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Industry guide · Lash extension studios
A lash extension loyalty program that rewards the fill, not the rebuy
Give one stamp for each completed fill and none for a full set, so the program stops paying clients more for letting their set lapse.
Recommended starting program
Start with one mechanism customers can remember.
Give one stamp for each completed and paid standard fill, whatever it cost. Six stamps produce a $30 credit toward a later on-cycle fill of at least $60. A full set earns nothing.
Card
6 fill stamps
Qualifying event
A completed, paid standard fill
Full set
Earns nothing
Reward
$30 credit on a later on-cycle fill
Why this fits
The trade decides the mechanism.
This guide covers appointment-led lash extension studios selling classic, hybrid, and volume sets with regular fills. It excludes lash lift and tint services sold on their own, brow-only studios, training academies, product distributors selling to technicians, and salons where lashes are an occasional add-on.
A points-per-dollar program pays this trade backwards, one visit at a time. Fills run every two to three weeks at an illustrative $70. A client who lapses past the window loses too much of the set to fill and rebuys a full set at $200 or more. On that visit she earns 200 points while the client who kept her appointment earns 70, so per visit the failure pays nearly three times better. Points are indifferent to the lapse. A flat stamp for each completed fill is not: the fill is the event, its price is not, and the reward follows the behaviour the studio wants and the client's lashes need.
The full set is either the entry or the failure. It is never the event worth rewarding. Give it no stamp, and say so on the card, so a client can never improve their position by letting a set go.
Rebooking is the product here, not a nicety. A client who leaves without a fill booked inside the window will lose the set, and the studio will lose the cycle. A nail salon rebooks to fill a diary. A lash studio rebooks to protect what the client already paid for.
Customer journey
From the first QR to a reason to return.
The program should follow the transaction or appointment that already exists. It should not create a second queue.
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See the card
A mirror card explains that fills earn stamps and a full set does not.
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Join at the full set
The client joins when the set goes on. The set itself earns no stamp.
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Book the fill in the window
The booking system holds the two to three week window. Reward Loyalty never sees it.
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Stamp the completed fill
Staff add one flat stamp after the fill is finished and paid, whatever it cost.
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Follow the count
The wallet shows fills completed and the distance to the credit.
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Redeem on cycle
The credit applies to a later fill booked inside the window, or to aftercare.
Exact program setup
Configure the base program before the campaign.
Complete the steps in order. Each documentation link opens the current 5.x setup guide for that task.
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Create the card with no spend threshold
Set six required stamps and leave the minimum purchase empty. A $50 fill and a $100 fill both earn one stamp, because the fill is the event and the price is not.
Create the fill card -
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Give the full set no stamp
Staff add a stamp only after a completed standard fill. A new or replacement full set earns nothing. Write this on the card terms so no client can be surprised at the counter.
Add the fill stamp -
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Set the credit against a later on-cycle fill
Use a $30 credit toward a later fill of at least $60, or toward aftercare retail. The reward is never more lashes, because added weight damages the natural lash.
Configure the fill credit -
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Activate three fixed milestones
Turn on 5 loyalty days, First reward enjoyed, and One year together. Leave the weekly-run milestones off. A client on a two to three week cycle misses whole weeks, so a run that needs a loyalty day every week can never complete.
Review milestone conditions -
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Put the code where the client is already sitting
Place the join code at the mirror and on the aftercare card. The client is lying down for most of the appointment, so the counter is the only workable scan point.
Prepare studio QR materials
Achievement strategy
Use milestones as a supporting layer.
Reward Loyalty provides a curated catalog of predefined, one-time milestones. The business chooses which achievements to activate and whether to attach an optional reward. Names, thresholds, measured events, and formulas stay fixed.
A loyalty day records qualifying loyalty activity on a distinct business-local date. It is not a configurable product, service, branch, booking-source, or purchase-count rule. See the fixed achievement catalog and progress rules.
Exact Reward Loyalty name
5 loyalty days
- Fixed milestone
- Earn loyalty days on 5 different dates.
- Why it matters here
- Only a completed fill earns here, so five distinct dates is five fills, about three months on a two to three week cycle. The full set that started it earns nothing and creates no loyalty day.
- Reward approach
- Use recognition, or a small aftercare item. Never a discount on an earlier appointment.
- Guardrail
- It counts dates, not fills. Do not present it as a reason to book sooner than the window allows.
- 30-day check
- Completions and the median days between recorded fills.
Exact Reward Loyalty name
First reward enjoyed
- Fixed milestone
- Redeem your first reward.
- Why it matters here
- The first redemption proves staff can apply the credit to an on-cycle fill rather than a rebuy, which is the whole point of the design.
- Reward approach
- Use recognition. The credit already delivered the benefit.
- Guardrail
- Do not attach a second reward, and never let a credit reduce the price of a full set.
- 30-day check
- First redemptions, and any credit staff tried to apply to a full set.
Exact Reward Loyalty name
One year together
- Fixed milestone
- Earn a loyalty day a full year after your first.
- Why it matters here
- A qualifying loyalty day a full year after the first recognises a client who has kept a cycle going through roughly twenty fills.
- Reward approach
- Use recognition, or aftercare retail. Add no lash volume or set upgrade.
- Guardrail
- It proves a long relationship. It says nothing about lash health, which belongs to the technician.
- 30-day check
- Eligible clients, completions, and later on-cycle fills.
Before attaching value, review achievement reward availability, expiry, and grant caps.
Reward economics
Show the arithmetic before approving the reward.
Illustrative calculation
Illustrative example: six completed fills at $70 produce $420 of service revenue before a $30 credit toward a later fill of at least $60.
That is a 7.1% face-value rate across the six fills. Compare it with the alternative the studio is avoiding: under a points-per-dollar card, one lapsed client rebuying a $200 full set would earn almost as much as three on-cycle fills.
Cost the credit against the technician hour it is redeemed in, not the $30 face value. A fill is a booked chair with a fixed time cost, so a credit given on a fill is time the studio does not sell. That is why the credit is bounded and why it lands on a fill of at least $60.
Margin protections
- Give a full set no stamp. It is the entry or the failure, never the earning event.
- Keep the stamp flat. A spend threshold would pay the lapsed client more than the on-cycle one.
- Award one stamp per date, after the fill is completed and paid.
- Never reward an appointment booked before the safe window, and never make the reward more lashes.
- Exclude removals, lash lifts, tints, training, and retail from the stamp rule.
Where to promote it
Put the invitation inside the existing visit.
- Mirror card: fills earn stamps, a full set does not.
- Aftercare card: the window first, then the card.
- Rebooking prompt at the desk: the appointment that protects the set.
- Receipt: print the fills completed and what the credit can be spent on.
Staff script and operating routine
One line, at the right moment.
“Every completed fill adds one stamp, whatever it costs. Six fills gets you $30 off a later fill.”
- Best moment
- At the desk after the fill is finished and paid, while booking the next appointment inside the window.
- Operating habit
- Add one stamp after a completed fill, and none after a full set.
- Common staff mistake
- Stamping a full set. It rewards the client whose lashes lapsed and teaches the wrong lesson.
- If a scan or lookup fails
- If the client cannot show a code, search by name or email and confirm the account before you add the completed-fill stamp.
First campaign
Wait until the base program works.
A campaign should address one observed behaviour. It should not compensate for missed awards, unclear terms, or an untrained team.
- Audience
- Clients close to completing the card, using the supported stamps-in-progress audience.
- Offer
- No discount and no early appointment. Remind the client how many fills remain before the credit, and that the credit lands on an on-cycle fill.
- Timing
- Send after four weeks of clean fill stamps. Never time a send to arrive inside a client's window as an invitation to come early.
- Intended behaviour
- Keep a client on the cycle that protects their set, and bring the credit into a fill rather than a rebuy.
- Measure
- Delivered emails against later recorded fills and credit claims. Reward Loyalty does not track email opens or clicks.
30-day review
Use the first month to fix operation and economics.
Thirty days can reveal adoption, workflow, progress, and reward-cost problems. It is too early to claim proven lifetime value or long-term retention.
Days between recorded fills
This is the number the program exists to protect. If it stretches past three weeks, clients are drifting toward a rebuy.
Full sets stamped in error
Any is too many. It is the one mistake that inverts the whole design.
Fills per client before a lapse
A short run before a full-set rebuy points at rebooking, not at the reward.
Credits applied to fills against full sets
A credit applied to a full set is a failed redemption rule. Fix it at the till.
Rebooking rate at the desk
A client who leaves without a booked fill will lose the set. Treat a falling rate as the first alarm.
Common mistakes
What to stop before launch.
- Awarding points per dollar, which pays the lapsed client more than the loyal one.
- Stamping the full set.
- Rewarding a client for booking before the safe window.
- Making the reward more lashes, which adds weight to the natural lash.
- Activating the weekly-run milestones, which a fortnightly cycle can never complete.
Printable launch checklist
Lash extension studios launch plan
- Confirm a fill earns a stamp and a full set does not.
- Set six stamps with no minimum purchase.
- Set the $30 credit against a later fill of at least $60.
- Exclude removals, lifts, tints, training, and retail.
- Activate 5 loyalty days, First reward enjoyed, and One year together.
- Leave the weekly-run milestones off.
- Brief the desk to stamp after the fill, never after a set.
- Put the code at the mirror and on the aftercare card.
- Book the 30-day review on days between fills.
Owner: __________________
Launch: ________________
30-day review: __________
Implementation guides
Open only the setup pages this program needs.
These links point to the current Reward Loyalty 5.x documentation.