Loopy Loyalty vs Stamp Me (2026), with Stampioo as the third option

Loopy Loyalty and Stamp Me are the two names that come up first when a café, salon or restaurant looks for a digital stamp card, or a loyalty card as we call it. They look alike in a screenshot and are priced within a few pounds of each other, yet they are built on opposite ideas about where the card lives. That one difference decides most purchases, so this page starts there, then settles the prices that comparison sites keep getting wrong, and adds Stampioo as a third column for readers who want the Wallet approach with a European price list.

Who is writing matters on a page like this: Stampioo competes with both tools. So the comparison sticks to what the three pricing pages and help centres say on 3 November 2026, each claim is sourced below, and the third column lists what Stampioo lacks next to the other two. If you only want Loopy against Stamp Me, skip the Stampioo column; the rest still holds.

Wallet card or app: the difference that matters

With Loopy, the customer scans a QR code or taps a link, the card opens in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, and from then on stamps, rewards and messages arrive on that pass. Nothing is installed and nothing is signed up for beyond the short form. With Stamp Me, the customer creates a Stamp Me account and joins your programme inside the Stamp Me app or, per stampme.com/members, its web app, logging in with a one-time code by phone or email; stamps are collected through a StampPod on the counter, a Stamp Tag, a single-use code or a scan of the customer’s member code, and tap stamping with the StampPod or Stamp Tag needs the native app. Stamp Me’s help centre confirms that only that member code, a barcode, can be saved to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, and only when the merchant uses the Stamp Business app. Reviewers on Trustpilot still ask Stamp Me for Apple Wallet support. So the real contrast is an account with an app or web-app login against a pass in the Wallet with nothing to sign up for. If your customers will create an account and log in, Stamp Me’s hardware and games are a real advantage. If they will not, that advantage never gets used.

Three tools in one table

The prices, settled

Loopy’s pricing page on 3 November 2026 lists Starter at $25 a month or $250 a year with one card design, one location and three stamper-app users; Growth at $69 or $690 a year with three of each and ten users; Ultimate at $95 or $950 a year with ten designs, ten locations and 50 users. Customers, push messages, both Wallets and data export are on every plan. The trial is 15 days. Pages quoting $15 for Loopy are showing an old figure; pages quoting $49 have mixed it up with Stamp Me.

Stamp Me’s pricing page on the same day lists Lite at AUD 49 excluding GST, £39, €29, CAD 49 or USD 49 a month; Pro at AUD 79, £49, €49, CAD 79 or USD 79; Elite at AUD 199, £129, €169, with the CAD and USD Elite price shown as both $199 and $100 under a “limited time offer” tag, which the page does not explain. Billing is monthly only, the 30-day trial starts when you publish your first card and needs no card details, each account includes two published programmes with extras at $15, £15 or €15 one-off, and every plan is for a single location. So the $29 some sources quote is the euro Lite price, $45 is an older price, and $99 does not appear on the page at all.

Stampioo’s pricing page lists Starter at €29 a month excluding VAT, or €23 a month billed yearly, with one programme, one location and three team members, and Pro at €49 with five programmes, five locations, ten team members, advanced analytics and ten targeted push campaigns a month. Unlimited customers and scans on every plan, and a 30-day trial without card details. Note that in euros Stamp Me Lite and Stampioo Starter cost the same; Stampioo is not the cheap option here.

Choose Loopy Loyalty if

• You want the card in the Wallet, pay in US dollars and want the lowest sticker price of the three for one location.
• You need an API, Zapier or Make automations, or geo-fenced messages.
• You run up to ten locations and want them on one plan.

Choose Stamp Me if

• Your customers will create a Stamp Me account and log in (in the app for tap stamping), and you want the tap-to-stamp hardware (StampPod, Stamp Tag) at the counter.
• You want SMS, Scratch & Win games, a birthday club and lapsed-customer automations built in.
• You are in the UK, Australia or Canada and want local-currency billing and a brand your customers may already have on their phone.

Choose Stampioo if

• You want the Wallet approach, no app, and a dashboard, card and support in one of 29 languages.
• You want a 30-day trial without card details and a flat euro invoice from a Swedish company.
• You run two to five locations: Pro covers five for €49 a month, against Loopy Growth at $69 for three.
• You want targeted push to segments and nearby reminders without configuring anything: see how the card works in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet.

Where Stampioo loses to both: no API or integrations, no hardware stamping, no SMS, no free plan, fewer public reviews, prices in euros and kronor only, and push campaigns capped at ten a month on Pro where Loopy and Stamp Me say unlimited. On data, Stampioo is run by Allvia AB in Sweden under GDPR processor terms, but runs on Netlify, which may process data in the United States under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses.