Level Up Your City, One Receipt at a Time!
Edmonton's latest social impact game that rewards you for supporting local businesses.
What Is Co-Owners?
Co-Owners is a social impact game that challenges you to pick local businesses and help them rise to the top. Buy a virtual badge, then prove your pick by rallying friends and uploading receipts—every visit boosts your business’s points and shows how much your support matters. Can you turn your favorite spot into a local legend?
- Purchase a Badge: Exchange points for virtual badge in one of our listed local businesses.
- Raise Business Profile: Every time you or someone you invite uploads a receipt for your chosen business, its point total goes up—directly increasing the value of your badge when you decide to re-sell your badge back into our marketplace.
- Exchange with the market: As your badge value builds, list your badge(s) at a higher point value. When another member buys it, you capture the difference in points.
- Redeem Points for Rewards: Accumulated points can be redeemed for gift certificates and discounts at participating local businesses—turning points into real-world value.
How It Works
Simple, engaging, and impactful.
1. Purchase a Badge
Find a local business or businesses you want to support, buy a badge(s) of those local businesses. Your points begin at this initial value.
2. Upload Receipts
Every receipt you—or your friends/family—upload for that business converts to more points, boosting its total valuation.
3. Sell & Earn
As points accumulate, list your badge on the marketplace. Sell at the higher point value to capture your gains.
Like a Community Garden Game
Think of Community Owners like a community garden game. Every badge you obtain from a business is like planting a seed in a shared plot of community land.
Each receipt uploaded is like watering that plot. Anyone can water any plot, but those who have seeds planted there are usually more motivated to keep watering.
The more seeds everyone plants, the more vibrant that plot grows. As the plants mature, some members may choose to keep watering and nurturing their plot, while others can transfer their share in the plot for points. These points can then be redeemed for rewards at local businesses.
Just like a community garden, it’s not only about individual plants but how they all work together to create a thriving ecosystem. Here, the plot represents a business, and the community garden is your local city.
It’s a fun way to help your city maintain a unique local identity as the community grows stronger together — and everyone benefits by sharing the harvest.
When we travel to a new city, most of us seek out the local gems—the cafés, shops, and experiences we can’t find back home. In fact, a 2023 Expedia survey found that 81% of travelers say discovering unique local businesses is the highlight of their trip.
By supporting local, you’re not just playing a game—you’re helping make your own city the kind of place visitors (and locals) want to explore.
Participating Businesses
Community Members
Receipts Uploaded
Featured Businesses
These local favorites are already on Community Owners.
