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Create your loyalty card with AI, in ten minutes and without an account

Describe your shop to Claude and it designs the card, costs the reward and gets everything ready to launch. The step-by-step, with the exact prompts and real numbers from a simulation.

Create your loyalty card with AI, in ten minutes and without an account

The hard part of a loyalty card isn’t the technology: it’s the choices. How many visits? What reward? Am I about to give away my margin? Those questions are easier to settle in a conversation than in a form, and that’s exactly what the StampyWallet connector lets you do inside an AI assistant.

Before you start

You need an assistant that accepts custom connectors, Claude for example. Add StampyWallet with the address `https://app.stampywallet.com/mcp` (details in our connector overview). For this part you don’t need to sign in: the design tools are open to everyone.

Step 1: describe your shop

Start simply, as if talking to someone who’s never seen your place:

I run a café in Lyon, light wood and sage green. I’d like a loyalty card: a free coffee after 8 visits.

The assistant returns a designed card: colours, icon, stamp grid, reward. It’s a preview, nothing is saved.

Step 2: refine by talking

This is where a conversation beats an editor. You react to what you see:

  • "Darker, the text is hard to read."
  • "Show me three different palettes."
  • "What if the reward were a pastry?"
  • "Show the card with 5 stamps already on it."

Each answer redraws the card and keeps everything else. You can go back and forth ten times without breaking anything.

Step 3: cost the reward

Before committing, ask what it costs. You need two numbers you already know: your average spend, and what the reward costs you (the cost price, not the menu price).

My average spend is $4, a coffee costs me $0.60. Compare 6, 8 and 10 visits.

Here’s what the simulation returns, with its default assumptions: one stamp given on sign-up, a 65% margin, 60 loyal customers visiting twice a month.

VisitsReal discountRewards per monthCost per monthExtra visits to break even
63.0%24$14.406
82.1%17.1$10.294
101.7%13.3$8.004

At 8 visits, you give back 2.1% of what your regulars spend. Four extra visits a month, out of 120, and the card pays for itself. If your numbers differ, say so: "I have more like 150 regulars", "my margin is 70%", and the maths follows.

Step 4: put the card live

When you’re happy with it:

I like it. Create the shop.

The assistant first shows a summary and waits for your go-ahead. Once confirmed, it gives you a personal link to claim the shop: you create your account and the card is there, ready, with its QR code. Keep that link to yourself, it’s the key to your shop.

And then?

Once your account exists, reconnect the assistant and sign in. It goes from adviser to business partner: it reads your visits, finds customers by first name and drafts messages for the ones drifting away. Always with a preview before anything is sent.

Stamps stay at the counter: you add them by scanning the customer’s card from your phone.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a StampyWallet account to try it?

No. Designing the card, comparing palettes and costing the reward all work without an account. You only need one when you claim the shop.

Which assistant should I use?

Claude works today through a custom connector. Any MCP-compatible assistant that accepts a connector address can use it too.

What happens to the card if I don’t create it?

Nothing. Previews aren’t saved. You can pick the conversation up later, or start over.

Are my settings locked once the shop is created?

No. Colours, reward and number of visits can be changed afterwards, in the app or from the assistant connected to your account.

How do I choose the right number of visits?

Compare several in the simulation. A real discount between 2% and 5% of what your regulars spend is a common range: enough to motivate, not enough to eat into your margin.

The StampyWallet team Digital loyalty cards for independent shops

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