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Banking and financial services loyalty software

Open Loyalty is an API-first engine for building loyalty programs across banking, fintech, and payments – rewarding the full customer relationship, not just a single product, to increase engagement, product ownership, and share of wallet.
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Loyalty one-stop-shop

Your extended Loyalty Success Team that understands finance challenges

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Single point of contact ensuring fast and smooth support and execution
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Hands-on loyalty experts actively working on your loyalty program success
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Seamless integrations to
all systems – eCommerce, CDP, CRM, and more
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Your success plan

We maximize your program success by working hands-on with you – before and after going live

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The gamification engine to build loyalty between renewals

Grow share of wallet

Turn single-product customers into full-relationship customers

Combine points from bill payments, card spend, referrals, and salary transfers into one reward system, so every product a customer holds is centralized and easy to manage.

Customers who feel recognized this way hold more products and shift more of their spending to you, turning a single account into a full relationship.

Reduce implementation risk

Add loyalty and gamification without new technical or compliance risk

Plug into core banking systems, SSO, LDAP, and existing mobile apps through the API, so your team extends what's already live instead of replacing it.

Bring in a vendor that already clears your risk team's bar: ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, GDPR compliant, and independently security-tested, so vendor review doesn't slow the rollout.

Maximize reward ROI

Stop paying for rewards nobody notices – neither the customer nor the CFO

Replace points that quietly expire with cashback or flexible redemption members actually use, so reward spend converts into visible loyalty instead of breakage.

Track redemption from day one, and shift spend away from a mechanic nobody engages with toward one that drives measurable activity.

Need to implement loyalty software for banking or fintech?

Open Loyalty's loyalty engine helps you reward the full customer relationship, close the recognition gap, and launch without disrupting your core stack.

Drive engagement frequency

Turn a protocolar annual touchpoint into engaging daily interactions

Reward logins, streaks, good financial habits, and quick two-minute quizzes between the moments that used to bring people back: a credit check, a statement, a bill.

More frequent visits mean more chances to cross-sell, collect data, and build the habit that keeps members from drifting to a competitor's app.

Reduce customer churn

Stop relying on switching costs to keep customers, and give them reasons to stay

Recognize everyday activity, like logins, bill payments, and savings milestones, with visible, real-time rewards instead of a once-a-year statement credit.

Give customers a reason to stay because they feel valued, not just because moving accounts is a hassle, so retention holds even when a competitor's offer looks better.

Support every segment

Serve and upsell to every customer segment from one, single program

Offer cashback, points, or crypto payouts side by side, so one program can serve traditional savers and crypto-curious customers without running two systems.

Add new payout mechanics as your product line expands, instead of building a new rewards program every time you launch a new asset class or payment method.

Frequently asked questions

What is a loyalty program for banks and financial institutions?

A structured way to reward the financial behaviors that matter most, like maintaining a balance, using a card regularly, or referring a new customer, so engagement earns a measurable business return instead of stopping at a signup bonus.

It works differently from retail loyalty because financial interactions happen far less often, so recognition has to be tied to account activity, not checkout visits.

How can banks increase customer retention and reduce churn?

By recognizing a customer's full relationship, deposits, cards, loans, referrals, in one program instead of rewarding each product separately, and by making that recognition visible and immediate rather than relying on it being inconvenient to switch providers.

Institutions that do this tend to see customers hold more products and shift more of their spending their way.

Do points-based rewards work for fintech and buy-now-pay-later apps?

Not consistently. Points that quietly expire or go unredeemed create little perceived value for the customer and little return for the program budget.

Cashback and other immediately usable rewards tend to perform better, and loyalty status itself isn't always the main driver of increased spend on flexible payment products, so the stronger case is fixing engagement and perceived value rather than expecting a direct spend lift.

How does gamification improve engagement for low-frequency financial products?

By rewarding everyday actions, like logins, streaks, or short quizzes, in between the moments that would otherwise be the only reason to open the app: a statement, a bill, an annual review.

That turns an occasional habit into a more frequent one and creates more natural moments to cross-sell or collect data.

How does a loyalty platform integrate with existing banking or fintech systems?

A modern loyalty engine should be API-first, connecting to core banking systems, single sign-on, and existing mobile apps without requiring a rebuild of what's already live.

That keeps implementation timelines short and avoids reopening a security or compliance review your team has already been through.

Choose reliability and minimize risk with a proven vendor

120 ms
avg API response time
99.99%
guaranteed uptime
75M
transactions/year
1B
loyalty events/month

Sleep well with rock-solid security and scalability

See what customers say about working with us

2x
Buyer frequency
"We used Open Loyalty pre-built modules, applied the loyalty mechanics via API to our tech stack and focused fully on the customer experience."
Fritze von Berswordt
Fritze von Berswordt
Managing Director, EQUIVA
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3 months
For global omnichannel
"The Open Loyalty customer loyalty program software allows us a lot of flexibility in building these dynamics and delivering a strong experience for our consumers."
Thomas Archer Bata, Aldo
Thomas Archer Bata
ALDO Group
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72%
Points redemption rate
"Open Loyalty is an excellent choice because of the wide range of loyalty and gamification mechanics it offers, along with resources that help you understand how to use these features in your loyalty program."
Chadi Al Abbassy, Raqtan
Chadi Al Abbassy
Loyalty & Partnerships Manager at Raqtan Group
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60 mln+
Points issued
"We loved what the API had to offer as we knew it was going to be a code integration, as well as some of the out-of-the-box features. We are extremely happy with the usability."
Nicole Kusi
Nicole Kusi
Product Manager, United States Soccer Federation
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Customer loyalty know-how

Leverage resources from Open Loyalty’s gamification and loyalty experts to start smooth and move in the right direction