Stampioo vs Square Loyalty (2026): standalone Wallet card or loyalty inside Square POS?

This is the one comparison on our site where the honest answer is often “stay where you are”. Square Loyalty is not a separate product you bolt on; it is a feature of Square’s till, and the convenience of points appearing on the receipt without a scan is real. Stampioo is the opposite kind of tool: a loyalty card in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet that your staff stamp with a phone, independent of whatever till you use. People compare the two because both promise “no app for the customer”. Below is what else is different.

We should say who we are: Stampioo, the company behind one of the two tools. We have no POS integration and never will claim that Stampioo plugs into Square. Every price here is from Square’s own UK and US pages on the date shown, and the paragraph on who should stay on Square is written as plainly as the one on who should leave.

Side by side, checked 3 November 2026

One line of arithmetic shows the pricing model. A UK café that logs 600 loyalty visits in a month (enrolments, points and redemptions together) is in Square’s middle tier and pays £45 for that location. The same café on Stampioo pays €29 on Starter, and the figure does not move at 900 or 2,000 visits. With three locations, Square charges three times its tier; Stampioo Pro at €49 covers five. Full plan details are on the pricing page.

Stay on Square Loyalty if

• You run Square POS and want loyalty to happen at checkout without a scan, a QR code or a staff step. Nothing standalone, Stampioo included, matches that.
• You want points tied to spend or to specific items, not a stamp per visit.
• You use Square Online or Square Invoices and want customers to enrol and earn there too.
• You want loyalty-attributed sales in the same reports as the rest of your Square data.
• Your customers are almost all on iPhone, so the Apple-only pass is not a limitation.

Choose Stampioo if

• You do not use Square, or you might change till one day. Stampioo has no POS dependency, so the loyalty programme survives a change of card terminal.
• Half your customers are on Android. Square offers no Google Wallet pass; Stampioo issues the card to both Wallets.
• You want a visual stamp card, the kind customers understand without explanation: 2 to 20 stamps, a reward at the end.
• You want a flat price. Square’s UK tiers rise with loyalty visits, which means the bill rises as the programme works.
• You want the dashboard in one of 29 languages, and a scanner that runs in the browser on any phone at the till.

Where Stampioo loses

Stampioo has no POS integration, so every stamp needs a member of staff to scan the card. There is no free plan, no public API, no spend-based points, prices are in euros and Swedish kronor only, and the public review count is tiny next to Square’s. For a busy Square shop where the till already does the work, those are good reasons to stay.

What the sources get wrong

Square’s US pricing has moved. Older comparison pages still quote $45, $75 and $105 per location by visit tier. On 3 November 2026, Square’s US pricing page lists “Loyalty rewards program” under its Plus plan and did not show a Plus price in the page text we could read; third-party pages quote about $49 per location a month. We have therefore used the UK page, which still shows clear tiers (£25, £45, £65), for every figure in the table. The other recurring error is “Square Loyalty works with Apple and Google Wallet”: Square’s own page mentions Apple Wallet only.