Get Started with Square Loyalty
With Square Loyalty, you can create a digital loyalty rewards program that will keep your customers coming back again and again–with incentives they can earn with each purchase.
Read more about creating a loyalty program with Square.
How Square Loyalty Works
Your customers earn points for every purchase they make—even when they use cash—from your Square Point of Sale app, Square Invoices, or through your Square Online site. They don’t need to receive a digital receipt in order to accumulate points; have your customer enter their phone number after they checkout. Your customers will be notified via SMS when they sign up with a link to their status page and each time they reach a new reward tier.
You can customise your loyalty program so you’re incentivising the best possible customer interactions. Your customers can either earn a point per transaction, item purchased, or every time they spend a certain amount. However, you can only set up one loyalty rule for earning points per transaction at this time.
You can customise your program type and purchase minimum to define how your customers earn rewards; either visit based, total amount spent, or item/category based:
Visit: Reward points based on a per-visit minimum. For example, if your customer spends more than $5, they’ll earn one point per item/visit. This program type also allows you to exclude items from accruing points.
Amount Spent*: Reward points based on the total amount spent before tip. For example, one point per every $5 spent on a purchase.
Any Item or Category: Reward points based on purchasing a specific item or category. For example, a drip coffee earns 1 point, a latte earns 2 points and a sandwich earns 3 points.
*Note: The total Amount Spent can be tax-inclusive (default) or exclusive. To change your settings:
Go to Customers > Loyalty section from your online Square Dashboard.
Click Settings.
Under Earning Points, click Edit next to the rule value.
Choose your tax preference.
Click Continue > Save.
You can also create customisable promotions within your existing Loyalty program. Promotions incentivise customers to return to your business to earn extra rewards on their purchases. Learn more about getting started with Square Loyalty promotion.
If completing a payment through Square Invoices, buyers will be prompted to check in to or enrol in your Square Loyalty program to accrue points, and buyers that have an existing account will automatically accrue points based on their contact information. This process applies to both one-time or recurring invoice payments, but buyers cannot redeem available points during invoice transactions at this time. Once they complete the invoice payment, your Loyalty Activity Report and the Loyalty status page will update with any available points they can redeem for future transactions. The buyer’s customer profile will also update with total points accrued through Square Invoices.
Multi-Reward Loyalty Program
You can create a multi-reward loyalty program by adding multiple types of rewards to your setup. Customers will accumulate points towards rewards based on different tiers. Customers can choose to redeem their points for a reward once they reach a tier, or continue toward the next tier to receive a larger reward. This allows you to create a loyalty program unique to your business and incentivise your customers to return.
If you are setting up a Loyalty Program for the first time:
Go to Customers > Loyalty section from your online Square Dashboard.
Follow the steps to create your Loyalty Program.
To add tiers to your Loyalty Program:
Go to Customers > Loyalty section from your online Square Dashboard.
Click Settings > Create A New Reward.
Select your reward type from the dropdown.
Choose the reward value.
Enter the discount that will be applied for the reward and click Create Reward.
Note: You can create up to 15 rewards for your Loyalty program. If you already have 15 rewards created, you’ll need to delete an existing reward in order to create any new rewards for your program. Additionally, reward names must be 100 characters or less for ease of use across your Point of Sale and receipts and during enrolment for customers.
Redeem Rewards
Points are accumulated until the customer decides they want to redeem a reward.
To disable the check-in screen from showing at the start of a transaction:
Go to your point of sale settings > Loyalty.
Toggle off Show check-in screen at start of transaction.
Note: Buyers can only accrue points when completing an invoice payment at this time. Buyers are not able to redeem any available rewards through Square Invoices payments, but rewards can be claimed during checkout at your point of sale or through your Square Online site.
Apply a Reward to a Current Sale
From the Square POS app:
Tap Checkout and visit your item library by tapping the Library button.
Tap Rewards.
Enter the customer’s name or phone number to search for available rewards.
Redeem a specific reward by tapping Redeem.
Complete sale through Point of Sale. You will see the reward applied on the transaction.
Customers are able to apply different rewards or multiple of the same rewards to a single transaction.
From the Square Restaurants POS app:
Open the Checkout screen or select the bill that you’d like to add your customer to.
Tap Actions > Rewards.
Enter your customer’s name, email, or phone number to search for available rewards.
Select rewards to apply them to the bill.
Your customer’s reward will be applied to the current sale, and you can finish the transaction as you normally would.
Apply a Reward to an Online Sale
Points can be earned or redeemed by loyalty program members if they are making a purchase through Square Online. When completing a transaction on your business' website, the customer will need to enter in their phone number and any rewards they decide to use for their purchase will be automatically applied. The rewards used for the transaction will also appear on their digital receipt.
Learn about managing your Square Loyalty Program.
Buyer Check-In and Enrolment
After you’ve set up and activated your Loyalty program and subscription, you can opt to show your customers a screen during the checkout process inviting them to enrol or sign in to your Loyalty program with their phone number. The Loyalty screen will appear during each transaction regardless of whether their purchase has earned them a point or reward.
To enable this on your Square POS app or Square Terminal:
Tap ≡ More > Settings.
Select Loyalty and toggle on Enable Loyalty.
To enable this on Square Register:
Tap More > Settings.
Select Loyalty.
Toggle on Show check-in screen at start of transaction. Ensure that the Enable Loyalty option is toggled on in order to update the settings on your device.
After each transaction, your customer will receive a text message indicating they’ve been enrolled and, if applicable, earned their first point, along with a link to their loyalty program status.
Your customer will receive SMS messages:
Enrol in your loyalty program
Earn points
Eligible for a reward
Points are expiring
They can unsubscribe from SMS messages at any time.
Pricing for Square Loyalty
Square Loyalty's subscription cost is based on your customer’s participation in your program. This participation is based on the number of qualifying Loyalty Visits within a given month.
Read more about Square Loyalty Pricing.