FOR CITY AND COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

Cash back for shopping local, funded by your city or county.

Residents earn cash back at local businesses. You set the budget and the rules. Open Rewards runs the program and shows you results as they come in.

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100+cities on Open Rewards
Open Rewards app, Discovery tab: local restaurants with 5% Rewards badges, categories and filters
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Residents, get the app

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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
Entrance to a local restaurant

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
Downtown street with outdoor dining

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.

See how it works for shoppers

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

How it works

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Sample screens

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.

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.

Showing the top 3 of 6 published city results. See more on the cities page.

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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