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What is Smart Rewards?

A quick introduction to Smart Rewards in your Grateful app - earning points for the things your employer recognises, and spending them where you choose.

Smart Rewards is the part of your Grateful app where you earn points for the things your employer wants to recognise, and spend them on things you'll use.

Prefer to watch? Here's Mason's five-minute walkthrough of the app: Watch the video overview

How it works

  1. Your employer sets the ways to earn. That might be completing a training course, reaching two years' service or keeping a shift streak going. Each one is called an incentive, and they're all listed on the Earn tab.

  2. Points are paid automatically. When you hit the mark, the points go into your balance. There's nothing to claim.

  3. You choose when to spend them. Move points onto your Square gift card and use it at any of your employer's venues.

What's in the app

The tabs along the bottom of the screen, left to right:

  • Home (house icon) - your balance this month in pounds, the last six months, and where it came from

  • Earn (flame icon) - your points balance, your streak, every live incentive under Ways to Earn, and your history

  • Shop (bag icon) - gift cards from thousands of retailers, with cashback when you spend your own money

  • Your employer's tab (bank icon, with your employer's name) - where your Square gift card lives. Top it up with points and show the QR code at the till

  • More (⋮) - your documents, your profile and support

Points and cashback

Two things build up in the app, and they're kept separate:

  • Points - earned from incentives. You redeem them by moving them onto your Square gift card, then spending the card at your employer's venues

  • Cashback - earned when you spend your own money on gift cards in the Shop. Shown in pounds

Both show their value in pounds, and Home adds them together so you can see what you've earned on top of your pay.

Cashback on top

The Shop works with your own money. Buy a gift card for somewhere you'd shop anyway and a percentage comes back to you as cashback, in pounds. Redeeming points in the Shop isn't available yet.


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Need help?

If your question is about an incentive or how many points something pays, ask your manager - they set the ways to earn. If it's about the app itself, tap More (⋮) then Support and message us.

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