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 the stamp mechanic is enough, Stamp Me does that job well. Its monthly subscription model is affordable for a small store.
When to choose rewa
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. Every step filters out real customers, and the ones you lose most are the ones who use apps least. In rewa the customer says their ID and does nothing else.
The second difference is the mechanic: a stamp treats the customer who spent little and the one who spent a lot exactly the same. rewa adds points per spend, turns points into a level and protects your margin with caps, frequency and expiration. And smart rewards replace the fixed prize of the completed card with a product their history says that customer actually wants.
Stamp Me and rewa, side by side
| Stamp Me | rewa | |
|---|---|---|
| Type of product | Digital stamp card (customer app) | Points-and-levels program (on the merchant's side) |
| What the customer does | Downloads the app, creates an account, scans on each visit | 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 |
| Margin protections | The reward's cost depends on how the card is designed | Per-use cap, frequency and expiration, all configurable |
| Reward | Fixed: the completed card's prize | Smart rewards: a product picked from each customer's history |
| Pricing model | Monthly subscription per location | Free up to 50 customers; paid plans, cancel anytime |
Frequently asked questions
Aren't stamps easier to understand than points?
For the customer, yes, and that is why rewa asks them to understand nothing: they say their ID and see the benefit applied on the receipt when it is their turn. The complexity (levels, caps, expiration) lives on the merchant's side, where it protects your margin.
My customers already use the stamp app. Isn't migrating a step backwards?
Migrating removes a step instead of adding one: they stop needing their phone to earn. What you should do is recognize accumulated progress (start frequent customers at a matching level) so nobody feels they started from zero.
Does rewa have Stamp Me's campaigns and messages?
Not today, and it is not the focus. rewa bets that the reason to return lives in the program itself (points about to expire, the next level within reach) and not in message campaigns. If your strategy depends on push and SMS, Stamp Me does that better.