Buyer guide library
Practical loyalty guides for decisions that matter.
Choose the operating model first. Then work through setup, staff workflow, economics, and the product limits that affect the decision.
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Start with the decision in front of you.
These guides cover ownership, implementation, privacy, loyalty mechanics, and migration. Each one links to the current setup documentation behind the recommendation.
Self-hosted loyalty software
Choose self-hosting with a clear view of ownership, infrastructure, maintenance, and source access.
- Ownership
- Infrastructure
GDPR and loyalty software
Map data roles, hosting choices, consent, exports, deletion, security, and operator responsibility.
- Privacy
- Operations
Loyalty software without a subscription
Compare a one-time software license with hosting, maintenance, support, and managed SaaS costs.
- Cost model
- Ownership
How to start a loyalty program
Choose one mechanic, protect the economics, train staff, launch calmly, and review the first month.
- Planning
- Launch
Self-hosted versus SaaS loyalty
Compare ownership, implementation, support, integrations, cost structure, and operating risk.
- Decision guide
- Deployment
Open source versus source-available
Separate code access, license rights, redistribution, support, roadmap, and maintenance.
- Licensing
- Source code
QR-code loyalty programs
Plan customer enrollment, staff scanning, printed placements, fallback workflows, and integrations.
- QR workflow
- Staff
Digital stamp-card software
Set the qualifying purchase, stamp target, reward, completion workflow, and fraud controls.
- Stamp cards
- Repeat visits
Prepaid pass software
Sell a fixed number of future uses, define expiry, train staff, and track redemption liability.
- Prepaid passes
- Cash flow
Migrate a loyalty program
Inventory balances, export data, decide what moves, rehearse the cutover, and explain the change.
- Migration
- Data
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