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How a US Travel-Status Service Turns 46% of Referral Rewards into Orders

A US travel-status service has run a referral program with BLOOP since July 2025. 46% of its referral rewards end up used on an order, and the numbers below show how.

of referral rewards used

46%

Jul ’25 to Oct ’26

Friends who ordered again
9%
Friend reward
5% off
Rewards used
46%
Friends who ordered again
9%
Friend reward
5% off

Referral revenue index by month

Month by month, Jul ’25 to Oct ’26

Best month · Apr ’26

100

0 25 50 75 100 Jul ’25: index 11 Aug ’25: index 5 Sep ’25: index 0 Oct ’25: index 4 Nov ’25: index 2 Dec ’25: index 0 Jan ’26: index 0 Feb ’26: index 2 Mar ’26: index 2 Apr ’26: index 100 May ’26: index 0 Jun ’26: index 22 Jul ’26: index 11 Aug ’26: index 23 Sep ’26: index 2 Oct ’26: index 0 (month in progress) Jul ’25Oct ’25Jan ’26Apr ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26
Full month Month in progress (to 2026-10-05) Index: best month = 100
View the index as a table
Monthly referral revenue index for Hotel and airline status, Jul ’25 to Oct ’26, where the best month (Apr ’26) equals 100.
MonthReferral revenue index
Jul ’2511
Aug ’255
Sep ’250
Oct ’254
Nov ’252
Dec ’250
Jan ’260
Feb ’262
Mar ’262
Apr ’26100
May ’260
Jun ’2622
Jul ’2611
Aug ’2623
Sep ’262
Oct ’26 (in progress)0

About the store

The service helps travellers unlock hotel and airline elite status and perks such as upgrades, lounge access and late checkout.

The program

A US travel-status service runs a double-sided referral program in BLOOP, with the first referral orders arriving in July 2025. The customer who refers and the friend they invite each get 5% off.

Results

46% of the friends who received the 5% reward used it on an order.

9% of referred friends came back and placed at least one more order after their first referral purchase.

The chart shows monthly referral revenue as an index, where the best month equals 100.

To keep this merchant’s business data private, the store is not named and results are shown as percentages and indexes only. Percentages are based on orders attributed to BLOOP referrals, excluding cancelled and refunded orders. Figures are current to 5 October 2026.

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