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What a loyalty program costs for a boutique

A boutique can run a real wallet loyalty card for nothing and pay 49.99 euros a month once it outgrows 20 customers. The five platforms compared here were checked at each vendor’s own pricing page on 11 August 2026, and two of them carry a larger free plan than Fideliya. The rest of the bill is decided by caps, seats and locations rather than by the headline price.

Every loyalty price a boutique will see, each verified at the vendor’s own pricing page, plus what Fideliya charges and the costs outside the headline.

By Zakaria Fahim · September 5, 2026 · 7 min read

A boutique owner asks this once a quarter, usually while looking at the fixed costs: what does the loyalty program actually cost? The honest answer starts at nothing and goes up with the size of the customer list. The trap is not paying too much. It is paying for capacity a single shop will never use, or staying free after the program has already proved it brings customers back.

This page carries the prices that exist rather than a band. Every competitor figure was verified at that vendor's own pricing page on 11 August 2026, and every Fideliya figure is a published plan. Where the arithmetic needs a number only you have, it says so instead of guessing.

The prices that exist, dated

Five platforms, seven rows. Prices are as published by each vendor in its own currency, not converted, because a conversion would put a number on this page that no vendor states.

PlanEntry priceFree planBeyond stamps
Fideliya Free0 euros20 customers, live wallet passStamps or points
Fideliya Pro49.99 euros a monthUpgrade from FreeStamps, points, gift cards, referrals
Fideliya Enterprise99.99 euros a monthUpgrade from FreeEverything in Pro, plus webhooks
BonusQR Basic19 euros a monthYes, unlimited customersSeven schemes; points from 19 euros
FaveCard Pro39 USD a monthYes, unlimited customersStamps only
Loopy Loyalty Starter25 USD a monthNo, 15-day trialStamps only
LoyaltyPass99 USD a monthNo, 14-day trialStamps and points

Three of the vendors above publish their price in US dollars and one in euros, and each is quoted here in the currency its own pricing page uses, with no conversion. A converted price is a number nobody published, and it goes stale twice: once when the vendor changes it and once when the rate moves. Every figure in the table was read at the vendor's own pricing page on 11 August 2026, and competitor pricing in this category changes often enough that the date matters as much as the number.

Two concessions belong in the table rather than in a footnote. BonusQR and FaveCard both carry a free plan with no cap on enrolled customers, which is more generous than Fideliya's twenty, though FaveCard's wallet pass is a paid feature that is free until the first 30 customers. And Loopy Loyalty undercuts Fideliya Pro for a boutique that will only ever want stamps. The vendor-by-vendor version of this table, with the same date, is on what loyalty software costs in 2026.

What a boutique actually uses

Retail is not high-frequency. A boutique sees a regular a few times a season rather than a few times a week, which changes which line of the price table matters. The customer cap fills slowly and the location count usually stays at one, so the cap is rarely the first thing to bite. What bites first is who is allowed to scan.

On Fideliya the free plan carries no team seats, so only the owner's login opens the scanner. A shop with a Saturday assistant needs Pro and its four seats before it needs Pro's thousand customers. That is worth knowing before the free plan is judged on its cap alone.

What a shop needsFideliya FreeFideliya ProFideliya Enterprise
Price0 euros49.99 euros a month99.99 euros a month
Billed yearly0 euros39.99 euros a month79.99 euros a month
Enrolled customers201,000Unlimited
Locations1412
Team seats048
Broadcasts a month1310
Gift cards, referrals, CSV exportNoYesYes

The costs outside the headline price

The monthly figure is the first cost, not the whole one. These are questions to ask each vendor rather than claims about any of them, and they are cheaper to ask before the trial ends than after.

  1. Is there a setup or onboarding fee? A one-off charge never appears on a monthly price table.
  2. Is the wallet pass included, or is it a paid feature? The card the customer holds is the product. A plan that excludes it is not a loyalty program yet.
  3. Is there a fee per card, per scan, or per reward claimed? Invisible at twenty customers and decisive at two thousand.
  4. What happens on the day you pass the cap? Ask whether the program stops, the price steps up, or new customers simply stop enrolling.
  5. Is any hardware required? A terminal is a capital cost and a thing that breaks. Ask whether a browser and a phone camera are enough.
  6. Is the price per location? A second shop can double a bill that looked flat.
  7. What happens to the cards if you leave? A customer list that leaves with the vendor is a cost that appears on no price page.

On Fideliya those answers are: no setup fee; the wallet pass is included on every plan including the free one; one monthly price per plan with no per-card or per-scan charge; the caps above with a small grace buffer before enrolment stops on the free plan; no hardware beyond a phone or tablet with a camera, because the scanner runs in a browser; locations counted per plan rather than billed separately; and, if you stop paying, the account returns to the free plan and the cards already in wallets keep working.

The arithmetic, without inventing the inputs

Most cost pages in this category finish with a payback calculation built on an average basket and a margin rate that nobody measured. This one will not, because the two numbers that decide the answer are yours and we do not have them.

The calculation itself is short. Take the annual cost of the plan, 599.88 euros for Fideliya Pro billed monthly or 479.88 euros billed yearly. Divide by your own gross margin per visit. That is the number of extra visits a year the program has to produce to pay for itself, spread across your entire customer list rather than per customer. Run it with your figures before you run it with anyone's example.

What the program has to produce is also the wrong first question. The first question is whether it runs at all: whether the counter script is said, whether customers add the card, and whether the reward ladder pulls anyone back. That costs nothing to find out, which is what the free plan is for. The order to do it in is on how to create a loyalty program for a boutique, and the app-versus-pass decision that sits underneath it is on loyalty app or wallet pass.

When the price changes, and why

A plan that fits in month one can stop fitting in month twelve, and for a boutique the variable is rarely the customer count. It is the second person behind the till, then the second shop. Both are plan lines rather than surprises: seats and locations are published next to the price, so the date the bill changes is knowable in advance rather than discovered on an invoice.

Moving between Fideliya plans is a plan change rather than a migration. The pass design stays as designed, the enrolled customers stay enrolled, and the cards already in wallets keep working. There is no minimum term and no cancellation fee. The broader small-business version of this question, across every platform type rather than boutiques specifically, is on what a loyalty program costs a small business.

Sources

Competitor prices and free tiers on this page come from Fideliya's competitive field table and were verified at each vendor's own pricing page on 11 August 2026, stated in the currency each vendor publishes. Fideliya's prices, caps, seats and broadcast allowances are the published plans on the pricing page. This page carries no third-party statistic, no price band, and no average basket or margin figure, because none of those could be sourced.

Fideliya is wallet-native loyalty program software for small businesses. Customers add a stamp or points card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet in one tap, with no app to download and no account to create. Fideliya runs stamps, points, gift cards and referrals on one platform in English, French, Spanish and Arabic with full right-to-left support, and the free plan issues a real wallet pass for up to 20 customers. What the product does in a shop is described on loyalty for boutiques, and the plans are on the pricing page.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a loyalty program cost for a boutique?

It starts at nothing. The Fideliya free plan issues a real Apple Wallet and Google Wallet card for up to 20 customers at one location with no card details, and Pro is 49.99 euros a month for 1,000 customers. The four other platforms on this page were checked at their own pricing pages on 11 August 2026.

Is there a free loyalty program for a small shop?

Yes, several. Fideliya is free for 20 customers, and, verified on 11 August 2026, BonusQR and FaveCard both publish a free plan with no cap on enrolled customers, though FaveCard’s wallet pass is a paid feature that is free until the first 30 customers.

What does Fideliya cost per year for a boutique?

Fideliya Pro is 49.99 euros a month, or 39.99 euros a month billed yearly, which is about 20 percent less. Enterprise is 99.99 euros a month, or 79.99 euros a month billed yearly. The free plan stays free with no time limit.

Does a boutique pay per card issued or per reward given?

Not with Fideliya. Fideliya charges one monthly price per plan with a cap on enrolled customers, so the bill does not move with how often staff scan or how many rewards a customer claims. Ask any other vendor the same question before signing.

What makes the bill go up as a boutique grows?

Three things, in this order: the customer cap, the number of locations, and team seats. On Fideliya the free plan is 20 customers, one location and the owner scanning; Pro is 1,000 customers, four locations and four seats; Enterprise is unlimited customers, twelve locations and eight seats.

What costs sit outside the monthly price?

Setup fees, per-card or per-scan charges, hardware, per-location pricing and exit terms. Fideliya needs no hardware beyond a phone or tablet with a camera because the scanner runs in a browser, and it has no setup fee, no minimum term and no cancellation fee.

What happens to my customers’ cards if I stop paying?

On Fideliya the account moves to the free plan at the end of the billing period and the cards already in customers’ wallets keep working. Ask every other vendor what happens to the cards, because a loyalty list that leaves with the vendor is a cost that never appears on the price page.

Can a boutique try a paid plan first?

Yes. New Fideliya accounts get 14 days of Pro features at signup with no card required. The free plan’s customer and location caps apply during those fourteen days, so the trial shows the features rather than the volume.

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