For cafés
Café loyalty program: a coffee card in their phone's wallet
Rewardtree gives Australian cafés a digital coffee card that lives in customers' Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Print one QR for your counter; customers scan it to join and collect a stamp each visit. No app, no paper card to lose. 60 days free, then A$9.99 a month per shop.
The coffee card that never goes through the wash.
No app to download, no soggy paper card. Customers scan your QR, and the card on their phone updates itself.
Start free 60 days free. No credit card.
The problem with the old way
Paper cards get washed, forgotten at home and faked. Your regulars deserve a card that stays with them.
Rewards that work for a café
The reward, then the sentence your card shows.
- Free coffee: "Customers pay for 9 coffees. Their 10th is free."
- Free large coffee: "Customers pay for 7 coffees. Their 8th visit gets a free large coffee."
- $5 off: "Customers pay for 5 coffees. Their 6th gets $5 off."
How loyalty works for a café
A café regular might come in every weekday, so the card fills quickly and the free coffee comes around often. Each customer gets one stamp per visit, so nobody fills a card in one go.
Pay for 9, the 10th free is the card your customers already know, so at sign-up you type 9. If your regulars come in less often, 6 or 7 brings the reward closer.
Everything a café needs, on one plan
- Joining at the counter: customers scan your QR with their phone camera and type their first name, mobile and the code we text them. No app for them.
- Your card in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, updated on their phone after every stamp.
- One stamp per visit (once a day or every 4 hours, you choose), checked against where your shop is. A stamp from far away is still given but shows as “Needs a look”. Set your opening hours and a stamp collected more than 30 minutes outside them doesn’t count. You can see and undo every stamp.
- A live reward screen: when a reward is due, they show you the reward, their first name and a moving clock. Staff type nothing.
- Your own web page with your customers and their visits. Nothing to install.
- A free QR poster to print for your counter, with a page of stickers.
60 days free, no credit card. Then A$9.99 a month per shop, or A$99 a year per shop. That's our end-of-year special for businesses that sign up by 31 December 2026: you keep it for every shop, including shops you add later, for as long as you stay. From 1 January 2027, businesses that sign up pay A$19.99 a month or A$199 a year. See pricing.
Guides and answers for cafés
- Setting up a café loyalty program in Australia (2026)
- What is the best free loyalty program for a café in Australia?
- How much does a free-coffee loyalty card really cost a café?
Questions cafés ask us
How much does a café loyalty program cost?#
On Rewardtree, 60 days free with no credit card, then A$9.99 a month per shop, or A$99 a year per shop. That's our end-of-year special for businesses that sign up by 31 December 2026: you keep it for every shop, including shops you add later, for as long as you stay. From 1 January 2027, businesses that sign up pay A$19.99 a month or A$199 a year. Many loyalty apps charge more per location: Square Loyalty, for example, is A$49 to A$149 a month in Australia (Square's Australian page, checked 27 September 2026).
Do my customers need to download an app?#
No. They scan the QR on your counter with their phone camera, type their first name, mobile and the code we text them, and your card goes into Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Each visit, they scan the same QR to collect a stamp.
How many stamps should a coffee card have?#
Pay for 9 coffees, get the 10th free is the one customers know, so you type 9 at sign-up: "Customers pay for 9 coffees. Their 10th is free." If your regulars come in less often, 6 or 7 brings the reward closer. You can change the number later, and the QR on your counter stays the same.
Can I move customers off paper coffee cards?#
Yes. Put your Rewardtree QR next to the till. Let regulars finish their old card; from today they collect on Rewardtree. When the last paper cards are used up, you never print another.
Put your café in their wallet.
Get rewardtree.com.au/your-shop and a free QR poster for your counter. Customers scan it and your stamp card goes into their Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Set up in a few minutes.
60 days free. No credit card.
