Invite-only Now in Irvine
Let me do you a favor
Send the places you love to the people you know — and get thanked when they go.
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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
Word of mouth already works. It just never paid anybody.
Favor doesn't rank strangers or sell ads. It carries a single recommendation between two people who know each other, and splits the value with both of them when it turns into real business.
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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
They show up already welcome
The business knows who sent them and greets them with something real — a course, a discount, a slot that week.
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03 — Thanks
You get thanked, quietly
When they spend, a cut comes back to you. Never announced, never the reason you sent it.
One favor, end to end
Watch a favor happen.
Three beats and it's done. Mara passes along a place she actually goes, Ben turns up already expected, and the thank-you finds its way back to her. 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
That's a favor returned
Cafe Mira · dinner for two$86.40
Ben's welcome−$15.00
Mara's thank-you$10.00
and the thank-you finds its way back
Real places, vouched for
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 a quiet thank-you when it turns into an actual visit.
- Cafe Mira · Jul 24
- $86.40
- Your welcome applied
- −$15.00
- Mara's thank-you
- $10.00
What it costs
Free to download. Free to use. Free to get paid.
There's no paid tier, no subscription and nothing to upgrade to — not now and not later. Businesses pay a transaction fee on visits Favor can actually attribute to a referral, and most of that fee is the thank-you that comes back to you.
$0
To join, to send a favor, to receive one, and to cash out a thank-you.
No ads
There's nothing to sell, so nobody is bidding for your attention — or for a place in your recommendations.
No visit, no fee
A business is charged only when a referred guest actually turns up and spends something.
Mostly yours
The majority of what a business pays is the thank-you paid to whoever made the introduction.
iPhone and Android
Free on both. The app is a free download; joining is invite-only while we grow city by city, so you'll need somebody already inside to vouch for you — leave your email and we'll find who that is.
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 thank-you — and every guest arrives with a name attached to them.
- No ad spend
- A flat cut of real, attributed spend. Nothing upfront.
- 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.
“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 agent and got a hundred bucks for it. I'd have done it for free — that's the point.”
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, you send to one person rather than broadcasting, and the thank-you is never shown to the person receiving the favor. They see your words. You get thanked afterwards, quietly.
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 cut of spend they can actually attribute to a referral, and a majority of that cut 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 city at a time, and you get in when somebody already inside can vouch for you.
Somebody you know has the good list.
Favor is invite-only while we grow city by city. Leave your number and we'll find who can vouch for you.