A referral engine where every dollar buys a real visit.

How the economics work

You set one number: the reward — a fixed dollar amount the referrer earns for a verified customer visit. A platform fee is added on top (15% of the reward on the free plan, $1 minimum), so your all-in cost per verified customer is always visible before you launch: a $10 reward costs you $11.50 per visit, all told. No per-click costs, no charges you didn't choose. You fund a prepaid campaign wallet, and every verified visit draws exactly one reward plus its fee from it.

Because the wallet is prepaid, your spend is capped by design. A campaign can only activate when the wallet covers the next verified visit, and it pauses itself the moment the balance falls short.

These are starting points — there's no minimum, and you can change your reward as you learn what a new customer is worth to you.

Who gets to refer you

Referrals only come from people who have saved your restaurant as one of their Flavorites. That single rule changes the character of the program: recommendations come from genuine fans with their name attached, not anonymous coupon sites. On top of that, you choose the audience per campaign:

• All fans — the default. Anyone who Flavorited your restaurant can refer it.
• Minimum follower count — limit referrals to fans with real reach.
• Private list — run an invite-only campaign for specific regulars, local creators, or friends of the house.

Who counts as a rewardable customer

By default, any referred customer qualifies — great when you want more traffic, period. If you'd rather pay only for growth, enable first-time-only mode: a customer earns a reward only on their first verified Flavorites visit to your restaurant, once ever. You can also require a minimum order subtotal, entered by your staff at verification, before a visit qualifies. Either way, one reward per table or receipt, the customer and referrer must be different people, and your own employees can never earn rewards at your restaurant.

Verification is physical, not digital

Digital ad networks count clicks. Flavorites counts customers. The referred customer arrives with a one-time QR code — tied to your restaurant, valid for 7 days. Your owner or authorized staff scans it in Flavorites Business and enters the order subtotal. Nothing is verified unless someone on your team, in your restaurant, says so.

The money flow, honestly

1. Fund: you top up your campaign wallet by card through secure Stripe checkout ($100 minimum).
2. Reserve: when a visit is verified, the reward and its fee are immediately reserved from your wallet.
3. Pending: the reward stays pending for a 72-hour dispute window. You can dispute anything that looks wrong before money moves.
4. Release: after the window, the referrer's reward becomes available and the platform fee is settled.
5. Payout: Flavorites pays referrers in weekly batches through Stripe Connect, including tax reporting support. You never handle payouts.

Behind the scenes, every single balance change — funding, reservation, release, payout — is recorded as a balanced double-entry ledger transaction. Your wallet history is a complete, auditable record.

What the program deliberately is not

• No discounts: your menu prices are untouched; the reward goes to the referrer, not off the bill.
• No POS integration: nothing to install, nothing to reconfigure at the register.
• No checkout changes: customers pay you exactly as they always have.
• No percentage commissions on orders: a fixed reward means predictable cost per customer, whatever they order.

Program defaults at a glance