Abstract: A reward system and method including a card issuing institution that issues debit or credit cards to cardholders. Each cardholder has a cash back account set up by the institution and a cash back program rewards its cardholders with a cash value dependent on the cardholder's usage of the credit or debit card and depositing the cash value in the cardholder's cash back account. The institution provides the identity of a provider of goods or services to a user and each cardholder has online access to the provider so that the cardholder can purchase goods or services from the provider upon accumulation of a predetermined amount of cash in the cardholder's cash back program. The institution provides an online clearing program for receiving sales information from the provider when a purchase is made by a cardholder and debiting the cardholder's cash with the amount of the sales information.

Abstract: A system and method for redeeming coupons including a base station providing a user redeemable coupon account for a user and a redeemable coupon feeding provider server coupled to the base station for delivering a redeemable coupon to the base station and into the account of the user. When the user presents a redeemable coupon for purchase of a product or service at a point of sale, such as a retailer, wholesaler or on-line merchant after verification by said base station that said coupon is associated with said retailer, wholesaler or on-line merchant and after verification by said retailer, wholesaler or on-line merchant that said coupon is associated with said purchase, the redeemed coupon is sent from said retailer, wholesaler or on-line merchant to the base station. Any suitable mobile-type payment, such as a debit or credit card, a Google wallet, a Visa Mobile payment, etc. may be used. The debit or credit card may be a prepaid card, a co-branded card, etc.