Program Funded
Pay out rewards to cardholders from your own reserve balance for sign up bonuses, referrals, MCCs, merchants and more.
Rewards
Use our card-linked rewards or build your own rewards program, with a built-in calculation and disbursement engine.
Rewards Features
Hydrogen standardizes, analyzes, and cleanses millions of pieces of data, making robust rewards features easy to add for any banking, prepaid, or debit card program.
Merchant Funded
We have partnered with 100+ national brands that offer fully subsidized rewards. We orchestrate and disburse the rewards to cardholders.
Card Linked
All rewards matching, calculations, and disbursements are automatically linked to card transactions, with zero manual input needed!
Automated Disbursements
Our rewards engine is 100% set it and forget it. Once calculated, all funds are automatically disbursed to cardholders via P2C, RTP, or ACH.
Spending Boosts
Automatically reward cardholders when they meet spending criteria. The more they spend, the more interchange you earn!
Custom Periods
Set rewards payouts on a monthly, quarterly, or annual schedule. Want users to only qualify in the initial period? You can do that too.
Thresholds
Set thresholds with max dollar payouts. Thresholds can be set with either a tiered or absolute structure, with multiple levels.
Merchant Loyalty
Our engine allows you to reward purchases at local merchants using their Merchant ID (MID) or national merchants with only their name.
Instant Bonuses
Instantly disburse bonuses to users when they create an account. You can also disburse bonuses at the end of a defined period.
Balance Incentives
Incentivize larger balances on your cards with rewards payouts based on average balances over a defined period.
MCCs & Categories
Add rules for Merchant Category Codes (MCCs), or for more granular and user-friendly attribution, use our own proprietary categories.
Data Cleansing
All transactions are automatically put through our data cleansing engine to help attribute them to the correct merchant or category.
Business Intelligence
On our portal, you can view detailed data and analytics on pending and earned rewards, including merchant spending.
Custom Merchant Reporting
Run analytics reports by MCC or merchant name to build your own relationships with merchants outside of Hydrogen.
Pending Tracking
Use our portal to track and audit pending rewards. Cardholders can also track pending rewards through our no-code apps.
Referral Bonuses
Automatically configure and disburse bonuses to users or partners for successful referrals, with built-in referral links.
Embeddable No-Code UI
Embed no-code UI components on both web and mobile apps, to display pending and earned rewards to cardholders.
Notifications
Configure white labeled SMS and email alerts that can be sent to cardholders for any earned bonuses and rewards.
Fee Reimbursements Coming Soon
Automatically reimburse cardholders for foreign transaction, ATM, card replacement, and other miscellaneous fees.
Rewards Points Coming Soon
Assign point values to dollars, allowing cardholders to accrue and redeem points based on your own custom rules.
Orchestrated No-Codes
Not only do we have a rewards engine, but we also provide all of the UI you need to launch a world-class rewards program, in only a few days! You can configure and deploy UI on the Hydrogen portal, with no-coding. Change logos, colors, fonts, and images. Our UI will show both pending and disbursed rewards.
Rewards Use Cases
Hydrogen supports use cases that fit the business models of companies that want to fund their own rewards and/or utilize third-party merchant funded programs.
Program Funded Bonuses
Companies use Hydrogen's engine to push sign up, spending, and threshold-based bonuses automatically to users.
Program Funded Merchants
Companies use Hydrogen's engine to push their own national, MCC category, or hyper-local sourced rewards to users.
Merchant Funded Card-Linked
Companies use Hydrogen's card-linked offers from 100+ national merchants to push rewards at no cost.
Merchant Funded Affiliate
Companies use Hydrogen's affiliate offers from hundreds of merchants to push time-limited online offers.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of rewards networks does Hydrogen offer?
Hydrogen integrates with card-linked rewards networks, meaning dozens of merchants pay for rewards when users swipe at their stores.
Are the card-linked rewards white labeled?
Yes! All of our no-code UI is white labeled and can be configured on our portal.
Are any third-party rewards vendor costs included in the price?
Yes! All costs are bundled.
Does Hydrogen handle the disbursements of the rewards?
Yes! All disbursements are completely automated by Hydrogen at no extra cost.
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