Loyalty Programs for Coffee Shops & Cafes

Few businesses depend on repeat visits as heavily as a cafe. A customer who buys their coffee from you four times a week is worth many times a passing one, and the difference between them is rarely the coffee. It is whether they have a reason to choose you specifically.

A loyalty program is that reason. But picking the right one differs from other trades: coffee is a daily purchase, so the stamp count, the reward and the notification cadence all need tuning that a barbershop or a car wash would get wrong.

The articles below cover the practical side: comparing the systems available in the GCC market, the right number of stamps for a cafe, card design, and how the markets differ.