Rewards, limits and economics.

Reward Loyalty can record point-redemption rewards, stamp-card completion rewards, vouchers, prepaid passes, and optional achievement rewards that grant points, stamps, a personal voucher, or a free prepaid pass.

The application records and validates the configured loyalty action; the operator still fulfils any physical product, service, or discount outside an integrated checkout. Review point rewards, stamp rewards, and achievement reward types before publishing the promise.

The available controls depend on the reward mechanism rather than one universal reward rule.

Point rewards have a name, description, points requirement, active state, active-from date, and expiry date; cards and stamp programs carry their own qualifying, earning, daily, and expiry controls; vouchers can carry validity, use, audience, and minimum-purchase rules; achievement rewards can carry an availability window and grant cap. Reward Loyalty enforces the documented product rule, while inventory, food exclusions, tax, tips, or POS discount-combination rules remain with the operator or connected checkout. Follow the reward editor and the documentation for the mechanism you use.

Calculate the reward from the direct business cost of fulfilment, not only the customer-facing value.

Divide face value by qualifying spend for the headline percentage, divide direct cost by qualifying spend for the cost percentage, then multiply direct cost by the operator’s expected redemption percentage for expected cost per earned reward. These are arithmetic outputs, not a profit forecast; margin, changed behaviour, capacity, and redemption remain operator evidence. Use the loyalty reward calculator and the reward-economics Guide.

Qualifying and redemption values can reduce exposure by setting what must happen before value is earned or used.

A minimum qualifying purchase can stop an earn action below the documented threshold, a points or stamp target delays the reward until enough eligible activity is recorded, and a voucher minimum can block use below the entered order value. None of those settings proves incremental revenue or profitability, and staff or a POS must still enforce exclusions that Reward Loyalty cannot see. Model the rule in the calculator, then test the exact counter or checkout flow.

The operator should write one explicit stacking policy and test every route where two offers could apply.

Reward Loyalty protects each supported balance, threshold, validity window, use limit, grant cap, and redemption record inside its own workflow. It does not infer whether a point reward, voucher, prepaid entitlement, campaign offer, or external POS discount should be combined in one sale. Configure the supported controls, train staff on the exclusion rule, and review issuance, redemption, reversals, unredeemed exposure, direct cost, and support exceptions after launch. The economics Guide owns the detailed review method.