Digital Stamp Cards (Overview)

Summary

Key Features

Use Cases

Prerequisites

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Summary

Digital Stamp Cards unlock next-level customer loyalty and engagement for hospitality businesses.  Inspired by the familiar punch card, it offers a seamless, mobile-based experience that drives repeat visits and boosts customer satisfaction. 

After downloading the brand's app, customers simply scan their loyalty card to automatically earn virtual stamps with every sale made across all purchasing platforms (POS, web, app and kiosk).  These stamps unlock unique rewards, turning loyalty into a dynamic, gamified experience that keeps customers coming back for more.

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Key Features

The key features of Digital Stamp Cards include:

  • Effortless Stamp Collection: automatically awards stamps for every qualifying purchase, eliminating the need for physical cards and manual tracking.

  • Mobile-First Design: customers can effortlessly track their progress, redeem rewards, and access exclusive offers directly through their smartphones, enhancing convenience and engagement.

  • Customisable Rewards: build a unique rewards system based on your business goals, from the 10th drink free to free chips or dessert every 5th purchase.

  • Boost Customer Engagement: gamification elements will keep customers invested and excited, nurturing deeper brand loyalty.

 



Use Cases

Digital Stamp Card functionality is designed to meet the following use cases.

Web and app functionality

  • Digital stamp cards are required to function with standard loyalty, tiered loyalty or credit loyalty systems.

  • The Digital Stamp Card program offers options for rewards per stamp card:

    • Single Reward - Earn 1 reward after collecting all stamps on the stamp card.

    • Multi Reward - Earn multiple rewards at different points on the stamp card.

  • The number of stamps customers will need to collect can be defined, and specific reward coupons applied.

  • Customise the stamp image(s) that display on the card as either Dots or Icons, where

    • Dots simply indicate unearned/earned stamps

    • Icons allow the upload of custom stamp image(s) in PNG format.

    • Icons are recommended when utilising multiple rewards as custom images can be uploaded for each reward spot. 

  • Only one stamp card program is required to run at a time.

  • Digital Stamp Cards are required to complement and exist in additional to loyalty program features such as Coupons, Member Points, and Member Money.

  • Customers recognised by their membership barcodes will collect stamps, and earn rewards when qualifying purchases are made either at POS or on OLO platforms.

 Digital Wallet Functionality:

  • Standard loyalty systems with Wallet Loyalty enabled may offer customers the option to add the Digital Stamp Card to their Google/Apple wallet from the app or the web loyalty portal.
    • Note:  to enable the digital wallet functionality you will need to provide a custom image in .PNG format applicable to each stamp applied.  That is, if your digital stamp card contains 5 stamps you will need to provide the following 6 images:
      -  card with 0 stamps applied (new card)
      -  card with 1 stamp applied
      -  card with 2 stamps applied
      -  card with 3 stamps applied
      -  card with 4 stamps applied
      -  card with all 5 stamps applied (completed card)

       

 



Prerequisites

Businesses wanting to implement Digital Stamp Cards must also have OLO 3 implemented for online ordering.

Businesses wishing to allow Digital Stamp Cards to be added to a digital wallet will need to have Wallet Loyalty enabled.

Specific deployments will be required to utilise Digital Stamp Cards. 

Please ask your Redcat contact to ensure:

  • all relevant code has been deployed to Polygon Central.

  • your app is the build required to support Digital Stamp Cards.

 



Would you like to use Digital Stamp Cards?

To see how you can utilise this functionality in your business, contact your account manager or get in touch with us on the numbers below:

Australia 1300 4 REDCAT (1300 473 322)
UK Toll Free 808 0808 189 3396.

 



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Article Change Log

Date Record of Changes Author

January 2024

First publication of this article.

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