Best stamp card replacement apps for small businesses (2026)

Replacing the stamp card means first choosing between two things: keeping the stamp (one visit, one stamp) or moving to points (the amount paid sets the number of points). Then deciding what the customer has to install: nothing, a pass in the Wallet, or an app. Here are four tools, sorted along those two axes. The facts come from the products' own websites, read in September 2026.

To keep the stamp without an app: Loopy Loyalty

The card becomes a pass in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet; the customer joins by QR code or link and installs nothing. Staff stamp with a dedicated app. Real-time analytics, multiple locations, automated messages. Pricing not shown on the homepage, fifteen-day trial.

The right choice if you want the least possible friction and stamps suit you.

To start free: FaveCard

A free plan with no limit on customers or stamps, with a card in the browser; paid plans (listed between 25 and 49 dollars a month) add the Wallet pass, a kiosk mode where the customer stamps themselves, Google review requests and automations.

The right choice if you want to try with no commitment.

For a device at the counter: Stamp Me

A member code in an app or in the Wallet, and several ways to stamp: staff scan, tap-and-go device, single-use codes. Notifications, SMS, analytics. Available in more than fifty countries; pricing not shown, thirty-day trial.

The right choice if you prefer a physical gesture at the counter and an established brand.

To move to points, with a network: Badger

Badger drops the stamp: points are credited on the amount paid, by scanning a code from the app or the Wallet, or straight from a Lightspeed till. You set the rewards and their thresholds. Messages send themselves: a reward getting close, a Google review request after the second visit, posts shown to customers in the neighbourhood. Above all, in French-speaking Switzerland your customers often already have the app for the shop next door: you appear on their map from day one, without waiting for a first volume of visits.

The right choice if you are in French-speaking Switzerland and your basket varies enough for the amount to matter.

What does not change, whatever the tool

Honour paper cards in progress for a month. Give the team one sentence, not a training session. Put the install QR code on a small stand at the counter, not on a poster. And measure: who comes back, how often, and what a regular spends compared with a passer-by. A tool that does not tell you that has only replaced the cardboard.

In French-speaking Switzerland, book a twenty-minute Badger demo to see what it would look like with your prices.