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The best Loyalzoo alternative for a local business that wants a loyalty card without a monthly bill is FaveCard: it has a genuinely free-forever plan, while Loyalzoo starts at $77/month after a 7-day trial. Loyalzoo is a more powerful, POS-integrated platform with points, tiers, and memberships, but you pay for it from day one.
Last verified: July 2026
| FaveCard | Loyalzoo | |
|---|---|---|
| Free-forever plan | $0, no time limit | 7-day trial, then from $77/mo |
| Entry price | Free (paid plans available) | $77/mo (Grow) |
| Apple & Google Wallet pass | paid plan | |
| No app for customers | ||
| Set up without a POS or hardware | About 5 minutes | Runs with or without a POS; best features lean on POS integration |
| Card colour & design on the free plan | Full colour free; logo & banner on Pro | Branded pass, on a paid plan |
| Points & VIP tiers | Stamps & flexible rewards | Points, stamps & tiers |
| Subscriptions / memberships | Recurring billing product | |
| In-person self-serve / kiosk stamping | paid plan | Staff or POS check-in |
| One-tap Google review requests | paid plan | Not found |
| Birthday automation | paid plan | |
| Messaging cost | Wallet messages, no per-message fee | SMS via paid credits; email & push included |
| Languages | 11 locales | 7 app languages |
| On the market since | 2025 | 2013 |
Loyalzoo (founded 2013, 6,000+ merchants) is a powerful loyalty, marketing, and subscriptions platform for small businesses. Its standout strength is deep point-of-sale integration: connect Clover, Square, EposNow, and others, and it allocates points automatically at the till, or even turns a customer's payment card into their loyalty card. It also does points, VIP tiers, and paid memberships, things FaveCard does not.
FaveCard is the better fit if you want a beautiful loyalty card that is free to start, sets up in minutes with no POS or hardware, and lives on your customer's phone. It trades Loyalzoo's platform depth for simplicity and a genuinely free plan.
This is the clearest difference. Loyalzoo has no free plan; after a 7-day trial its entry Grow plan is $77/month (Loyalzoo's pricing). FaveCard's free plan runs forever at $0, with unlimited customers and a loyalty card your customers keep on their phone through a link, with no app to download. Apple and Google Wallet passes come on a paid plan, free until your first 30 customers, so you can try everything before you pay. See the pricing page for current plans.
FaveCard is simple and standalone: create your card, share a QR code or link, and start stamping in about five minutes, without connecting a till or buying hardware. Loyalzoo can run standalone too, but it is built around POS integration, and its best features (automatic points at the till, a payment card doubling as the loyalty card) need that connection. If you just want a simple loyalty card up and running today, FaveCard is the lighter path.
On FaveCard's free plan you get one card with a full choice of colours and the reward setup you want. Your own logo, a banner under the card, and custom images are part of the Pro branding. Loyalzoo's branded wallet pass sits on a paid plan from $77/month.
On a paid plan, FaveCard can ask every customer for a Google review in one tap, right after a visit. We could not find a review-request feature in Loyalzoo, whose marketing tools centre on points, SMS, and email instead.
FaveCard sends messages straight to the wallet card with no per-message fee. Loyalzoo's SMS marketing runs on paid messaging credits (email and push are included). FaveCard's interface and customer pages also run in 11 languages, against Loyalzoo's 7.
An honest read, because Loyalzoo is a genuinely strong platform:
If you would rather start free, set up in minutes without a POS, and keep it simple, FaveCard is the stronger choice.
How we verified this: Loyalzoo's plans and features were checked on their pricing page, the Shopify app listing, and Capterra in July 2026. Prices and features change, so check the source before relying on them.
No. Loyalzoo offers a 7-day free trial, after which paid plans start at $77/month for the Grow plan (verified July 2026). FaveCard offers a free-forever plan at $0 with no time limit.
No. FaveCard runs on its own and sets up in about five minutes, with no POS and no hardware. Loyalzoo can also run standalone, but its strongest features, such as automatic point allocation and using a payment card as the loyalty card, rely on POS integration (Clover, Square, and others).
On a paid plan, yes — FaveCard adds a branded pass to Apple and Google Wallet, and so does Loyalzoo. On FaveCard's free plan your customers keep the card on their phone through a link, with no app to download.
Yes, if you want to start free, keep things simple, and run everything from the phone in your customer's wallet. Loyalzoo is the better choice if you need deep POS integration, points and VIP tiers, or a paid subscriptions and memberships product.
Deep POS integration (automatic point allocation, card-on-file on Clover), points and spend-based loyalty with VIP tiers, a full subscriptions and memberships product, and a longer track record, in business since 2013.
A beautiful loyalty card in Apple & Google Wallet. No app for your customers, no cost to start.
