Any business shown in the app are eligible to earn rewards. You can see a full list and map in the Discovery tab.

You can redeem your rewards balance towards a purchase at any eligible business in the community that the rewards balance is in. To do that, you'll first make a purchase at a business, then submit a redeem request in the app; once validated, you'll receive the rewards in your selected payout method. For more instructions, please see https://www.bludot.io/redeem-rewards

Requests are typically processed within 1-2 business days. It may take longer from time to time in case of larger volume, but please rest assured that we are hard at work getting everyone's requests processed as soon as possible.

Receipt submissions shall meet the following requirements: Includes identifiable information about the business (business name and address) Includes the date of the purchase (only purchases made on or after the program launch date in your community are eligible) Includes the amount of the purchase (only printed amounts are accepted, not handwritten amounts) and payment method Must be legible and show the complete receipt image (not folded, cropped, or otherwise obscured) We reserve the right to request additional information from you to validate your purchase as part of our fraud prevention efforts.

The following purchases are not eligible to earn or redeem rewards: Purchases made before the program launch Purchases where the business is only acting as a point of sale, eg. lottery tickets Money services such as bill payments, cashiers check, check cashing, ATM withdrawals, ATM fees, cashback, etc. Loading a stored value card such as gift cards, pre-paid cards, etc.

Unless noted otherwise, you can redeem all of your rewards balance up to the amount of the purchase, less any amount of rewards earned on that same purchase. Consider the following examples: If you have $5 of rewards balance and made a $20 purchase, and did not earn any rewards on this purchase: you can redeem all $5 towards this purchase If you have $5 of rewards balance and made a $20 purchase, and $1 out of the $5 rewards balance was earned from this same purchase: you can redeem $4 towards this purchase and the remaining $1 can be redeemed towards another purchase in the future If you have $30 of rewards balance and made a $20 purchase, and did not earn any rewards on this purchase: you can redeem $20 towards this purchase and the remaining $10 can be redeemed towards another purchase in the future If you have $30 of rewards balance and made a $20 purchase, and $1 out of the $30 rewards balance was earned from this same purchase: you can redeem $20 towards this purchase and the remaining $10 can be redeemed towards another purchase in the future

If your rewards have an expirationdate, they will be shown in the expiry section of your app. If you don't see anything with an expiry, that means they don't expire. This is subject to change depending on your community's admin.

Your community's referral program may require that the user you referred first complete a Claim request before the referral bonus is earned. In that case, you'll see the referral status as "pending" until they submit their first Claim request.

That is perfectly ok! Open Rewards is designed so that there is nothing that a business needs to do. It is a lot of burden on a small local business to have to learn and train their staff on a new program. By removing this burden, we can be inclusive towards as many local businesses as possible. Thus, it is very possible that the local business you are visiting does not know what to do with this program, because there is nothing they need to do! Simply follow the tutorials in the app or if you have any questions, contact us directly.

That's ok! Simply submit the receipt again to the correct business. The correct request will be approved and the incorrect request will be denied.

Yes! To connect additional cards, you can navigate to your Profile -> Linked Accounts and Cards -> + Link Card.

If you have different cards under different people (eg. your spouse, another authorized user, etc) but the cards link to the same bank account, it should only be added by 1 user to prevent duplicate transactions. If we detect duplicate cards, it will be deleted.

Chances are your business is already included in the program at launch. Try searching for your business in the app and if you found it, then you are all set! There is nothing further you need to do. If you don't see your business, you can request to add it. Simply follow the instructions here: https://www.bludot.io/add-your-business

There is nothing you need to do! You don't need to train any of your staff, add anything to your POS, or make any changes to how you do business. Simply business as usual. Everything is handled via the app directly with the customers. That means customers should always pay for their bills in full as they normally would when they make a purchase with you.

Here are some ways you can promote! Display the Open Rewards flyers and stickers at your business, eg. at the check-out counter, on your windows, etc Share that your business is part of Open Rewards via social media Tell your customers and help they earn rewards at no cost to you!

Instruct the consumers to add those coupon cards in their app. Each card has a unique coupon code which they can enter in the app and receive the amount (eg. $20) in their rewards balance. They can then redeem that amount by making purchases at eligible businesses. There is nothing you need to do, everything is done through the app. The consumers should pay for their bill with you in full.

Please contact support and we will guide you through getting reimbursed. In the future please direct customers to use the app instead of giving you the cards.

Yes! Simply register for your business in the app and you'll see all the stats. Instructions are here: https://www.bludot.io/add-your-business

Open Rewards allows consumers to be rewarded by shopping in your local community. Users will earn rewards when they shop at eligible businesses in your community. They can then redeem the rewards they have earned by shopping at another eligible business in the same community. This way we keep the dollars local and incentivize consumers to shop at the businesses whom you want to support.

So far the communities have funded the rewards, i.e. your city/county would set aside a certain amount of funding that consumers would earn out of. Some communities have used ARPA funding for this program. The funding amount is entirely within your control. You will set a budget for the program and you will never pay more than what's been allocated. For consumers, this means the program is available while funds last, which is another great reason for them to shop now than later!

There is no minimum, and you can start small to see how the program works in your community. You can always add more funding if it's a huge success!

You as the community administrator decides which businesses in your community should be included in the program.

Nope! Businesses don’t have to sign up, learn anything new, train any staff, or do anything outside of their norm. Simply business as usual. This greatly reduces potential for errors and fraud. This also eliminates the need to pound the pavement to enroll businesses, greatly reducing the friction of program launch.

You as the community administrator will decide. Our default is 5%.

As soon as we have the list of businesses that you want to include in the program, we can load your community to our app within a week.

Getting the word out is a huge part of the program's success. We will help provide a website landing page, and flyers and stickers that can be distributed to local businesses' storefronts. We recommend that you use your channels to announce the program in your community, such as local news, social media, blog, events, etc. We are happy to assist with the creation of marketing materials to advertise the Open Rewards program.

You will have access to a dashboard where you can see in real time how people are shopping, earning, redeeming, the rewards fund balance, as well as total economic impact.

The rewards that consumers earn from your city can only be spent in your city, so there is no interference if neighboring cities also get the program.