For City Districts, BIDs & Main Streets

Bring every local business into
one connected city experience.

Spread footfall, reward local participation and show traders, boards and councils exactly how much value the district creates for each business.

The District Challenge

You promote the whole district,
but every trader still fights alone.

BIDs, downtown associations and Main Streets are expected to support a varied membership. Yet footfall clusters around anchor venues, local campaigns are hard to coordinate, and renewal conversations lack business-by-business evidence.

Footfall is uneven

Busy corners and anchor venues win attention while side streets and smaller traders are overlooked.

Businesses market alone

Members run disconnected offers and campaigns instead of benefiting from one shared local audience.

Membership value is hard to prove

Broad district reach does not show each trader the visits, reviews, content and referrals created for them.

Customer relationships leave the street

Marketplaces and social platforms keep the data, forcing businesses to keep paying for local attention.

The Shared Opportunity

One district program.
A reason to visit every member.

Loop gives the organising body one engagement platform and every participating business its own profile, tasks, rewards and customer activity. People earn for discovering, reviewing, sharing, answering and referring across the district.

The district coordinates the network. Traders keep their own identity and customer relationships. Locals and visitors get one rewarding way to explore.
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Built for City Districts, BIDs & Main Streets

Turn local participation into
value for every trader.

A district Digital Passport is the full Loop platform—not just a stamp trail. Lead with engagement that helps businesses, then use routes and check-ins to guide discovery where they add value.

Visitor Content

Reward photos and social posts that showcase local businesses and keep marketing the district.

Reviews

Prompt and reward reviews for the traders, venues and experiences people visit.

Quizzes & Surveys

Collect useful local insight while making campaigns more interactive and rewarding.

Local Tips & Stories

Share the people, products and stories that make the district worth exploring.

Referrals

Reward locals and visitors who bring friends into the district and its businesses.

District & Trader Rewards

Combine shared incentives with offers chosen by individual businesses.

Business Profiles

Give every trader its own discoverable profile, tasks, rewards and customer activity.

Shared Campaigns

Coordinate seasonal, event and quiet-period campaigns across participating members.

Member Coordination

Bring traders into one program without flattening their brands or customer relationships.

Business Value Reporting

Show each member the visits, reviews, content, referrals and activity they received.

Discovery Maps

Help people find businesses beyond the anchors and busiest streets.

Trails & Routes

Create themed journeys that distribute discovery across the district.

Digital Stamps

Add collectable progress for campaigns where repeat stops make sense.

QR Check-ins

Make joining and in-street participation simple without requiring an app.

Value That Compounds

Every local action creates
value the district can share.

A local content engine

Rights-approved photos, posts and reviews continually showcase the district and its traders.

Footfall beyond the anchors

Shared campaigns give people reasons to explore more streets and participating businesses.

Relationships traders can keep

Businesses gain customer activity and insights through their own place in the network.

Evidence of membership value

The organising body can report district-wide results and outcomes for each individual trader.

For Every Member Business

A shared district program,
with direct value for each trader.

Businesses do not become anonymous pins in a district map. Each member receives its own presence, practical tools and a clear account of what the network delivered.

More discoverability

A dedicated profile helps people find the business, its story, offers and reasons to visit.

Incremental footfall

District campaigns and rewards turn shared promotion into measurable visits at participating traders.

Content and reviews

Customer tasks generate authentic photos, posts and reviews connected to the business.

Its own tasks and rewards

Traders can create relevant offers and actions while joining broader district campaigns.

Customer insight

Each business can understand activity around its profile, tasks, rewards and returning customers.

Proof of value

Show the visits, engagement, content and referrals generated for that member—not just district totals.

For the District Team

Bring the network together.
Make every outcome visible.

One admin layer gives BIDs, downtown associations and Main Streets a live view of the district, with evidence for members, boards, councils and funders.

Full district visibility

See activity across every member business, campaign and customer contribution in one place.

Campaign coordination

Launch district-wide initiatives while traders contribute their own tasks, stories and rewards.

Cross-visitation insights

Understand how people move between businesses, streets and precinct experiences.

Campaign analytics

Track participation, reviews, content, referrals and performance across the district.

Value per trader

Break outcomes down business by business so each member sees what its participation produced.

Board and funder reporting

Turn live activity into credible reporting for renewals, levy value and economic-development outcomes.

How It Works

From member businesses
to one measurable district network.

Launch a shared program that strengthens each trader rather than hiding them behind the district brand.

1

Bring traders into the network

Give every member a profile, dashboard, tasks and rewards inside the shared district passport.

2

Launch local engagement

Run reviews, photo competitions, quizzes, surveys, referrals, offers and seasonal campaigns.

3

People participate across businesses

Locals and visitors discover more traders, contribute useful content and earn in one connected experience.

4

Report value back to members

See district-wide outcomes and show each trader the visits, reviews, content and engagement created for them.

Turn your district into one connected Digital Passport

Connect traders through business profiles, visitor content, reviews, quizzes, referrals, shared campaigns and rewards—then prove the value created for every member.

What Participation Produces

Per member, per quarter.

~8 in 10

Active every 30 days

~1 in 4

Arrive via referral

~1 in 4

Create content each quarter

5–25×

Less cost to retain than acquire

Harvard Business Review

Industry research

+11%

Revenue lift from a 1-point rise in review score, with no drop in volume

Cornell — Anderson
~10×

Conversion for visitor UGC versus brand-made content; 83% trust it more than ads

Emplifi
+16%

Lifetime value, plus 37% retention for referred customers versus non-referred

Journal of Marketing / HBR

+12–18%

Spend for active loyalty members versus non-members; about 39% more per basket

Industry benchmarks

Top-row figures are observed rates from live Loop deployment. Rates, not projections — results vary with reward design and category.

Traditional Loyalty vs Loop

See how Loop compareswith traditional loyalty.

How participation changes what loyalty produces for your business.

Traditional loyalty
Loop
Rewards

Spending only

Visits, reviews, referrals, content and spend

Customer content

None

Photos, reels and reviews, every week

Referral growth

Rare

Built into the mechanic

First-party data

Minimal

Who they are, where from, what they want

Opens when

They're about to buy

Any time, which is where the data comes from

Reach

Your customers only

Yours, plus everyone in the network

Setup

App, hardware, integration

A QR code. Live in minutes

What our customers say

"Our in-house team loved it and found it super easy to use — which on a busy Saturday night is exactly what you want to hear!"

V
Dominique PortetWinery & Cellar Door

"The partner network turned our loyalty program into a local ecosystem. Our members discover the cheese shop, theirs discover us — we both win."

Y
Yarra Valley PassRegional Tourism Board

"Members come back to tick off more stops and tell their friends. It's the cheapest, most authentic marketing we've ever run."

R
Riverside CollectiveHospitality group

City district and BID questions, answered

A trader can be added with its profile, tasks and rewards, then participate in district-wide campaigns. You can begin with anchor businesses and expand the network over time.

Yes. Each trader has its own presence, customer activity, tasks and rewards while benefiting from the shared district passport and audience.

Reporting can break down visits, reviews, content, referrals and engagement business by business, alongside the district-wide view.

The organisation funds one shared engagement platform instead of every member buying disconnected tools, with reporting designed to support renewal and stakeholder conversations.

No. People join through a QR code or link and use the passport in their browser. Businesses do not need new hardware to get started.

Bring your district together.
Show every business the value.

Connect traders, spread footfall and give members, boards and councils a measurable reason to support the network.