Loyalty & Members · Receipts & Orders
Reward the purchases you'd otherwise never see — a paper receipt, an Amazon order, a TikTok Shop order — with AI vision reading the receipt and official APIs verifying the order. Real spend earns real points; fraud and duplicates don't.
The problem
A paper receipt is proof of a purchase your loyalty program never recorded — and it walks out the door.
AI-generated fake receipts spiked in 2025. Honor-system points reward whoever games the form fastest.
Amazon and TikTok Shop hold the order and the relationship. Without verification, those buyers are strangers to you.
How it works
Receipt OCR runs on GPT-4o Vision behind a provider-agnostic adapter — with a JSON repair pass and a 180-second budget tuned for large phone photos. Every stage is fraud-checked before any point is written.
Every receipt carries an image hash; a re-submitted photo can't double-claim.
Only zero validation errors AND a program-set confidence threshold auto-award. Everything else goes to review.
If the Redis cap tracker is unreachable, the award is withheld and routed to review — never silently granted.
An atomic pending→processing claim means a worker and the reaper can never double-process one receipt.
Failures are typed, not string-sniffed: a ocr_failure_class column drives retryability, and a reaper recovers orphaned or exhausted rows.
Marketplace orders
A member submits an Amazon or TikTok Shop order number. Flash verifies it through the official channel API — Amazon SP-API and the TikTok Shop API — pulling a privacy-minimal order snapshot only (amount, status, date). The connectors deliberately never request buyer name, email or address.
Real verification calls
Amazon SP-API (LWA OAuth) and TikTok Shop API (HMAC-signed, rotating token) — implemented, not stubbed.
Zero-PII snapshots
Only amount, status and order date are fetched, so data-protection exposure on the connector is nil.
One order model
Receipts, Shopify and marketplace orders all converge on the same flash_orders record and points helper.
In the current release, a verified-OK channel order routes to a reviewer queue before any points are awarded — there is no auto-approval. We'd rather be conservative on day one than auto-credit a spoofed order.
Planned (M2)
Receipt OCR auto-approval, by contrast, is live today — gated on confidence and zero validation errors.
Why it's different
Receipt-aggregator apps capture purchase data for themselves; the member belongs to the aggregator, not your brand. Flash's receipt OCR is merchant-owned by design — the verified purchase and the member feed your loyalty program, with verification built to resist the 2025 fake-receipt wave.
Typical approach
Receipt-aggregator apps
Capture purchase data into their graph; the member is theirs, not yours.
Flash, by design
Merchant-owned OCR — the verified purchase and member belong to your brand.
Typical approach
Honor-system points
Trust whatever the form says; easy to game with fabricated receipts.
Flash, by design
Image-hash dedup, confidence gates and official-API order checks verify the spend.
Typical approach
On-site-only loyalty
Only counts actions on one storefront.
Flash, by design
Earns from in-store receipts, Shopify and marketplace — real spend across channels.
AI & innovation
Where the category rewards self-reported activity, Flash rewards verified purchases — and uses AI where it earns its place: reading a crumpled receipt no rules engine could parse.
Structured merchant, totals, tax and line items from a phone photo — with a confidence score that gates auto-approval.
A ReceiptOcrAdapter interface means a different vision model could be swapped in without touching the pipeline.
A repair pass re-asks the model to fix malformed output before giving up — so messy receipts still resolve.
Spend you couldn't see becomes verified, owned membership — and your most-rewarded customers are genuinely your best.
GPT-4o Vision
reads receipts in production, JSON-repaired
SHA-256
image dedup blocks duplicate claims
Official APIs
Amazon & TikTok orders verified, not guessed
Bring a receipt and a marketplace order number — watch Flash read, verify, and award, with every fraud guard in the loop.
