Loyalty blog for local businesses
Practical guides on stamp programs, digital cards and WhatsApp to get your customers coming back.
Loyalty programs are the highest-ROI lever for cafés and restaurants — but only if you build them around how people actually drink coffee and eat out. Here's the playbook.
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Dental clinics, salons, vets and spas have low visit frequency and high lifetime value — the opposite economics of a coffee shop. Which means their loyalty programs need to look nothing like one. Here's what actually works.
Xtarly Team
Who this blog is for
Owners of cafés, restaurants, barbershops, salons, gyms and other local businesses who want customers to come back more often. Each guide settles one concrete decision: which program type fits, how a digital card works in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, how to measure whether it works and how to win back customers who stopped visiting.
We publish in Spanish first, for businesses in Mexico — there are 13 more guides there. See the Spanish guides →
Prefer to try before you read: Work out which reward to give and every how many visits · Design your card