What's the best simple POS loyalty program for a coffee shop?

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

A coffee shop seeks a simple, unit-based loyalty solution on Shopify POS (iPad) for “buy 10 drinks, get 1 free,” with fast lookup by name and no email collection. Speed and ease at checkout are priorities over gathering customer demographics.

Constraints noted: ShopHub’s stamp app looks appealing but appears dollar-spend based (not unit-based), may be UK-focused, and unclear on U.S. and Shopify POS support; an inquiry to ShopHub is pending.

Suggestions offered:

  • Growave: proposes a punch card feature within its Loyalty & Rewards system; includes a 1‑month free trial and option to schedule a call. (Punch card = digital stamp card; unit-based implied, POS support not explicitly stated.)
  • Webplanex Cashback Rewards: claims POS integration and the ability to set up quantity-based reward campaigns; free trial available.

Status: No decision yet; the request remains open. Key open questions: confirmation of ShopHub’s POS and unit-based support, and whether suggested apps allow quick, name-only stamping without requiring email input.

Terminology: POS = point of sale; punch card = digital stamp system; unit-based = rewards by number of items, not dollars spent.

Summarized with AI on February 11. AI used: gpt-5.
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We are a coffee shop that currently offers 1 free drink after the purchase of 10 - doesn’t matter what the value of each drink is. We currently have physical stamp cards but want to move to an electronic way of keeping track, using name only preferably, on our retail counter iPad where we check people out. It needs to be EASY. When someone comes in quick for a simple hot coffee, I need to be able to quick find them in the system and apply their “stamp”. Any suggestions?

I am not currently concerned with gathering demographic info. Just need to quickly move customers in and out. If I have to stop with each customer and ask them to enter their email, it will be too time consuming and a big turn off for customers.

I love the look of ShopHub’s reward stamp app but it doesn’t appear to allow a unit-based reward system, only based on dollars spent. Also it’s UK-based so not sure if it works in US. And most importantly, I don’t see where it can be used on Shopify POS. I have an inquiry into them.

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Hi @currencysales

Building loyalty with your clients is always a good idea in e-commerce. Check out the punch card feature, part of our Loyalty and Rewards system. You can test it for free during 1-month free trial.

In case you need to discuss it personally, feel free to press here

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Hello @currencysales

You can try free trial simple Reward system with POS integration. Webplanex Cashback Rewards.

You can also setup quantity based reward campaign.