How RebatePop works, end to end
Everything the short version skipped: the customer journey, the verification rules, every placement, the refund mechanics, and content rights.
From install to a library of licensed UGC
RebatePop runs the whole loop inside Shopify. You set the offer once. Customers do the creating. RebatePop does the verifying and the refunding.
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Pick a product and accept the recommended rebate
5 minutesChoose a product, and RebatePop suggests reward tiers based on its price: a video, a public post, and view milestones. Adjust anything. Set a budget. Choose the content rights you want.
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The offer shows up where buyers decide
Theme app block"Earn up to 60% back" appears on your product page, in cart, on the thank-you page, in a post-purchase email, or on packaging via QR. Every surface is a toggle in your admin.
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Customers create and post
Real buyersBuyers upload a product video, then share it to TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts with the required disclosure. Because RebatePop verifies rather than you, they trust the payout and press record.
- 4
RebatePop verifies and refunds through Shopify
Independent verificationEach milestone is checked against the objective criteria you published, then paid as a partial refund on the original order. No new payout rails, no manual approvals, no over-refunds.
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Content lands in your library, licensed
Licensed UGCApproved videos and their social performance appear in your content library with license terms attached. Filter by product, platform, and rights. Reuse on your site and socials.
Independence is what makes customers press record.
Buyers will not spend twenty minutes filming if they think the brand can refuse to pay. With RebatePop, you define objective requirements up front and RebatePop makes the call. That trust is why participation is high, and it keeps you on the right side of FTC rules on incentivized content.
Objective criteria merchants can require
- Video is at least 30 seconds long
- The purchased product is clearly visible
- Product is shown in use
- Vertical format, original audio
- Spoken commentary describes their actual experience
- Disclosure appears in the caption and on screen
Chosen from a library of measurable requirements. Frozen for each participant the moment they become eligible, so the rules cannot change under them.
Sentiment criteria RebatePop blocks
- "Say that you love it"
- "Leave us a 5-star review"
- "Recommend the product"
- "Say at least three positive things"
- "Tell everyone how much you love it"
The rebate builder warns on and blocks sentiment-conditioned requirements, and every social task carries a mandatory disclosure. Positive, neutral, and critical content all qualify, which is exactly what makes it credible to the people watching.
You never have to adjudicate a customer. Every rejection cites the exact criterion and evidence, appeals go to RebatePop, and everything is audit logged. You can report suspected fraud or a criteria violation at any time.
Claim states everyone can see
“You define the objective requirements and reward. RebatePop handles independent verification and refunds, helping customers trust that their rebate cannot be withheld because of their opinion.”
Put the offer in front of every buyer, without touching your theme
The best moment to recruit a creator is the moment someone buys. RebatePop shows the offer on the product page, in cart, at checkout where allowed, on the thank-you page, in email, and on packaging. Every surface is a toggle.
Show the offer everywhere it matters
Every surface can be enabled, disabled, and styled individually. Storefront impact stays tiny: widget code loads only where an offer exists.
Product page
Theme app block with compact and full layouts. Position it in the theme editor. No fragile theme edits.
Cart
Shows eligible offers attached to the items already in the cart.
Checkout
Checkout UI Extension where the plan allows it. Gracefully omitted elsewhere.
Thank-you & order status
"You can earn up to $X back on this product" with a signed deep link into the claim.
Post-purchase email
Configurable, consent-aware templates that send the customer straight to their claim.
QR / packaging
Printable QR codes for a rebate, a product, or your RebatePop landing page.
Build a rebate in minutes
A step-by-step wizard with recommended defaults seeded from your product price.
- 1 Products
- 2 Eligibility
- 3 Content
- 4 Rewards
- 5 Social milestones
- 6 Content rights
- 7 Budget
- 8 Placements
- 9 Preview
- 10 Publish
An embedded admin that feels like Shopify
- Live rebates, spend, and committed budget at a glance
- Participant progress you can watch but never override
- Content library filtered by product, creator, platform, and license
- Cost per piece of UGC and cost per 1,000 views
- Tier funnel and completion rates per rebate
- Fraud and criteria-violation reporting straight to RebatePop
Built on Shopify's current App Bridge, Polaris, Theme App Extensions, and Checkout UI Extensions. Architected toward Built for Shopify requirements from day one.
Pay for reach only when it actually happens
View-based tiers turn your rebate into performance marketing. A post that goes nowhere costs you the base reward. A post that takes off unlocks more, and RebatePop verifies every view count at the source before a cent moves.
Connected accounts
- Verified
TikTok
@creator · OAuth connected
- Verified
Instagram Reels
@creator · OAuth connected
- Verified
YouTube Shorts
@creator · OAuth connected
Tokens are encrypted at rest and never shown to merchants. If an API is unavailable, a manual verification flow with screenshots and RebatePop review keeps the claim moving.
View thresholds merchants can reward
Polling that respects reality
Frequent right after publication, slower as posts age, stopped when the performance window closes. Every observation is stored so growth can be charted and suspicious spikes flagged.
Disclosure is built in
Every social task carries a mandatory disclosure that merchants cannot disable. Example: “I received a rebate from [Brand] through RebatePop for creating this content. My opinions are my own.”
What RebatePop checks on every post
- Post belongs to the connected, verified account
- Post is public and stays live for the required window
- Publication timestamp and duration recorded
- Required disclosure present in caption and video
- One post cannot be reused across incompatible claims
- Manual evidence path when an API cannot answer
Refunds through Shopify. No escrow, no gift cards, no new payout rails.
RebatePop issues merchant-authorized partial refunds against the customer's original order. The customer keeps the product and sees money back on the card they paid with. No product is restocked.
Refund ledger · Order #1042
USD · integer minor units- 1—
Order placed
Acme Travel Bottle · $100.00 · Reserved $60 of budget
- 2−$15.00
Video approved
Tier 1 · 15% · Refund #r_01 · paid
- 3−$15.00
TikTok post verified
Tier 2 · 15% · Refund #r_02 · paid
- 4−$10.00
1,000 views reached
Tier 3 · 10% · Refund #r_03 · paid
- 5−$20.00
10,000 views reached
Tier 4 · 20% · Refund #r_04 · paid
Total refunded by RebatePop
$60.00 of $100.00
Re-read Shopify before every payout
RebatePop fetches the live order, existing refunds, returns, and Shopify's maximum refundable amount immediately before moving money. Stale numbers in a database are never trusted.
Idempotent by design
Every payout carries an idempotency key. A duplicated webhook, retried job, page reload, or race condition can never produce two refunds for the same reward.
Never over-refund
Each incremental refund is capped against what Shopify can still refund. If the merchant already refunded or the item was returned, no further rebate is issued.
Budget is a liability control
Reserved, earned-but-unpaid, refunded, released, and remaining capacity are tracked separately and locked with database transactions during concurrent checkouts.
Own the content you paid for, on terms creators actually accept
Rights are part of the offer, not fine print. Pick a package once and it attaches to every approved video in your library. Clear terms up front mean more customers participate and you never chase a creator for permission later.
Creator only
No reuse
Merchant can view and verify the submission. Nothing more.
Organic reuse
12 months · non-exclusive
Use on your product pages and your own organic social channels.
Paid advertising
90 days
Run the creative in paid ads. Requires an additional reward and explicit creator acceptance.
Extended paid usage
6 or 12 months
Longer paid-media terms with higher recommended compensation.
Creator-handle whitelisting
Opt-in only
High-sensitivity rights, never included by default, always separately compensated.
Terms are frozen for each accepted claim and expiration dates are tracked automatically. Suggested compensation for extra rights adapts to creator reach over time.
Straight answers
The questions merchants ask before they trust a rebate program with their customers.
Whatever you set. A common structure on a $100 product is $15 for a verified video, $15 more when it is posted publicly, and $10 to $20 more only if it reaches 1,000 or 10,000 views. Rebates are paid from the order as Shopify refunds, and RebatePop charges a small percentage of each rebate successfully processed. There is no monthly fee.
Your next hundred customers are your next hundred creators.
Create your first rebate in minutes. Objective requirements, stacked rewards, independent verification, and refunds through Shopify.