Café Aroma
A free coffee after 8 stamps.
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Café Aroma · 6 of 8
CUSTOMER
Loyalty card
for cafés.
Coffee is the most repeated purchase in any local business. With a stamp card on your customer's phone, every coffee counts and you have one more reason for them to choose you every morning, not the café on the corner.
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THE PROBLEM
What happens in a café.
Your customers come often, but in a hurry. If stamping a paper card slows down the 8:30 queue, staff stop offering it and the programme dies without anyone deciding so.
The ticket is small and similar on each visit (a coffee, a coffee with toast), so loyalty is won through frequency: getting the customer who comes three days a week to come five.
And the competition is just a few metres away. Often customers don't leave because they like another place better, but because it's on their way. A reward they see getting closer on their phone is a concrete reason to make a two-minute detour.
HOW TO SET IT UPYour ideal card
Your ideal card
for cafés.
Practical tips so your café's card gets completed and pays off.
Stamp rule
One stamp per drink or per visit. In cafés «one per visit» works better: it's easy to explain at the bar and avoids arguments over large orders.
How many stamps
Between 6 and 10. With 8, a customer who comes daily completes the card in two weeks and the reward feels close. If your average customer comes twice a week, go down to 6.
What reward
A coffee you already sell, not a discount. Your real cost is the product's, and the customer sees it as a full gift.
When to launch it
On a Monday. Put the QR code on the bar and next to the till, and give the first stamp on sign-up so the card doesn't start empty.
Rough example: if your coffee costs €1.60 and its product cost is around €0.30, giving one away every 8 means returning less than 3% of what that customer spends on coffee. The exact figure depends on your prices and costs.
REWARD IDEASRewards that work
Rewards that work
in cafés.
You choose the reward and how many stamps it takes. Some ideas that fit well:
☕Free coffee after 8 stamps
☕Free croissant or toast with breakfast
☕Free seasonal drink (latte, chai, frappé)
☕Double stamps during slow afternoon hours
☕Discount on coffee beans to take home
Repeat-purchase moments in cafés
The card goes with your customers on the visits they already make:
✓Quick breakfast on the way to work
✓Mid-morning coffee with colleagues
✓Afternoon snack and coffee to go
✓Office customers who come back daily
BUSINESS
NOTIFICATIONS AND AUTOMATIONSWhat the card does
What the card does
for you.
Rondafy features that fit cafés especially well. We show which plan each one is in.
Reward ready
If someone completes the card and hasn't come for their coffee after 3 days, the card reminds them with a phone notification.
Standard and ProAt-risk customers
Anyone who hasn't been in for 14 days gets a message you write («We miss you, your coffee is waiting»). In a café, two weeks without coming is a clear signal.
Standard and ProNearby notification
On iPhone, the card shows your message on the lock screen when the customer walks near your venue; on Android, Google Wallet shows it with its own text.
Standard and ProGoogle review
After redeeming their free coffee, the customer gets a notification with a link to your Google listing, right when they're happiest.
Standard and ProDAY TO DAYHow it works day to day
How it works day to day
in a café.
At the counter, with a queue
Stamping is a scan: the customer shows their card while you take payment and the stamp appears on their phone instantly. If you run several shifts, each barista can stamp from their own phone with their own login, without going through the till computer.
Takeaway coffee and office orders
Takeaway coffee is stamped the same way, at the till. For those office orders where one person pays for several colleagues, set a clear rule your team knows by heart: one stamp per customer per visit, or one per drink.
Quiet hours
If you have spare tables in the afternoon, double stamps from four to six is an easy way to bring people in without touching your prices. You announce it with a message on the card and customers who have it see it on their phone.
If you'd like to take a proper look at what a digital stamp card is and how it works (what the customer sees, how stamping works and what you see in the dashboard), it's all explained step by step.
HOW IT WORKSFour steps.
Four steps.
Customers who come back.
01
You design your card
Add your café's name and logo, choose the reward and how many stamps it takes.
02
Your customers save it
They scan the QR code on your counter and the card is saved in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet in seconds. No apps.
03
You stamp on every visit
At checkout, you scan their card from the Rondafy dashboard on your phone, tablet or computer.
04
You see who comes back
In your dashboard you see customers, repeat visits and who hasn't been in for a while (Standard and Pro plans).
KEEP READING
Guides to get it right.
Reward ideas for your loyalty card
Customer reward ideas that work in cafés, bars, restaurants, barbershops, hair salons, beauty salons, bakeries and gyms.
Read guide →How many stamps should a loyalty card have?
How to work out how many stamps to put on your loyalty card based on how often your customer comes back and the cost of the reward. With examples by sector.
Read guide →Still using paper? Compare paper and digital cards.
Related guides: how many stamps to put on a coffee card · alternative to the paper stamp card
Rondafy for other sectors too:
Usually between 6 and 10 coffees. With 8 stamps the reward feels close and the customer comes back more often. With Rondafy you choose and can change it whenever you like.
Yes. At checkout you scan the card on the customer's phone, whether they drink it at the bar or take it away.
Stamping means scanning a code from the Rondafy dashboard on the venue's phone or tablet: it takes a couple of seconds, less than finding a paper card in a wallet.
Yes. With the Standard and Pro plans you can send notifications to your customers' phone cards, to everyone or to a specific group.
No. Rondafy doesn't connect to your POS and doesn't need it: you stamp by scanning the customer's card with the phone, tablet or computer you already use in your shop, with an internet connection.
Yes, Rondafy also has a gift card for your shop. We'll show you how it works in the demo.
START TODAYYour café's loyalty card,
ready today.
We design your card with you, and within minutes your customers can save it on their phone. Any plan can be tried free for 14 days.