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Guides and insights for cafe owners on loyalty, retention, and growing your shop.

A flat white coffee served on a wooden tray

Product update

Subsidised Staff Coffee, Run From One QR Code: Corporate Perk Mode

Give your team a coffee perk without vouchers or spreadsheets. Perk mode turns a cafe QR code into an employer-subsidised staff coffee benefit — gated to your work email, capped per person per day, with reports for reimbursement.

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Cafe interior with bar and stools

Product update

Multi-Shop, Team Logins, and a New Pricing Lineup

Brewstamp now runs up to 10 cafes under one account, lets you invite managers and staff to accept stamps at the counter, and ships a fresh four-plan lineup — Free, Pro, Plus, and Max.

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Cafe counter with a printed QR loyalty card

Guide

Coffee Shop Loyalty Card Printing: Print One QR Code, Skip the Stack of Paper Cards

How to print a coffee shop loyalty card the modern way — one A4 sheet with a QR code, not boxes of punch cards. Free PDF, prints on any printer, set up in 2 minutes.

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Cappuccino served on a wooden tray with a loyalty card

For customers

How Many Stamps for a Free Coffee? Loyalty Card Thresholds Explained

Most cafes set their loyalty card between 6 and 10 stamps. Here's why the number matters, what the typical rewards look like, and what to watch out for.

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Customer scanning a QR code at a cafe counter

For customers

Does This Cafe Have a Loyalty Program? Yes — Here's How to Find It and Earn Free Coffee

Look for a QR code at the counter, scan it with your phone (no app needed), and start collecting stamps toward a free drink. Here's exactly how it works.

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World map illustrating Brewstamp's 14 supported languages

Product update

Multi-Language Loyalty Cards: 14 Languages, Same QR Code

Brewstamp now translates your customer-facing loyalty card and printable QR PDF into 14 languages — pick the one that matches your customers.

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Customer scanning a QR code at a cafe counter

How-to

How to Set Up Your Brewstamp Shop in 5 Minutes

Step-by-step setup walkthrough for new Brewstamp shops — print the QR code, run a test stamp, award your first real one.

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Thirty 7even cafe interior, Macquarie Park

Customer story

Thirty 7even in Macquarie Park: 10 Weeks on Brewstamp

How Asian-fusion cafe Thirty 7even runs its digital coffee loyalty card on Brewstamp — 180+ regulars, 600+ stamps, and a fully branded card from day one.

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Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia

Customer story

Bennett St Dairy in Bondi: How a Real Cafe Runs Its Coffee Loyalty Card

How Bondi cafe Bennett St Dairy runs a digital coffee loyalty card on Brewstamp — QR code at the counter, buy 7 get 1 free, dozens of regulars enrolled.

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Barista handing a coffee cup to a customer

Guide

Coffee Shop Loyalty Cards: How They Work and the Best Rewards to Offer

How a coffee shop loyalty card works, the best coffee shop loyalty card rewards to offer, and why digital is replacing the paper punch card.

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Barista preparing coffee in a modern cafe

Guide

Coffee Loyalty Card: The Complete Guide for Cafes

Everything cafe owners need to know about the digital coffee loyalty card. How it works, what it costs, and why it outperforms paper stamp cards.

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Customer scanning a QR code with a smartphone

How-to

How to Set Up a QR Code Loyalty Program for Your Coffee Shop

Step-by-step guide to launching a QR code loyalty program at your cafe. No app needed, free to start, works on any phone.

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Crumpled paper balls on a flat surface

Opinion

Why Paper Loyalty Cards Don't Work Anymore

Paper stamp cards lose customers, generate zero data, and are easy to fake. Here's why cafes are switching to digital.

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