Your bakery loyalty card, right on your customers' phones

The problem with paper punch cards at a bakery

You know it by heart: the paper card, one stamp per loaf, the tenth one free. It works… when the customer has it on them. In reality, it ends up faded in a coat pocket, forgotten in another bag, or thrown out with the receipts. The result: the regular who comes in every morning never gets their reward, and you don't even know they're a regular.

And in the morning rush, finding the card, grabbing the stamp, inking, stamping: those five seconds times a hundred customers add up to eight more minutes of line.

What a wallet loyalty card changes for a bakery

• Always on the customer. The card lives on their phone, next to their bank card. They can't forget it, it's there every morning.
• One second at the counter. The customer shows their card, you scan the QR code from the nacard app, the stamp is added. Their card updates in their pocket with a notification: "Just 2 more until your free loaf".
• You finally know your regulars. Who comes in every day, who hasn't been in for three weeks, how many are one stamp away from their reward.
• You can bring them back. A notification on the card on a Sunday morning: "Free croissant until 11am". Perfect for selling through a batch or filling a slow hour.
• Zero printing. Change your reward for the holidays or for summer without reprinting a single card.

What reward works for a bakery?

The right reward is one a regular reaches in 3 to 4 weeks: close enough to motivate, far enough to build the habit. Three formulas that work:

• The 10th loaf free. The great classic. Your cost: one loaf in ten, so less than 10% on a customer who comes back every day.
• A pastry on the 8th visit. Perfect if your customers are more the morning "coffee and croissant" type.
• A signature cake on the 12th. For a pastry shop: the reward showcases your star product and makes people want to buy it again.

You can also switch to points instead of stamps (1 point per euro spent) if spending varies a lot between the morning loaf and the weekend cake order.

The math, simply

A regular bakery customer spends about €3 to €5 per visit. If they go from 3 to 4 visits a week thanks to the card, that's €150 to €250 more per year, from a single customer. With 100 loyal customers, the program brings in several thousand euros a year, for €0 to €9.99/month excl. VAT. Plan details are on the pricing page.

Set up in 3 minutes, between batches

Start from the bakery template (in the color of your choice), write your reward, add a photo of your storefront, and print the QR code for the counter. That's it: your customers scan, add the card, and you stamp from your phone starting the next morning. The 5 detailed steps are on the how it works page, and the general principle of wallet cards is explained in our digital loyalty card guide.

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