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.
Residents, get the app
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Shop local. Earn rewards. Keep shopping local.
Earn rewards at eligible local businesses, then use them toward a purchase at another eligible business in the same community. Options depend on the community’s program.
Cities on Open Rewards
Local businesses supported
Shoppers said Open Rewards encouraged them to shop local
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.
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
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
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
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
Claim your business profile
- Find and claim your business
- Launch your own promotions
- See data and insights about your customers
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
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
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
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
Cities are the biggest marketplace.
Rewards, payments, and insights for your local economy. Explore the tools behind Open Rewards.
Give people a reason to shop local.
Points, cash back, challenges, tiers, and offers
- Points & cash back
- Challenges
- Tiers
- Offers
Connect your community’s spending.
Branded cards that capture spending and transaction economics
- Branded cards
- Spending capture
- Transaction economics
Keep the next purchase local.
Preloaded balances that make it easy to shop and lock in future spend
- Preloaded balances
- Future spending
Put local businesses in their pocket.
Direct channels to engage with customers
- Direct channels
- Customer engagement
Give people a reason to come back.
Recurring engagements that foster long-term relationships
- Recurring engagement
- Long-term relationships
See the bigger picture of local spending.
Proprietary insights into consumer spend, cost of living, and financial stress
- Consumer spending
- 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
Illustrative account layout. Balances and activity are not shown.
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!
A business listing in the Open Rewards app.
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.
Reward-driven local spending
↗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.
No case study for this size yet
This preview doesn't include a published result for a community of this size.
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.”
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.
See pricing for your sizeCouncil 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 storyCommunities on Open Rewards
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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