Invite-only Now in Southern California
Let me do you a favor
Send one place you actually go to one person you actually know. When they turn up, the business pays you for the introduction — in cash.
Free to join. Invite-only while we grow.
Coming to iOS and Android.
No subscription, no ads, nothing to upgrade to. I run a business →
Mara sent you this
Cafe Mira
“Ask for the corner table. The lamb is the whole reason to go.”
Your welcome$15 off your first visit
Save this favor
You've already done this. Probably this month.
Your barber. Your plumber. The quaint Italian place you send everybody to. You've been quietly running an advertising channel for a dozen businesses for years, and every one of them got paid for it except you.
Word of mouth already works. It just never paid anybody.
Favor doesn't rank strangers or sell ads. You send one place to one person you actually know. They get a real welcome at the door, and when they spend, the business pays you for the introduction — in cash, not points.
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01 — Send
Pass along a place you actually use
Pick from your own history, add a line about why, send it to one person. No blasting, no public posts.
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02 — Arrive
Their welcome is already waiting
The offer applies when they turn up. No code to remember, no explaining who sent them.
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03 — Get paid
You get paid. They got the corner table.
Their bill is lower than yours was, not higher — the welcome comes off the top and the business covers the introduction. Cash out whenever you want.
One favor, end to end
Watch a favor happen.
Three beats and it's done. Mara sends a place she actually goes, Ben turns up already expected and spends $86, and Mara gets $10 for it. Nobody posted anything.
Mara → Ben
Cafe Mira
“Ask for the corner table. The lamb is the whole reason to go.”
Sent to one personNot a post
she sends a place she actually goes
Ben, at the door
You're expected
“Mara's friend — we kept the corner table for you.”
Your welcome$15 off the first visit
he turns up already welcome
Mara gets paid
Cafe Mira · dinner for two$86.40
Ben's welcome−$15.00
Paid to Mara$10.00
and Mara gets paid for it
Real places, real payouts
Each of these started as one text to one person. Every one of them paid the sender.
Paid once per person, per place.
Inside the app
Send · Receive · Redeem
Do a favor
Who needs a hand?
Search a place you've been…
Sending to Ben Alvarez
Pass it along
That screen is most of the app. You pick a place from your own history, add one line about why, and put the phone away. Everything after that happens in the real world — the welcome at the door, the corner table, and money in your account when it turns into an actual visit.
- Cafe Mira · Jul 24
- $86.40
- Your welcome applied
- −$15.00
- Paid to Mara
- $10.00
You link a card once. That's the whole setup.
Favor pays you when a visit actually happens, so it needs to know one happened. You connect a card when you join, and so does the person you send. After that there's nothing to do. No code at the counter, no screenshot, nobody has to announce who sent them.
We see that a visit happened and roughly what it was worth. That's it — the privacy page spells out exactly what we read.
What it costs
Free to join. Free to use. You just get paid.
There's no paid tier, no subscription and nothing to upgrade to — not now and not later. Businesses pay a fee on visits Favor can actually attribute to a referral, and half of that fee is paid straight to you.
$0
To join, to send a favor, to receive one, and to cash out what you've earned.
No ads
Nobody is bidding for your attention — or for a place in your recommendations. Favor earns on referral fees, not on ad slots.
iPhone and Android
Free on both when they land. Favor only grows by introduction — somebody already in has to put your name forward. That's the same mechanism as the product itself. Leave your email and we'll tell you whether anyone near you can vouch for you yet.
For businesses
Your best regulars are already selling for you.
Set what a new customer is worth to you once. Favor handles the welcome, the tracking and the payout — and every guest arrives with a name attached to them.
- No visit, no fee
- Charged only when a referred guest turns up and spends. Nothing upfront, no ad spend.
- No discount race
- Set a welcome that fits your margins, not a coupon feed.
- Know your advocates
- See exactly who keeps sending people through the door.
- Higher intent
- Referred guests spend more and come back sooner.
- Half is theirs
- Half of the fee goes straight to the member who made the introduction.
“Nobody has ever asked me for a plumber twice. They ask once, and then they tell three other people.”
“Twelve covers last month came from four regulars. I'd have paid double what Favor charges to know that.”
“I sent my sister to my barber and got twenty bucks for it. I'd have done it for free! And that's the point.”
Illustrative. These are the outcomes Favor is built to produce, written up as quotes — not yet statements from named members. We'll swap in real ones from the pilot as they arrive.
The obvious questions
Reasonable doubts, answered.
The three we get asked most. The rest are here — including how attribution works, what happens if a recommendation goes badly, and what we do with your data.
Doesn't paying people ruin the recommendation?
It would, if the money were the point. So we built against that: you can only pass along places you've actually spent money at, and you send to one person rather than broadcasting. And nobody at the table is worse off — your friend's bill is lower than yours was, because the business covers both the welcome and the introduction out of what a new customer is worth to it.
If a recommendation is bought rather than meant, it stops working within about one visit — and the business stops paying for it.
What does it cost me as a member?
Nothing. Favor is free for the people using it. Businesses pay a fee on spend they can actually attribute to a referral, and half of that fee goes to whoever sent the person through the door.
Why invite-only?
Because the whole thing rests on people actually knowing each other. Opening the doors would fill Favor with strangers recommending places to strangers, which is the thing that already exists and already doesn't work. We grow one area at a time, and you get in when somebody already inside can vouch for you.
Somebody you know has the good list.
Free to join, free to use. Favor grows one introduction at a time — leave your email and we'll tell you whether anyone near you can vouch for you yet.