rewa as an alternative to Loopy Loyalty
What Loopy Loyalty is and what it does well
Loopy Loyalty digitizes the stamp card as a wallet pass: the customer keeps it in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet without downloading a dedicated app, and the merchant stamps it by scanning from their phone. It is an elegant solution to the download problem, built by PassKit, specialists in wallet passes.
Card design is flexible and setup is fast: to digitize a punch card with the least possible friction on the customer's side, it is among the best in its category.
When to choose Loopy Loyalty
If you want exactly a digital stamp card (same mechanic as the punch card, polished look, no app) and your product is high-frequency with even pricing, Loopy Loyalty solves that well and at a small-business price.
When to choose rewa
The wallet pass removes the download friction, but not the friction at payment time: the customer still has to take out their phone, find the pass and show it with a line behind them. In rewa the identifier is something they know by heart, and the phone can stay in their pocket.
And the mechanic is still the stamp: one visit, one stamp, a fixed prize on completion. If your tickets vary (and in almost every business they do), rewarding the visit instead of the spend is unfair to your best customers. rewa adds points per spend, builds levels and protects your margin with a cap, a frequency and an expiration calculated from your numbers.
Loopy Loyalty and rewa, side by side
| Loopy Loyalty | rewa | |
|---|---|---|
| Type of product | Stamp card in Apple/Google Wallet | Points-and-levels program (on the merchant's side) |
| What the customer does | Keeps the pass and shows it on every purchase | Says their ID at checkout |
| What gets rewarded | The visit: one stamp per purchase | The spend: buy more, earn more points and a better level |
| Purchase history for the merchant | Visits and stamps | Spend, products, frequency and cooling-off per customer |
| Reward | Fixed: the completed card's prize | Smart rewards: a product picked from each customer's history |
| Pricing model | Monthly subscription | Free up to 50 customers; paid plans, cancel anytime |
Frequently asked questions
Isn't the wallet pass enough to remove the friction?
It removes the download, which is half the problem. The other half happens at payment: finding the pass with one hand while the line waits. An ID spoken out loud requires no phone at all, and that is why real participation rates tend to be higher.
Can I have points per spend in Loopy Loyalty?
Its core mechanic is the stamp per visit, with that simplicity as a virtue. If you need the customer who spends twice as much to advance twice as fast, levels with status, or caps that protect your margin, that is rewa's product category.
What do I lose without a visible card on the phone?
A visual reminder, and that is a real loss. rewa compensates where the customer does look: the benefit and the level appear on the receipt of every purchase, and points about to expire are a reason to come back with a date on it.