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Paper loyalty cards vs QR loyalty for pubs

Paper punch cards are simple and familiar. A browser-based QR loyalty card keeps that simplicity but fixes the parts that cost a pub money. Here is the honest side-by-side.

Side by side

Paper loyalty cards compared with a browser-based QR loyalty card for pubs, across loss, gaming, staff time, install and data.
Paper cardBrowser-based QR card
Lost or left at homeLives in a wallet — easily lost or forgottenLives on the customer's phone, always with them
Stamped twice or gamedA friendly hand can over-stamp itEach stamp is confirmed at the counter, capped one per UK date
Staff time at the barFind the card, find the stamp, stamp itThe customer scans and stamps themselves
What the customer installsNothing — but nothing to back it up eitherNothing: it opens in the browser, no app or wallet pass
Visit & redemption dataNone — the card tells you nothingA weekly digest of visits, regulars and redemptions

Where paper still feels right

A paper card costs pennies and needs no explanation. For a pop-up, a one-off promotion or a pub that wants nothing on a screen, it is a fair choice. The trade is that a lost card is a lost regular, and you never learn who came back.

Where a QR card wins

A browser-based QR loyalty card keeps the scan-and-collect simplicity but cannot be lost, double-stamped or faked. Customers stamp themselves in a second, the bar never slows, and there is still no app to install — the card just opens in the browser.

The data a paper card can't give you

The biggest difference is what comes back. A paper card tells you nothing; a QR card gives you a weekly digest of visits, regulars and redemptions — the quiet signal of who is coming back, which a punch card could never show.

The full picture

See how a browser-based loyalty card works across the whole pub.

See the pub loyalty guide

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