Companies Using Rise.ai

Rise.ai is the odd one out in Loyalty & Rewards. It doesn't sell points. It sells gift cards and store credit, and its site pitches loyalty as "Skip the Points". Our October 2026 crawl finds it on 4,262 live domains, 6th of 51 in the category. A domain counts when its pages load Rise's storefront script from strn.rise-ai.com or set the settings object that script creates. The script address carries the store's Shopify name, so I could test installs directly: of 300 random stores, 295 got their Rise settings back and 5 got an error, the sign of an app that's no longer installed. On 100 random homepages, 94 loaded Rise (two of them behind a store password), 3 showed no Rise code and 3 didn't load at all.

Stores, not just domains

Because the store name is in the script address, this page can count stores as well as domains. The 3,514 domains where we could read it belong to 2,551 stores. 562 stores sit on more than one domain: CurlMix on 19, Wacoal on 13, Sama Eyewear and Zipster on 12, AllHeart on 11. Closed shops barely register, with 28 domains, 0.67%, carrying Shopify's closed-store, error or password title.

Sales signal: dedupe by store, not by domain. About one domain in four on this list is an extra address for a store that's already on it.

Reading the chart

The chart reads 3,486 domains in June 2026, 4,194 in July, 4,201 in August, 4,123 in September and 4,262 in October. The jump into July isn't a rush of installs. The set of domains we crawl turns over every month, with closed stores dropping out and new ones added, and our detection widened over the same months. Since July the line has moved within 139 domains. Exits are clearer. Since March 2026, 1,037 domains have dropped Rise on at least one hostname, and 154 of those still ran it on another when I checked. Bokksu is a good example of why that needs care: it's on Rise's case-study page, our records show it dropping, and its homepage loaded Rise again when I opened it in October.

"Rise is the loyalty app for brands that already have a customer list. Half its companies were founded in the 2010s and only 11.92% this decade." - Elif Arslan, CMO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: treat Rise as a stable pool of about 4,200 domains, and fewer stores than that. Seven months of exits, with hostname flicker in them, is too short to sell against a churn story.

Bigger, older, more American

Of the 1,896 companies we matched, 1,182 are American, nearly ten for every British one, where BON Loyalty's profile shows about three. They're bigger: 55.06% have 1 to 10 staff and 31.24% have 11 to 50, against 74.21% at the smallest band on Smile's profile. They're older: 11.92% were founded in the 2020s, against 31.54% on BON's. The names show it. New Era, Eddie Bauer, KEEN, Bauer and Pure Fishing all run Rise on their main stores, and Rise matches 45.14% of its domains to a company page, against 32% for BON. Two brands on Rise's own case-study page, Milk Bar and ICON Meals, are live in our crawl.

Sales signal: more of these are brands with an ecommerce team than on BON's or Joy's lists. At those, expect a retention or CRM lead to own the decision, and expect them to compare vendors.

Credit beside points

The comparison table sets Rise against four points apps, which isn't like for like, and the overlap shows stores using both. 274 Rise domains run Smile today, out of 403 ever seen with both. 247 run Yotpo Loyalty & Referrals (360 ever) and 91 run LoyaltyLion (143 ever). Yotpo even lists a Rise.ai integration that pays review rewards as store credit. With most pairs still running both, our switching tests publish no corridor for Rise.

"Of the 403 domains we've seen with Rise and Smile, 274 still run both. Most of those stores added a credit wallet next to points rather than picking one." - Elif Arslan, CMO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: for a points vendor, a Rise store is a cross-sell, not a takeover. For Rise, the 48,800 Smile domains are the obvious place to look for brands that have points but no store credit.

Klaviyo, reviews and returns

The 4,200 Rise domains we analysed run a fuller stack than most loyalty apps' stores. Klaviyo is on 61.81%, roughly double its rate on BON Loyalty's or Joy's domains. Yotpo Reviews (14.95%) and Okendo (7.86%) show more stores paying for reviews. The post-purchase apps line up with Rise's refund-to-credit pitch: in our crawl 578 Rise domains run Gorgias, 385 run Recharge, 214 run Loop Returns and 213 run Redo.

Sales signal: Rise stores already pay for several retention tools. Pitch an integration with Klaviyo or the returns app they use, not a replacement for what they have.

What it costs

The Shopify App Store lists Rise.ai as the developer, launched on 17 December 2014, rated 4.7 from 765 reviews. There is no free plan. Starter costs $19.99 a month for 100 orders, Small-Business $59.99 for 400 and Pro $199.99 for 2,000, with extra orders at $0.20, $0.15 or $0.10 each and a 7-day trial on each. Rise's pricing page shows the annual rates ($16.99, $47.99 and $159.99 a month) plus Premium at $479.99 for 12,000 orders. Rise announced it was joining Wix on 6 May 2021 and added a Square app in January 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

Sales signal: per-order fees on top of the plan make a big season expensive. Brands near the 400 or 2,000-order line are the ones re-reading their bill.

Key takeaways

1. 4,262 live domains, 6th of 51 in Loyalty & Rewards; the 3,514 we could trace belong to 2,551 stores.

2. A store credit and gift card app; where it meets a points app, the two usually run side by side.

3. American and established: 1,182 of 1,896 matched companies in the US, 11.92% founded in the 2020s.

4. Klaviyo on 61.81% of Rise domains, plus Gorgias, Recharge and returns apps.

5. 295 of 300 sampled stores answered as installed.

How to use this list

Filter to US stores with 11 to 200 staff, then dedupe by store. For the full list of 4,262 Rise.ai domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io. Our Shopify market analysis covers the wider base of stores these apps sell into.