For cafés
Café loyalty program: a free coffee card in their phone's wallet
Rewardtree gives Australian cafés a free digital coffee card. Customers scan the QR on your counter and your stamp card lands in their Apple Wallet or Google Wallet in about 20 seconds: no app for them, no paper card to lose. Your staff add a stamp with the free Rewardtree Merchant app. For example, the 10th coffee free.
The coffee card that lives on their lock screen.
No app to download, no soggy paper card. Scan, stamp, and the card updates before the milk is steamed.
This becomes your link: on your counter, in your bio, on Google.
The problem with the old way
Paper cards get washed, forgotten and photocopied. Your regulars deserve better than pulp.
Rewards that work for a café
- Buy 9 coffees, get the 10th free
- Free large coffee after 8 visits
- Free pastry with your 6th coffee
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. By default each customer can get one stamp every 4 hours, so nobody fills a card in a single visit.
Ten stamps (buy 9, get the 10th free) is the card your customers already know. Start new members with a head-start stamp so their card never begins empty.
Everything a café needs, on the free plan
- A 20-second join at the counter: they scan your QR, verify their mobile, done. Your customers never need an app.
- Your card in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, with your logo and colours, updated on their phone every time you stamp it.
- The free Rewardtree Merchant app for you and your staff. It keeps working if the internet drops.
- A member list you own: visit history, and a spreadsheet (CSV) download with each member’s consent status, on every plan.
- Ready-made posters: a counter tent card, stickers and a staff cheat-sheet, made for you at setup.
Guides for cafés
Questions cafés ask us
How much does a café loyalty program cost?#
On Rewardtree, A$0 forever: unlimited members, the free Merchant app, Apple and Google Wallet cards and ready-made posters are all on the free plan. Paid loyalty apps charge a monthly fee 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 your counter QR, verify their mobile with one text, and your card lands in Apple or Google Wallet in about 20 seconds. The card updates on their phone every time you stamp it.
How many stamps should a coffee card have?#
Ten is the one customers know: buy 9 coffees, get the 10th free. If your regulars come in less often, 6 or 8 stamps brings the reward closer. You choose the number when you set up your card, and new members can start with a head-start stamp or two.
Can I move customers off paper coffee cards?#
Yes. Put your Rewardtree QR next to the till. When a regular with a paper card joins, a manager (or staff with their own PIN) adds their paper stamps plus today's stamp by hand in the free Merchant app, all in one go (by default a customer can collect once every 4 hours). It is recorded. Then take the paper card back.
Put your café in their wallet.
The 5-minute setup wizard gives you rewardtr.ee/your-shop, a printable counter kit, and cards that land in Apple & Google Wallet. Free forever, no credit card on file.