See how rewards are deployed and the impact they generate.
  • Community references. Speak with peers who have launched programs.

Where the money has come from

North Richland Hills, TX funded a $100,000 rewards pool with hotel occupancy tax.

Littleton, CO started from a $40,000 rewards fund.

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Council has voted to keep it

The El Paso City Council voted unanimously to continue the Buy El Paso program.

$5.4M in local economic impact and 3,800 local businesses.

Read the El Paso story

Communities on Open Rewards

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Taylor, TX

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Baca County CO

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AC Inlet, NJ

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Azusa, CA

Launch the program in your community.

Launch the program in your community to drive local spending.

  • You set your target geography, budget and rewards.
  • Open Rewards handles setup, business profiles, payouts, fraud monitoring and support.
  • You track local spending and results in real time.
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