Customer Rewards Program

What This Recipe Does

This recipe creates a single program that rewards customers with a flat $5.00 credit every time they make a purchase. Unlike a referral-based affiliate program, this one uses manual attribution. You enroll customers as collaborators and they earn rewards on their own purchases.

This is a loyalty and retention play, not a referral play. Choose this recipe when you want to reward customers for buying, not for promoting.

Who It’s For

• Store owners who want to incentivize repeat purchases without asking customers to share links
• Subscription businesses looking to reward customers for renewals
• Anyone building a loyalty program as a complement to or alternative to a traditional affiliate program

How It Works

Your customers earn store credit just by shopping with you. You add each customer to the program as a collaborator, and when they make a purchase, you or an automation attributes the transaction to them. They earn a flat $5.00 credit per order, regardless of how much they spent.

This approach works well for stores that want to build loyalty without the complexity of referral tracking. There are no links to share, no codes to remember. Customers just buy and earn. The reward amount is the same whether someone places a $20 order or a $200 order, which keeps the program easy to understand and communicate.

Attribution uses a “newest engagement wins” model, but since each customer’s engagement is unique to them, this effectively means each customer earns independently on their own purchases.

{
  "version": 1,
  "name": "Customer Rewards Program",
  "description": "A customer loyalty program. Customers earn a flat $5.00 credit on every purchase.",
  "programs": {
    "rewards": {
      "name": "Customer Rewards",
      "description": "Earn a $5.00 credit every time you make a purchase.",
      "incentiveType": "saleFixedPerTransaction",
      "incentiveResolverType": "newestBindingWins",
      "units": "USD",
      "status": "active",
      "incentiveAmount": 500,
      "engagementTypes": [
        { "type": "manual", "value": 100.0 }
      ],
      "transactionCompilers": ["includeLineItems"]
    }
  }
}