Open Rewards: Shop Local

Bludot Technologies Inc.

About this app

Shop local. Earn cash back.
With Open Rewards, you can earn cash back rewards while shopping or dining at your favorite local businesses.

Open Rewards is the official shop local app for:
El Paso, TX
San Joaquin County, CA
Camden, NJ
Midtown Atlantic City, NJ
Lancaster, CA
Glendora, CA
East Aldine Management District (Houston, TX)
Westchase District (Houston, TX)
Diamond Bar, CA
Antioch, CA
Littleton, CO
Edgewater, CO
Hermiston, OR
Cibolo, TX
Goochland County, VA
Arlington County, VA
National Landing Business Improvement District (Arlington, VA)
Port St. Lucie, FL
Miramar, FL

EARN CASH BACK REWARDS BY SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESSES
Whether you're a resident or a visitor, you can earn cash back rewards on all of your purchases at participating businesses in communities that have Open Rewards. Visiting El Paso for the weekend? Earn cash back at thousands of businesses across the city. In DC for work? Shoot over to Arlington and explore hundreds of vibrant local businesses and earn cash back.
Open Rewards allows you to discover new favorites right from the app, from restaurants to retail shops to gyms to salons—and everything in between.
You can automatically earn rewards by linking your credit or taking a photo of your receipt and uploading it in the app. It's that easy.

CASH OUT YOUR REWARDS VIA PAYPAL, VENMO OR ZELLE

Have $50 sitting in your Open Rewards account? Go visit one of the businesses in the app, make a purchase, upload your receipt and cash out your rewards! And, also, earn additional cash back rewards from that purchase.

SUPPORT THE LIFEFORCE OF YOUR COMMUNITY—LOCAL BUSINESSES

Local businesses are the heart and soul of many communities, but often times don't have the ability to create their own large-scale rewards programs (like a Starbucks or Sephora). But, with Open Rewards, local businesses in a community can join a large network and give shoppers hundreds, if not more, businesses to earn and redeem rewards at. We believe in the power of community and want to help you support your local businesses—and earn some cash back in the process :)

Ratings and reviews

This app is good to use, but only certain businesses can you get rewards on, but there are many more businesses that you can redeem it at. Example, I can "claim", rewards at my local wineries , but Costco, Aldi, Stater Bros, you can only "redeem" the rewards at, even if you spent $ there, it won't let you "claim" any of your purchases. That is misleading.

Required Additional Spending: To turn rewards into actual cash, you need to keep spending. Every time you want to redeem rewards, you must make another purchase. This can lead to a cycle of spending more money than you might have intended, just to redeem your rewards. This means you're not exactly "getting money back" but rather offsetting future spending. The program ties up your funds in a cycle of spending to redeem rewards.

There needs to be a way to submit more than picture. With longer use, it has started getting "picky" about having the full business name in the image but also need the total amount. This information is on opposite ends of the receipt. Many businesses don't offer paper receipts now, which makes this a let down when you spend $ and don't get any rewards because they don't promote this app themselves even though they participate in it and fail to get a receipt or forget. Not as impressed now.

What’s new

Introducing Instant Pay! Now you can make payments instantly by simply scanning a business’s QR code. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
Performance Improvements & Bug Fixes, We’ve made several behind-the-scenes improvements to enhance your overall app experience.