The Rewards module in Empower Platform enables an organisation to create simple incentive schemes for cleanup events and similar. It's built in three principles:

Log in to Empower Platform and go to the Rewards module in the left menu (if module activated) and follow the three steps:

Step number one, creating a Token, needs to be completed in order to create Events or Coupons.

First, you create a token for your Incentive scheme. This is your "virtual currency" that the participant will receive when confirming their participation at the event.

Step 1: In the left menu, choose "Tokens". In the Tokens page choose "Create" (image above)

Step 2: First give your token a name that fits your organisation or event (can be anything). Secondly name a prefix, typically a shortening for the token name. And lastly upload an image to illustrate the token. Tip: If you want to add a nice touch, you can use services like flaticon.com. Finally click Save.

Secondly create the Event with the details needed. Many of these details will show for the participants in their Deposit app screen:

Step 1: Create an event title and description. This will also show up for the participants in the Deposit app. Search up your location, and it will automatically show up in the map. Next, scroll down below the map to complete the last details:

Step 2: Here we fill in when the Event starts and ends. The participants will only be able to scan the event QR code within this timeframe, so adjust accordingly to your needs here. The Max number of attendees enables you to limit how many participants can scan the event QR-code and receive reward tokens - potentially also to prevent fraud of reward scans. Finally, you need to add what Token and amount of tokens the participants will receive when participating. See next image.

Step 3: Here we added the CleanupCoin, and have chosen that the participant will receive one token for their participation.

Step 4: All done, scroll back up and click save.

Now we only need to complete the final step with the Coupon, meaning the "digital voucher" the participant can redeem for the Reward you have decided on.

In the example below the event organiser made a deal with the local kiosk at the beach, providing an ice cream for each participant.

Step 1: Click Coupons, and then Create

Step 2: Fill out the Coupon details; Here we fill out any details relevant for the Reward and how the user can redeem it, remarks etc. Note that we also can limit how many Coupons that will be possible to Redeem in total. In this case we chose 200, and then selected the CleanupCoin as the valid Token, with a cost of 1 token to redeem the Reward. When done, click save.

Congratulations - You've now created a complete incentive scheme!

The event QR-code is the only thing you need in order to make the incentive scheme work during the event. So you need to retrieve the code from the Event page:

Step 1: Find your event in the list, and click Edit.

Step 2: In this screen you can already test the QR code, but we recommend clicking the "Print QR code" button to open a higher resolution QR-code image that you either can save digitally or print on a paper (or why not do both to be sure..).

Finally, to report on key metrics for internal use or report to key stakeholders / reward partners etc, it's easy to retrieve:

On the events page list view, we see 0/200, meaning no people participating this event yet out of the 200 cap limitation set.

On the Coupons page list view, we see 0/200, meaning no people have redeemed the reward yet out of the 200 cap limitation set.

See guide for Deposit app (beta) here