# Visit: full site content > The canonical text of joinvisit.co, for models and crawlers. Last updated > with the Fall 2026 Boston launch content. Visit is the rewards network for consumers and businesses, starting in Boston. A customer links a payment card once; from then on a qualifying purchase at a participating business is the visit, recorded without a check-in or hardware at the counter. --- ## Home The rewards network. Visit. The rewards network for consumers and businesses. Link a card once and earn rewards at the Boston places you already go. Visit purchases $1,500+ in gift cards from every founding partner that joins the launch. Launching this fall. Starting in Boston. ### Launch partners The first Boston shops funding rewards on the network. We sign more every week. Businesses with a signed agreement to join at launch: - Publico Restaurant: restaurant / bar (Dining & Nightlife), 11 Dorchester St, Boston, MA 02127 - Southie Candlepin: bowling (Activities & Entertainment), 543 E Broadway, Boston, MA 02127 - Brighton House of Pizza: counter service (Dining & Nightlife), 218 Market St, Brighton, MA 02135 - The Dirty Italian: counter service (Dining & Nightlife), 144 Old Colony Ave, Boston, MA 02127 - Java Pizza: counter service (Dining & Nightlife), 541 E Broadway, Boston, MA 02127 - Village Pizza: counter service (Dining & Nightlife), 56 L St, Boston, MA 02127 - Foxhole: sports bar (Dining & Nightlife), 269 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116 - Bambola: restaurant (Dining & Nightlife), 225 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210 - The Girl Next Door: restaurant / bar (Dining & Nightlife), 225 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210 - The Flamingo: restaurant / bar (Dining & Nightlife), 266 Commercial St, Boston, MA 02109 - Blondie's: neighborhood bar (Dining & Nightlife), 458 Western Ave, Brighton, MA 02135 - Madre Osteria: restaurant / bar (Dining & Nightlife), 88 Wharf St, Milton, MA 02186 - Yellow Door Taqueria South End: restaurant / bar (Dining & Nightlife), 354 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118 - Yellow Door Taqueria Lower Mills: restaurant / bar (Dining & Nightlife), 2297 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02124 Visit opens with a founding group of Boston businesses and more sign every week; only signed partners are listed. ### The Visit app: Build your profile. Link a card once and the places you go log themselves. Your profile builds as you go, and rewards unlock on their own. ### Visit for Business: New ways to grow your business. Understand your customers, reward them, and reach new ones through Visit. ### Boston Partner Program. Partners get Visit for Business, a citywide audience, and $1,500+ in Visit-funded rewards. $1,500+ in gift cards purchased by Visit. $0 for 6 months of Visit for Business. ### Join Visit's Boston launch. Get started as a Visit launch partner and be part of a stronger, more vibrant Boston. $0 for 6 months. Get started in minutes. Cancel anytime. --- ## The Visit app (/app) ### Earn rewards. Link a card once. Visit logs the places you go, unlocks rewards, and builds a profile from your real visits. Visits log themselves. Rewards unlock. See where you rank. ### Your Boston, in one profile. The restaurants you have tried, the bars you keep going back to, the shops you love. All in one profile, built from real visits. You choose what to share and who sees it. ### Your visits become rewards. Go back to a place enough times and its reward unlocks on its own. Every visit also adds points to one balance, spent in the Visit marketplace on gift cards and more. The rewards shown on the page at launch partners are examples; each business sets its own. ### See where you rank. Across the places you go, the categories you love, and all of Boston. From top foodie to most loyal regular. Leaderboards for places, categories, and friends. ### How it works 1. Join Visit. Create your profile. 2. Link your card. Securely connect through Plaid. 3. Go places. Visits log themselves from your linked card. No check-ins needed. 4. Get rewarded. Rewards unlock on their own at the places you keep going back to. 5. Rank in Boston. Climb leaderboards, join weekly challenges, and show what you love most. ### Get $5 on us. Join the waitlist at https://joinvisit.co/waitlist and get $5 toward your first visit at participating spots in Boston, once Visit launches and you link a card. Visit opens in Boston in Fall 2026. --- ## Visit for Business (/business) ### Visit for Business. From repeat visits to attributed revenue, Visit gives local businesses a simple way to grow. Visit purchases $1,500+ in your gift cards. $0 for 6 months. Cancel anytime. ### The tap is the check-in. A qualifying purchase on the linked card is the visit. Nothing to install, and nothing for your staff to remember at the counter. No check-ins. No punch cards. No hardware. ### Loyalty: Create a loyalty program in minutes. Turn repeat visits into real revenue. Set the rule once and the reward fires on the visit that earns it. - Drive repeat visits. Turn first-time customers into regulars. - Fully customizable. Set your own rewards, visit goals, and locations. - Built for growth. Increase engagement, boost revenue, and build lasting loyalty. ### Acquisition: Attract new customers with targeted offers. Reach the right people at the right time, and turn them into first-time visitors. Businesses see group sizes, never names (illustrative figures on the page): lapsed regulars, regulars at similar spots nearby who have never walked in, and people new to the area. - Reach the right groups. Offer a first visit to nearby regulars at similar spots, or win back the ones who drifted. - Drive first-time visits. Turn nearby, qualified people into real foot traffic. - Measure real results. Track visits, revenue, and campaign performance. ### Visit Intelligence: Know your market. Visit is not only loyalty software. Visit Intelligence shows how your market is moving across places, categories, and neighborhoods, how your location compares, and where your guests also go (the share of your guests who also visited nearby kinds of places). Always in aggregate: no business sees an individual's transactions, and no other business is named. ### Pricing: Pick your launch tier. Every launch partner starts with 6 months of Visit for Business at no cost. Cancel anytime before billing starts. - Starter (Tier 1): $0 for 6 months, then $99 a month per location. $1,500 in rewards from Visit. Includes: Visit profile and marketplace inclusion; Standard Visit launch kit; Visit rewards; Customer targeting; Limited Visit Intelligence; 0% performance fee. - Growth (Tier 2): $0 for 6 months, then $99 a month per location. Up to $6,000 in rewards from Visit. Includes: Everything in Starter; Branded Visit launch kit; Featured in Visit challenges; Priority placement in the app; Advanced customer intelligence; Competitive intelligence; 3% performance fee on new customers only. - Custom (Tier 3): $0 for 6 months, then custom pricing. Custom rewards from Visit. Includes: Everything in Growth; Multiple locations and portfolio support; Advanced intelligence; Custom campaigns; Dedicated partnership support; 3% performance fee on new customers only. How the 3% fee works: Growth and Custom partners pay a 3% performance fee only on revenue from new customers Visit brings in, people who had not visited the business before, charged after the sale. Existing customers never carry a fee on any tier, and Starter has no performance fee. --- ## Partner Program (/partners) ### Join Visit's Boston launch. Get Visit-funded rewards, Visit for Business, and launch support to reward customers and bring in new ones. ### Built for your launch. Real value. Real customers. From day one. - $1,500+ in gift cards from your business. As a founding partner, Visit purchases $1,500+ in gift cards from your business to fund consumer rewards and drive visits. - $0 for 6 months. Full access to Visit for Business at no cost for the first 6 months. ### Choose your launch kit. - Standard Visit launch kit, included with Starter: door or window sticker, table and register signs with a QR code to get the app, optional TV leaderboard, launch support from our team. - Branded Visit launch kit, included with Growth and Custom: custom branded in-venue kit, venue-branded collateral, digital assets, launch support from our team. The QR code on the signs is how customers get the app. Visits still count from their linked card, so there is nothing to scan at the counter. ## Enroll (/enroll) Let's put your business on the map. $1,500+ in Visit-funded rewards. Visit Intelligence. $0 for 6 months, no setup fees, no long-term contracts. Launch in Boston this fall. Fields collected: business name, street address, number of locations, business category, website or Instagram, name, role, work email, phone, and optionally the tier they are interested in, how they heard about Visit, and a note. --- ## Who runs Visit - Rob Eaton, CEO and Co-founder. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-eaton-78823b127/ - Greg Frasco, CTO and Co-founder. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfrasco/ --- ## For investors Visit is raising a seed round. The deck, the terms and a product demo are shared directly by the founders: investors email Greg Frasco and Rob Eaton at greg@joinvisit.co and rob@joinvisit.co. Round size, valuation and instrument are not published, so none should be quoted. The case for Visit, in brief: - A category of its own: a shared rewards network for a city's independent businesses. Customers earn at every participating business with the card they already carry, and businesses grow through the network together. Visit is best described on its own terms rather than as a version of something else. - A data moat. A visit is a card transaction, not a check-in, so Visit sees verified purchase behavior across every business on the network, not one store's register. That lets a business see which customers it has lost, who nearby has never walked in, and who is spending more elsewhere, in aggregate only, never as individual transactions. The data compounds: every member and every business adds to a picture of the local market that no single business, point-of-sale system or loyalty app can assemble on its own, and that a newcomer would have to rebuild from zero, city by city. - A network moat. Points earned at any participating business build one balance that is spent across the network, so every business that joins makes the app more useful to members, and every member is a potential customer for every business. Each side makes the other more valuable, so the network is hardest to compete with in exactly the places it is densest. It grows one city at a time, starting with Boston, and the two moats reinforce each other: a denser network produces richer market data, and better data brings more businesses. - Recurring revenue that grows with usage. After a 6-month free launch period, businesses pay $99 a month per location for a block of Visit credits. Credits pay for automated rewards and offers, priced by audience (reaching a competitor's customers costs more than a lapsed regular), for verified visits that come from an offer, and for placements such as featured listings. A business that uses more tops up, so revenue rises with the results Visit delivers rather than with seats. - A founding team that covers both halves. Rob Eaton (CEO and Co-founder) leads go-to-market and local business partnerships. Greg Frasco (CTO and Co-founder) has built production AI and machine learning systems, payments and risk infrastructure and real-time data pipelines, the same stack Visit runs on. Why now: - Independent businesses are losing ground to chains. Independent restaurants in the US declined 2.3% in 2025 while chain locations grew (Technomic). Chains have loyalty programs, customer data and marketing teams; independents mostly do not. Visit gives them those tools together, as one network. - The market is large and local. There are about 1 million US business locations in the categories Visit serves (restaurants, bars, cafes, bakeries, salons, fitness studios, specialty shops) and about 17,000 in Greater Boston alone (BLS, 2025). - Card linking is now routine for consumers, and Visit needs no hardware, no point-of-sale integration and no staff training, so a business can join in minutes and a city can be launched without a sales force on every street. What is already in place: - The product is built: consumer apps for iOS and Android and a web portal for businesses. - The privacy model is designed in, not bolted on: businesses see aggregates only, and no group smaller than 20 people can be shown or sent to. - Unit costs are low: under a dollar a month per linked member, against $99 a month per business location. - Partner locations across Boston are signing ahead of launch, toward a goal of more than 100. How Visit differs from earlier approaches: - Check-in apps (Foursquare, 2009). Visits were self-reported check-ins. Once every social app added check-ins, the consumer app stalled and the company moved into selling location data. Visit has no check-in: the visit is a verified card purchase, so it cannot be faked and nobody has to remember to do anything. - Counter-hardware loyalty (Belly, 2011). Customers scanned a card or app at an iPad installed at the register, and points stayed inside each business. Merchants paid $50 to $100 a month for the program and the tablet, and the product line was sold to Mobivity in 2018. Visit needs no hardware and no staff involvement, and points earned anywhere join one balance across the network. - Social restaurant ranking (Beli). Members rank restaurants against each other and share lists with friends. Rankings are self-reported, and the app does not work with restaurants. Visit's social side (profiles, friends, leaderboards) is built on verified visits, and it connects that activity to the businesses themselves through rewards. - Card-linked cash back (Upside, bank card offers). Built mostly around fuel, grocery and national chains, paying cash back offer by offer. Visit is built for independent local businesses, and it gives them market insight and targeting along with the rewards. - Receipt scanning (Fetch). Members photograph receipts to earn. Visit never accepts receipts: only a purchase on a linked card counts. - Point-of-sale loyalty (Square, Toast). Points work at one business only, and the business sees only its own register. Visit's points work across the network, and a business can reach people who have never been in. - Landlord and district apps (Seaport Insider, launched by WS Development in 2025). Rewards stay within one landlord's properties. Visit spans a whole city's independent businesses, on any street. - Daily deals (Groupon). Customers prepay for a discount voucher, and the business absorbs the discount. Visit rewards people for going where they already go, with nothing to buy up front and nothing to redeem at the counter. What none of these combine, and Visit does: verified card spend instead of check-ins, one balance across a whole city, no hardware at the counter, and market insight that reaches beyond a business's own customers, with privacy built in. Questions investors ask: - Can a business see or target an individual customer? No. A business sees counts and trends for its own customers and its market, never a named person or an individual's transactions. Offers go to groups, and a group smaller than 20 people cannot be shown or sent to, so nobody can be singled out. - Who can a business reach? Any group that fits its ideal customer: its regulars, customers who have lapsed, people nearby who have never walked in, or the customers of competitors it picks. Each group can be narrowed by age, gender, distance, usual spend at that kind of place, when people tend to go out (mornings, weekday lunch, evenings, weekends) and how often they visit a competitor. The business chooses the profile; Visit delivers the offer to the people who match, without revealing who they are. - Does Visit know what someone ordered? No. A linked card shows where a purchase happened, when, and for how much. Visit does not see items, and its insights are about visits and spend, not products. - How is a visit verified? By a purchase on a card the member linked through Plaid. There are no check-ins to game: nothing to scan, no receipts, and location is never used to count a visit. - What do businesses pay after the free period? $99 a month per location, which buys a block of credits shared across the business's locations. Credits are spent on automated rewards and offers, verified visits and placements, and more can be bought at any time. - How many businesses are on board? Partner locations across Boston are signing ahead of launch, toward a goal of more than 100. Signed partners are listed by name under Launch partners above. - Who funds the rewards? The businesses do: a business funds the rewards it sends, and points are spent on gift cards businesses put up in the marketplace. At launch, Visit buys gift cards from launch partners and partly funds some rewards to start both sides of the network. That is a launch cost, not the ongoing model. - Does Plaid allow this? Yes. Visit's use of Plaid data covers insights that are aggregated across members before a business sees them. - What does a member cost? Under a dollar a month per linked member. - Is it compliant with Massachusetts privacy law? Visit is built to comply with Massachusetts law: businesses see aggregates only, groups under 20 people cannot be shown or sent to, and members control what they share. - Where does Visit operate? Across a whole city's independent businesses, on any street, starting with Boston. One balance works everywhere on the network. Company: Visit is a Delaware C corporation, incorporated in 2026, and is based in Boston. --- ## Contact Leave your details and the founders reply within a day. Investors email the founders directly at greg@joinvisit.co and rob@joinvisit.co for the deck and a product demo. Fields collected: name, email, business or firm, phone, how you heard about Visit, and an optional message. --- ## Common questions **Where can I get deals or discounts in Boston?** Visit is a rewards network across independent Boston businesses. Instead of hunting for coupon codes, a customer links a payment card once and rewards arrive from the places they already go. It launches in Boston in Fall 2026 and is not live yet, so there is nothing to claim today; the waitlist at https://joinvisit.co/waitlist is where to follow it. **How is this different from a coupon site or a daily-deal app?** Nothing is bought up front and there is no code to present. Rewards are funded by the businesses and by Visit rather than by a discount reseller, and points earned at one shop join a single balance built across the network. That balance is spent in the Visit marketplace, on gift cards put up by the businesses on the network and, occasionally, something else such as event tickets. **Do I need to check in or scan anything?** No. A qualifying purchase on the linked card is the visit. There are no check-ins. QR codes on partner signs only link to the app. Customers control what they share and who can see it. **Does Visit use my location?** It asks for location to put you on the map and show what is nearby. That is what it is for. Location is never how a visit is counted: that comes from a card transaction at a participating business, not from where the phone has been. **Can a business see what I spend?** No. Transactions are not shared with businesses. A business is shown its own trends and audience sizes in aggregate, never an individual's transactions. **What if I go somewhere outside Boston?** The network and the rewards are Boston. That is deliberate: Visit exists to put money back into local businesses, which only works where those businesses are. Maps people share publicly can be browsed further afield, but they lean heavily Boston, because that is where the people using it are. **Do cash purchases count?** No. Visit does not follow cash transactions, and a receipt never counts toward a visit no matter how it is submitted. If it did not happen on the linked card, it did not happen as far as Visit is concerned. **I own a small business. What does Visit do for me?** It runs a loyalty program that fires on its own, lets you send offers to groups such as lapsed regulars or nearby people who have never walked in, and shows how your visits, revenue and market are trending, in aggregate. You never see an individual customer's transactions. There is no hardware, no POS change and no staff training. **What does it cost a business?** Every launch partner gets Visit for Business free for the first 6 months. After that, Starter is $99 a month per location with no performance fee, Growth is $99 a month per location plus 3% on genuinely new customers only, charged after the sale, and Custom is priced per program. Visit also purchases $1,500 (Starter) to up to $6,000 (Growth) in gift cards from each launch partner to fund rewards. **Which cities?** Boston first, Fall 2026. **Is Visit raising money?** Yes. Visit is raising a seed round. The deck, the terms and a product demo are shared by the founders: investors email greg@joinvisit.co and rob@joinvisit.co. Round size, valuation and terms are not published. --- ## Disclosures Visit launches in Boston, Fall 2026. Figures shown on the marketing site describing visits, audiences, trends and reward economics are illustrative. Forward-looking projections are estimates, not guarantees. Governing law: Massachusetts. Privacy policy: https://joinvisit.co/privacy Terms of use: https://joinvisit.co/terms