For small businesses
The loyalty program for small business that skips the enterprise overhead
You don't need a custom app, a POS integration or a CRM project. You need a card your customers actually carry, a stamping routine that takes two seconds, and three numbers that tell you if it's working. That's Stampit.
- No app for customers
- Set up in 15 minutes
- Free trial
Why loyalty feels harder than it should
Enterprise tools, chain-store assumptions
Most loyalty platforms are built for brands with fifty locations, an IT department and a CRM budget. For a shop with two staff, the demos alone cost more time than the program will ever save.
Paper is invisible
A paper card tells you nothing after it leaves the counter. You can't see how many are out there, who is one visit from a reward, or whether the whole thing changes anyone's behavior.
You are the marketing department
Between opening, ordering stock and closing the till, there is no slot in your day for campaign dashboards. A loyalty program either runs itself or it quietly dies.
How it works — with the team you already have
No hardware, no integration project. Just phones and a QR code.
Set up your card once
Pick your logo, colors, stamp icon and reward in the Stampit dashboard. A working loyalty card takes about 15 minutes — no developers, no POS changes.
Customers scan a QR code
A small stand at the counter. One scan and your card lands in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet — no app download, no sign-up form, no email address to collect.
Staff stamp in one tap
Your team scans the customer's pass with the Stampit Partners app or taps phones via NFC. Every team member has their own login, so every stamp is traceable.
The two rules that make any loyalty card work
Rule one: the reward should be reachable in 4–8 typical visits. Rule two: it should be worth roughly 5–10% of what the customer spends to earn it. Take a coffee shop as the simplest case — 10 stamps at a 4 € drink means 40 € spent for a 4 € reward, exactly 10%, and a three-a-week regular finishes in about three weeks.
The same math scales to any counter. A 15 € lunch spot might run 8 stamps for a free main; a 40 € service business might run 5 visits for a 15 € discount. Plug in your average ticket and visit cadence, and the two rules give you the card — no consultant required.
Behavioral research backs the design: the goal-gradient studies (Kivetz, Urminsky & Zheng, 2006) found café customers speed up as the reward gets closer, and Nunes & Drèze (2006) showed cards that start with visible progress get completed far more often. Stampit lets you start every new card with a stamp already given.
You can change the card length, reward and earn rate any time in the dashboard — every card updates itself in your customers' wallets.
Everything a small business needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Lives in the wallet app
Apple Wallet and Google Wallet — the same place as boarding passes. Always in the phone your customer is already holding at the counter.
No app, no sign-up
Customers join by scanning a QR code. No download, no account, no form — the barrier to joining is one scan.
Three numbers to watch
Cards issued, active cards, rewards redeemed. If issued grows, active holds and redemption sits in the healthy 20–40% band, your program works. It's all in one dashboard.
Messages on the card itself
New opening hours? A seasonal offer? Push an update straight onto the pass in your customers' wallets — no email list, no newsletter tool.
Shows up near your shop
Location-aware passes can surface on the lock screen when a card holder walks by — a quiet reminder at exactly the right moment.
Grows with your locations
Open a second shop and the same card works there too. Stamps add up across locations, and the dashboard shows each one separately.
Questions small businesses ask us
Do my customers need to install an app?
No. The loyalty card is a pass in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, the same place as boarding passes and event tickets. Customers add it by scanning a QR code in a few taps. An optional Stampit app exists for customers who want all their cards in one place, but it is never required.
I'm not technical — can I really set this up myself?
Yes. Setup is a self-serve wizard at partners.stampit.app: pick your logo, colors, stamp icon, card length and reward, print a QR stand for the counter, and you're live in about 15 minutes. No developers, no POS integration, no hardware beyond the phones your staff already have.
Does Stampit work for my kind of business?
If your customers come back — cafés, restaurants, salons, barbershops, bakeries, fitness studios, retail shops — a stamp card fits. The variables are just your average ticket and visit frequency; the 4–8 visits and 5–10% reward-value rules translate the same design to any vertical.
How do I stop staff or customers from cheating the card?
Stamps can only be given through the Stampit Partners app, and every team member has their own login, so each stamp is traceable to a person, a time and a location. Customers can't self-stamp a wallet pass the way they can forge a rubber stamp on paper.
How do I know if the program is actually working?
Watch three numbers in the dashboard: cards issued (are people joining?), active cards (are they coming back?), and rewards redeemed (are they finishing?). As a rule of thumb, a redemption rate of 20–40% is healthy — much lower means the reward is too far away, much higher means it may be too generous.
What does it cost?
Stampit starts with a free trial, and plans scale with your business — see the pricing page for current tiers. There is no long-term contract and no per-stamp fee.
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Create your digital stamp card today — free trial, no app required, no IT project. Live before your next customer walks in.