Loyalty app or wallet stamp card: which suits a small business?
Wallet stamp card or your own loyalty app? Real prices for Loopy, Perkstar, Stamp Me and Square, how notifications work, and when each one wins.
Customer Loyalty
Why Does Your Butcher Shop Need an App? (Just in Time for the Christmas Order Book)
Right, let’s talk about the busiest ten weeks of your year… The Christmas order book is about to land on your counter, the turkey list is filling up, and someone is already asking whether you can do a three-bird roast for a party of fourteen “sometime before the 23rd, is that alright?” If your order…
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How to Increase Footfall to Your Shop (When Everyone Says the High Street Is Dead)
If you run an independent shop, you have probably heard the phrase “the high street is dying” roughly nine thousand times this year. Usually from someone who hasn’t set foot in an actual shop since they discovered next-day delivery in their pyjamas. And yes, the numbers look moody. But here is the bit nobody says…
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How Do I Get Square Customers to Spend More? (Your 2026 Guide)
Here is a fun little maths problem for you. You already take payments through Square. The tap happens, the receipt prints, the customer smiles, and off they go. Lovely. But right there, in that three second window, sits the single biggest missed opportunity in your whole business: you have no idea when they are coming…
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Should Your Business Charge for Loyalty? The Rise of Paid Loyalty Programs
Here is a sentence nobody expected to write in a marketing blog: some of your best customers actually want to pay you before they have bought anything. Not for the coffee. Not for the haircut. For the privilege of being a member – paid loyalty programs. It sounds a bit bonkers, but it is exactly…
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Why Does Nobody Use My Loyalty Program?
Here is a small tragedy that plays out in shops, salons and cafes every single day. A business owner sets up a lovely loyalty scheme, prints the cards, trains the staff, and then they ask ‘Why does nobody use my loyalty program?”. The cards live at the bottom of handbags, glove boxes and washing machine…
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The Rise of The Coffee Shop Subscription App in 2026
Picture your busiest regular. The one who orders the same oat flat white every single morning, knows your barista’s dog’s name, and gets visibly emotional when you run out of the good pastries. Now imagine that customer paying you at the start of every month, whether they turn up 12 times or 30. That is…
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Are Loyalty Card Apps Worth It for Small Businesses in 2026?
Today we are looking at the loyalty card app for small business and why it could be a win for you! But first let’s start with a moment of silence for the humble paper punch card… You know the one: It lived in your customer’s wallet for about nine days before it went through the…
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AppBuild.diy vs Craver: Which One To Place Behind the Counter?
Every café eventually has the same thought: we should have an app. Then comes the fork in the road. Do you hand the whole thing to a done-for-you agency that builds a polished ordering app around your POS? Or do you grab a no-code builder, keep control, start free, and make the app do more…
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AppBuild.diy vs Per Diem: Best Coffee Shop App in 2026?
Picture two coffee shops on the same street. Both want an app. One owner wants a slick ordering screen wired straight into their Square till. The other wants the whole thing – ordering, a loyalty card customers actually keep, push notifications for “double-stamp Friday,” all under their own brand, without a developer or a four-figure…
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