Digital loyalty card for Ice Cream Shops

Absolutely – with small tickets, habit drives revenue. A regular who comes twice a week instead of once brings you about $200 more over the season. The free scoop after 10 punches costs you around $1.50 in product – and earns you a loyal customer for the whole summer.

Customers don’t need to download anything: on the first scan with the phone camera, the punch card is saved to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Anyone who prefers can use the free Stempely app instead, which adds push notifications – you pick the option in your dashboard. With every purchase, they scan your QR code or tap the NFC card. No account, no sign-up, no data entry. The punch goes through instantly, even when the counter is slammed.

Completely. 10 scoops = 1 free scoop? Or 5 visits = 1 free sundae? You set it up once in your dashboard, and Stempely runs it automatically for every customer. Rules can be changed at any time, e.g. for seasonal promotions.

For everything. You award punches per visit, whether the customer orders a scoop, a sundae, a waffle cone or a milkshake. You decide what counts.

From opening day to closing day with no long-term commitment: you start free, no credit card, with every feature – heat wave pushes, win-back automation and contactless NFC punches at the counter and walk-up window. That covers up to 25 customers; from the 26th, Premium costs $14.99/month, cancel any month. In the busy months of summer, Stempely typically pays for itself with five extra family visits.

No – neither adults nor kids. Families simply scan the QR code with a parent’s phone camera and save the punch card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet – faster than a kid can choose between chocolate and strawberry. No sign-up, no login. Anyone who prefers can use the free Stempely app instead, which also sends push notifications, for example when you open for the season.

Ice cream shop customers – families, couples, teens – almost always have a phone on them (if only for the sundae photo). If someone comes without one, you can award the punch with two clicks from the dashboard – no holdup at the counter, and the customer doesn’t have to enter anything.

Yes, and that matters especially with families: you collect no data from parents or children. Unlike an email sign-up at the counter (which for minors would require parental consent), Stempely only assigns an anonymous ID – whether Wallet card or app – no name, no birthday email, no purchase history per person. Stempely is built to meet GDPR and US privacy laws like the CCPA, with data hosted in the EU, so you avoid the typical pitfalls of loyalty programs with young customers.