Rewa as an alternative to Stamp Me
What Stamp Me is and what it does well
Stamp Me is one of the best-known digital stamp card apps: your customer downloads the app, scans a stamp on each visit and gets the reward when the card is complete. It adds campaigns, coupons and messages to bring people back.
It is a faithful digitization of the punch card, with its advantages (the customer sees their progress, you see who participates) and with the same old mechanic: it rewards the visit, not the spend.
When to choose Stamp Me
If you sell one high-frequency star product, your customers adopt apps without friction, and campaigns and coupons are central to your strategy, Stamp Me does that job well. Its monthly subscription model is affordable for a single location.
When to choose Rewa
Rewa is also a digital stamp card, so this is a direct comparison. The difference starts at the counter: Stamp Me asks your customer to download an app, create an account and scan with their phone in hand. In Rewa the customer scans the QR code at your counter once, confirms their email with a 6-digit code and saves the card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. From then on they show the pass and the cashier scans it. If they came without their phone, the cashier finds them by phone number.
The second difference is the rule. In Rewa stamps can be earned per visit or every time the customer spends a set amount, so someone who spends twice as much can move faster than someone who just had a coffee. And if your ticket size varies a lot, you can use points instead of stamps: each purchase earns by amount and the customer spends them on a rewards menu you put together.
Stamp Me and Rewa, side by side
| Stamp Me | Rewa | |
|---|---|---|
| Type of product | Digital stamp card (customer app) | Stamp card or points card in the phone's wallet |
| What the customer does | Downloads the app, creates an account, scans on each visit | Signs up once with the QR code and shows the Apple or Google Wallet pass |
| What gets rewarded | The visit: one stamp per purchase | Stamps per visit or per amount spent; or points by purchase amount |
| Margin protections | The reward's cost depends on how the card is designed | With points: each reward has a set cost, discounts have a cap and batches expire |
| Reward | Fixed: the completed card's prize | With stamps, the full card's prize (item or discount); with points, a rewards menu |
| Customer messages | Campaigns, coupons and messages | A pass notification with each stamp; reminders and promotions to the pass on Pro |
| Pricing model | Monthly subscription per location | Basic USD 39 or Pro USD 79 a month; 14-day trial, cancel anytime |
Frequently asked questions
Aren't stamps easier to understand than points?
For the customer, yes, and that is why Rewa offers stamps just like Stamp Me. Points are there for the store where ticket size varies a lot and one stamp per visit treats everyone the same. You use one mechanic at a time, so your customer sees a single card.
My customers already use the stamp app. Isn't migrating a step backwards?
Migrating takes the app away: the card moves to the wallet already on their phone. What you should do is recognize the progress they had, for example by handing the reward to customers who were close to a full card, so nobody feels they started from zero.
Does Rewa have Stamp Me's campaigns and messages?
Partly. The wallet pass gets a lock-screen notification with every stamp, and on the Pro plan you can send reminders and promotions to the pass: to your whole base, to customers who have not come in for a while, to those with a birthday, or to customers you pick by hand. There are no coupons and no SMS. If your strategy depends on those, Stamp Me is more complete on that front.