Stamp Me alternative: Rewardfinity vs Stamp Me

This page is written by Rewardfinity

We make one of the two products here, so read it with that in mind. We have not run a paying Stamp Me account; everything about them comes from their public materials and can go stale the moment they ship something. Where we are unsure, the page says so.

We also do not reprint their prices — pricing pages change, and a stale competitor number is worse than none.

Three things they do better:

• Longevity. Their own materials describe years of running digital stamp cards, and a product that old has had its edges worn down by real counters.
• Deliberate narrowness. They do stamp cards, not a marketing suite. If a stamp card is the entire job, fewer options is a feature.
• A no-card trial. Their pricing page describes a 30-day free trial starting when you publish your first stamp card. Check the current plan details before choosing.

More product is not automatically better. If you want a card, a QR code and nothing else this quarter, the simpler tool is the right tool.

Where the two products differ

The Stamp Me column is our reading of their public materials, not a quote. Verify anything that would change your decision.

If you only compare the stamp card

For a plain ten-stamp coffee card, the two feel similar at the counter. Customer scans, count goes up, tenth one is free. Nobody switches platforms over that.

The differences sit at the edges, where staff improvise. Rewardfinity's card sets the required count, stamps per qualifying purchase, a minimum spend, and up to five milestones, so a customer can get something at four as well as ten. Cross the threshold and the remainder carries into the next card rather than evaporating.

Whether that matters depends on your menu. One drink at one price needs no minimum-spend rule; a counter taking a bottle of water and a full lunch does. Our piece on choosing between points and stamp cards names no vendors and is the better start if the mechanic is still open.

What Rewardfinity adds

If you sell online, the Shopify app is live and approved, so a web order and a counter purchase land on one member record. For wiring loyalty into software you already run, the public API uses idempotent writes — a retry after a timeout will not stamp the same customer twice — with HMAC-signed webhooks outbound.

How the two price differently

Rewardfinity new web workspaces include a 60-day no-card software trial, with every module switched on: points and stamp programs, promo codes, spin wheels and QR channel campaigns. In the Shopify app, Shopify bills Grow and Scale, and the three plans differ only in how many discount rewards can be active — 3, 20 or 100. The pricing page has the detail.

What differs structurally is indexing. Rewardfinity prices to local purchasing power across 36 countries, so a shop billing in rupees or naira is not handed a San Francisco number at spot rate. There is no single global sticker — the pricing page shows your economy's price.

Stamp Me's pricing page describes a 30-day no-card trial followed by a paid plan. We will not put their figures in our table, because we cannot promise they stay right next quarter. Open both pages before deciding.

When to switch, and when not to

Reasons to stay put:

• A single stamp card is the whole program and you have no plan to add a second mechanic.
• Your card is live, staff know the script, and customers have progress on it. Migration has a real cost.
• You do not sell online, need no per-staff attribution, and will never call an API.

Reasons a switch is worth costing out:

• You want points and stamps side by side, or a tier that multiplies what regulars earn.
• You sell on Shopify and want one balance across the till and the storefront.
• You want to reward the staff member who signs people up, not only the customer.
• You need to write to the ledger from your own software without double-counting on a retry.
• You bill in a currency where a US-indexed subscription costs more of your revenue than it looks.

If you move, treat existing progress as real value. The section below sets out how, and the one before it covers the alternatives that are not us.

The other alternatives, including the ones that are not us

A page written by one vendor that concludes you should pick that vendor is worth very little. If you are leaving a stamp-card tool, you have five shapes of replacement to choose between, and only one of them is ours. What follows describes the shape of each category from public materials; it does not rank them, and it carries no prices, because competitor prices move without telling us.

The honest reading of that table: four of the five rows are reasons not to choose us. If you are moving for price alone and a card is all you run, another stamp-card-first tool will cost you a weekend and nothing else. We are the answer to a different question — the one where the card itself has become the ceiling. Our comparison index holds the rest, and points versus stamp cards names no vendors at all if the mechanic is still open.

Moving your stamps across without losing the regulars

Customer progress is money you have already promised. A migration that quietly resets it is the fastest way to lose the exact people the program was built for. Six steps, in order.

1. Ask for the export before you cancel anything. An account that has lapsed is a support ticket, not a download. The minimum useful shape is one row per member: an identifier your customers actually have (phone number or email), the current stamp count, and the card definition it counts against.
2. Write down the conversion rule, then check the arithmetic. If your old card was 10 stamps and the new one is 6, a customer sitting at 7 is 70% of the way there, and 70% of 6 is 4.2. Round that up to 5 and you have given away 0.8 of a stamp per member; round it down to 4 and you have taken 0.2 away from someone who did nothing wrong. Round up. On a hundred members that is eighty stamps of goodwill, which is cheaper than eighty conversations at the counter.
3. Import by CSV, on a card you have already tested. Build the new card, run one controlled transaction against your own number, confirm the count moves and the reward fires, and only then import the list. Importing into an untested card means fixing the rule and the data at the same time.
4. Run both for one full cycle. A cycle is however long your average regular takes to fill a card — a fortnight for a daily coffee, longer for a salon. During it, staff stamp the new system and you keep the old export as the reference for any dispute.
5. Retire the old card on a stated date. Put the date on the counter and say it out loud when you stamp. An unannounced switch-off reads as the program ending, even when it has not.
6. Keep the export after you are done. It is the only record of what a member held before the move, and the first disputed balance will arrive weeks later.

Rewardfinity imports members by CSV and records the opening balance as an adjustment in the audit log, so the number a member starts with has a visible origin rather than appearing from nowhere. If you would rather not migrate progress at all, the other defensible option is to honour the old card in paper form until it is full and start everyone at zero on the new one — slower, but nobody loses anything.