Loyalty Program Analysis and Open Source Audit Techniques: Lessons from ACHIVX
Loyalty programs are now one of the most widely used revenue tools in e-commerce and retail. Industry reports such as Bond’s Loyalty Report and consulting work from McKinsey, BCG, and others indicate that consumers in the United States held around 17.9 loyalty memberships on average in 2023, up from 14.8 in 2019. In Canada the number is close to 15, while in Europe it is roughly 9. Similar numbers and commentary can be found via sources like https://www.mckinsey.com , https://www.bcg.com and https://www.bondbrandloyalty.com . This means that a typical customer is not choosing whether to join a loyalty program in general; they are deciding whether your specific program is worth their attention compared to many others. From the business side, the core question is no longer “do we need a program?” but rather “does our program create incremental, profitable behavior, and can we prove it in numbers?” The goal of this article is to show how to quantify that impact and how to audit i...