Blue Light Card is the UK’s leading rewards service, supporting millions of people across the NHS, emergency services, social care, armed forces and teaching community. It helps those who spend their working lives supporting others access meaningful savings on everyday purchases.
Challenge:
Blue Light Card needed to remove unnecessary steps from the Shopping Cards journey, creating a faster experience that would increase engagement.
Solution:
Blue Light Card embedded the complete Shopping Cards experience directly within its app, powered by Tillo’s API infrastructure.
Result:
Reducing the journey from 15 clicks to just three improved conversion, increased repeat usage and made everyday savings easier to access.
A simpler route to everyday savings
Blue Light Card and Tillo shared an ambition to make everyday spending go further for the people who dedicate their lives to helping others. The opportunity was to remove friction from how members accessed Shopping Cards, creating a faster and more intuitive journey that could deliver meaningful savings in the everyday moments that matter.
Powered by Tillo’s API infrastructure, Blue Light Card embedded its complete Shopping Cards experience directly within its app. Members can now select a retailer, choose how much they want to spend and complete their purchase without leaving the trusted Blue Light Card environment.
Once purchased, digital gift cards are delivered instantly and stored securely within the member’s account, ready to use whenever needed. The streamlined three-click journey removes unnecessary steps, makes savings easier to access and creates a more natural experience for members.
Whether members are buying groceries before a night shift, grabbing a coffee between emergency callouts or saving on family essentials, Shopping Cards provide a simple way to make everyday spending go further.
The entire journey takes place within the Blue Light Card app, with digital gift cards delivered instantly and stored securely for future use. What feels effortless to the member is supported by Tillo’s flexible API infrastructure behind the scenes.
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Technology is critical to how we deliver real value to our members at scale. By bringing the entire Shopping Cards experience into our app, in partnership with Tillo, we’ve taken the friction out of everyday spend and given frontline workers a faster, simpler way to make their money go further.
Tarun Gidoomal
Chief Commercial Officer
This is a great example of what happens when you put the user experience first. Blue Light Card has created something that feels simple on the surface but is powered by deep, flexible infrastructure behind the scenes. Bringing everything into one place removes friction, speeds up the journey and creates a more natural experience for members—and we’re proud to power it.
Alex Preece
CEO & Co-founder
Partnership impact
What Blue Light Card and Tillo achieved together
By combining Blue Light Card’s trusted member experience with Tillo’s flexible API infrastructure, the partnership has created a faster route to everyday savings and driven rapid growth in Shopping Cards engagement.
86% YoY growth
Shopping Cards performance accelerated following the launch of the embedded experience.
88% more orders
Orders increased significantly year on year following the streamlined journey.
86% more transacting members
More Blue Light Card members are actively purchasing Shopping Cards.
12,000+ new users every week
Thousands of new users now engage with Shopping Cards each week.
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