Digital loyalty cards for pubs: how a digital stamp card works

A digital loyalty card does the job of a paper stamp card: it counts visits and unlocks a reward when it is full. The difference is where it lives. The card sits on the customer's phone, and each stamp is recorded rather than inked, so you can see what the scheme is doing.

Digital cards come in three main forms. Some are an app the customer installs. Some are a pass saved to the phone's wallet. Others open in the phone's web browser from a QR code. Nabaperks is the third kind. A browser-based loyalty card customers open from your QR code. There is no customer app and no wallet pass.

In some digital schemes, staff scan a code on the customer's phone at every visit. Here it runs the other way: the customer scans your counter QR and confirms the stamp themselves, and staff scan only when a reward is used.

A digital stamp card is a set of rules as much as a card. These are the rules a Nabaperks card runs on, and what each one means for you behind the bar.

A paper card accepts any ink stamp. A digital stamp has rules attached. Each one is linked to your venue QR and the customer's saved membership, and each customer can collect one stamp per business day.

Later visits are checked by location or by today's venue code. If a customer's phone cannot share its location, staff read out the code. Location checks at your venue are optional.

Rewards close the loop. When a customer uses one, staff scan it in the Nabaperks app and it is marked as used. No system rules out every misuse, but these checks keep the card a record of real visits.

The card runs on a stamp cycle you approve. We recommend a 5-stamp food-led cycle, and you can edit it later in your console.

Rewards come from a custom weighted mystery reward pool, configured to stay margin-safe: free-starter, coffee-after-lunch, Sunday-roast-upgrade territory. The reward stays sealed until the final stamp. When the card is full, the customer reveals a reward; staff scan it when it is used.

Two automations run alongside the stamps. The platform issues birthday rewards during a customer's birthday month, and the Bring a Regular referral loop lets members invite new diners. The referrer's bonus stamps settle after the new diner's first genuine visit.

The point of going digital is that you can see the scheme working. Your dashboard shows visits, members, stamps and returning customers, and a weekly digest of visits, regulars and redemptions arrives by email.

There is nothing to install at the till. No extra hardware. No POS or EPOS integration required.

You do not build it yourself either. Instead of handing you empty software, the Nabaperks team does the launch. We handle the whole launch: venue and card configuration, a margin-safe mystery reward pool, and your first A4 counter-poster run — generated, printed and posted to your pub. Allow up to 14 calendar days for print and delivery.

Customers collect their own stamps, so there is nothing for staff to type in at the till. What is left is a short mention of the card, today's venue code when a customer's phone cannot share its location, and a scan in the Nabaperks app when a reward is used.

£299.99 done-for-you launch today. Allow up to 14 calendar days for print and delivery. Your 28-day platform pilot begins when your posters are delivered. Then £69.99 every 28 days. 13 payments totalling £909.87 in each 364-day billing year.

Prefer one payment? Prepay £699.90 a year after the pilot. Save £209.97 against 13 separate 28-day payments. No separate card-processing surcharge.

Creating your account costs nothing. You pay the launch fee at checkout, after reviewing your card. Card required — cancel renewal anytime after a short exit review from your billing page.

A digital card is not right for every pub. Skip it if: