FOR CITY AND COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

Rewards that keep local spending local.

Your city or county funds the rewards. Residents earn at one local business and redeem at another.

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100+cities on Open Rewards

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

5% RewardsSmith’s Landing Seafood GrillCan earn rewards

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Residents: find your city or get the app

One program for residents, businesses and cities.

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Earn rewards at eligible local businesses.

Link a card or submit a receipt, then put your rewards toward a purchase at another eligible business in your community.

For shoppers

Attract customers with nothing to set up.

In a participating city program, the city funds the rewards at no cost to your business. Your staff doesn’t change how they work.

For businesses

You decide who qualifies and what they earn.

You also set the budget. Open Rewards can load your community into the app within a week of getting your business list.

For cities and counties

How residents
earn and redeem.

Residents earn rewards at eligible local businesses, then use them toward a purchase at another eligible business in the same community.

Shop at an eligible local business.
Link a card or submit a receipt to earn.
Use your rewards at another eligible business in your community.

See how it works for shoppers

Linking a card is optional. You can earn with receipts.

How it works

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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.

Cities report local spending of 12 to 25 times what they put in.

For city and county leaders: these are the published results in this preview, not every community. Each is as the city reports it, and what gets counted differs, so each card says what it measured.

Howard County, MD200K+ residents · since Aug 2025
25×local spending for every $1 the city put in
Reported as verified local spendingRead the case study for Howard County, MD
Littleton, CO10K to 50K residents · since Jan 2024
19×local spending for every $1 the city put in
$2.6M in local economic impactRead the case study for Littleton, CO
Indio, CA50K to 200K residents · first few months since launch
17×local spending for every $1 the city put in
$1.28M in local economic activityRead the case study for Indio, CA
North Richland Hills, TX50K to 200K residents · since 2025
12×local spending for every $1 the city put in
$1M+ in economic impact from a $100K rewards poolRead the case study for North Richland Hills, TX
El Paso, TX200K+ residents · Reported Jul 2026
$5.4Min local economic impact
Read the case study for El Paso, TX
San Joaquin, CA200K+ residents · since Jul 2024
$2.2Min revenue to local businesses
Read the case study for San Joaquin, CA

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61 communities in 13 states and Canada. Open Rewards reports 100+ cities in total.

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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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