Loyalty cards built for coffee shops

A coffee regular comes three, four or five times a week, often at the same hour, and pays for one drink at a time. That rhythm suits a stamp card better than almost any other trade: the round is short, the reward is concrete, and the customer can see the next free cup getting closer.

Paper cards work until they are lost, washed or left in another jacket. A card in the phone's wallet stays with the person, carries your colours and your name, and changes by itself when your barista adds a stamp.

Set the goal so a regular finishes the card in two or three weeks. The example card here has 8 stamps with a first reward at 4: someone who comes four times a week gets a free pastry in the first week and a free coffee in the second. A reward that is weeks away keeps people coming; one that is months away is forgotten long before it is earned.

To make the first reward feel close, give one or two welcome stamps when someone joins. They start at 1 or 2 out of 8 instead of zero, and the first visit already counts.

The queue at half past eight does not wait. Your barista opens the scanner in Wox Loyalty on the shop phone, points it at the QR on the customer's card and taps the number of stamps. If the camera struggles, they type the short code printed under the QR or the customer's phone number.

Every stamp is logged with the name of the person who gave it. A stamp given to the wrong card can be undone within 30 minutes. If one person buys coffee for the whole office, the maximum stamps per visit you set, from 1 to 10, decides how many one scan can add.

Print the QR from your dashboard and put it by the till, on the menu board or as a sticker on each table. Customers scan it with the phone camera, type their name and, if they like, a phone number, and the card opens in the browser in Georgian or English. One more tap adds it to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. No app, no password, no plastic.